Kathryn Heyman
Dr Kathryn Heyman is the author of seven novels as well as a memoir, a poetry collection and several dramas for stage and BBC radio. Her work has won numerous awards in Australia and the UK including the Arts Council of England Writers Award, the Wingate Prize, the Hallam Poetry Prize and the Southern Arts Awards, and been nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Scottish Writer of the Year Award, the Edinburgh Fringe Critics' Awards, the Kibble Prize, and the West Australian Premier's Book Awards.
Kathryn Heyman won the Copyright Agency's Author Fellowship for her memoir Fury, which was also shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, nominated for the Folio International Prize, and is now in development as a feature film. In 2011 she founded the Australian Writers Mentoring Program.
Kathryn will be appearing in the following events:
A JOURNEY OF ONE’S OWN: Kathryn Heyman, Hazel Phillips and San San in conversation with Nicole Abadee - Tue 27 Oct
GRIEF AND REDEMPTION: Katia Ariel, Kathryn Heyman and Isabelle Li in conversation with Michaela Kalowski - Sat 31 Oct
WILD SOULS AND WONDER: Kathryn Heyman and Katherine Johnson in conversation with Veechi Stuart - Sun 1 Nov