Tag: memoir
Belvoir’s Tell Me I’m Here looks at the impact of mental illness on the whole family. It is a wrenching and beautiful work
Image: Brett Boardman/Belvoir
Review: Tell Me I’m Here, directed by Leticia Cáceres, Belvoir.
Released in 1991, the memoir Tell Me I’m Here remains a landmark examination of the...
Book Launch: the last hooray by Frank Howson
Book Launch: The Last Hurrah
Thursday 1 Sep 2022 at 6:30pm
Readings St Kilda — Boonwurrung Country, 112 Acland St, St Kilda, Victoria, 3182
We are pleased...
Sunday essay: sex, swimming and smudgy louvres – watching Monkey Grip 40 years on
Image: An early poster for Monkey Grip, starring Noni Hazelhurst and Colin Friels. MIFF
The woman’s name is Nora, and she’s getting out of the pool...
Sunday essay: hunger, dust-storms, war – how I defied the odds as a South Sudanese child refugee
Akuch Kuol Anyieth pictured in Melbourne with her mother Mary. Author provided
My name is Akuch Kuol Anyieth. I am South Sudanese by birth, Kenyan by...
Sunday essay: single parenting with a disability – how my 9-year-old daughter became my carer in shining armour
Shakira Hussein (seated in chair) with daughter Adalya Nash Hussein. Photo by Leah Jing McIntosh. Author provided
My daughter started to describe me as disabled long before I...
Book Review: Death Sentences by Michael Zimecki
Introducing Death Sentences, a novel written in the form of a memoir and narrated by a guy on death row.
About Death Sentences
Peter “Pop” Popovich...