Chat") and "Life & Style" ("formally A2") section, as well a contributing to Frankie magazine. She resigned from the "Green Guide" in November 2009 due to other writing commitments. Books Hardy signed a two book deal with publishers Allen & Unwin, and the first of those books, You'll Be Sorry When I'm Dead, was published in 2011. She began working on the second, a novel, in 2012. Other work Hardy started a left-wing political apparel brand with designer Sara-Jane Chase called Polichicks in 2003. As of October 2008, Hardy became a committed vegan after completing a one-week challenge set by her Triple J co-presenter Lindsay McDougall. Since 2010, she and writer Michaela McGuire have co-hosted the popular international literary public event Women of Letters, in which five or six women read letters they have written on a set theme. In October 2010, an article on the Liberal Party politician Christopher Pyne written by Hardy on the ABC The Drum blog site was withdrawn on the grounds that it "failed to meet the standards for argument and well-thought opinion". A public apology was issued to Pyne by The Drum editor Jonathan Green "for both the attack and for its deeply personal nature". In August 2017, it was announced that Hardy would join the annual Melbourne Writers Festival as the event's Artistic Director. She resigned from her three-year contract, with effect December 2019. Ancestry Filmography Bibliography Children's fiction Short Cuts, Angus & Robertson, 2002 Humour You'll be Sorry When I'm Dead, Allen & Unwin, 2011 Play No Pay? No Way!, Sydney Theatre Company, 2020 References External links Marieke Hardy columns on The Drum (ABC) 1976 births Living people Australian bloggers Australian women bloggers Australian screenwriters Women screenwriters Australian people of English descent People educated at Carey Baptist Grammar School Triple J announcers Australian women radio presenters Bloggers from Melbourne 21st-century Australian screenwriters People from Hawthorn, Victoria