Byron Writers Festival is delighted to invite you along to this special evening with one of Australia’s greatest writers, Helen Garner, appearing in conversation with Matthew Condon.

Celebrate Helen Garner’s 75th birthday and hear about her writing life which spans 50 years of work – from her Australian classic Monkey Grip, to the brilliant literary true crime book This House of Grief, and her recent collected works: True Stories and Stories.

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. Everywhere I Look won the 2017 Indie Book Award for Non-Fiction.