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.
About the speakers:
Mirandi Riwoe is the author of Sunbirds. Her novel, Stone Sky Gold Mountain, won the ARA Historical Novel Prize and the Queensland Literary Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Her novella The Fish Girl won Seizure’s Viva la Novella and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. The Burnished Sun is a collection of her short stories and novellas. Mirandi has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies (QUT).
Beejay Silcox is a writer and literary critic. Her reviews and cultural commentary regularly appear in national arts publications, and are increasingly finding an international audience including in the Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, and The New York Times. She has been described as “the most significant new Australian critic in decades”. An award-winning creative writing teacher, Beejay has taught workshops across the globe, including in the US and Cairo. Her own short stories and essays have been selected for a number of high-profile Australian anthologies. Beejay has stories to tell. She eloped to Las Vegas, escaped from quicksand, and drove to Timbuktu in a car held together with a bra-strap. Beejay is the newly appointed Artistic Director of Canberra Writers Festival.
About the Event
- Accessible parking spaces directly below the Harry Hartog ANU Bookshop are available should you require them. Kambri ANU / Parking
- If you do not feel well, please refrain from attending this event.
- Disability Access available - please ask in-store.