Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. She is the winner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Windham Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction, the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and the Australian Society of Authors Medal. Her books include Monkey Grip, The Children’s Bach, The First Stone, Joe Cinque’s Consolation, The Spare Room, This House of Grief, The Season, How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, which won the prestigious Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, and The Mushroom Tapes, with Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein.

Listen to Helen Garner talking to Richard Fidler on his podcast, Conversations
Read a fascinating profile of Helen Garner in the Guardian 
Eric Jensen interviews Helen Garner in the Monthly, June 2018 
Helen Garner discusses Yellow Notebook with David Astle on ABC Radio Melbourne 
‘I didn't censor’: Helen Garner's unflinching look at her past self in the Age 
Michael McGirr reviews Yellow Notebook in the Age: Spectrum 
Yellow Notebook reviewd in the Guardian 
Helen Garner writes about the reasons behind publishing her personal diaries in the Guardian 
Yellow Notebook reviewed in the Saturday Paper 
Helen Garner discusses Yellow Notebook with Matthew Condon in the Australian ($)
Age: Helen Garner to be honoured as a pioneer by the book industry  
Age: What is it about Helen Garner? One reader's appreciation  
Guardian: ‘I may be an old woman, but I'm not done for yet’  
Monthly: Helen Garner’s Lockdown Diaries   
Electric Literature: 10 Australian Women Writers You Should Be Reading   
Conversation: ‘I will not hide’    
Public Books: Mandy Sayer interviews Helen Garner, 1989    
Paris Review: Helen Garner, The Art of Fiction No. 255 ($)    
Brisbane Times: A writer of the first rank: Reflections on Helen Garner’s amazing opus    
Guardian: Helen Garner on happiness: ‘It’s taken me 80 years to figure out it’s not a tranquil, sunlit realm’     
New Yorker: Persons of Interest: The Startling Candor of Helen Garner      
Financial Times: ‘Helen Garner, the greatest Australian writer you’re yet to read’ ($)     
ABC News: Leslie Jamison on Helen Garner    
New Left Review    
Granta: In conversation with Izabella Scott     
Meanjin: Moving Helen Garner’s Books   
LitHub: In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast