2025 PROGRAM
Fighting the Long Goodbye
DATE:
Friday 28th March
LOCATION:
Darley Smith Building
COST:
$22
Heidi Coupland’s husband, Peter, a grief counsellor, was diagnosed with leukaemia.
Anthony Sobb’s wife, Kim, a solicitor with the DPP and a non-smoker, was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.
Michelle Lesh’s husband, Mark Raphael Baker, Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, wrote his memoir while dealing with pancreatic cancer.
Their respective memoirs, A Single Lifeline, My Business Is Now North and A Season of Death, share the story of diagnosis, treatment, fight for survival, their relationships, looking after children, acceptance, and the most personal of experiences for which there is no textbook—the grieving process.
Host: Michaela Kalowski
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.