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Catherine Titasey - Writer/Artist
Five years ago Catherine resigned from full-time legal work and very soon began writing to cultivate a sense of sanity as she coped with a large family and two businesses with her husband. She has been writing short stories about life, death (and everything in between) in the Torres Strait, and intends to publish her stories as an anthology.
Catherine received 3rd prize in the 2010 Katherine Susannah Pritchard Awards. She was also a finalist in the Varuna Publisher Fellowships 2010 for her manuscript, Island of the Unexpected, which was shortlisted in the Penguin Crime Writing Competition 2008 and the Varuna/HarperCollins Manuscript Awards 2009 (under the title, 718 Sections). Island of the Unexpected is a thriller set on Thursday Island.
With financial support from the Torres Strait Regional Authority, Catherine has just completed Ina's Story, the memoirs of her 84 year old mother-in-law, Ina Titasey, formerly of the Mills Sisters, the internationally known singing grandmas. Ina lived a subsistence lifestyle on Naghir Island before and during World War Two and then settled on Thursday Island in the late 1940s to raise a large family. Ina's Story is available from the Gab Titui Cultural Centre on Thursday Island.
Early 2012, Catherine is running a writing residency on Thursday Island.
She lives on Thursday Island with her four children, husband, extended family and menagerie of dogs, cats, chooks and fish. |
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