SATURDAY 31 AUGUST | STELLA DAY OUT
10am - 11am | 60 mins
Stella Day Out is a free one-day literary festival that celebrates and promotes the outstanding contributions of women and non-binary writers to Australian literature.
There will be refreshments available before and after each panel throughout the day.
Join authors Emily O'Grady, Kristina Olsson and Mirandi Riwoe for the first session of the day as they have an invigorating discussion about the stages of an author's career.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Emily O'Grady is a writer from Brisbane. Her debut novel, The Yellow House won the 2018 Australian/Vogel's Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2019 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. Her work has been published in Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, The Big Issue fiction edition and New Australian Fiction 2021. Her latest novel, Feast, was shortlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize.
Kristina Olsson is a journalist and the award-winning author of the novels Shell, In One Skin, and The China Garden, and two works of nonfiction, Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir and Kilroy was Here. She lives in Brisbane, Australia.
Mirandi Riwoe is the author of crime, literary and historical fiction novels including Stone Sky Gold Mountain, and her latest book Sunbirds. She has been shortlisted for the Stella prize twice and longlisted for the Miles Franklin as well as winning numerous other awards including the inaugural ARA Historical Fiction prize.
