Hobart
Hobart – September 26 2025
The Salon – Hedberg Building, 19-27 Campbell St, Hobart TAS 7000
Stella is thrilled to return to Hobart and the University of Tasmania for a second Stella Day Out in September 2025.
Tickets available here: https://www.theatreroyal.com.au/shows/stella-day-out-hobart
Session 1: Theory, Practice, and the Spaces They Meet
1PM-2PM
Join 2025 Stella Prize winner Michelle de Kretser as she sits down to discuss her seventh novel Theory & Practice and how she blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction.
Moderated by Kate Kruimink.
Session 2: The Language of the Living
3PM-4PM
How do we find words for the loss and transformation of the natural world in a time of climate crisis? 2024 Shortlisted author Hayley Singer explores this in conversation with Erin Hortle.
Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka. She lives in Warrane/Sydney on unceded Gadigal land. An honorary associate of the English Department at the University of Sydney, she has won several awards for her fiction. Theory & Practice is her seventh novel.
Erin Hortle is a Tasmanian-based author whose essays and fiction explore new ways of imagining the human’s relationship with the more than human world, with a distinctly feminist bent. Topics she writes about include surfing and surf culture, pelagic birds, octopuses and ambergris. The Octopus and I, her debut novel was published Allen & Unwin in 2020 and was shortlisted for UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing and longlisted for the Voss Literary Prize and Tasmanian Book Prize. Her second novel, A Catalogue of Love, was published by Simon and Schuster in August, 2025.
Hayley Singer writes essays about literature and ecologies, queer embodiment and activism, multispecies in/justices and on reading and writing as worlds end and begin again. Her writing has been published in Sydney Review of Books, The Lifted Brow, The Monthly, Cordite Poetry Review, and Writing from Below. She teaches creative writing at the University of Melbourne. Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead is her first book.
Kate Kruimink is a writer from southern Lutruwita. Her first novel, A Treacherous Country (Allen & Unwin 2020), won the Vogel and was nominated in other national and international prizes. Her second novel, Heartsease (Picador 2024), won the 2025 Tasmanain Premier’s Prize for Fiction and was also nominated elsewhere. In 2024, she also received the UK-based Weatherglass Books Novella Prize for her novella Astraea, published that same year. Kate also writes short stories and essays, which have been published widely. She is the Fiction Editor at Island Magazine.
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