‘Write what you know’ is the first rule of creative writing, so it’s no surprise that many a writer arrives through the emotional rigour and storytelling craft of memoir. Join us for a night of personal stories – funny, moving and memorable – that’ll have you looking forward to looking back.
Featuring Kel Chandler, Margi Gibb, Paul Keogh and Adalya Nash Hussein.
Featuring
Kelly Chandler has been published in the Age, The Lifted Brow, Griffith Review, Big Issue, Slow Guide, Death Mook and New Zealand Herald. A former editor of Voiceworks, Chandler was chair of the National Young Writers’ Festival and journalist trainer at the trilingual Independent newspaper in... Read more
Margi Gibb was born in the Victorian high country. She is a singer, songwriter, visual artist, adventurer, survivor, writer and educator. Kissed by a Deer was written as the creative product of her PhD. It is her first full-length work of non-fiction. Margi currently lives in Melbourne, Australia, w... Read more
Paula Keogh has a PhD in creative writing from La Trobe University and received the 2015 Affirm Press Mentorship Award for the development of The Green Bell at Varuna, the National Writers House. She taught at RMIT University for nine years, and has lived in Canberra, Adelaide and Toronto,... Read more
Adalya Nash Hussein is a writer and editor. Her work has appeared in Voiceworks, The Lifted Brow, Ibis House, Meanjin, Overland and Going Down Swinging. She has been an Emerging Writers’, Festival Melbourne Recital Centre Writer in Residence, a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow, and shortlisted for t... Read more
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