How to End a Story (livestreamed)

Thu 5 May 2022

slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library

Main Festival

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Helen Garner’s diaries have revealed the inner life and ideas of one of Australia’s finest writers, and in her third volume she paints a dark, messy and harrowing portrait of a disintegrating marriage and the rebuilding that follows. Join her as she returns to BWF to discuss the third instalment of her ongoing series.

Helen Garner in conversation with Ashley Hay

This is an in-person event at State Library with the author livestreaming in on screen.

#Artists

Helen Garner

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 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 Spare Room, This House of Grief and Everywhere I Look. Her most recent work is The Season.

Ashley Hay

Ashley Hay is a Brisbane-based novelist, essayist, mentor and editor whose work includes A Hundred Small Lessons and Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions. Her work has been published in Australia, the UK, the US and in translation, and has been recognised by awards including the Australian Society for Literature’s Colin Roderick Prize, the UNSW Press/Bragg Prize for Science Writing and Eucalypt Australia’s Dahl Medal. A former editor of Griffith Review, she lives and works in Brisbane.