Jackie Bailey at Paperchain
Join the Paperchain team to hear Jackie Bailey, author of The Outrageous Good Fortune of Living: How to Find the Sublime in Your Everyday Life, in conversation with Kaya Wilson.
6-7pm, Wednesday 21 October
Paperchain Bookstore
34 Franklin Street Manuka, Griffith, 2603
Spirituality is not exclusive. It's for everyone. Whether you're wearing a cross, a hijab or nothing at all, we all search for meaning. But how do we find it? And how can we build a world that embraces all paths to the divine however we define it and however we live it?
The Outrageous Good Fortune of Living is a guide for the curious, the questioning, the grateful and the hopeful, exploring how life itself can be sacred, wild and extraordinary - no matter who you praise or whether you praise no one at all.
'If at some stage you have an existential crisis or shake-up, worried about the Meaning of Life, wondering how to fill the hole where your soul would be if you believed you had one, reach immediately for this spiritual first-aid kit' Caroline Baum, journalist, broadcaster and author of Only.
This event is free but as space is limited please book to secure your place.
Jackie Bailey is an award-winning author, pastoral care practitioner and funeral celebrant. She writes for a number of media outlets and is a regular contributor to The Guardian on matters spiritual. She is uniquely positioned to influence Australian readers about choosing to live as though life is meaningful.
She is the author of The Eulogy, which won the 2023 NSW Premier's Literary Multicultural Award and was shortlisted for the 2023 NSW Premier's UTS Glenda Adams Prize for New Writing, and Outrageous Good Fortune (2026).
Kaya Wilson is a writer and tsunami scientist who loves to get philosophical about most things. Their first book, As Beautiful as Any Other was listed by The Guardian as one of the 25 best Australian books of 2021 and was shortlisted for the ACT Book of the Year in 2022. His second book, a coming of age novel titled Romeo: A Tale of Four Jumps, was written with an artsACT grant and is currently on submission.