Debuting in a Pandemic

Fri 6 May 2022

Jacqueline Maley + Lyndall Clipstone + Kathleen Jennings

slq Auditorium 2, level 2, State Library

Main Festival

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

We all know someone who said they would write a book in lockdown — meet the people who actually did. These debut authors discuss how the past two years of global pandemic affected, or perhaps inspired, their writing, and what the final push was to get those manuscripts published. 

Panel: Lyndall Clipstone, Jacqueline Maley, Sophie Overett 
Chair: Kathleen Jennings

#Artists

Jacqueline Maley

Jacqueline Maley is a columnist and senior writer for the Sydney Morning Herald and Age newspapers, where she writes about politics, people and social affairs. In 2016, she won the Kennedy Award for Outstanding Columnist and in 2020 she won a Kennedy Award and a Walkley Award. She is also the recipient of the NSW Council of Liberties Journalism award. The Truth About Her is her first novel. She lives in Sydney.

Lyndall Clipstone

Lyndall Clipstone writes about monsters and the girls who like to kiss them. A former youth librarian who grew up running wild in the Barossa Ranges of South Australia, she currently lives in Adelaide, where she tends her own indoor secret garden. She has a Bachelors in Creative Writing and a Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Management.

Kathleen Jennings

Kathleen Jennings is a British Fantasy Award-winning author of Australian Gothic and folk- and fairy-tale-inspired fiction, and a World Fantasy Award-winning illustrator of fantasy and fairy tales, based in Brisbane. Her debut short story collection Kindling, published by Small Beer Press in 2024, follows her 2020 novel Flyaway and poetry collection Travelogues: Vignettes from Trains in Motion. She is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Queensland, researching methods of creative observation.