Heroines Festival Day

The Heroines Festival Day celebrates women writers who write women’s stories. Award-winning novelist Kathryn Heyman speaks with Festival Director Sarah Nicholson about the craft of writing women and her latest book, the memoir Fury. Author Michelle Cahill speaks with author Meredith Jaffe about her novel Daisy & Woolf, which follows the disappearance of the Eurasian character Daisy Simmons from Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, and a writer who returns her to life. Malika Reese performs from Lost In The Shuffle, the incredible unsung story of her great-aunt songwriter Jessie Mae Robinson The festival day also includes the launch of the festival's fourth anthology of short fiction and poetry The Heroines Anthology Volume 4 and the awarding of the Heroines/Joyce Parkes Women's Writing Award. Kyla St Jaye and Emma Darcey will read from their short fiction, and Brittany Riley, Sara C. Motta, Verity Laughton, Kathryn Reese and Lin Bythe will read a selection of exquisite poetry from the Anthology. Entry Cost Adult $40 Concession $50