Lliane Clarke
Lliane is a former book publisher, editor and journalist. She is currently artistic director of the award-winning Voices of Women storytelling program.
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Lliane Clarke
Lliane is a former publisher, editor and journalist. She is currently artistic director of the award-winning Voices of Women storytelling program, an author mentor, producer and director.
She was publisher of nonfiction at New Holland, which included releasing Heart of Stone by Michael Chamberlain. She mentors authors through Writing NSW and runs Voices of Women workshops online and across Australia.
She founded Voices of Women in 2018 to encourage and support women to write their story. Voices of Women has received more than 3000 stories from women across Australia and globally, and has presented more than 80 writers’ works in feature films and live shows. She directed the feature film Clearway (CORONA) in 2020, award-winning feature film Entanglement in 2021 and shorts Our Mob, Invisibility, The Dress and Sun in My Bones in 2021. In 2022 she was awarded the Carla Zampatti Arts and Culture Medal from Multicultural NSW for the Entanglement program. In 2022 and 2023, Entanglement won awards across the world, and was screened at The United Nations Womens Conference in Rwanda.
Live shows include Amplify in regional NSW (2022) and Embellishment at KXT Broadway 2023. She is currently directing The Women of the Riverina workshops for short films and a live show at KXT Broadway in November 2024.