Lee Kofman
Featured In:
- Opening night party
Friday 10 June
7.00 – 10.00pm
The Brewery
3/5 Church Street, Bellingen - The way of the future? Online, digital and radio writing
Saturday 11 June
1.00 – 2.00pm
Memorial Hall - Are they going to sue me if I write this? Memoir and biography
Saturday 11 June
3.30 – 4.30pm
Memorial Hall
Workshops:
- Introduction to memoir with Lee Kofman
Friday 10 June
10.00 – 12.00pm
Youth Hub Room 1, Corner Church and William Streets, Bellingen - Dialogue writing with Lee Kofman
Friday 10 June,
2.00 – 4.00pm
Youth Hub Room 1, corner Church and William Streets, Bellingen
LEE KOFMAN is a novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist and sometime-poet whose memoir, The Dangerous Bride: Memoir of Love, Gods and Geography, was listed in Recommended Books 2014 (The Age and Australian Book Review) and 2015 (The Age). Her short works have been published both nationally and internationally and her writing has won many awards, including an Australia Council grant and the Varuna Eric Dark Flagship Fellowship.
Since 2003, Lee has held fiction and creative non-fiction workshops and courses in community organisations, medical associations, libraries, TAFEs, CAE, writers’ festivals and writing centres, and she speaks publicly about her writing around Australia. She is also a mentor for writers and a number of her authors have gone on to publish.
Lee has participated in many literary events and festivals as a panellist, moderator, speaker and lecturer. In 2015, she took part in Curiosity Lectures at the Sydney Writers’ Festival. She is a blogger-in-residence for Writers Victoria and her private blog about the writing process, Writing Life, was a finalist for Best Australian Blogs 2014.
Lee’s next book, an anthology called Rebellious Daughters: Australian Writers Tell Their Stories in Memoir, which she co-edited, will be released in August 2016. www.leekofman.com.au
