FESTIVAL BOOKINGS ARE OPEN
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Explore our festival program for 13 -14 September 2019 and the line-up of leading women writers. And then make your booking!
The Festival will open at 5.30 pm on Friday 13 September with Michelle de Kretser, winner of the 2019 NSW Premier’s Literary Award and the 2018 Miles Franklin Award, in conversation with Ceridwen Dovey, preceded by the hypnotic opera singer turned pop composer Jessica O’Donoghue performing some of her own work. The event will be opened by Festival Patron, High Court Justice Virginia Bell and is kindly sponsored by international law firm Bird&Bird. On Saturday 14 September, the festival has 6 thought-provoking sessions and is kindly sponsored by Women on Boards. We commence with Writers@Work, with Michelle de Kretser, Bernadette Brennan and RSWWF Writer in Residence Drusilla Modjeska discussing imagination and risk, influence and process, the work of writing at the desk and beyond, and why it matters with women’s writing expert Anne Jamison. (This session is in partnership with Sydney Review of Books). Two sessions will bring you books hot off the press:
And we have another 3 exciting and topical panel sessions bringing you the latest in writing and ideas:
The generous financial contribution from our Supporter Program ensures the success and ongoing viability of the Festival — we hope you will continue to support us.
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Don't miss out - festival bookings are open!
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TALKS BY WOMEN WRITERS
In association with the Women's Club, the Rose Scott Women Writers' Festival presents a series of talks by women writers throughout the year.
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Tara June Winch in conversation with Geordie WilliamsonTara June Winch’s profound and moving new novel The Yield will be released on 2 July. Described as “a ground-breaking novel for black and white Australia” by Richard Flanagan, it tells the story of a people and a culture dispossessed, celebrating what was and what endures as it powerfully reclaims Indigenous language, storytelling and identity.
Tara June Winch is a Wiradjuri author, now based in France. Her first novel Swallow the Air won numerous literary awards and a 10th Anniversary edition was published in 2016. In 2008, she was mentored by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka as part of the prestigious Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. Her short story collection After the Carnagewas shortlisted for the 2017 NSW Premier’s Christina Stead prize for Fiction and the Queensland Literary Award for a collection. She wrote the Indigenous dance documentary Carriberrie which screened at the 71st Cannes Film Festival. Geordie Williamson is a writer, editor and critic, and the chief literary critic of The Australian. His collection of essays on neglected Australian writers, The Burning Library, is essential reading for anyone interested in Australian literature. Date: Tuesday 9 July 2019 at
Time: 5:30pm for 6.00pm, concluding 7.30pm Location: Level 4, 179 Elizabeth Street (between the Sheraton + Bambini Trust) Cost: $30 for Guests, includes wine and canapés EVENT CLOSED |
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Leah Kaminsky in conversation with Catherine du Peloux MenagéMelbourne writer Leah Kaminsky's just published novel The Hollow Bones implores us to pay careful attention to the crucial lessons we might learn from our not-too-distant history.
"From the embers of history, Kaminsky weaves a cracking tale of adventure, competing loyalties and the folly of sacrificing reason on the ideological altar" Bram Presser Berlin, 1936. Ernst Schäfer, a young, ambitious zoologist and keen hunter and collector, has come to the attention of Heinrich Himmler, who invites him to lead a group of SS scientists to the frozen mountains of Tibet. Their secret mission: to search for the origins of the Aryan race. Ernst has doubts initially, but soon seizes the opportunity to rise through the ranks of the Third Reich. Leah Kaminsky is a physician and award-winning writer. Her debut novel, The Waiting Room, won the prestigious Voss Literary Prize. She conceived and edited Writer MD, a collection of prominent physician-writers, which starred on Booklist and is co-author of Cracking the Code, with the Damiani family. She holds an MFA in fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts. (www.leahkaminsky.com) Catherine du Peloux Menagé is a member of the 2018 RSWWF Committee, of BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival and of the Mark and Evette Moran Nib literary award. She has interviewed writers at the RSWWF, at St Albans Writers’ Festival of which she was co-founder and Artistic Director from 2015-2018, at the Sydney Writers’ Festival and at libraries around Sydney. She is Secretary of the Dickens Society of NSW. Leah’s books will be available for purchase from the RSWWF bookseller, Better Read than Dead, and Leah will be signing books after the conversation. Date: Friday 1 March 2019
Time: 1.00 pm to 2.00 pm Location: Level 4, 179 Elizabeth Street (between the Sheraton + Bambini Trust) Cost: Free, but registration is required for set up purposes. You are also welcome to order an express $25.00 lunch available from 12.30 pm to 1.00 pm. EVENT CLOSED |
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Lexi Freiman in conversation with Jean KitsonLexi Freiman in conversation with Jean Kittson will be a wild start to the 2019 Rose Scott Women’s Writers Festival – it’s the first in our WomenWriters@One series of free talks this year.
Lexi’s debut novel Inappropriation, a search for belonging in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs that turns into a riotous irreverent satire of identity politics, has been widely acclaimed: “Mean Girls meets Kathy Acker, with a dose of Seinfeld thrown in … laugh-out-loud …. searing satire” (The Australian), “tremendously contemporary and savagely funny” (Paris Review), “very clever … savage, extreme, and absurd “(Sydney Morning Herald). Lexi is an Australian editor and author based in New York. She graduated from Columbia University’s MFA Writing Program in 2012, has been the recipient of the New York City Emerging Writers Fellowship, an Aspen Words scholarship and published in The Literary Review. Before moving to NY, Lexi worked as an actress for several years with the Bell Shakespeare Company, performing in As You Like It, Pericles, and Romeo and Juliet. Inappropriation was published in 2018 and received praise in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Paris Review and Bookforum, among others, and was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Jean Kittson is an author, actor, comedienne, scriptwriter, public speaker, commentator and public advocate for education, youth, health, equal opportunity and ageing. She first came to national attention on ABC TV's, The Big Gig, followed by Let the Blood Run Free, Kittson Fahey, Good News Week, the Glasshouse, Flat Chat, The Einstein Factor, Media Dimensions, Strictly Speaking, Talking 'Bout Your Generation, Studio Ten, and The Today Show. She is also well known for her comedy debates for the ABC, Channel 9 and Channel Ten. She has written two books, Tongue Lashing (Penguin) and You're Still Hot to Me (Pan Macmillan), and contributed to many others. Her forthcoming book, We Need to Talk about Mum (and Dad) will be published by Pan Macmillan. Lexi and Jean’s books will be available for sale in the club’s foyer from Better Read Than Dead Date: Wednesday 6 February 2019
Time: 1.00 pm to 2.00 pm Location: Level 4, 179 Elizabeth Street (between the Sheraton + Bambini Trust) Cost: Free, but registration is required for set up purposes. You are also welcome to order an express $22.50 lunch available from 12.30 pm to 1.00 pm. EVENT CLOSED View our archive 2018 Women Writers@One.
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