The Space Between
Trent Jamieson + Jeann Campillo + Lisa Fuller + JA Henderson
Brisbane Square Library
Y004
#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Three writers explore the spaces between — between the real and the imagined, fact and inscrutability, fate and inevitability.
#Artists
Trent Jamieson
Trent Jamieson is the Award-winning author of the novels The Stone Road, and Day Boy, as well as the Death Works Trilogy, and Roil Duology. His children's book The Giant and the Sea, illustrated by Rovina Cai, won the 2021 Environment Award for Children's Literature Picture Fiction. His latest book is Mr Impoppable, illustrated by Brent Wilson. Brent and Trent are currently working on a series of graphic novels together.
Jeann Campillo
Jeann Wong is a YA fantasy book blogger, booktoker and reader with a social media presence of 20,000 bookworms. Having been part of the Aussie YA community for many years, she's hosted a fantasy and sci-fi book club, was a former YA panellist on ABC radio and has hosted conversations with many favourite authors. When she's not reading or blogging, she can be found spending time with her family and golden retriever.
Lisa Fuller
Lisa Fuller is a Wuilli Wuilli woman from Eidsvold, Queensland, and is also descended from Gooreng Gooreng and Wakka Wakka peoples. She won the 2017 David Unaipon Award for an Unpublished Indigenous Writer, the 2018 Varuna Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellowship, was a joint winner of the 2018 Copyright Agency Fellowships for First Nations Writers, and placed second in the 2018 Feminartsy Memoir Prize. She has previously published poetry, blogs and short fiction. Lisa is an editor and publishing consultant, and is passionate about culturally appropriate writing and publishing. Lisa is a member of Us Mob Writing, the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild, the First Nations Australia Writers Network, and the Canberra Society of Editors.
JA Henderson
Jan-Andrew Henderson (J.A. Henderson) is the author of 32 children’s, teen, YA and adult fiction and non-fiction books – from horror to romance. He has been published in the UK, USA, Australia, Canada, Germany and the Czech Republic by Oxford University Press, Collins, Hardcourt Press, Amberley Books, Oetinger Publishing, Mainstream Books, Black and White Publishers, Mlada Fontana, Black Hart and Floris Books. He has been shortlisted for thirteen literary awards in the UK and Australia and won the Doncaster Book Prize and the Royal Mail Award - Britain’s biggest children’s book prize.
He has given talks across the UK and Queensland in conjunction with Authors Abroad, Literature Live and Speakers Ink.