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#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 240 minutes
Each year the Marion Taylor Gala celebrates the power of the story and the written word with an address by or discussion with an extraordinary writer. This year the wonderful Holly Ringland is talking about her journey as a writer, her novel The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, hanging out with Sigourney Weaver, and her upcoming second novel The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding, with Michaela Kalowski.
This event is only possible with the support of the Taylor Family.
#Artists
Holly Ringland
Holly Ringland is a writer, storyteller, and television presenter. Her internationally-bestselling debut novel, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, has been published in 30 countries/territories and will stream globally in 2023 as a seven-part series on Amazon Prime, starring Sigourney Weaver. Holly is the co-host of ABC TV’s series, Back To Nature, which aired to critical acclaim in 2021. Holly’s bestselling new novel, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding, is out now in Australia and New Zealand.
Michaela Kalowski
Michaela Kalowski is an interviewer, moderator and curator for writers and ideas festivals. In 2023 she's the curator and interviewer of Brisbane Writers Festival's online series The Second Book, and curator of ABC RN's on-air writers festival, Big Weekend of Books. She's conducted radio interviews for ABC RN's The Music Show, Big Ideas and The Bookshelf, ABC Classic and has presented programs across ABC radio. Recent interviews include Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Trent Dalton and Robert Jones Jr.
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