RETURNING IN MARCH 2019

We'll be back in your feed with new interviews each Thursday from March 2019.

Why so late, you ask? Well, our host Astrid Edwards is spending February at Foundry 658's 'Bootcamp for Creatives', a new initiative from the State Library of Victoria and ACMI (the Australian Centre for the Moving Image).

We also have our first live event at 6pm on Tuesday 26 March at the State Library of Victoria. We hope to see you there.

Astrid Edwards, Director and Host of The Garret

THE STELLA SHORTLIST LIVE AT THE LIBRARY

Join writers shortlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize and judge Louise Swinn in conversation with our host Astrid Edwards as they discuss the books that made the 2019 Stella Prize shortlist.

   Entry is FREE, but BOOKINGS are required.

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Clementine Ford, Hannah Kent and Alice Pung LIVE

In partnership with the State Library of Victoria, The Garret hosted a series of live […]

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David Marr

David has been a journalist, non-fiction author and social commentator for more than four decades. […]

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Shokoofeh Azar

Shokoofeh Azar was born in Iran seven years before the Islamic revolution. Shokoofeh’s early interest […]

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MEET OUR HOST

Our host Astrid Edwards is a writer, teacher, podcaster and director.

Astrid is also a bibliophile.  Astrid teaches writing at RMIT University. She has also judged the Aurealis Awards (Australia's premier speculative fiction awards) each year since 2016. She is a former Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow. You can read Astrid's work in The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Future Women and Australian Book Review.

Astrid joined the Board of Melbourne Writers Festival in 2019. She previously served as the Deputy Chair of Writers Victoria.

You can read more about Astrid here, and follow her on Goodreads, Instagram and Twitter.

Astrid Edwards, Director and Host of The Garret

ABOUT THE GARRET

Love writing? Looking to improve your writing? Or do you just love listening to writers talk about their craft? If yes, The Garret is for you.

We interview the best writers writing today and discuss how they start, draft, edit, publish and market their work.

Our goal is to interview the best writers in Australia, including all of winners of the Miles Franklin Literary Award. We are well on our way there. Each interview is published with a complete transcript and interactive show notes (so you don’t have to write anything down while you listen).