Please join Leanne for a chat with author Anne Keen at our Port Macquarie Library on Saturday 14th September at 10.30am. 

Anne Keen is an accomplished journalist, documentarian and passionate storyteller. While working as a print and digital journalist in regional Australia, she began her path into documentary filmmaking. Her first solo project, Undermining a Community was selected for the 2020 Far South Film Festival. Shortly after, she co-founded Treechange Films, which completed its first documentary in January 2021, Nanna Power: The Story of the Gloucester Knitting Nannas. The same year, the short film was selected for both the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival and the Far South Film Festival. In early 2022, Treechange Films created the short film, Kelvin for Screenworks’ Fearless Films Season 3.

Born in Canada, Anne spent time as part of the newsgathering team at Global Television in Toronto, and Entertainment Tonight in Hollywood, as well as working in production on numerous films and television shows in North America before moving to Australia in 2000. She has a Bachelor of Media and Communications with a major in Writing and Publishing and a Broadcast Journalism diploma.

In November 2022, Anne released her debut novel, Karamea House followed by her second novel, Fifty and Single in June 2024.

FIFTY AND SINGLE

There was a time when Christine Williams could have her pick of any man in the room. But after being served divorce papers on her fiftieth birthday, she wonders if she could ever do it again.

She struggles to imagine what dating would be like at her age. Who could be interested in a tired old mother with an aging body? Her friends try to convince her to start online dating and she embraces it.

Fifty and Single exposes the challenging reality of learning to live and love again after realising that you’ve spent most of your adult life defined only as a wife.