
Hayley Scrivenor
ABOUT
Hayley Scrivenor
Hayley Scrivenor is the author of Girl Falling (2024) and Dirt Town (2022). Girl Falling is “a remarkable exercise in complex storytelling written in Scrivenor’s idiosyncratic, metaphorically vivid prose” and a “worthy follow-up to the best-selling Dirt Town.” Dirt Town became a #1 Australian bestseller, and a USA TODAY bestseller (where it was published as Dirt Creek). Dirt Town has also won multiple awards, including the ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year in 2023, and has been translated into several languages. Hayley has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wollongong and lives on Dharawal country.
PROGRAM SESSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.