Author Panel: Truth Talking
Sunday 13 October: 12.00pm – 12.45pm
Join our authors for a thought-provoking discussion on their work and the nature of truth, exploring the ways in which truth is shaped by power, culture, and individual experiences, and how it can be both a liberating force and a source of conflict.
Carly-Jay Metcalfe
Kirsty Iltners
Jo Skinner
Chair: Dr Janet Lee
Supported by: UWA Publishing
BOOK TICKETS HERE
Author BIO’s
Carly-Jay Metcalfe was born with cystic fibrosis, survived a double-lung transplant at the age of twenty-one and faced a rare cancer at the age of thirty. She writes with compelling insight about organ donation, opioid addiction and survivor’s guilt, while still managing to find joy amongst the wreckage. Breath (UQP 2024) has been shortlisted for the 2024 Queensland Literary Awards.
Kirsty Iltners is a writer and photographer living on Jagera and Turrbal Country in Brisbane with her two daughters, her border collie, and three axolotls. Her debut novel Depth of Field (UWA Publishing 2024) examines the lives of two isolated individuals to reveal the fragility of life and the fallibility of our memories, and is the winner of the 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award.
Jo Skinner is a Brisbane-based GP and distance runner who writes contemporary women’s fiction and freelance non-fiction articles about women’s issues and mental health, and author of The Truth About My Daughter (Hawkeye 2024).