Turning Life into Memoir with She Played Elvis
American immigrant to Australia, Shady Cosgrove, undertook a pilgrimage across American to Graceland for the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death in the hope of rediscovering her homeland. Shady will share with us the story of this journey, why she sang Elvis songs at cities and towns along the way, and then how she came to write the memoir She Played Elvis. A moving, witty and original meditation on the idea of pilgrimage, family, home and loss, and a classic road story and a journey of self-discovery set to an Elvis soundtrack; a story told with a clear-eyed, intelligent, unforgettable grace.
Shady teaches creative writing at the University of Wollongong. Her work has appeared in Best Australian Stories 2006, Antipodes, Southerly and Overland.
You are invited to meet Shady at Parkes Library, Bogan Street, Parkes, located behind the Post Office ph: 6861 2309 on Friday 8 January 2010 at 2pm. This is free event and includes afternoon tea
A crowd of people turned out to celebrate the launch of Shady Cosgrove’s memoir of her road trip to Graceland at Wollongong City Library. Congratulations to Shady, it was a truly memorable event, the kind of launch that a book as good as She Played Elvis deserves.
