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SUMMARY:Spotlight Series - A Chat with Leah Kaminsky - 11 September
DESCRIPTION:Dr Marjorie Cross OAM chats with doctor and award winning author\, Leah Kaminsky on the 11th September at 7pm. AFMW members and non-members are invited to attend this Zoom session. \n  \nAbout Leah Kaminsky\nLeah Kaminsky’s debut novel The Waiting Room won the Voss Literary Prize and was shortlisted for the Helen Asher Award (Vintage Australia 2015\, Harper Perennial US 2016). Her second novel\, The Hollow Bones (Vintage) won the 2019 International Book Awards in both Literary Fiction & Historical Fiction categories and the 2019 Best Book Awards for Literary Fiction. Her third novel is Doll’s Eye (Penguin-Random House Australia\, 2023). We’re all Going to Die has been described as ‘a joyful book about death’ (Harper Collins\, 2016). Animals Make Us Human was a fundraiser for conservation organisations\, co-editor Meg Keneally. She edited Writer MD (Knopf US\, starred on Booklist 2011) and co-authored Cracking the Code (Vintage 2015). Stitching Things Together was a finalist in the Anne Elder Poetry Award. \n \n  \nShe has written for the BBC\, the Guardian\, Huffington Post\, Monocle\, Sydney Morning Herald\, The Age\, Griffith Review\, SBS\, LitHub\, The Rumpus\, National Theatre UK\, Griffith Review\, Forward\, Creative Nonfiction\, Hunger Mountain\, Antipodes\, Metazen\, The Australian\, The Sydney Morning Herald\, The Age\,  Chicago Quarterly Review\, r\,kv.r.y\, Hippocrates Poetry Prize anthology\, The Ampersand Review\, [PANK]\, Voices\, Australian Poetry\, Quadrant\, The Binnacle\, Evening Paper\, Victorian Writer\, The Examined Life\, Mattoid\, Cordite Poetry Review\, Transnational Literature\, amongst others. \nShe is former Poetry & Fiction Editor of the Medical Journal of Australia. She has been awarded a Cove Park Fellowship (Bridge Awards/EIBF/Varuna) the McCraith Fellowship (RMIT University)\, the Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellowship for Fiction (Varuna)\, a Bundanon Fellowship\, the Varuna-Griffith Review Fellowship\, the Billila Bayside Council Fellowship\, Glenfern Fellowship (Writers Victoria) and a Varuna Publisher’s Fellowship. \nShe holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts (USA) and a BA in Literature from Deakin University. \nFind out more \n  \nMeeting Details\nDate: Wed 11 September 2024 \nTime: 7pm \nLocation / Register: Via Zoom\, register here \n AFMWThe Australian Federation of Medical Women (AFMW) is a not for profit\, politically neutral\, non sectarian\, non government organisation that seeks to improve the health of all Australians\, especially the health of women and children. \nEvents and Updates coordination by AFMW\, on behalf of the Australian Federation of Medical Women (AFMW)\, its affiliated Australian state and territory partners and international networks and supporters. If you have an update or event you would like to share with us for Australian medical women\, please contact us with details. Thank you.
URL:https://afmw.org.au/event/spotlight-chat-with-leah-kaminsky-11-september/
LOCATION:On-line / Zoom
CATEGORIES:AFMW Hosted,Spotlight Series
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