Dr Kathryn Heyman is an award-winning writer. She was awarded the prestigious CAL Author Fellowship for Fury, a memoir of recovery and transformation.
Byron Writers Festival 2021
PODCAST
Fury: Kathryn Heyman in conversation with Sarah Armstrong
Sarah Armstrong interviews Kathryn Heyman about her memoir Fury. They unpack questions around the writing process: What stories do we choose to tell and why? When is the right time to write about personal or traumatic events? Kathryn also talks about her early writing life, the books that inspired her, gender politics and the reverberations of the #metoo movement.
About Fury
At the age of twenty, after a traumatic sexual assault trial, Kathryn Heyman ran away from her life and became a deckhand on a fishing trawler in the Timor Sea.
After one wild season on board the Ocean Thief, the only girl among tough working men, facing storms, treachery and harder physical labour than she had ever known, Heyman was transformed.
A roadmap of recovery and transformation, this is the story of becoming heroic in a culture which doesn’t see heroism in the shape of a girl.
Thanks to Delta Kay, Arakwal Bundjalung woman, for the Welcome to Country on this podcast.
Purchase the Book
Fury is available to purchase online via The Book Room Collective.
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About the authors
Kathryn Heyman
Sarah Armstrong
Sarah Armstrong was a journalist at the ABC. She has written three novels for adults and her first novel for readers aged 8 – 12 will be published next year.
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