Sam George-Allen is an award-winning author and musician based in southern Tasmania. 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 dozens of publications, including the Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith Review, the Guardian, Marie Claire, The Lifted Brow, Island and Kill Your Darlings.

Her work has been shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award (2015 & 2016), the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers (2014) and the QANTAS Spirit of Youth Awards (2013), and she won the Stack Awards Best Original Non-Fiction Award for her work published by the Lifted Brow in 2015. In 2019, she was awarded the Tasmanian Young Writer’s Fellowship in the Premier’s Literary Prizes. She is currently a sessional academic and PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania.

Her website is samgeorgeallen.com.

Verb Festival 2021 Appearances:
Gala: Go, in the name of the Devil, Go! Thurs 4 Nov, 6pm.
Witches: What Women Do Together with Sam George-Allen, Sat 6 Nov, 11:30am.

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