Making a Book the Best It Can Be
On Writing: Eggshell Skull
Festival Hub, Maiwar Green
How to Write
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#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Find out how Bri Lee worked with her editors and publisher to produce her first book. A session for writers and readers alike.
Eggshell Skull: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they find them'. If a single punch kills someone because of their thin skull, that victim's weakness cannot mitigate the seriousness of the crime. In Eggshell Skull, Ms Lee describes in stunning detail how hard it can be for victims of sexual assault to find justice in a system that presumes perpetrators are innocent.
#Artist
Bri Lee
Bri Lee is an award-winning author and academic. Her latest book is Who Gets to be Smart, and before that she published Beauty and Eggshell Skull. Her essays, journalism, and criticism appear regularly across The Monthly, The Saturday Paper, The Guardian, and Griffith Review. Her legal research and advocacy saw her named a 2019 Fin Review 'Woman of Influence', and she is now a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney.
