MWF
8-11 May
2025

Kate Mildenhall

Kate Mildenhall is the author of three novels – Skylarking (2016), The Mother Fault (2020) and The Hummingbird Effect (2023). The Hummingbird Effect was longlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize and shortlisted for the 2024 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year. In 2024 she released her first children’s book To Stir With Love illustrated by Jess Racklyeft. She co-hosted The First Time podcast interviewing hundreds of writers including Tim Winton, Helen Garner, Richard Flanagan, George Saunders and Charlotte Wood. Kate lives on Wurundjeri lands in Hurstbridge with her partner and two children.

Kate Mildenhall is appearing in the following events:

Nardi Simpson: The Belburd

Award-winning author Nardi Simpson reflects on motherhood, belonging and connection to Country in The Belburd, her lyrical novel weaving the everyday with the metaphysical. In conversation with Kate Mildenhall.
Fri 9 May 8:00pm @ Vision Australia Library

Future Tense

Authors Bora Chung, Jordan Prosser, and Neal Shusterman discuss what draws them to write utopias and dystopias and how the speculative fiction genre mirrors our hopes and fears for the future.
Sun 11 May 12:00pm @ State Library Victoria, Theatrette

Samantha Harvey: Orbital

Journey through deep space with the 2024 Booker Prize-winning novel, Orbital – a profound meditation on the meaning of life and the nature of humanity itself. Join Samantha Harvey in conversation with Kate Mildenhall.
Sun 11 May 2:30pm @ Athenaeum Theatre
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