Debra Adelaide

Dr Debra Adelaide is the author of five novels and two collections of short stories. Her latest book is When I Am Sixty-Four.

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Debra Adelaide

Dr Debra Adelaide is the author or editor of 19 books, including fiction, non-fiction, reference works and edited collections. Her 2008 novel, The Household Guide to Dying, was published around the world, and was short- and long-listed for several literary awards, including the former international Orange Prize, now the Women’s Prize, for fiction. Other fiction includes Letter to George Clooney (2013), The Women’s Pages (2015) and Zebra, which won the short story category in the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards. She has also published The Innocent Reader: reflections on reading & writing (2019) and Creative Writing Practice: reflections on form & process (edited with Sarah Attfield, 2021). Her latest book is the novella, When I Am Sixty-Four. Debra Adelaide taught creative writing for 20 years and is now an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney. She lives and writes on Bidjigal country in Sydney’s inner west.

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Love, Loss and Writing: Debra Adelaide in Conversation

DATE March 28 TIME 2:30 pm WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X207 Book now

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A plain green book cover with a clock face and an ibis in the centre, and the title "When I am Sixty-Four" and author "Debra Adelaide" in large lettering above and below.

When I Am Sixty-Four