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Stella Day Out Ballarat: Travel Writing | Adriane Howell and Favel Parrett in conversation with Fiona Sweet.

November 16 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Free

Minerva Space

Stella Day Out is a free one-day literary festival that celebrates and promotes the outstanding contributions of women and non-binary writers to Australian literature.

We are proud to be hosting a series of events at the BMI.

3pm - 4pm | Travel Writing

Adriane Howell & Favel Parret in conversation with Fiona Sweet.

Do you need to be somewhere to write about it? Join Adriane Howell and Favel Parrett as they discuss their travels to Greece and Antarctica to write their books. Moderated by Fiona Sweet.

Adriane Howell is a Melbourne-based writer. Her debut novel, Hydra, was shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize; the 2023 Readings New Australian Fiction Prize and the 2024 South Australian Literary Awards, National Awards for Fiction.

Adriane Howell
Hydra | Adriane Howell

Favel Parrett‘s career was launched with her acclaimed debut Past the Shallows. It was shortlisted in the Miles Franklin Award and won the Dobbie Literary Award. There ws still Love, Favel’s third novel, was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and won Book of the Year – The Indie Book Awards 2020.  She lives in Victoria and is passionate about surfing and dingoes.

Favel Parrett
There was still Love | Favel Parrett

Fiona Sweet is the Creative Director and CEO of Stella. She is the past Artistic Director and CEO of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale and the inaugural Director of the National Centre for Photography. Fiona is an influential and in-demand public speaker, industry judge, photographic portfolio reviewer and assessor in Australia and internationally. She was the director and founder of Sweet Creative and is recognised for her inspiring and intelligent delivery of uniquely crafted festivals and arts events. She is also a former Board Director of the Australian Graphic Design Association, the Melbourne Fringe, and co-founded Melbourne’s Acland Street Projection Festival. Fiona currently sits on the LCI University Photographic Advisory Committee, and the Advisory Committee for the Discipline of Photography at RMIT and is a past recent board member of the Melbourne Jewish Book Week. She was the recipient of an Ian Potter Travel Grant in 2018 for her research on international art festival best practice.

Fiona Sweet

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This event takes place on Wadawurrung Country. Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute acknowledges the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin Nation as the first inhabitants and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we work, learn and create. Always Was, Always Will Be, Aboriginal Land.

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