# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Writers Book Club: Julie Keys on Helen Garner
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for our next Writers Book Club! Julie Keys, author of The Artist's Portrait and facilitator of SCWC writing workshops, leads a discussion on Helen Garner's How to End a Story.Thursday 26 February, 7pm for a 7:15 startRed Point Arts, Port KemblaIn one of her three, much lauded, published diaries Helen Garner writes: "I think I might burn all these diaries. What if I died and people got hold of them and read them? Their endless self obsession, anecdotes, self-excuses, rationalisations. Meanness about others.’ Garner has recently been awarded the prestigious Baillie Gifford Prize for this work she once contemplated burning. It’s the first time a collection of diaries has won the prize and a unanimous choice for the judges who deemed it ‘remarkable’ and ‘addictive’. Writer Julie Keys has chosen the third of these diaries (How to End a Story 1995 – 1998), a narrative she describes as swinging between the day-to-day and the explosive, for SCWC’s upcoming writers book club. "We see Helen making dinner, sewing curtains and fielding fierce disapproval about her recent publication The Last Stone, all the while navigating a tumultuous marriage and self-doubts about her writing. How to End a Story is a richly rewarding read – not only sharply observed and propulsive but totally relatable. I’m very keen to discuss all things Helen – both the acclaim and the criticism – and to hear your thoughts on the ins and outs of this book."--Julie Keys is a writer, speaker and teacher who lives in the Illawarra, on the south coast of NSW. Julie worked in the health and welfare fields for many years until a tangle with a B-double truck nudged her in the direction of writing. She’s since completed a PhD in Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong. Her debut novel, The Artist’s Portrait (Hachette 2019), was shortlisted for The Richell Prize and the MUD Literary Prize. She was the Writer in Residence for the South Coast Writers Centre in 2021 and received a grant from Create NSW in 2024 to develop her current novel, which explores family violence and is set on the south coast.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/berkeley/writers-book-club-julie-keys-on-helen-garner/80001821931398
- **Event Categories**: literary-art, art, workshops, health-wellness
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Berkeley
- **state**: NS
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: Red Point Artists Association
- **lat**: -34.482217
- **long**: 150.9031413
- **full address**: Red Point Artists Association, 100 Wentworth St, Port Kembla NSW 2505, Australia, Berkeley

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Writers Book Club: Julie Keys on Helen Garner being held?
  - **A:** Writers Book Club: Julie Keys on Helen Garner takes place on Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Red Point Artists Association, 100 Wentworth St, Port Kembla NSW 2505, Australia, Berkeley.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Writers Book Club: Julie Keys on Helen Garner?
  - **A:** Writers Book Club: Julie Keys on Helen Garner is organized by South Coast Writers Centre.

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