
Lisa Kenway
ABOUT
Lisa Kenway
Lisa Kenway is a writer and anaesthetist from the NSW Central Coast, and her debut psychological thriller, All You Took From Me, was inspired by her longstanding fascination with memory and consciousness. An early version of this novel was longlisted for the 2020 Richell Prize. Lisa was awarded a Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre Fellowship in 2023, was Highly Commended in the 2022 Writing NSW Varuna Fellowships and has been published widely in journals and anthologies including Island Online, the Meanjin blog and Meniscus Literary Journal.
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.