More than ever before we love delving into the seemingly ordinary lives of others. Memoirist Jeremy Gavron, Elspeth Muir, Marie Munkara and Hugo Race share their pages live.
Brisbane Writers Festival
2016 Highlights
Memoir Readings
Jeremy Gavron
Jeremy Gavron is the author of six books, including his new memoir A Woman on the Edge of Time, which tells the story of his mother’s suicide when he was four years old and his quest, four decades later, to discover who she was and why she killed herself. A former foreign correspondent in Africa and Asia, he now teaches fiction at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. He is married with two daughters (and an Australian godson).
Marie Munkara
Of Rembarranga and Tiwi descent, Marie Munkara was delivered on the banks of the Mainoru River in Arnhemland by her two grandmothers and spent her early years on Bathurst Island. Her first novel, Every Secret Thing, won the David Unaipon Award in 2008 and the Northern Territory Book of the Year in 2010. She was writtern two children’s books, Rusty Brown and Rusty and Jojo, and another novel, A Most Peculiar Act. Marie is presently working on the TV mini-series for Every Secret Thing and her next novel.
Hugo Race
Hugo Race is a musician and author of the travel memoir, Road Series. His creative journey has embraced cross-cultural explorations with different traditions of music from post-punk to modern classic through Mali, Sicily, Brazil and greater Europe. He has played with bands including The Bad Seeds and The Wreckery. With a catalogue of 20 albums to his name and innumerable international collaborations, Hugo continues to live and work between Australia and Italy.
Megan McGrath
Megan McGrath is an award-winning fiction writer from North Stradbroke Island. She writes coastal tales, shaped by small towns, violence and the sea.
Elspeth Muir
Elspeth Muir is a Brisbane author whose writing has appeared in The Lifted Brow, The Best of the Lifted Brow: Volume One, Griffith Review, Voiceworks and Bumf. She is a postgraduate student at the University of Queensland.