Lucia Osborne-Crowley and Emma McLachlan join the QED 2025 line-up

With just over two months to go until QED 2025, we’re delighted to announce two new additions to our main-stage line-up: award-winning writer and journalist Lucia Osborne-Crowley and bird of prey specialist Emma McLachlan.

Lucia Osborne-Crowley is an award-winning writer and journalist. Her second book, My Body Keeps Your Secrets, was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize for Literature in 2022. Her third book, The Lasting Harm: Witnessing The Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, was awarded the 2025 University of Sydney People’s Choice Award, was awarded the 2025 Ned Kelly Prize, was shortlisted for the 2025 Gordon Burn Prize and the NSW Literary Prize, and was longlisted for the Walkley Book Award, the Nib Literary Award, the Victorian Premier’s Award and others.

Emma McLachlan is a bird of prey specialist with a particular interest in vultures, and a field worker with a research focus on raptor species found in Cumbria, such as barn owls. She currently works as Head of Birds at Muncaster Hawk & Owl Centre, based in the Lake District National Park. They are a small but passionate organisation committed to bird of prey conservation both locally and internationally, alongside education work delivered through inspiring flying displays.

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