Join Us at the Regional Writers Rise Festival!
📍 Location: Traralgon Library
📚 Author talk: Heidi Everett – My Friend Fox

'The fox sits on the outer waiting for me to discover him because at the moment, I am on the outer too. He watches me. Can you see him? He’s clever at hiding'.
Part parable, part memoir, My Friend Fox is a story that might be familiar to some – searching everywhere to finally feel at home. An exquisitely gentle literary memoir about the wonder, the humour, and the realities that exist beyond what is printed in a person’s mental health file. With fox as her guide, Heidi comes to know how to live authentically, and venture into a future of her own making.
Alongside Heidi’s beautifully lyrical words are her exquisite line drawings, making My Friend Fox a book to be read, treasured, and gifted.

About the Author
Heidi Everett is a multi-media artist, writer, community arts facilitator, mental health disability advocate, social justice leader, and founder/CEO of Schizy Inc, Australia's first lived experience led arts organisation for people with complex mental health. She is a recipient of Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council's Human Rights Award and the Wellways' Community Mental Health Award. My Friend Fox (Ultimo Press) is her first book.

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