Draft:Carly-Jay Metcalfe
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Comment: Most of the sources are what she has written or said, which are primary sources and not independent. Her book may be notable so suggest an article about Breath rather than her. See WP:NBOOK for the guidelines. S0091 (talk) 14:55, 14 September 2024 (UTC)
Carly-Jay Metcalfe (born 1976) is a writer of memoir, nonfiction and literary fiction from Queensland, Australia. Metcalfe was born with Cystic Fibrosis and at the age of 21, she had a double lung transplant. At this time, she had less than a week to live. At the age of thirty, she survived a rare gynaecological cancer.
Her critically acclaimed memoir Breath[1] was published by University of Queensland Press in 2024. It has received widespread critical acclaim from noted literary critics and writers such as Caroline Overington (The Australian), Cass Moriarty[2], Fiona Wright[3], and others.[4]
She has spoken and written about her life with Cystic Fibrosis, organ donation advocacy, transplantation, and the need to have more honest conversations about dying and death. Metcalfe delivered a TED-X talk in 2014 called 'Learning to Die'[5] Her views on these topics have garnered frequent and widespread national media attention.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
References
[edit]- ^ Metcalfe, Carly-Jay (2024). Breath. Australia: University of Queensland Press (published 27 February 2024). ISBN 9780702268359.
- ^ "Breath – Carly-Jay Metcalfe | Cass Moriarty Author". Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ^ Wright, Fiona (2024-03-09). "Breath". The Saturday Paper. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ^ "Liz Sutherland reviews Breath by Carly-Jay Metcalfe". Mascara Literary Review. 2024-04-30. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ^ Metcalfe, Carly-Jay (5 October 2014). "Learning to die". YouTube. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
- ^ "Carly-Jay on dying, living, and learning to breathe In 2024, Metcalfe won the Queensland Book of the Year People's Choice Award at the Queensland Literary Awards [url=https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/get-involved/awards-and-fellowships/queensland-literary-awards She has made appearances at the Brisbane Writers Festival and the Canberra Writers Festival". ABC listen. 2024-04-18. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ^ "The February 25 Edition". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2024-02-25. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ^ Weekly, The Australian Women's (2024-05-13). "Carly-Jay Metcalfe talks about her battle with cystic fibrosis | AWW". The Australian Women's Weekly. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ^ "I'm learning to live with the guilt of my organ donor's death". The Guardian. 2022-02-26. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ^ Drysdale, Caitlin (8 August 2015). "Dying to Know Day promotes death literacy". Courier-Mail. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
- ^ "Five minutes with author Carly-Jay Metcalfe". HerCanberra. 2024-04-08. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ^ Brading, Laura (2024-03-16). ""How My Transplant Changed Me In Ways I Didn't Expect"". primer. Retrieved 2024-05-27.