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Writing Fiction from Life
Sun, 29 Mar
|NUspace, The University of Newcastle
Susan Francis, Toni Jordan, and Paula McLean at the Newcastle Writers Festival


Time & Location
29 Mar 2026, 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
NUspace, The University of Newcastle, Hunter St &, Auckland St, Newcastle NSW 2300, Australia
About the event
Recent novels by Susan Francis, Toni Jordan, and Paula McLean have drawn on lived experience to create compelling fiction. From memory and research to imagination and craft, they’ll speak to Maeve Marsden about transforming real lives into resonant stories – balancing truth and invention, ethics and emotion – on the page.
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