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Trish Bolton

Author of Literary Fiction

based in VIC

Trish Bolton is a writer based in Melbourne. Her debut novel Whenever You’re Ready was published by Allen & Unwin. In February 2024.

She has a Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing from RMIT. Her writing has been published in The Age, Sunday Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Canberra Times, Overland, New Matilda, The Big Issue and Visible Ink.

Trish has been the recipient of an Australian Society of Authors mentorship, a Varuna Publishing Introduction Pathway Fellowship, a Varuna Residential Writer’s Fellowship, joint-winner of a Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) Jim Hamilton unpublished manuscript award, runner-up FAW Whitelight Drama Script Award and longlisted for the Virginia Prize for Fiction (UK) and the Mslexia Women’s Novel Competition (UK).

She has been a media adviser to the federal leader of a political party, worked in policy and research in women’s health, and lectured in Media and Communications at Swinburne University.

Trish lives with her partner on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people.

Sarah Walker

"Reading is a magic carpet ride into other worlds, it introduces us to people we may never meet, to cultures we may never experience, it encourages us to dream and imagine and escape. We read to laugh and cry, to communicate and connect, to learn and share, to fall in and out of love, to live inside the heads and hearts of people very different to ourselves, to know humility and awe and compassion. We read because for millennia we have been telling stories that show us who we have been, who we are and who we will become."

Local Area

VIC

Melbourne

Event Types

Reading Panel guest Panel facilitator Media commentary

Genre

Literary Fiction

Age Groups

Adults

Themes

Love and relationships Friendship Family Death and grief Politics Social justice Feminism Gender Class and mobility Ageism representation of women in their sixties and beyond a good death ageism and sexuality the griefs and joys of older age particularly as it relates to women debunking ok boomer narratives

This author holds a Working with Children Check (WWCC).

Get in contact:

trishboltonwriter.com