Two of the participants of Stella’s Day Out in Brisbane: Anita Heiss (photo: Kate Bryan) and Debra Dank (photo: supplied).
After successfully staging a big Day Out in Melbourne (9 November 2023) and Hobart (16 February 2024), Stella is now gearing up to travel to Brisbane this year on Saturday 31 August.
Like the previous two iterations, the Queensland event will be a free one-day festival celebrating women and non-binary authors, particularly local writers.
Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian.
Her debut, a collection of poetry called Turbulence, came out in 2020 and was released by University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP). Her second collection, Decadence, was published in July 2022, also by UWAP. Her third book, Essence, will be published in 2025.
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