There's more to being queer than coming out and getting married. In this national storytelling event led by Maeve Marsden, LGBTQI+ storytellers share a tale from their lives, shining small windows into the magnificence of the queer community.
Maeve Marsden is a writer and theatremaker. She was a 2020 Phillip Parsons fellow at Belvoir St Theatre, and has written, directed and performed in a number of critically acclaimed theatre productions, touring Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
Gina Cole is of Fijian, Scottish and Welsh descent, and lives in Tāmaki Makaurau. Her collection Black Ice Matter won the Hubert Church Prize for Best First Book Fiction at the 2017 Ockham Book Awards.
Cadance Bell is a celebrated Australian author, director, producer and writer. Her memoir The All of It: A Bogan Rhapsody was released in July 2022 to critical acclaim and her first fiction novel, Letters to Our Robot Son, releases 2023 exclusively to Audible.
Anne-Marie Te Whiu is Senior Project Manager at Red Room Poetry. Anne-Marie edited Tony Birch's poetry collection Whisper Songs.
George Haddad is an award-winning writer and artist practising on Gadigal land whose work explores masculinities and the limitations of language in communicating truths. His novella, Populate and Perish, was the winner of the 2016 Viva La Novella competition; Losing Face is his debut novel.
Peter Mitchell writes across all narrative forms: memoir, poetry, short fiction, essays, literary criticism & journalism. He is an Olvar Wood Mentee (2018), an Artist with Disability Grant recipient (2015), a Varuna Poetry Fellow (2014), a Northern Rivers Writers Centre Mentee (2002, 2003) & a KSP Writers Centre Emerging Fellow (2001) & has authored two poetry chapbooks: Conspiracy of Skin (Ginninderra Press, 2018) & The Scarlet Moment (Picaro Press, 2009).
Note: This special event is 75 minutes in duration, rather than the regular session length of 60 minutes.
A portable T-loop is available for a limited number of seats for this event. Please email hello@bluemountainswritersfestival.com.au if you require this service.
Single tickets are available below. This session is also available in the Festival Savers Storyteller Pack, Festival Savers Sunday Lunch Pack, 8-Ticket Multipack, 4-Ticket Multipack or a Livestream ticket.