The New Puberty/Fathers and Daughters/Finding Nevo
Growing Up
Madonna King + Amanda Dunn + Nevo Zisin
The Edge, State Library of Queensland
Home/Family/Childhood
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Madonna King
Madonna King is one of Australia’s most accomplished journalists, having worked at senior levels at News Ltd and the ABC, where she presented the popular Mornings program in Brisbane for six years, and won several national awards for her work. Madonna writes a highly successful weekly column for Fairfax, and has a regular radio spot on Brisbane’s 4BC. She has written eight books, all defined by her skillful reporting and her ability to get people to talk in depth.
A sought-after MC and facilitator, she travels Australia providing keynote addresses and running hypotheticals and panel discussions.
She is also chair of the Queensland anti cyberbullying taskforce.
Amanda Dunn
Amanda Dunn is the politics and society editor at The Conversation. Prior to that she was a reporter and editor at The Age for 16 years, with particular interest in health, education, social change, pop culture and the arts. In 2017 she published her first non-fiction book with MUP, The New Puberty, which interrogates the concern that children are going through puberty earlier than ever, looks at what the research shows, and what implications this might have for the way we parent and education Australian children.
Nevo Zisin
Nevo Zisin (they/them) is a queer, non-binary, Jewish writer, performer, activist and public speaker based in Naarm/ Melbourne. They run workshops in schools and professional development trainings in workplaces around transgender identities. Author of award-winning Finding Nevo (2017), a memoir on gender transition and The Pronoun Lowdown (2021) a useful guidebook on all things related to pronouns.
Their work has appeared in The Saturday Paper, NGV Magazine, Archer Magazine, Junkee, Kindred: A Queer Australian Young Adult Anthology, SBS, Hack Live and The Morning Show amongst others.
They are a mentor for The Pinnacle Foundation, one of Out for Australia's 30 Under 30 for 2019, an ambassador for both Wear It Purple and the Victorian Pride Centre as well as a member of the Gender Euphoria cast - Australia's largest all trans & gender diverse show on a main stage.
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Susan Johnson
Susan Johnson is the author of 14 books, published in Australia, the US, England and in European translation. Nine are novels, including the most recent, From Where I Fell (2022), shortlisted for the Voss Literary Prize. The others are collections she edited, as well as two memoirs, A Better Woman (1999), on motherhood, illness and writing, and the critically acclaimed Aphrodite’s Breath: A Mother, A Daughter and a Greek Island (2023), about living on Kythera. Susan Johnson’s books have been longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award and shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Prize, the Christina Stead Award, the National Biography Award, the Nita B Kibble Award and the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, among others. She has been awarded two residencies at the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, and her manuscripts and papers are collected by the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.
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