#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
The generosity of Holly Ringland’s writing is well known to fans of her novels. In her non-fiction book The House That Joy Built, she gifts the hard-won wisdom of an artistic life to the reader, providing a guide through fear and doubt to creative expression.
Venue update: please note this event will now be held in Auditorium 1.
#Artist
Holly Ringland
Holly Ringland is the author of the international bestseller The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, which has been translated into thirty languages and adapted into a global seven-part TV series starring Sigourney Weaver and produced by Amazon Prime Video and Made Up Stories. In 2019, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart won the Australian Book Industry Award General Fiction Book of the Year. In 2021, Holly co-hosted an eight-episode ABC TV series, Back to Nature, with Aaron Pedersen. After living between Australia and the UK for ten years, Holly has been based in the Yugambeh region of southeast Queensland since 2020, where she wrote The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding in her 'office', a vintage caravan named Frenchie. Upon publication, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding became an instant national bestseller, and it was named 2022 Book of the Year by Booktopia.
