Boys and Men and Aussie Rules

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 Literature Prize for non-fiction. In 2019 she was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. Her books include Monkey Grip, The First Stone and Yellow Notebook. Her latest work of non-fiction is The Season. 

Nicole Abadee is the books writer for Good Weekend Magazine (out in Saturday’s Sydney Morning Herald and The Age)and a regular contributor to its Two of Us articles. Following her first career as a barrister, Nicole moved into the world of books, and she has for many years been a regular interviewer at writers’ festivals including Sydney Writers’ Festival, Adelaide Writers’ Week and Canberra Writers’ Festival, and other literary events. Nicole has been a literary judge, a podcaster, and a regular guest on ABC Radio to discuss books, She is a board member of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.