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Ann-Marie Priest

Ann-Marie Priest is the author of My Tongue Is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood, which won the 2023 National Biography Award and the 2024 Magarey Medal for Biography. She is a recipient of the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship and the author of several books, including A Free Flame: Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century, which was a finalist in the Dorothy Hewett Award. A senior lecturer at Central Queensland University, she has been a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Life Writing at Oxford University and the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research at St John’s University, Minnesota. She lives in rural Queensland.

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Events

  • Eat Drink Think: Lucy Ridge at SEQ Food Summit 2026

    Food Connect Shed Corner of Commerce St &, 8 Textile Cres, Salisbury, QLD, Australia

    Grab a drink and gather fuel for your next dinner party conversation (and menu) - we're bringing together 5 insiders with unique stories on culture, celebration and what makes our...

    $20
  • Saskia Beudel in conversation with Mireille Juchau (NSW)

    Ashfield Library - Civic Centre Level 3/260 Liverpool Rd, Ashfield, NSW

    Saskia Beudel was in her late fifties when she decided to take on a serious alpine cycling challenge. Peaking is her account of those 111 days. The training, the history...

  • An evening with Lelia Green (Books@Stones, QLD)

    Books@Stones 360 Logan Road, Stones Corner, QLD

    Join us at Books@Stones on Monday 3 August, 6:30pm for an in-conversation event with Lelia Green and Susan Danby discussing The Digital Child. Adults spend an average of 44 hours...