Held

Anne Michaels is a novelist and poet whose books have been translated into more than 50 languages and have won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Lannan Award for Fiction. Among many other honours, she is a Guggenheim Fellow and has served as Toronto’s Poet Laureate. Her novel Fugitive Pieces was adapted as a feature film and chosen as one of the BBC’s 100 Novels that Shaped the World. Her latest book, Held, comes out in November 2023. Anne Michaels will now be appearing via live stream.

Nicole Abadee writes about books for Good Weekend, appears regularly at writers’ festivals and other literary events and has a books podcast: Books, Books, Books. She is also a literary consultant, helping writers to polish their work before they submit it to publishers.