Making a Book the Best It Can Be
On Writing: Eggshell Skull
Festival Hub, Maiwar Green
How to Write
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#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Find out how Bri Lee worked with her editors and publisher to produce her first book. A session for writers and readers alike.
Eggshell Skull: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they find them'. If a single punch kills someone because of their thin skull, that victim's weakness cannot mitigate the seriousness of the crime. In Eggshell Skull, Ms Lee describes in stunning detail how hard it can be for victims of sexual assault to find justice in a system that presumes perpetrators are innocent.
#Artist
Bri Lee
Bri Lee is a writer and editor whose work has been published in The Guardian, Griffith Review, Broadly, i-D, VAULT Magazine, and elsewhere. She regularly appears on ABC Radio and often gives talks on writing, law, feminism, fashion, pop culture, and art. As the Founding Editor of the quarterly print periodical Hot Chicks with Big Brains, Bri has commissioned and published diverse non-fiction about women and their work since 2015.
In 2016 Bri was the recipient of the inaugural Kat Muscat Fellowship, and in 2017 was one of Griffith Review's Queensland writing fellows. In 2018 Bri received a Commonwealth Government of Australia scholarship and stipend to work on her second book at the University of Queensland. She has received numerous residencies and mentorships.
Her first book, Eggshell Skull, was recently published by Allen & Unwin.
