About this Event
As part of MidCoast Festival of Stories, one of Australia’s most loved forums for literature, ideas and storytelling, Sydney Writers’ Festival will live-stream its headline events from Sydney to MidCoast Council Libraries on Thursday 23, Friday 24, Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 May.
Prepare to be invigorated and engaged by conversations, debates and discussions featuring some ofthe world’s finest writers and thinkers. Audiences can also participate in live Q&A sessions at each event, sending questions straight to the Sydney stage. Join us for Live & Local 2024, streamed live by Sydney Writers’ Festival and delivered locally.
About the event...
QUEER LOVE AND LONGING - K PATRICK AND CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS
Swoon with K Patrick (Mrs S) and Christos Tsiolkas (The In-Between) in this beautiful discussion of romance, desire and the pleasures of writing queer love stories. With Madeleine Gray.
About the authors...
K Patrick
K Patrick is a writer based in Scotland. Their poetry has appeared in Poetry Review, Granta and Five Dials and was shortlisted for The White Review Poet’s Prize in 2021, the same year that K was also shortlisted for The White Review’s Short Story Prize. In 2023, they were shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. Their debut novel, Mrs S, was selected as an Observer Best Debut of the Year and K was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelists for 2023. Their debut poetry collection, Three Births, will be published by Granta Poetry in March 2024.
Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas is the author of eight novels, including Dead Europe, which won the 2006 Age Fiction Prize and the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing Award, as well as being made into a feature film. His fourth novel, the international bestseller The Slap, won Overall Best Book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2009, was shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award, longlisted for the2010 Man Booker Prize and won the Australian Literary Society Gold and was also named Book ofthe Year for 2009 by the Australian Booksellers Association and the Australian Book Industry Awards. His sixth novel, Damascus, won the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction. In 2021, Christos won the Melbourne Prize for Literature. Christos is also a playwright, essayist and screenwriter.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
MidCoast Libraries - Forster, 4 Lake Street, Forster, Australia
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