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HomeWelcome To The National Centre of BiographyNCB Upcoming EventsFiery Tales: The Correspondence of Gwen Harwood and Larry Sitsky
Fiery Tales: The correspondence of Gwen Harwood and Larry Sitsky

Join Dr Ann-Marie Priest as she discusses her latest book Fiery Tales: The correspondence of Gwen Harwood and Larry Sitsky (Monash University Publishing) with Dr Susan Lever.

Ann-Marie Priest is the author of My Tongue Is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood, which won the 2023 National Biography Award and the 2024 Magarey Medal for Biography. She is a recipient of the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship and the author of several books, including A Free Flame: Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century, which was a finalist in the Dorothy Hewett Award. A senior lecturer at Central Queensland University, she has been a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Life Writing at Oxford University and the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research at St John’s University, Minnesota. She lives in rural Queensland.

Susan Lever is the author and editor of several books on Australian literature, most recently a biography of the poet, A.D. Hope, A.D. Hope: A Life (La Trobe University Press). Her book reviews appear in Inside Story and Australian Book Review.
 

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Date & time

  • Tue 01 Sep 2026, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Location

Fellows Bar & Cafe, University House

Speakers

  • Dr Ann-Marie Priest
  • Dr Susan Lever

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