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Lisa Kenway

Lisa Kenway’s debut psychological thriller, All You Took From Me, was inspired by her work as an anaesthetist and her interest in memory and consciousness.

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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.

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DATE April 6 TIME 4:00 pm WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X301 Free

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All You Took From Me

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