#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Award-winning memoir and fiction writer Kris Kneen in conversation with senior editor Mandy Brett from Text Publishing, another returnee from 2021's Author/Editor series. Together they discuss the development of their author/editor relationship over Kris's many works.#Series sponsored by
#Artists
Kris Kneen
Kris Kneen is the award-winning author of fiction, poetry and non-fiction including An Uncertain Grace which was shortlisted for the Stella Prize, Wintering, shortlisted for the Davitt award and three QPLA awards, and The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen which was shortlisted for two QPLA awards and the Margarey Medal. Their poetry collection Eating My Grandmother won the Thomas Shapcott Prize. Their latest book Fat Girl Dancing is shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. They have written and directed broadcast television documentaries and were the Copyright Agency Ltd Non-fiction Fellow in 2020.
Mandy Brett
Mandy Brett is a senior editor at Text Publishing, where she has worked across all lists and genres since 2002. Before that she was at IAD Press in Alice Springs.
She has worked with many brilliant writers and excellent human beings, including (in no particular order): Garry Disher, Sarah Krasnostein, Clare Wright, Magda Szubanski, Catherine Jinks, Toni Jordan, Robyn Annear, Sophie Cunningham and Inga Clendinnen.
