Getting On: Ageing Successfully
Charlotte Wood and Therese Hall with Ashley Hay
Date: Saturday 19 September 2020
Time: 11.30 - 12.30 AEST
Location: Zoom video conferencing app. To set up zoom download from zoom.us/download.
Time: 11.30 - 12.30 AEST
Location: Zoom video conferencing app. To set up zoom download from zoom.us/download.
Ashley Hay, editor of the recent Griffith Review edition on the lived experience of ageing will talk to two of the contributors about some key aspects of ageing, including how women can find themselves without a secure home as they age and how we can rethink getting older.
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Participants
Photo by Chris Chen
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Charlotte Wood has been described as 'one of our most original and provocative writers'. She is the author of six novels and two books of non-fiction. Her bestselling novel, The Natural Way of Things, won the 2016 Stella Prize, the Indie Book of the Year and Indie Book Award for Fiction, was joint winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction, and was published throughout Europe, the United Kingdom and North America. She has been twice shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, as well as many others for this and previous works. Her non-fiction books include The Writer's Room, a collection of interviews with authors about the creative process, and Love & Hunger, a book about cooking. She lives in Sydney with her husband.
Shortlisted ALS Gold Medal 2020 AU; Longlisted Miles Franklin Award 2020 AU; Shortlisted Stella Prize 2020 AU; Winner Literary Fiction Book of the Year, ABIA Awards 2020 AU; Shortlisted Best Fiction, Indie Book Awards 2020 AU. Buy The Weekend from our bookseller partner Better Read than Dead. |
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Therese Hall is a journalist and editor with a degree in Communications and Journalism from the University of Technology, Sydney and a Certificate in Editing and Publishing from Macquarie University. Her essay in Issue 68 of Griffith Review draws on her research for a Master’s of Research (Anthropology) thesis Single older women with no place to call home at Macquarie University.
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Ashley Hay is a Brisbane-based novelist and essayist. She has published three novels and four books of narrative non-fiction, as well as short stories and journalism. Her latest novel is A Hundred Small Lessons. In 2014, she edited the anthology Best Australian Science Writing and been editor of Griffith Review since 2018. Her awards include the Foundation of Australian Literary Studies’ Colin Roderick Prize, the Peoples’ Choice from the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and the Bragg/UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing.
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