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End of Days or Start of Something New?
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Sat 25 Oct 10:30 AM
Level 4 | National Library of Australia
Wheelchair
General Admission
60 Mins
October
Today we bear witness to the end of so much previous generations took for granted. Our two authors explore what it takes to stay truly human in the face of global cataclysm, or within a world shrunk to the size of a box. Josephine Rowe’s Little World examines existence from the perspective of a saint, conscious in death; and Cadance Bell imagines a life lived post humanity in Letters to Our Robot Son. Together, our authors will show us what we stand to lose, and to gain, at the end of our old world. Moderated by Kaya Wilson.
Cadance Bell is an author, literary critic, screenwriter and filmmaker. Her debut memoir The All of It: A Bogan Rhapsody was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year. Letters to Our Robot Son is her first fiction novel. She likes board games and short walks to the fridge.
Josephine Rowe is the author of three story collections and two novels, including A Loving, Faithful Animal. She has twice been named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist, and her story collection Here Until August was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Rowe’s writing has appeared in Granta, HEAT, McSweeny’s Quarterly, Zoetrope: All-Story, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, and elsewhere. In 2021-2022 she was a research fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, and is an inaugural 2024 Ian Potter Creative Fellow. Her new novel is Little World.
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Cadance Bell is an author, literary critic, screenwriter and filmmaker. Her debut memoir The All of It: A Bogan Rhapsody was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year. Letters to Our Robot Son is her first fiction novel. She likes board games and short walks to the fridge.
Josephine Rowe is the author of three story collections and two novels, including A Loving, Faithful Animal. She has twice been named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist, and her story collection Here Until August was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Rowe’s writing has appeared in Granta, HEAT, McSweeny’s Quarterly, Zoetrope: All-Story, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, and elsewhere. In 2021-2022 she was a research fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, and is an inaugural 2024 Ian Potter Creative Fellow. Her new novel is Little World.
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Concession Tickets apply for children under the age of 16, full-time students, Commonwealth Health Care Card holders, Commonwealth Seniors Card Holders and Commonwealth Pensioner Concession Card holders. Please have your eligible card with you at the venue.