Romance Writing: Three BLPG members to speak at Elizabeth Jolley Conference coming up August 16

The inaugural Elizabeth Jolley Conference entitled: Reading and Writing in the 21st Century will be held at the Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle as part of the 2013 Romance Writers Conference. The Elizabeth Jolley Conference is sponsored and coordinated by Curtin University and will be held on Friday August 16. The Romance Writers Conference includes this conference and spans the weekend Saturday August 17 - Sunday August 18.

Three BLPG members are scheduled to speak in the morning session of the Elizabeth Jolley Conference on Friday 16 - Trisha Kotai-Ewers, myself, and Lynn Allen.

Trisha Kotai-Ewers is President of the Fellowship of Australian Writers in WA and her book Listen to the Talk of Us: People with Dementia Speak Out was reviewed on this blog last year. Her talk will be called:

Pepper Tree Bay; red dust and riding boots: questioning life’s margins in three novels by Dorothy Lucie Sanders/Lucy Walker

Lynn Allen and I will follow Trisha's talk (both on at the same time in different rooms - dang!)
Lynn's profile appeared on this blog earlier - here. Lynn's talk is:

Exploring women and modalities of power in fiction: escaping the straightjacket of genre into digital space

Mine is:

Make Love, Not War: Baby Boomer (Romance?) Fiction in the Australian Context

Still, it's not all about us! There are a range of excellent speakers and fascinating topics relating to the romance writing genre with some wonderful home-grown authors including Deborah Burrows, Rachel Robertson and Alice Nelson.
 

The Keynote speaker

Professor Imelda Whelehan


Would love to see you there if you are coming along.