Sydney Writers' Festival 2008 - Online Program
Scar Tissue
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Growing up in Cherrybrook in the 1980s, Tanya Levin was the sort of teenager "that fundamentalist parents longed for". Well-behaved, earnest and unworldly, she was immersed in the youth group at Hills Christian Life Centre. But disillusion with the church set in and soon after she finished school her life unravelled. Kathleen Stewart’s The After Life is centred on the experiences of her last year at school, which included drug addiction, a feverish love affair, a suicide attempt, and a mysteriously calm interlude in a psychiatric hospital. They discuss their formative years and the scar tissue that remains with Meredith Griffiths.

Panel  |  Nonfiction, Life Writing
Participants
Kathleen Stewart, Tanya Levin. Meredith Griffiths (facilitator)

When
Thursday, May 22 2008
13:30 - 14:30

Where
Sydney Dance Company, Studio 1
Pier 4/5, Hickson Road
Walsh Bay
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Cost
Free

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TANYA LEVIN (LOCAL)Levin, Tanya
Tanya Levin is an Australian writer and social worker. She spent part of her childhood in the USA with her English father and South African Jewish mother. She grew up in the Assemblies of God, and the church that became Hillsong. Trained as a social worker, Tanya is no longer welcome in the church since relinquishing her membership of Hillsong's congregation.

In People in Glass Houses Tanya Levin exposes some unpalatable truths behind the polished smiles which front the increasingly wealthy and powerful Hillsong ‘family’. In doing so, she confronts demons of her own at the heart of her troubled and intensely personal relationship with the church.

also appearing at...
309: Investigative Journalism

KATHLEEN STEWART (LOCAL)
Kathleen Stewart is the author of two poetry collections, seven novels, and the recent memoir, The After Life.

also appearing at...
281: Australian Lives

MEREDITH GRIFFITHS (LOCAL)
Meredith Griffiths is a news presenter on Triple J.

also appearing at...
254: Pornstars, Princesses and Lost Boys
286: Enjoy the Trip