Show Me Where it Hurts: Living with Invisible Illness

with Kylie Maslen / Chaired by Jane Howard

Shortlisted for this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, Kylie Maslen’s Show Me Where It Hurts explores the impact of chronic illness on the lives of sufferers, and is marked by its eloquence, candour and generosity. Drawing on her own life and illness, Kylie documents the experience of living with pain with humour and courage, detailing its impact across such areas as housing, dating and work, and building her readers’ understanding through pop cultural references ranging from Frida Kahlo to Sally Rooney to Sponge Bob Squarepants.

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Kylie Maslen is a writer and critic. Her debut essay collection Show Me Where it Hurts: Living with Invisible Illness was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, and was named among the best books of 2020 by Guardian Australia and the Saturday Paper. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, Adelaide Review, Crikey and Junkee, among other outlets. In 2018 she was the recipient of the Kill Your Darlings New Critics Award, and her essay ‘I’m Trying to Tell You I’m Not Okay’ was longlisted for the Lifted Brow & RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Non-fiction. She lives in Adelaide, South Australia, on unceded Kaurna Country.

Jane Howard is a Walkley award winning journalist and deputy editor of arts and culture at The Conversation. Her writing has appeared in publications including Meanjin, Crikey, the ABC, and Kill Your Darlings, and she has worked for the Guardian across Australia and in Asia.

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WHEN

Thu 04 Mar, 12:00pm

WHERE

Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden
East Stage

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FREE

DURATION

1hr

NOTE

To ensure your safety during the Age of Covid, 2021 will see some changes to the operation of the Writers’ Week’s site.

Adelaide Writers’ Week sessions held in the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden are free however all patrons will be required to do a COVID-Safe Check-In by scanning one of the QR codes displayed around the Garden. If you do not have a smart phone, Writers’ Week staff can register you manually.

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Wheelchair accessible
Auslan interpreted

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