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The Art Of Noticing
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About the speakers
Susan Johnson
Novelist Susan Johnson has turned to memoir with Aphrodite’s Breath, which exposes the struggles and joys of moving to a Greek island with her 85-year-old mother, Barbara, without a word of Greek.
Maggie MacKeller
Maggie MacKellar is a writer and farmer. Her most recent book is Graft: motherhood, family and a year on the land. She lives in Tasmania/Lutruwita.
Peter Polites
Peter Polites is a novelist from Western Sydney. He has written two queer noirs, Down the Hume and The Pillars. His forthcoming novel is God Forgets About the Poor.
Jill Eddington
Jill Eddington is an avid reader and a lover of Australian writing. She is a former publisher and director of literature at the Australian Council for the Arts.
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