Helen Hopcroft
Helen Hopcroft’s book, The Nights, was shortlisted for the Woollahra Digital Literary Award. My Year as a Fairy Tale describes a year she spent dressed as Marie Antoinette.
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Helen Hopcroft
Originally from Tasmania, Helen Hopcroft is an Australian writer and artist who lives in Maitland. She holds an MFA (Painting) from the Royal College of Art and an English (Creative Writing) PhD from Newcastle University. In 2024, Helen was awarded Creative Australia’s Keesing Studio at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. She is currently working on a memoir/auto-fiction, My Year as a Fairy Tale, about a year she spent dressed as Marie Antoinette, which she plans to eventually turn into a film or television series.
In 2024, Spineless Wonders published Helen’s erotic novella, The Nights, as an illustrated book with a foreword by Patrick White Award winner, Carmel Bird. The Nights has since been shortlisted for the 2024 Woollahra Digital Literary Award and is also available as an audio book narrated by the London-based actor, Kelly Burke. Helen met the actor while attending a L’AiR Arts multi-artform residency in Paris, January 2020.
Helen’s publication list includes The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, Art Monthly, Griffith Review and ArtsHub.com. She has been shortlisted for the 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 joanne burns Microlit Award, and for the 2022 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing for her poem ‘The Howling’.
Festival Events
Kink in the Tale: Live Storytelling for Grown-ups
DATE April 5 TIME 6:00 pm WHERECivic Playhouse Book nowBY THE ARTIST
