In Your Suburb: Tom Lee

Sat 7 Sep 2019

Tom Lee

Fairfield Library

In Your Suburb

7155

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Meet Tom Lee, whose debut novel Coach Fitz explore our contemporary fixation on self-fashioning and wellness, conjuring an immersive world of intimacy, awkwardness and elation.

#Artist

Tom Lee

Tom Lee was named as one of the 2019 Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists for his debut novel Coach Fitz. He is a senior lecturer in design at the University of Technology Sydney and was born in country New South Wales. Tom is known for his writing on technology, landscape, aesthetics and the senses.

#Moderator

Joy Lawn

Joy Lawn reviews fiction for the Australian newspaper. Her reviews and interviews have also appeared in Australian Book Review, Magpies magazine, SMH/The Age, Books+Publishing and professional journals.

Joy is currently judging fiction for the Queensland Literary Awards and women’s crime writing for the Davitt Awards. She has judged the Prime Minister’s and NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, the Russell Prize for Humour Writing and other awards; blogs about literary fiction, young adult and children’s literature as ‘Joy in Books’ at ‘PaperbarkWords’ blog https://paperbarkwords.blog/ and loves moderating sessions at writers’ festivals.

Joy is fascinated by ideas and images and how authors and illustrators express these with truth and originality.