Derwent Valley
Writers’ Festival

May 27—29 2022
The Barracks, New Norfolk

Sam George-Allen

Sam George-Allen is an award-winning author based in southern Tasmania. For more than a decade, she has worked as an editor, journalist, educator and freelance creative writer. Her first book, Witches: what women do together, was published by Penguin Random House in 2019 and by Melville House (USA/UK) in January 2020. Her cultural criticism and essays have appeared in publications including the Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith Review, the Guardian, Marie Claire, The Lifted Brow, Island and Kill Your Darlings. In 2019, she was awarded the Tasmanian Young Writers’ Fellowship in the Premier’s Literary Prizes. She is currently writing her first novel.