Hayley Scrivenor

Hayley Scrivenor is the award-winning author of international best-seller Dirt Town. Hayley lives in Wollongong and Girl Falling is her second novel.

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Hayley Scrivenor

Hayley Scrivenor is the author of Dirt Town, which was published internationally in 2022 and quickly became a number one Australian bestseller. The novel has been shortlisted for multiple national and international awards and translated into several languages. In 2023, Dirt Town won the ILP John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Mystery and the ABIA for General Fiction Book of the Year.  Her second novel, Girl Falling, was released in Australia in 2024.

Hayley has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wollongong and lives on Dharawal country, on the east coast of Australia.

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Modernity and Absurdity

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First Time Lucky? Overcoming Second Book Syndrome

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Complicated Characters

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Girl Falling

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