
Amanda Goff
ABOUT
Amanda Goff
Amanda Goff trained as a journalist and worked in London and Sydney, before becoming Samantha X, Australia’s most high-profile escort; she also founded her own escort agency, hiring women over 40. Under her pseudonym, she wrote two bestselling memoirs, Hooked and Back on Top, and was the media’s go-to writer for articles about women’s sexuality after 40 and the emotional needs of men. Samantha retired from the adult industry at age 49, after a bipolar diagnosis and getting sober, to become Amanda again.
PROGRAM SESSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.