Secrets and Lies Edition
What happens when we betray confidences? And what secrets do we keep from ourselves?
At The Moat in April, we’ll hear from writers whose work is concerned with hidden mysteries. J.P. Pomare’s new thriller, Call Me Evie, is about the fallibility of memory. Sonia Orchard’s Into The Fire is a novel about female friendship and betrayal and Nicola Redhouse’s memoir, Unlike the Heart, is an examination of post-natal depression and psychoanalysis. Caitlin McGregor’s ‘in defence of watching paint dry’ comes from issue #113 of Voiceworks, ‘Flare’.
Readings will be our bookseller for this event.
Featuring
J.P. POMARE is an award-winning author whose debut novel, Call Me Evie (2018), won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel. In the Clearing (2019) was made into a Disney+ Original Series, The Clearing, while Tell Me Lies (2020) was a #1 Audible bestseller and was shortlisted for the Ngaio ... Read more
Sonia Orchard is the author of a bestselling memoir Something More Wonderful and a novel The Virtuoso, which won the Indie Award for Best Debut Fiction of 2009. She won the Affirm Press Mentorship Award in partnership with Varuna Writers House for her third book, Into the Fire. Sonia has a PhD in... Read more
Nicola Redhouse has been published widely, writing on topics ranging from postnatal medication to the conundrum of objective measurement in mental health, in publications including The Age, the Australian, The Monthly, Island, and Women’s Agenda. Her fiction appears in the literary journals Meanji... Read more
Stella is the Wheeler Centre’s Programming Coordinator. An emerging arts manager and event producer, Stella was previously the Marketing and Events Coordinator for Readings, and the Festival Manager for the National Young Writers’ Festival, Australia’s largest gathering of young and innova... Read more
Caitlin McGregor is an essayist. Her work has appeared in a wide range of magazines and literary journals, including the Lifted Brow, Overland, Voiceworks, Kill Your Darlings, Scum Mag and the Big Issue. She holds a BA (Hons) in creative writing from the University of Melbourne, and currently lives... Read more
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