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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.
#Artists
Melanie Cheng
Melanie Cheng is a writer and general practitioner. Of Chinese-Australian heritage, she was born in Adelaide, grew up in Hong Kong and now lives in Melbourne. Her short story collection Australia Day won the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Indie Book Award for debut fiction and the 2017 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Room for a Stranger is her second book.
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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.
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