Honouring a Life
Event description
Barbara Kamler (Sophie) and Bernadette Jiwa (Every Shade of Love) have immortalised their loved ones in books they’ve published themselves. Learn how self-publishing has given them creative control to honour their loved ones in print.
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BERNADETTE JIWA grew up in a house with no books but a home full of stories in Dublin, the storytelling capital of the world. These days, she and her family call Melbourne, Australia, home. She began her writing apprenticeship as a blogger and non-fiction writer in her forties. Within a few short years, she became a bestselling author and in-demand story skills teacher. During the pandemic, Bernadette embraced the freedom of fiction and has published two novels, The Making of Her and Every Shade of Love.
BARBARA KAMLER is a Melbourne-based poet and author of creative non-fiction, as well as eight academic book titles and numerous essays during her academic career. Leaving New Jersey is a memoir of loss and reconnection told in prose poetry. Love, regardless, a gallery of fourteen long-love portraits, crafted into syllabic verse. Her most recent book Sophie: stories (2024) creates a dynamic multi-voiced collage of prose vignettes, photographs and poetic reflections to tell the story of her grandmother, who crossed the Atlantic to flee oppression in Poland at age 14, and ventured to New York City on her own.
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