Life Writing and HospitalityMoya CostelloBarbara Brooks, Anne Cranny-Francis, Jim HearnThe ChamberThis panel explores life writing and hospitality, defined asthe interrelationship between host and guest. Our bodieshost other beings, things, places and histories as guests–sometimes troublesome and uninvited. The panellists reflectupon writing about lived experiences of “hospitality”–specific bodies as hosts and their various guests. BarbaraBrooks’ fictional memoir is about her fictionalised Englishgrandfather, Monty, who stayed four years in the NorthwestFrontier Province bordering Afghanistan. Monty is on theverandah linking India and Australia, in an in-between space,as colonial agent, migrant, and guest in his own life. MoyaCostello considers hospitable co-writing, her family’s bodiesas hosts of consumption, and their hosting drink and otherdrinking bodies. Anne Cranny-Francis explores Jack Lindsay’sself-reflexive autobiography about the embodied formationof the self through interrelationships as hospitality. Jim Hearndiscusses transgression informing High Season, his recentlypublished memoir of heroin and hospitality. As a chef,he understands hospitality as incorporating the strange/rrelationship between the body as host and addiction astroublesome guest.