Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Friday 06 May
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Life was better when you were a child. For one thing, people read you stories. You were put to sleep with Dr Seuss, Eric Carle and Enid Blyton. There were pictures. There was sweetness and wonder.
It can be like that again. At Bedtime Stories, a storytelling evening created by Saturday Paper editor Erik Jensen, Australia’s best writers retell their books … as if for children.
Listen as Kate Holden reinterprets her celebrated memoir of sex and heroin, In My Skin, for tots. Hear Chloe Hooper settle children with her incisive prose in her retelling of The Tall Man. Pull up the blankets as David Marr crafts fables from his fearless journalism. And as for lullabies? Singer-songwriter and Lucksmiths/Simpletons alumnus Darren Hanlon has you covered.
Featuring
Erik Jensen
Erik Jensen is an award-winning journalist, biographer, poet and screenwriter. He is the founding editor of The Saturday Paper and editor-in-chief of Schwartz Media. He is the author of Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death ...
Kate Holden
Kate Holden is the author of the memoirs In My Skin: A memoir and The Romantic: Italian nights and days. She wrote a long-running column for the Age and has published features, reviews, essays and short stories in all the major Australian journals and newspapers.
Kate is a frequent contributor to the Saturday Paper and Australian Book Review. A new book, The Winter Road, will be published in 2019 by Black Ink.
Chloe Hooper
Chloe Hooper’s The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008) won the Victorian, New South Wales, West Australian and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, as well as the John Button Prize for Political Writing, and a ...
David Marr
David Marr is the author of Patrick White: A Life, Panic, The High Price of Heaven and Dark Victory (with Marian Wilkinson). He has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Saturday Paper, the Guardian and the Monthly, and been editor of the National Times, a reporter for Four Corners and presenter of ABC TV’s Media Watch.
He is the author of five bestselling Quarterly Essays in addition to the latest, Quarterly Essay 65, The White Queen: One Nation and the Politics of Race.