Storyfest Festival Guide 2020

MEET THE A MEET THE AUTHORS

Lisa Fuller LISA FULLER Session 114 Wednesday 18 at 9.15am Session 215 Thursday 19 at 9.15am Session 255 Thursday 19 at 1.45pm Optimists Live Longer Thursday 19 at 5.00pm

Caroline Graham CAROLINE GRAHAM

Workshop Thursday 19 at 12.45pm Optimists Live Longer Thursday 19 at 5.00pm

Lisa Fuller is a Wuilli Wuilli woman from Eidsvold, Queensland, and is also descended from Gooreng Gooreng and Wakka Wakka peoples. She won a 2019 black&write! Writing Fellowship, the 2017 David Unaipon Award for an Unpublished Indigenous Writer, the 2018 Varuna Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellowship, and was a joint winner of the 2018 Copyright Agency Fellowships for First Nations Writers. Lisa is an editor and publishing consultant, and is passionate about culturally appropriate writing and publishing. Lisa is a member of Us Mob Writing, Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild, First Nations Australia Writers Network, and the Canberra Society of Editors. www.lisafuller.com.au

Caroline Graham is a Walkley Award-winning journalist who teaches creative writing and journalism at Bond University. She is the co-author of Writing Feature Stories: How to research and writer articles - from listicles to longform and the co-writer/co-producer of the true crime podcast series Lost in Larrimah.

Joanna Grochowicz JOANNA GROCHOWICZ Workshop Wednesday 18 at 9.30am Session 146 Wednesday 18 at 12.45pm Session 214 Thursday 19 at 9.15am Session 245 Thursday 19 at 12.45pm Optimists Live Longer Thursday 19 at 5.00pm Session 315 Friday 20 at 9.15am

Jess Hill JESS HILL Session 136 Wednesday 18 at 11.15am Session 216 Thursday 19 at 9.15am Literary Lunch Thursday 19 at 12.30pm Optimists Live Longer Thursday 19 at 5.00pm

Jess Hill is an investigative journalist who has been writing about domestic violence since 2014. Prior to this, she was a producer for ABC Radio, a Middle East correspondent for The Global Mail, and an investigative journalist for Background Briefing. She was listed in Foreign Policy’s top 100 women to follow on Twitter, and her reporting on domestic violence has won two Walkley awards, an Amnesty International award and three Our Watch awards.

Joanna Grochowicz has a background in foreign languages and literature and has enjoyed a varied career working with words in both corporate and not-for- profit sectors. She is based in New Zealand. Into the White is her first book.

www.jesshill.net

www.joannagrochowicz.com

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