Heather Rose with Caroline Baum

In partnership, The Heroine’s Festival, the South Coast Writers Centre and the Wollongong Art Gallery invite you to attend

Heather Rose in conversation with Caroline Baum

Multi-award-winning author Heather Rose will speak with renowned writer and presenter Caroline Baum about writing, and her latest novel Bruny.

Heather Rose is the author of eight novels. Her seventh, The Museum of Modern Love, is the internationally acclaimed, multi-award-winning story of a man’s profound connection with Marina Abramovic’s live art piece ‘The Artist is Present’. This stunning literary work was awarded the Stella Prize, the Christina Stead Prize for fiction and the Margaret Scott Prize for the best book by a Tasmanian author in 2017 alone. It was also shortlisted for the 2017 Australia Literature Society Gold Medal and the 2017 University of Queensland Fiction Book Award. Heather Rose lives in Tasmania.

Caroline Baum is a respected journalist and presenter. She has worked for the BBC, ABC, Time Life Books, Vogue magazine (UK and Australia), was the founding editor of Good Reading magazine and the Editorial Director of Booktopia. She is the author of ONLY: A Singular Memoir and her work has appeared in the anthologies Rebellious Daughters and My Mother, My Father: on losing a parent. She is a winner of the Hazel Rowley Fellowship and in 2018 was the inaugural Reader-in-Residence at the State Library of NSW.

Copies of books will be for sale at the event and the authors will be available for book-signings.

For queries please contact Kirstin Bokor.