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Program 2017
Women Writing Women: Valuing the Voices of Women 15 - 16 September 2017
Patron The Hon Justice Virginia Bell AC

Festival Luncheon
Friday 15 September 2017 11.45am-2.00pm
​Keynote Speaker: Deborah Cheetham AO ​Remembering Our Future
Festival Soiree
Friday 15 September 2017 5.00-7.00pm
Panel Discussion: Women Writing Human Rights
Moderator: Renata Kaldor AO
Panellists: Madeline Gleeson, Dr Claire Higgins, Kathy Bail
Book Launch: Asylum by Boat: Origins of Australia’s Asylum Policy by Claire Higgins
Festival Symposium
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Saturday 16 September 2017 9.30-5.00pm

Session 1: 9.30-10.45am
Patron’s Welcome: The Hon Justice Virginia Bell AC
Keynote Address: Writing through the body: women speaking, thinking, feeling  Dr Bernadette Brennan 

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Session 2: 11.15-12.40pm
Panel Discussion: Women Writing Real Women
Panel Moderator: Dr Kate Evans
Panellists: Lucy Palmer; Dr Karen Lamb
Book Launch: Passage by Kate Middleton
​To be launched by Dr Lisa Gorton

Session 3: 1.30-2.45pm
Panel Discussion: Writing Fictional Women
Moderator: Dr Delia Falconer
Panellists: Dr Lisa Gorton; Dr Tegan Bennett Daylight

Session 4: 3.15-5.00pm
Play Reading: Letters to Lindy by Alana Valentine

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