Helen Garner in conversation with Nicole Abadee
Friday 16 September 2022 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Helen Garner to open the 2022 Rose Scott Women Writers’ Festival, the only festival dedicated to women writers in Australia.
This year’s Rose Scott Women Writers’ Festival (RSWWF) will celebrate the work of twenty-one Australian women writers across fiction and non-fiction, in print, performance and digital media. It will be held across two days—Friday 16 and Saturday 17 September—at The Women’s Club, Sydney.
Established in 2013 and held each spring, the RSWWF has been described as ‘one of the most significant literary festivals on Sydney’s cultural calendar’ (stella.org.au). Curated by writer and award-winning filmmaker Kathryn Millard, this year’s festival features Helen Garner in conversation with Nicole Abadee on opening night.
About the Writers
Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for non-fiction and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award. In 2019 she was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. Her books include Monkey Grip, The Children’s Bach, Cosmo Cosmolino, The Spare Room, The First Stone, This House of Grief, Everywhere I Look and Yellow Notebook.
Nicole Abadee is the books writer for Good Weekend _magazine. Following a twenty-year career in law, Nicole regularly moderates at writers’ festivals and literary events. In her podcast _Books, Books, Books, Nicole interviews leading international and Australian writers about their latest books. She was a judge for the 2021 and 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.