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Empire Cinema, 327 Bong Bong Street, Bowral

Event Date: 25 Jul 2025, 10:30 am - 11:30 am

Southern Highlands Writers’ Festival 2025

Acclaimed biographer Dr Jacqueline Kent’s latest work, Inconvenient Women: Australian radical writers 1900-1970, traces the stories of trailblazing women writers who challenged the nation’s status quo.

Jacqueline will profile several writers including Ruth Park, Christina Stead and Oodgeroo Noonuuccal (Kath Walker) with extracts from diaries and private letters. Jacqueline’s other works include A Certain Style, the award-winning biography of book editor Beatrice Style and The Making of Julia Gillard, the only full biography of Australia’s first woman prime minister. Jacqueline holds a Doctorate of Creative Arts from UTS, Sydney.

Tickets $18 + booking fee

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Empire Cinema, 327 Bong Bong Street, Bowral

W. shwf.com.au

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