Book Fair Australia Melbourne 2026 - Ariane Beeston & Jenny Valentish

Book Fair Australia presents a literary festival that celebrates stories of all genres. 

Join us at Book Fair Austalia for a panel discussion with Ariane Beetson  and Jenny Valentish on How to Include Self.

This event will take place on the Book Fair Australia Stage at Melbourne Convention Centre.

Ariane Beeston is a former child protection caseworker and psychologist with NSW's Department of Communities and Justice. She was a staff writer at Fairfax Media's Essential Baby and Essential Kids and has also published articles in The Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Life, Babyology and Mamamia. Ariane currently works for Australia's peak body in perinatal mental health, The Centre of Perinatal Excellence (COPE), as their communications and content manager. She is also a dancer and choreographer. Because I'm Not Myself, You See is her first book.

Jenny Valentish has been devoted to dancing around the void for many decades, first in the pub and then the boxing ring. The author of the acclaimed books Woman of Substances and Everything Harder Than Everyone Else, Jenny is a regular contributor to The Guardian and the ABC, and the former editor of Time Out Melbourne and Triple J’s Jmag.