Marion May Campbell on feminism and poetry

Thursday, 26 February 2026 - 9:00am to 9:30am
Marion May Campbell

Marion May Campbell's novels include Lines of Flight (1985), Not Being Miriam (1989), Prowler (1999), Shadow Thief (2006), and konkretion (2013).

She has also published the cross-genre collection Fragments from a Paper Witch (Salt, 2008), an experimental memoir The Man on the Mantelpiece (UWA Publishing, 2018), the poetry collections third body (Whitmore Press 2018) and languish (Upswell 2022).

Her novels Lines of Flight (1985) and Not Being Miriam (1989) were shortlisted and
commended for major Australian awards and twice for the Canada-Australia Literary Prize;
Not being Miriam won WA Week Literary Awards for Prose Fiction (1989), the libretto Dr
Memory in the Dream Home
 shared the Patricia Hackett Prize (1992) and Fragments from a
Paper Witch
 was a finalist for the Innovation Category of the South Australian Festival Literary Awards (2010).

She has been recipient of nine writer’s and residency grants and won the Senses of Cinema Prize for the best essay in 2021 and the joanne burns micro-fiction prize for 2022.

Producer & Presenter: Tina Giannoukos

Thursday 9:00am to 9:30am
A program dedicated to the eclectic world of poetry and performance. Guests are contemporary poets who read and discuss their works.

Presenter

Di Cousens, Indrani Perera, Tina Giannoukos, and Waffle IronGirl

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