Event:

Talking Writing: Queer Writers on Queer Writers

Thursday 18 August, 6–8:00pm

This event took place on Thursday 18 August, 2022.

Talking Writing is our regular themed writing event, designed to explore the limits of what writing is and where it can take you. The second of four events in the series will focus on Queer authors and their writing influences.

Join us on Thursday 18 August from 6pm for an evening of readings and discussion with Queer writers and artists living in Sydney. From 6pm, join us for drinks, nibbles, and a chance to meet other writers. The panel will take place from 6:30-8pm.

The LGBTQIA+ community has been a major influence on arts, culture, and the Australian literary scene for decades, with contemporary queer writers thriving and more visible than ever before. Talking Writing: QueerWriters on Queer Writers celebrates a new generation of writers from Sydney’s LGBTQIA+ community, by paying homage to the influential queer writers who came before them.

Writing NSW invites a panel of Queer Australians to discuss their favourite writers and creative influences, the stories that shaped their identity and practice, as well as to share from their own bodies of work.

Curated and chaired by queer writer Amy Lovat (she/her), the event features award-winning writer George Haddad (he/him), musician and debut author Bastian Fox Phelan (they/them), and writer and artist Fiona Kelly McGregor (she/they).

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Attendees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and must comply with any other precautionary measures Writing NSW puts in place. Attendees will currently be required to wear masks when in the session. 

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Speakers

George Haddad

George Haddad is an award-winning writer and artist practising on Gadigal land whose work explores masculinities and the limitations of language in communicating truths. His novella, Populate and Perish, was the winner of the 2016 Viva La Novella competition and his short story Kátharsis was awarded the 2018 Neilma Sidney Prize. Haddad is currently a doctoral candidate and […]

Fiona Kelly McGregor

Fiona Kelly McGregor is a cross-disciplinary writer, artist and critic, whose recent non-fiction collection Buried not dead was shortlisted for the VPLA. Her novel Indelible ink won Age Book of the Year and was published in French by Actes-Sud; experimental writing includes photo essay A novel idea, and the underground classic Chemical palace. Earlier books […]

Bastian Fox Phelan

Bastian Fox Phelan writes about bodies, binaries, place and environment. Phelan’s debut memoir, How to Be Between, was published by Giramondo in 2022. Their writing has been published in the Guardian, Sydney Review of Books, The Suburban Review and Island magazine. Phelan is a PhD student at University of Newcastle, working on an eco-memoir about […]

Amy Lovat

Amy Lovat is the author of Mistakes and Other Lovers (Pan Macmillan 2023) and the founder of online bookstore Secret Book Stuff. She has a PhD from the University of Newcastle where she’s taught creative writing and the humanities for almost a decade. Amy is a professional editor and proofreader and has worked as a […]

Location

Writing NSW

Writing NSW
Callan Park, Balmain Rd
Lilyfield

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