Join this Canberra Writers Festival event on Saturday 25 October. Image: Canberra Writers Festival.
Something magical happens when beautiful writers approach the topic of the sacred and divine and tell a tale replete with human desire and frailty. In Little World, Josephine Rowe travels with a girl saint through North-west Australia in the 1950s all the way through to the onset of Covid in Victoria. Emily Maguire took the literary scene by storm with Rapture, the story of a medieval girl who rises to become a Pope, and all the twists and turns and qualities that would have needed to unfold in her life to make it so. Here they are in conversation with Canberra author, Tabitha Carvan.
Emily Maguire is the author of seven novels and three non-fiction books. Her novel An Isolated Incident was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and her 2022 book Love Objects was shortlisted for the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year. She was the 2018 Writer-in-Residence at the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney and the 2023 HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellow at the Australian National University. Emily has an MA in literature and works as a mentor to young and emerging writers. Her latest book is the novel, Rapture.
Josephine Rowe is the author of three story collections and two novels, including A Loving, Faithful Animal. She has twice been named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist, and her story collection Here Until August was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Rowe’s writing has appeared in Granta, HEAT, McSweeny’s Quarterly, Zoetrope: All-Story, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, and elsewhere. In 2021-2022 she was a research fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, and is an inaugural 2024 Ian Potter Creative Fellow. Her new novel is Little World.
The Details
What: Lonely, Sacred, Desperate and Divine
When: Saturday 25 October from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Where: Level 4 | National Library of Australia
Cost: $28. Buy tickets.
