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Amie Kaufman: Other Worlds Sci-fi and Fantasy Symposium 2025
DATE: Friday 9 May
PROGRAM:
10.15am-10.45am: morning tea on arrival
10.45am: Welcome to Country / Acknowledgement of Country and opening remarks
11am -12.15pm: Public Event: Amie Kaufman in conversation with Mette Jakobsen, with Q&A (all welcome!), folllowed by book signing
12.30pm-1.15pm: lunch for afternoon workshop attendees
1.30pm-3.30pm: Writing workshop with Amie Kaufman on 'Worldbuilding' for WSU postgraduates only
VENUE: Parramatta City Campus, Peter Shergold Building, 169 Macquarie St, Parramatta, Level 9, Conference Room 3 (2 minutes from Parramatta train station)
IN PERSON ATTENDANCE (in conversation event): register here
ONLINE ATTENDANCE via ZOOM (in conversation event online): register here
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WRITING WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: contact Dr Mette Jakobsen, M.Jakobsen@westernsydney.edu.au (limited places, in-person only for WSU postgraduates)
AMIE KAUFMAN is a New York Times, USA Today and internationally bestselling author of science fiction and fantasy. Her multi-award winning work has been translated into nearly thirty languages, and is in development for film and TV.
Raised in Australia and occasionally Ireland, Amie has degrees in history, literature, law and conflict resolution, and is currently undertaking a PhD in Creative Writing. She’s the host of podcasts Amie Kaufman on Writing, and Pub Dates. Amie lives by the sea in Melbourne, Australia, with her family and an extremely large personal library. Her latest book is the fantasy adventure The Isles of the Gods.
METTE JAKOBSEN i s a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and a Master’s in Creative Arts. She is also a graduate of NIDA’s Playwright Studio, with a background in acting.
Mette has enjoyed international success with her fiction writing. Her first novel, The Vanishing Act (Text Publishing), has been translated in the several languages with the rights sold to US, UK, Canada, Germany, Holland, Taiwan, Turkey and Hungary. The novel made it onto Oprah’s book list, became number one on the US Indie book list and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize. She subsequently published two more novels with Text Publishing. Her publishers overseas include Bloomsbury, Vintage, Norton and HarperCollins. Four of Mette’s plays have been produced and broadcast on ABC Radio National in Australia, with two shortlisted for Prix Marulic and Prix Italia. In 2021 Mette started writing for young adults and her dystopian duology, The Tower Series, was published by HarperCollins, Australia.
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