Brigid Delaney has worked as a lawyer, journalist, travel writer, screenwriter and, most recently, as a speechwriter for two federal cabinet ministers. She is co-creator and associate producer of the Netflix smash hit Wellmania and wrote the long-running and popular Guardian Australia column 'Brigid Delaney's Diary'. Her previous books include This Restless Life, Wild Things, Wellmania and Reasons Not to Worry, which has been published in North America and the United Kingdom and translated into nineteen languages. She also writes ‘The Chaos Era with Brigid Delaney’ Substack. Her new book is The Seeker and The Sage.
Saturday 18 October
9.30am
Adventurous journalists Brigid Delaney, bestselling author of Wellmania and Reasons Not to Worry, and Jenny Valentish, acclaimed author of Woman of Substances and Everything Harder Than Everyone Else, will canvas how existential dilemmas have stimulated some of their wildest escapades.
As they discuss their latest books — Brigid’s book on Stoicism, The Seeker and The Sage, and reformed sociophobe Jenny’s The Introvert's Guide to Leaving the House — they’ll reveal the hard lessons and fraught truths that have made them two of Australia’s most compelling writers. With Tracee Hutchison.
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