16 - 17 SEPTEMBER 2022
FESTIVAL EVENT 2022
AT THE WOMEN'S CLUB AND online via zoom
Remixing Memoir
Eda Gunaydin, Bastian Fox Phelan and Bronwyn Rennex with Beth Yahp
Date: Saturday 17 September 2022
Time: 12.20 - 13.15
Location: The Women's Club and via the Zoom video conferencing app.
Time: 12.20 - 13.15
Location: The Women's Club and via the Zoom video conferencing app.
From a memoir in essays (Eda Gunaydin's Root and Branch) to a memoir-slash-biography (Bronwyn Rennex’s Life with Birds) and a memoir grounded in the world of music and zines (Bastian Fox Phelan’s How to be Between), this session brings together three writers reinventing the genre. Join Eda, Bastian, and Bronwyn as they speak with Beth Yahp.
Our Festival bookseller, Better Read than Dead, can provide all Festival books.
Participants
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Eda Gunaydin is a Turkish-Australian essayist whose writing explores class, race, diaspora and Western Sydney. She has been a finalist for a Queensland Literary Award and the Scribe Non-Fiction Prize. Her debut essay collection Root & Branch is out now with NewSouth Publishing.
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Photography: Simone De Peak
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Bastian Fox Phelan is a writer, musician and zine maker living in Mulubinba Newcastle on Awabakal land. Their zines, including Ladybeard and How to Be Alone, are held in collections around the world. Bastian’swriting has been published in journals including Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin, Archer and The Lifted Brow. How to Be Between is their first book.
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Bronwyn Rennex is a writer, artist and arts professional. Her first book, Life with Birds was released by Upswell Publishing in June 2022. Her poetry has been published in Cordite Poetry Review and her photographs have been exhibited widely. Until 2017, she was Co-Director of Stills Gallery in Sydney, where she worked with some of Australia’s most celebrated artists.
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Beth Yahp
Beth Yahp’s fiction and creative non-fiction include: The Red Pearl and Other Stories; a memoir Eat First, Talk Later which was shortlisted for the 2018 Adelaide Festival Award for Literature (Non-Fiction); and a novel The Crocodile Fury (which was translated into several languages. She lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Sydney. |
Tickets
Festival Pass: TWC Members $150 Guest $180 (inclusive of opening night ticket)
Digital Pass (Zoom only): TWC Members $60 Guest $80 (inclusive of opening night ticket)
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Festival Pass: TWC Members $150 Guest $180 (inclusive of opening night ticket)
Digital Pass (Zoom only): TWC Members $60 Guest $80 (inclusive of opening night ticket)
Book TWC Member tickets
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