{"id":1396,"date":"2026-05-22T05:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2026-06-07T10:51:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T10:51:34","slug":"sydney-writers-festival-jane-messer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1396","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Writers Festival: Jane Messer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?attachment_id=1397\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1397\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1397 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-at-3.26.49-pm-300x243.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-at-3.26.49-pm-300x243.png 300w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-at-3.26.49-pm-1024x828.png 1024w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-at-3.26.49-pm-768x621.png 768w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-at-3.26.49-pm-1536x1242.png 1536w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-at-3.26.49-pm.png 1694w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a>This Sunday I have the great pleasure of once again interviewing the fabulous <a href=\"https:\/\/janemesser.com\">Jane Messer<\/a> about her book\u00a0<em>Raven Mother. \u00a0<\/em>Jane and I spoke at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcastlewritersfestival.org.au\">Newcastle Writers Festival<\/a> this year and it was such a rich and powerful conversation but of course I had many more questions to ask and now I get to ask them! <a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?attachment_id=1402\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1402\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1402\" src=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_8790-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_8790-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_8790-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_8790-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_8790-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_8790-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0This is a free event at the Randwick Library but unfortunately for anyone who hasn&#8217;t already booked, it is already sold out but there is a waitlist which can be joined here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com.au\/e\/sydney-writers-festival-jane-messer-in-conversation-tickets-1983588335107\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com.au\/e\/sydney-writers-festival-jane-messer-in-conversation-tickets-1983588335107<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday I have the great pleasure of once again interviewing the fabulous Jane Messer about her book\u00a0Raven Mother. \u00a0Jane and I spoke at the Newcastle Writers Festival this year and it was such a rich and powerful conversation but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1396\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,49,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-interview","category-events","category-festivals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}