This event is full

Join the waitlist

John Bartlett - Love and its penalties: a memoir

A Local Word Pop-Up Event

At its heart this memoir is a story of falling in love too easily and too often.

John Bartlett grew up in country South Australia on the Murray as a pious Catholic boy before attending boarding school in Adelaide. As a teenager he entered a Catholic seminary in Sydney where he spent seven years training to be a Catholic priest before going overseas to work in Mindanao in the Southern Philippines.  There he was exposed to the political turmoil of the Marcos' Martial Law years and the ongoing wars against Islamic separatists. In 1980 he left the priesthood and returned to Australia and Melbourne where he came out as gay at the height of the HIV AIDS pandemic. He took on a variety of jobs, including kitchen hand, masseur and film extra before turning to professional writing and subsequently published fiction, non-fiction and poetry - twelve books in all.

John will be in conversation with Gregory Day to discuss this memoir.

__________________________________

Book sales and author signings will be offered at the conclusion of the event, thanks to Torquay Books.

If you need any assistance in order to participate in this event, please contact events@grlc.vic.gov.au at least two weeks prior to the event date.

Upcoming events