Create compelling characters with Sofie Laguna

Name: Create compelling characters with Sofie Laguna
Start: 2026-10-24T10:00:00+1100
End: 2026-10-24T23:30:00+1100
Location: Aireys Inlet Community Hall

Sat, 24 Oct, 10am - 11:30pm AEDT

Aireys Inlet Community Hall

Aireys Inlet VIC, Australia

The Stella Prize

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Join Stella-listed author Sofie Laguna in Aireys Inlet to workshop your characters on Saturday 24 October.

Stella Day Out is an event series by The Stella Prize, celebrating Australia’s best women and non-binary writers.

Proudly hosted in Aireys Inlet by the Aireys Inlet Community Centre, this workshop is an exciting opportunity to massage your writing alongside an award-winning author.

When: 10am-11:30am, Saturday 24 October 2026

Where: Aireys Inlet Community Centre, 6 Great Ocean Rd, Aireys Inlet VIC 3231, Australia

Sofie will share the way compelling characters can solve every problem fiction presents. You'll learn tools to help you create these characters for yourselves, and to enjoy the process. It's Sofie’s belief that writing can be fun, playful and energising.

Great Escape Books will be selling Sofie's books and others on the day.

Make sure to snag free tickets to the afternoon talks, which include conversations with Sofie and fellow Stella-listed author Micaela Sahhar.

We can't wait to see you for Stella Day Out Aireys Inlet.

If you can't afford to buy a ticket but would still like to attend, please get in touch at info@stella.org.au.

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Sofie Laguna

Sofie Laguna has written five novels for adults which have won numerous literary awards including the Miles Franklin Award, the Colin Roderick Award and the Indie Award. She has also been shortlisted for the Stella Prize, the ALS Gold Medal, the Voss Award, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, and longlisted twice for the Dublin IMPAC International Literary Award. Sofie’s most recent novel for adults, released to critical acclaim, is The Underworld. Sofie’s many books for children have been published in the US and the UK and in translation in Europe and Asia, and been named Honour and Notable Books by the Children’s Book Council of Australia. Books include: Our Australian Girl: The Grace Stories, Too Loud Lily (enjoying its 21-year anniversary edition), and more recently, The Song of Lewis Carmichael, and The Glow, and the picture books, A Friend for Ruby and The Last Egg. In October this year Sofie will release her first graphic novel, Blunderbore, with illustrator, Marc McBride.