“I will read anything this woman writes forever more. She is Just. So. Good. Human, funny, insightful, super smart, a most original and perceptive writer.”
“Blown away by this intelligent and balanced journalist.”
“To Anesthesia she brings lush gifts of description, a poetry of the body and mind.”
News
Anesthesia: the gift of oblivion and the mystery of consciousness now on sale in the U.S. For author interviews, reviews, and excerpts, please contact Lena Moses-Schmitt, publicist from Counterpoint Press, at lena.moses-schmitt@counterpointpress.com
The Confession podcast got the top gong in the podcasting category of the 2022 Quill Awards. Very proud to have been part of the small dedicated team that worked so hard to get this important story to air. Yay Richard Baker @jcarr_catzel Kyle Hopkins.
Very excited and grateful to have been awarded a three-month residency at the Australia Council’s Keesing Studio in Paris to work on a new book. After a two-year delay, I’ll be there from September to December 2022, universe-willing!
Delighted to be a finalist in the 2021 Finkel Foundation Eureka Prize for Long-Form Science Journalism for my feature story Love and Fear: Towards an Australian model of psychedelic mental health, published in Griffith Review.
The Last Voyage of the Pong Su podcast, which i was fortunate enough to work on in 2019 won the 2019 Quill Award for podcasting (big thanks to team Richard Baker, Rachael Dexter, Siobhan McHugh).
Anaesthesia: the gift of oblivion and the mystery of consciousness is a finalist in the Melbourne Prize for Literature Best Writing Award
Anaesthesia: the Gift of Obivion shortlisted for the CHASS Australia book prize
Anaesthesia: the gift of oblivion shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.
Anaesthesia: the gift of oblivion wins the 2017 Mark and Evette Moran Nib literary award. Details and comments here.
Anaesthesia: the gift of oblivion and the mystery of consciousness long-listed for the Stella Prize.
Anaesthesia: the gift of oblivion and the mystery of consciousness long-listed for the ABIA Book Awards.
Anaesthesia: the gift of oblivion to be published in Taiwan by Faces Publications
Anaesthesia the gift of oblivion: UK release February 22, 2018
Events
In conversation with Robert Tickner for launch of his memoir Ten Doors Down March 5 2020
Wollongong Writers Festival November 23, 2018
Quantum Words Festival November 3, 2018
Art of Anaesthesia, ANZCA, AMA, September 16 2018
Brisbane Writers Festival September 7-8, 2018
Williamstown Literary Festival June 17, 2018
Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival June 8-10 2018
Sydney Writers Festival May 4, 2018
Newcastle Writers Festival April 6-8 2018
Adelaide Writers Week March 2-7 2018
Ubud Writers Festival October 25-29, 2017 Women of Letters, True Stories and Anaesthesia
Australian Anaesthesia Allied Health Practitioners 2nd National Conference October 22, 2017
Wheeler Centre October 18, 2017 Going Under: The Mystery of Anaesthesia. With Kate Leslie, Amrita Kirpalani (chair)
Melbourne Writers Festival August 26, 2017 Deconstructing Health: Kate Cole-Adams, Kate Grenville.
Belvoir Upstairs Theatre August 21, 2017 Monday Conversations: Anaesthesia. With Aemon Flack, Benjamin Law, Tim McCulloch. Presented by Sydney Writers Festival in collaboration with Belvoir and Wheeler Centre
Byron Bay Writers Festival August 4, 2017 The Extreme Boundaries of the Sayable: Kate Cole-Adams, Nikki Gemmell, Kate Grenville, Ashley Hay (chair); August 6, 2017 Grappling with the Mystery of Consciousness: Kate Cole-Adams, Kenan Malik, Emrys Westacott, Robyn Williams (chair)