Constellations Festival: Eva Hornung in conversation at the Coventry Library
Matilda Bookshop is hosting an evening with the sublimely talented Adelaide author Eva Hornung as part of Constellations: Not Writers' Week festival.
Join us at 7pm on Wednesday 4 March at the Coventry Library in Stirling for a special conversation celebrating Hornung’s long-awaited new novel, The Minstrels.
About Constellations: Not Writers’ Week
Constellations is an umbrella festival created by writers, bookshops and organisations who were set to be involved in Adelaide Writers' Week. In the absence of the much-loved Writers’ Week in 2026, Constellations offers a space for Adelaide’s vibrant writing and reading community to gather and connect.
The festival does not seek to replace Adelaide Writers’ Week, but to celebrate writers and ensure their stories continue to be heard.
About the evening
Eva Hornung will be in conversation with Molly Murn, discussing The Minstrels, a sweeping, mythic and potent new novel set in a fictional Australian landscape shaped by both literal and figurative blight.
The story follows Gem and Will, who grow up on a farm above a chasm and pool known as the Minstrels, a site where both are broken, each by the other. One will disappear. One will, eventually, be transformed.
Through encounters with people, art, land and language, Gem is remade as the world outside shifts and time runs out. The Minstrels is an apocalyptic redemption fable that weaves the history and probable fate of the world into the life of one woman.
This promises to be a beautiful and thought-provoking conversation about wild transformation, women remaking themselves, the craft of writing, living history and much more.
About Eva Hornung
Born in Bendigo and now living in rural South Australia, Eva Hornung is an award-winning writer of literary fiction and criticism. Her novels have been shortlisted for numerous major awards, including the ALS Gold Medal, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, the Steel Rudd Literary Award, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Her highly acclaimed novel Dog Boy won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award in 2010, and The Last Garden won the South Australian Premier’s Prize for Literature in 2018.
Tickets and book sales
- FREE tickets are available.
- You can also choose the FREE Ticket and Signed Book option ($35) to purchase a signed copy of The Minstrels for collection on the night.
- Copies will also be available for purchase at the event for $35 (RRP).
When booking, you will have the option to make a donation to Constellations. All proceeds go directly towards paying authors who have lost income due to the cancellation of Adelaide Writers’ Week 2026. This is a not-for-profit event.
Wine by the glass will be available on the night.