Merve Emre joins Helen Garner for a conversation about writing, aging, and seeing without being seen.

Helen Garner is one of Australia’s most beloved authors. Her novels and works of non-fiction include The Season, Monkey Grip, The Children's Bach, The First Stone, and This House of Grief. Her long list of accolades includes the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Windham-Campbell Prize, an Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, and the ASA Medal.

Professor Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University. Her books include Paraliterary, The Personality Brokers, and The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and has judged the International Booker Prize. In July-August 2025, she is a Thinker in Residence at the Forrest Research Foundation.

This event is supported by the Forrest Research Foundation.

Date: Monday 28 July 2025

Time: 8.30am – 9.30am

Location: Dolphin Theatre, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley WA 6009

Cost: Free (Registration is essential)

Please note: Seating is unassigned at this event