Catherine Deveny is dyslexic and has been a professional writer for 32 years. She is the author of 10 books, has appeared on Q&A five times, and published over 1000 columns in The Age newspaper. She’s been a regular on the ABC, performed four one-woman stand-up shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and appeared in the Emmy Award-winning Go Back To Where You Came From.
She is the founder of Gunnas Writing Collective and has had over 10,000 people attend her masterclasses, retreats and workshops since 2014. Gunnas is described as Australia’s most successful and popular one-stop motivation and inspiration ‘pull-your-finger-out-and-get-over-yourself’ centre for writers. She tells ArtsHub she is a passionate commuter cyclist, runs her own benevolent feminist dictatorship and is Coburg’s fifth most popular MILF.
