Holly Cardamone
ABOUT
Holly Cardamone
Holly Cardamone’s debut novel, Summer, in Between, won the 2024 Hawkeye Publishing Manuscript Development Prize and was published in September 2025. She won second place in the Romance Writers of Australia 2025 Opal Award, was a finalist in their 2024 Sweet Treats anthology, and has been long- and short-listed in national short story awards. Holly has a Master of Communications and a Master of Writing and Literature and weaves words with an Australian shepherd at her feet. She spends her time between Melbourne and the Bass Coast. Her work is inspired by the shenanigans of real life in all its glorious entanglements and emotional constellations, often involving stealthy observations of her teenage cherubs during her unpaid and under-appreciated role as their personal chauffeur.
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.