Bookclub pick for April is How to Knit a Human by Anna Jacobson.

It will be the last Thursday of the month, April 25th. Due to the public holiday we will be meeting from 4:00-5:00pm.

A short intro:

How to Knit a Human is Anna’s quest to find her self and her memory after experiencing psychosis and Electroconvulsive therapy in 2011, at the age of twenty-three. As the memory barriers begin to crumble, Anna weaves her experiences around the gaps of memories that are still not accessible. Anna writes and creates art on her own terms. This book is a reclamation of story and self.

About the Author:

Anna Jacobson is an award-winning writer and artist from Brisbane. She was awarded the 2023 Fryer Library Fellowship and shortlisted in the 2023 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award. In 2020 Anna won the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing and in 2018 she won the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award. Her writing has been published in literary journals and anthologies including Griffith Review, Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite, Meanjin, Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry, Island, Westerly, and more. She holds a Bachelor of Photography (Honours) from Griffith University and her art has exhibited throughout Australia in finalist exhibitions including in the Brisbane Portrait Prize, Olive Cotton Photographic Portraiture Award, the Blake Art Prize, and the Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing. Her highest qualification is a Doctor of Philosophy in Creative Writing from Queensland University of Technology.