Holden Sheppard in Conversation with Angela Aris for Freo Pride Festival.

Join Holden Sheppard in-conversation with Angela Aris as part of Freo Pride Fest.

Angela will chat with Holden about his award-winning novels The Brink and Invisible Boys, recently adapted into a television series with Stan Australia and now in post-production.

Holden will also celebrate the launch of the new Kylie Minogue-inspired anthology Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist (Fremantle Press, 2024), including his story “Your Disco Needs You”.

A 45-minute conversation will be followed by an audience Q&A, book sales and signing of Holden’s books and Spinning Around, courtesy of New Edition Bookshop.

Holden Sheppard is a West Australian author whose debut novel Invisible Boys won multiple awards, including the 2019 WA Premier’s Prize for an Emerging Writer. A television series adaptation of Invisible Boys is now in post-production with Stan Australia, slated for release next year. Holden’s second novel The Brink won several accolades, including the 2024 Ena Noel Award, and his third book Two Kings – his first novel for adults – will be published in June 2025. Holden served as Deputy Chair of Writing WA from 2019 – 2023, and his writing has been widely published in books, journals and the media. A country boy from Geraldton, Holden now lives in Perth’s far north with his husband and his V8 ute.

Angela is a soon-to-be graduate of UWA's Creative Writing Honours Program; their Honours project explores the ability of visual and other poetic forms to take up relational theories. They interned at Westerly Magazine in 2023, Editor of Pelican Magazine in 2023 and co-runs a creative writing workshop for students at UWA. Their writing has been published in Pelican Magazine, Damsel, and Jacaranda Journal. They are so much more than this bio.