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SWF X Readers – Books and Conversation w/ Francesca De Tores

When

Thursday 23 May 2024 from 8pm to 9:30pm

Cost

Adult: $10.00

This is a monthly series hosted by Michaela Kalowski. Authors talk about their latest work, their body of work, writing process and ideas that inspire them.

Meet Francesca De Tores:

Francesca is an author and academic. As Francesca de Tores, she writes historical fiction. Her latest novel is Saltblood (April 2024, Bloomsbury), based on the true story of Mary Read, a historical figure from piracy’s Golden Age.

As Francesca Haig, she is the author of four novels. The most recent, The Cookbook of Common Prayer, was published in 2021. Her post-apocalyptic Fire Sermon trilogy is published in more than 20 languages. The first novel, The Fire Sermon, was published in 2015, followed by The Map of Bones in 2016, and concluding with The Forever Ship in 2017.

Francesca grew up in lutruwita/Tasmania, gained her PhD from the University of Melbourne, and was a senior lecturer and a Visiting Writing Fellow at the University of Chester. Her poetry has been published in literary journals and anthologies in both Australia and England, and a collection of poetry, Bodies of Water, was published in 2006. In 2010 she was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship. She lives in naarm/Melbourne, on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin nation.

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