Estelle BlackBurn, Eric Cooke
Workshop
Estelle Blackburn speaks about her experiences of writing the biography Broken Lives: the complete life and crimes of serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke (1998).
Sophie Scott-Brown, Life Writing
Workshop
The Workshop, led by Sophie Scott-Brown, aims to start some conversations on a range of contemporary issues significant to both life-writing and more generally to the humanities.
Nigel Starke, Russell Braddon
Workshop
Nigel Stark examines the ethical challenges in researching and composing biography, illustrated by his experiences in writing a life of Russell Braddon (Proud Australian Boy: a biography of Russell Braddon, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2011) and his recent book on novelist and…
James Button: Speechless
Workshop
James Button, author of Speechless: A Year in My Father's Business, will speak on what writing an accidental biography of his father, the Labor Senator and Minister John Button, taught him about his father, Australia and himself.
Sophie Scott-Brown, Life Writing
Workshop
Led by Sophie Scott-Brown, the Biography Workshop will explore ways in which we come to both construct and deconstruct ideas of character in life writing.
David Day, Writing Australian Prime Ministers as Children
Workshop
David Day’s many books include prize winning biographies of Australian prime ministers – Andrew Fisher, John Curtin and Ben Chifley. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the ANU, where he is writing a biography of Paul Keating.
Peter Fitzpatrick: Outwitting Your Biographer
Workshop
Peter Fitzpatrick will talk about outwitting your biographer - a study of the contrasting challenges of misleading evidence in his two dual biographies, Pioneer Players: The Lives of Louis and Hilda Esson and The Two Frank Thrings.