Nicole Abadee

Books writer | Festival moderator | Podcaster

I love books. I love reading them, writing about them, talking about them and helping people to write them.

I write about books and other things for Good Weekend, and I act as a moderator at writers’ festivals and other literary events. I have moderated at Sydney Writers' Festival, Adelaide Writers’ Week, Byron Writers' Festival and many other festivals.

I have a podcast, Books, Books, Books, in which I talk to the best writers, Australian and international, about their new releases.

I am also a judge for the 2021 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards , for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.

I am also a literary consultant. I help writers to develop and polish their manuscripts and to get published.

I have been working in the book industry since 2010. I started at Penguin Random House, where I became a senior editor. I have been writing about books since 2016, first for The Australian Financial Review Magazine and now for Good Weekend, out with The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age on Saturdays.

Before that I had a 20-year career in the law. I was a barrister at the New South Wales Bar and I lectured post-graduates and undergraduates in International Law at the University of Sydney.

I am passionate about books and love everything about working in this fabulous industry.