Women Who Won't
Description
Join two brilliant writers – Chloe Wilson and Lucy Nelson – for a fascinating discussion about female characters who defy norms and refuse expectations, gendered or otherwise. With Emily Westmoreland.
Lineup
Chloe Wilson
Chloe Wilson is an award-winning Australian writer and the author of the story collection, Hold Your Fire, winner of the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for New Writing. Wilson has won the Iowa Review Fiction Prize, been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne. The Thornbacks is her first novel. She lives in Melbourne. Headshot: Nicole Cleary
Lucy Nelson
Lucy Nelson's short story collection Wait Here, (Simon & Schuster) was longlisted for the 2026 Stella Prize and shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Awards. Her work has been published in The Monthly, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Big Issue. She has received the Newcastle Short Story Award and the Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship. She lives on unceded Wodi Wodi and Dharawal Country.
Emily Westmoreland
Emily Westmoreland runs Dinner Party Press. She was the Program Director for Willy Lit Fest 2023-2025 and co-founded the Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction. In 2023, she was the Penguin Random House Young Bookseller of the Year.
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