Must a work be political? Should it serve some higher moral purpose? Is aesthetic virtue enough? Author Jennifer Down doesn’t have the answers, but she has spent some time thinking about what it means to write for an audience versus writing for yourself. In her keynote address, she explores the tension between labor and life, the inherent weirdness of sharing your work, and what it means to keep putting one foot in front of the other as a working writer.
Conference & Online
Jennifer Down: Why Write?
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Why Write? is part of the National Writers’ Conference, a one-day online gathering of emerging writers on Zoom.
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Saturday 18 June
12.30-1.30pm AEST
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Online, via Zoom
Featuring...
Jennifer Down
Jennifer Down is the acclaimed author of Bodies of Light (2021), Pulse Points (2017) and Our Magic Hour (2016), published by Text.
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