What a great turnout at Thriroul Library supporting local authors.
I read an extract from my book of my mother’s letter from 1972 about her UK abortion in 1961. This started an hearfelt conversation. Lots of chats after.
Featured guest speakers
Alejandra Martinez
Alejandra Martinez is an Australian-Uruguayan writer based in the Blue Mountains, NSW with her debut novel, Salsa in the Suburbs, telling the story of one Latin-American family’s migration to Australia and their exploration of what it means to measure belonging across cultures and time.
Alice Crawley
Alice Crawley is a speaker, author and film producer with her 2022 novel, On the Way to Wonderland, chronicling her grapple with debilitating drug, exercise and spending addictions which drove her into $185,000 credit card debt, as she battled mental health issues, overdoses and anorexia.
Emma Darragh
Emma Darragh is a writer and academic published in Cordite, TEXT and Westerly, and her book Thanks for Having Me is a sharp, intimate family portrait about women boxed in by domestic roles, the ache of maternal absence, and the ways one act of leaving reverberates through generations.
Judi Morison
Judi Morison is a Gamilaroi writer living on Gumbaynggirr Country whose debut novel Secrets follows three generations of women forced to confront a decades-old truth to heal a fractured family and keep their homestead, Cora, in the family.
Kate Rowe
Kate Rowe is a Sydney-based LGBTQIA+ rights activist and 1978 Mardi Gras marcher whose debut memoir How the F*ck Would I Know? traces her journey from survival and addiction recovery to political awakening and a life rebuilt through community and endurance sport.
Kate Rowe 