Women Write History 2024.
| “Writing is a kind of revenge against circumstance too: bad luck, loss, pain. If you make something out of it, then you’ve no longer been bested by these events.” ― Louise Glück New year, more stories The annual Women Write History event at Eltham Library, Victoria, Australia is returning in 2024! RSVP A space for learning, creativity, and discussion…Join us at Eltham Library on the 23rd of March to hear wonderful female writers speak, take part in engaging in workshops, and delve into the world of historical writing (fiction and non-fiction). |
| This year’s guests include:Leah Kaminsky Leah Kaminsky is a physician and award-winning writer. Her debut novel, The Waiting Room, won the Voss Literary Prize. The Hollow Bones won both the Literary Fiction and Historical Fiction categories of the 2019 International Book Awards, and the 2019 American Book Fest’s Best Book Award for Literary Fiction. She is the author of ten books and holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. www.leahkaminsky.com | |
Alison Goodman
Alison is the author of eight novels and her most recent release, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies, is an adventure/mystery set in the Regency era. It is the first book in The Ill-Mannered Ladies series and was recently long-listed in the 2023 ARA Historical Novel Award.Her award winning Lady Helen dark fantasy trilogy has been described as ‘Buffy meets Pride and Prejudice’. The first book in the series, The Dark Days Club, was a 2017 CBCA Notable Book for Older Readers, a 2017 Bank Street Library Best Book and an NPR Best Book of 2016. The second book, The Dark Days Pact, won the 2016 Aurealis Award for Best YA Novel. The third and final novel in the series, The Dark Days Deceit, was an Aurealis Award finalist …https://www.alisongoodman.com.au
Marion Taffe
Marion Taffe grew up surrounded by history. As a teenager, she spent weekends dressed in Edwardian costume while showing tourists around the living museum that was her family home. After a 20-year journalism career, Marion started writing her own stories. She is a recent graduate of RMIT’s Professional Writing and Editing and her debut novel is coming early 2025 (HarperCollins). Set in the tenth century Mercia during the reign of war leader and diplomat Lady Æthelflæd, the novel explores women’s strength, rage and creativity. It is a tribute to the many women whose written words have been lost to time.https://www.mariontaffe.com/
Christine Bell
Christine Bell is a Melbourne fiction writer. Her debut novel No Small Shame was published by Ventura Press (2020). Christine’s historical novel The Bone Singer was shortlisted for the 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. She was awarded a place in the KSP 2021 Fellowship Program to further develop the same manuscript. In October 2019 she won the inaugural HNSA Colleen McCullough Residency also for The Bone Singer.Before switching focus to writing adult novels, Christine had over 30 short fiction titles published for children. She is a Varuna Alumni and holds a Master of Creative Writing.
https://christinebell.com.au/
Robyn Cadwallader
Robyn is a poet and writer who lives in the country on Ngunnawal land outside Canberra.She has published poems, prize-winning short stories and reviews, a poetry collection, i painted unafraid and a non-fiction book based on her PhD thesis about virginity and female agency in the Middle Ages.Her first novel, The Anchoress (2015, Fourth Estate, Australia; Faber & Faber, UK; Farrer, Straus & Giroux, US; and Gallimard, France) was received with critical acclaim: it ‘achieves what every historical novel attempts: reimagining the past while opening a new window to our present lives’ (SMH) and ‘leaves behind a deeper sense of the power of the written word’ (ABR) …
https://www.robyncadwallader.com/
Keren Heenan
Keren Heenan has won a number of Australian short story awards, placed 2nd in the Fish Prize, and was a winner of the Griffith Review Novella Project 2019. Published in Australian journals and anthologies, including Island, Overland, Griffith Review, and Award Winning Australian Writing, and also in anthologies and online in the US, UK, and Ireland. https://kerenheenan.wordpress.com/
Wendy J. Dunn
Wendy J. Dunn is an award-winning Australian writer fascinated by Tudor history – so much so she was not surprised to discover a family connection to the Tudors, not long after the publication of her first Anne Boleyn novel, which narrated the Anne Boleyn story through the eyes of Sir Thomas Wyatt, the elder. Her family tree reveals the intriguing fact that one of her ancestral families – possibly over three generations – had purchased land from both the Boleyn and Wyatt families to build up their own holdings. It seems very likely Wendy’s ancestors knew the Wyatts and Boleyns personally. Wendy gained her PhD in 2014 and loves walking in the footsteps of the historical people she gives voice to in her novels. Wendy also tutors at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.
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