Jayne Tuttle is the bestselling author of Paris or Die, My Sweet Guillotine and The Sea in the Metro. Trained in theatre at the École Jacques Lecoq, Jayne has worked since as a bilingual copywriter, translator, actor and voiceover artist. Paris or Die was developed into a solo theatre show which toured Australia and France from 2021-2023. She has received fellowships from the City of Paris, La Napoule Arts Foundation, Bundanon, Le Centre les Récollets, and the Varuna National Writers House, for which she was awarded the 2021 Eric Dark Flagship Fellowship. Jayne co-owns The Bookshop at Queenscliff.
Friday 17 October
5.00pm
Goorie and Koori writer and Stella-award winning author Evelyn Araluen talks about her new book, The Rot, a liturgy for girlhood in the dying days of late-stage capitalism, exposing the fraying nerves of a speaker refusing to avert their gaze from the death of Country, death on Country, and the bloody violence of settler colonies here and afar. With Jayne Tuttle.
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9.30am
Kate Halfpenny and Jayne Tuttle have become prominent residents of the Bellarine after moving here from big cities. Their new memoirs explore ambition, regret, motherhood, overwhelm, addiction, and all the messiness of life. The two will dive deep into their moments of triumph, regret and bemusement with Sarah L’Estrange.
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