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#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Writers speak of being compelled to write and experiencing ‘flow’, but they also have various hacks for helping them put words on the page – walking, swimming, incense, loud music, ironing…flying to war zones. The creative life can bring great highs as well as lows. This panel will look inside creativity.
#Artist
Jessica White
Jessica White is an academic in the field of literature and a writer of novels, memoir and essays, with a PhD from the University of London. She won the 2020 Michael Crouch award for Debut Biography for her hybrid memoir Hearing Maud and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Award and the Queensland Literary Award. Her first novel, A Curious Intimacy, was published by Penguin in 2007, and won a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist award. It was shortlisted for the Western Australia Premier’s award and the Dobbie award for a first book by a woman writer and longlisted for the international IMPAC award. Her second novel, Entitlement, was published by Penguin in 2012.
