rose scott women writers' festival
Talks by women writers
at the women's club
RSWWF Writers 2021
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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. Book for our next event below. UPCOMING EVENTS
Helen Ennis in conversation with Kathryn Millard
Wednesday May 25th 5.30pm AEST arrival for 6pm start. Concluding 7:30pm 
The Rose Scott Women Writers’ Festival presents Helen Ennis in conversation with Kathryn Millard.
Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography is a landmark biography of pioneering modernist photographer, Olive Cotton—now considered one of Australia’s most significant photographers—by award-winning writer Helen Ennis. ‘A moving story about talent and creativity… Ennis explores the life of Olive Cotton and what it means for an artist to manage the competing demands of art, work, marriage, children, and family.’ National Library of Australia Helen Ennis is one of Australia’s leading photography curators, historians, and writers. Since 2000 she has curated eight major exhibitions. Her biography of modernist photographer Olive Cotton was awarded the Magarey Medal for Biography, the Queensland Literary Awards Non-fiction prize (2020) and Adelaide Writers’ Week Non-Fiction Award. (2022). Helen is currently researching the life and work of Max Dupain. Kathryn Millard is a writer (scripts, essays, and criticism) and award-winning filmmaker. Light Years (1991), one of Kathryn’s first films, explores the life and work of Olive Cotton. Bookings are essential for both In Club and Zoom. PREVIOUS EVENTS
Alana Valentine in conversation with Lisa Murray
Tuesday April 26th 5:30pm AEST arrival for 6pm start. Concluding 7:30pm 
The Rose Scott Women Writers’ Festival presents Alana Valentine in conversation with Lisa Murray. In a street out the back of the Cross is a very special place—the Wayside Chapel. It’s a haven for the poor, the excluded, the misfits. It’s a place of faith and a place of love. And it’s a place where people can declare their love—even when the rest of the world has turned you away. Inspired by the stories of countless people who married at Wayside Chapel, Alana Valentine’s much anticipated new play Wayside Bride will be produced by Belvoir Street in April-May 2022. https://belvoir.com.au/productions/wayside-bride/ Alana Valentine is a multi-award-winning playwright, director, and librettist. In April 2022 her play Wayside Bride opens at Belvoir Theatre and will play (in repertory) till 29 May. Also in 2022 she was co-librettist on Watershed: The Death of Dr. Duncan for Adelaide Festival of the Arts and co-writer/Dramaturg with Stephen Page on Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Wudjang:Not the Past. Her plays, which have toured extensively, include The Sugar House, Ladies Day, Letters to Lindy and Parramatta Girls. Lisa Murray is a public historian who works as the City Historian at the City of Sydney Council. With over 20 years’ experience in her field, Lisa is passionate about making history accessible to the public. An award-winning author of planning histories, Lisa is a curator of physical and digital exhibitions, and a producer of walking tours, activations, podcasts, and smartphone apps. Bookings are essential for both In Club and Zoom. EVENT CLOSED Jessica Au in conversation with Mireille Juchau
March 22nd 5.30pm AEDT 
The Rose Scott Women Writers’ Festival presents Jessica Au in conversation with Mireille Juchau.
The inaugural winner of The Novel Prize, Jessica Au’s novel will be published by Giramondo (Australia) Fitzcarraldo (U.K) and New Directions (U.S). in February. A daughter and mother travel to Tokyo in autumn. How much is spoken between them, how much thought but unspoken? Jessica Au’s novel creates an enveloping atmosphere of tenderness and distance. ‘So calm and clear and deep, I wished it would go on forever.’ Helen Garner ‘Rarely have I been so moved, reading a book: I love the quiet beauty of Cold Enough for Snow and how, within its calm simplicity, Jessica Au camouflages incredible power.' Edouard Louis Jessica Au is a writer based in Melbourne. She studied arts/law at the University of Melbourne and has worked as deputy editor at the journal Meanjin. Her first novel, Cargo (2011), was published by Picador and was highly commended in the Kathleen Mitchell Award. Cold Enough for Snow is Jessica’s second novel. Mireille Juchau is a Sydney-based novelist, essayist and critic. Her third novel, The World Without Us, was shortlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize and won the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction. In 2020 she won the Walkley-Pascall Prize for her arts criticism which is published internationally. Mireille was formerly fiction editor of HEAT Magazine, has a PhD in literature and is an Honorary Affiliate, Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney. Bookings are essential for both In Club and Zoom. EVENT CLOSED Diana Reid in conversation with Intan Paramaditha
February 23rd 5.30pm AEDT 
The Rose Scott Women Writer’s Festival presents Diana Reid Love and Virtue (Ultimo Press, 2021) in conversation with Intan Paramaditha.
Feminism, power and sex play out through the eyes of Australian uni students in a contemporary novel that combines insight and wit. Shortlisted for Indie Book Awards for Debut Fiction 2021, Love and Virtue (Ultimo Press, 2021) is the debut novel of Sydney based writer Diana Reid. Written with a strikingly contemporary voice that is both wickedly clever and incisive, issues of consent, class and institutional privilege, and feminism become provocations for enduring philosophical questions we face today. Diana Reid is a Sydney-based writer, who graduated from the University of Sydney last year with a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Hons Philosophy)/Laws. In January 2020, her career in theatre was off to a promising start: the musical she co-wrote and produced, 1984! The Musical!, debuted and she was set to direct and write theatre performances in Sydney and over to the Edinburgh Fringe. When COVID-19 saw the cancellation of global theatre, she decided she’d spend her time in shutdown writing a manuscript. Love & Virtue is her debut novel. Intan Paramaditha is a writer and an academic. Her novel The Wandering (Harvill Secker/ Penguin Random House UK), translated from the Indonesian language by Stephen J. Epstein, was nominated for the Stella Prize in Australia and awarded the Tempo Best Literary Fiction in Indonesia, English PEN Translates Award, and PEN/ Heim Translation Fund Grant from PEN America. She is the author of the short story collection Apple and Knife and the editor of Deviant Disciples: Indonesian Women Poets, part of the Translating Feminisms series of Tilted Axis Press. She holds a Ph.D. from New York University and teaches media and film studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. ‘An absolute cracker, Love & Virtue lobs right into the current moment with a clarifying light. I hope everyone reads this book,’ Helen Garner ‘A great read that will become an Australian classic,’ Sydney Morning Herald. Bookings are essential for both In Club and Zoom. EVENT CLOSED Be notified of Festival events: Join the Festival mailing list.
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