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Byron Bay Writers Festival
6-8 AUGUST 2010
Workshops from 2 august
Open Monday - Sunday: 10.00am - 5.30pm
Corner Lawson and Fletcher Streets, Byron Bay NSW AUSTRALIA 2481
P: 61 (0)2 6680 8813 F: 61 (0)2 6680 8835 E: enquiries@bimbambyronbay.com
www.bimbambyronbay.com
WELCOME to the fourteenth program of the Byron Bay Writers Festival.
I am delighted to introduce you to the complete range of marquee
sessions, book launches, workshops, foodie and feature events that
make up our 2010 celebration of writing and ideas. We’ve taken as our
motto this year words without walls and the enormous range of writers
certainly contains some of the biggest thinkers and writers today.
These pages will introduce writers from beyond our shores, but yet
again the heart of the program remains proudly Australian. We have a
wealth of new voices participating for the very first time, including brave
young writers and those at the peak of their powers. If you have already
purchased your Festival pass, you will revel in the opportunity to select
the sessions that reflect your interests, but take care to think beyond
Committee: your boundaries and venture into unfamiliar territory. I would also urge
Christopher Hanley, Chair you to book now for the workshops and feature events that pique your
Lynda Dean, Vice Chair imagination: we have new features and events on offer this year and
John Hertzberg, Treasurer expect interest to be keen.
Jennifer Regan, Secretary
For those visiting our Festival for the very first time, a joyous and intense
Cheryl Bourne
celebration of words and ideas is building. Plan a fabulous Festival and
Jenny Cornish
I look forward to meeting you in the marquees. On behalf of our entire
Marele Day
community of writers, I invite you to widen your eyes and change your
Robert Drewe
mind as the Byron Bay Writers Festival explores words without walls.
Russell Eldridge
Helen Hughes
Brenda Shero
Staff:
Jeni Caffin, Director
Helen Fry, Volunteer Coordinator Jeni Caffin,
Sarah Ma, Festival Festival Director
Communications, Launch and
Workshop Coordinator
Pip Morrissey, Accounts and
Schools Coordinator
Susie Warrick, Pitch Coordinator
Joyce Fabriek,
Survey Coordinator
and Festival Intern
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Friday 6 August 2010
SCU MARQUEE BLUE MARQUEE MACQUARIE MARQUEE
9.00am – 10.00am 9.15am – 10.15am 9.30am – 10.30am
From manuscript to market: Our whizzing, whirling world: Adding the extra to ordinary:
getting my book on the shelf can writing reign supreme? creating characters with heart
Amy Barker, Daniel Ducrou, Darren Tom Cho, Angela Meyer, Peter Janis Balodis, Cate Kennedy, Hannie
Groth, Tasma Walton, plus the winner Skrzynecki Rayson, Michael Robotham
of the Heading North competition Chair: Susan Wyndham Chair: Irina Dunn
Chair: Peter Bishop Sponsored by Sponsored by Byron Shire Echo Sponsored by NORPA
ADFAS Byron Bay & Bangalow Lions
10.15am – 11.15am 10.30am – 11.30am 10.45am – 11.45am
Keeping the discourse alive: IN CONVERSATION IN CONVERSATION
the work of the literary Doctor, doctor, I think I’ve From song to page: lyric to
magazine got a book in me: medicos literature
Phillip Edmonds, Ben Naparstek, who write Robert Forster and Linda Neil with
Julianne Schultz Jacinta Halloran and Karen Hitchcock Sian Prior
Chair: Moya Costello with Murray Waldren
Sponsored by Wet Ink Sponsored by Zentveld’s Australian Coffee
11.30am – 12.30pm 11.45am – 12.45pm 12.00pm – 1.00pm
KEYNOTE CONVERSATION The plot thickens: crime My space: spilling the beans
Every man in this village is a writers confess on self
liar: an education in war Mark Dapin, Phillip Gwynne, Lily Bragge, Bryce Corbett,
Megan Stack with Kerry O’Brien Shamini Flint James Knight, Yvonne Louis
Introduced by Peter Lee Chair: Irina Dunn Chair: Virginia Lloyd
Sponsored by Southern Cross University Sponsored by The Australian Womens’ Weekly
12.45pm – 1.45pm 1.00pm – 2.00pm 1.15pm – 2.15pm
Kindle, blog, tweet: what the Mothers IN CONVERSATION
hell does it all mean? Jacinta Halloran, Kate Howarth, Changing lives: fresh starts,
Krissy Kneen, Angela Meyer, Linda Neil troubled endings
Susan Maushart, Alvin Pang Chair: Madonna Duffy Angelo Loukakis and Alex Miller with
Chair: Janet Steele Susan Wyndham
Sponsored by Michael Malloy
2.00pm – 3.00pm 2.15pm – 3.15pm 2.30pm – 4.00pm
Elemental: the significance The importance of being readers: Bodice ripping: writing sex
of place the impact of reading on writing and intimacy
Judith Beveridge, Kim Cheng Boey, Josephine Emery, Rodney Hall, Laura Bloom, Kim Falconer, Krissy
Ali Cobby Eckerman, Patrick Holland Michael Robotham, Brenda Walker Kneen, Kathy Lette Chair: Rosemary
Chair: Chris Hanley Sorensen Sponsored by The Byron at
Chair: Phillip Edmonds Sponsored by Good Reading Magazine Byron Resort & Spa
3.15pm – 4.45pm 3.30pm – 4.30pm 4.15pm – 5.15pm
The powers of politics: people IN CONVERSATION Does my head look big in this:
who rule our world True Heroes exploding cultural cliches
Annabel Crabb, John Keane, Mungo Mike Carlton with Russell Eldridge Randa Abdel-Fattah, Akmal Saleh,
MacCallum, Megan Stack, Janet Mohezin Tejani
Steele Chair: Irina Dunn
Omar Musa
Chair: Kerry O’Brien
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Friday 6 August
ABC3 MARQUEE LAUNCHPAD CHATROOM
9.00am – 9.30am
READINGS 8.30am – 11.00am
Morning book readings in the ABC NORTHCOAST
ABC3 Marquee On Site Broadcast
Yvonne Louis, Kate Veitch
Yvonne Louis Join ABC North Coast Radio for live
broadcast from the Festival site.
Expect a comprehensive menu of
9.45am – 10.45am 10.00am – 11.00am conversations, forums and interviews
Hand on the wheel, eye on the The return of Dr Strangelove: as ABC’s Mornings presenter
ball: a trio of sporting lives climate engineering and it’s engages with a diverse sampling of
Steve Cannane, Adam Ramanauskas, coming your way Festival guests. Expect laughter and
Mark Skaife Clive Hamilton with Jacqueline inspiration in an intimate environment
Woodman as writers leap off the page and on to
Chair: Russell Eldridge the stage.
Sponsored by The Railway Friendly Bar
11.00am – 12.00pm 11.30am – 12.30pm
Three poets went into a bar… LAUNCH
Omar Musa, Alvin Pang, Jude Conway
Maria van Daalen Women of East Timor: stories
Krissy Kneen
Chair: Peter Bishop of resistance and survival
Launched by Janelle Saffin, MP
12.15pm – 1.15pm 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Briefs: celebrating the short LAUNCH
form Craig Reid
Tom Cho, Cate Kennedy, Karen Coral reefs and climate
Hitchcock, O Thiam Chin change: the guide for
Chair: Chris Hanley Sponsored by education and awareness
Byron Bay First National Real Estate
12.00pm – 12.30pm
1.30pm – 2.30pm 2.30pm – 3.30pm 30 MINUTES WITH
Voices in my head: writing LAUNCH Readings and musings
dialogue that works Daniel Prokop from Amy Barker
Hannie Rayson, Kate Veitch, Peter Pan: time to leave
Tasma Walton Neverland 2.00pm – 2.30pm
Chair: Virginia Lloyd 30 MINUTES WITH
Sponsored by Screenworks
Readings and musings from
Steve Cannane
2.45pm – 3.45pm 4.00pm – 5.00pm
IN CONVERSATION LAUNCH 2.45pm – 3.15pm
Territories: writing indigenous Darren Groth 30 MINUTES WITH
characters Kindling Readings and musings from
Phillip Gwynne with Larissa Behrendt Hachette Australia
Sponsored by Bim Bam Gallery Randa Abdel-Fattah
3.30pm – 4.00pm
4.00pm – 5.00pm DINING ROOM 30 MINUTES WITH
The firm: when writing is the 5.30pm – 7.00pm Readings and musings from
family business LAUNCH Shamini Flint
Georgia Blain, Kirsten Tranter, Victoria Cosford
Brenda Walker Amore & amaretti 3
Chair: Angela Meyer Wakefield Press
Launched by Joanna SavillSaturday 7 August 2010
SCU MARQUEE BLUE MARQUEE MACQUARIE MARQUEE
9.00am – 10.00am 9.00am – 9.30am 9.15am – 10.15am
Return journey: stories of READINGS What women want: is it still OK
triumph over adversity Morning readings to need?
Lily Bragge, Kate Howarth, in the Blue Marquee Laura Bloom, Victoria Cosford,
Brenda Walker Larissa Behrendt, Ali Cobby Eckerman Susan Maushart
Chair: Virginia Lloyd Chair: Sian Prior
10.15am – 11.15am 9.45am – 10.45am 10.30am – 11.30am
Fragmented identities: I can almost taste it: language On the road again: tall travel
fractures, flaws and fears as a sensory experience tales
Georgia Blain, Patrick Holland, Judith Beveridge, Tom Cho, Sam Cutler, AJ Mackinnon,
Michael Robotham Robert Forster Brian Thacker, Kim Traill
Chair: Angela Meyer Chair: Peter Bishop Chair: Irina Dunn
Sponsored by Jetset Byron Bay
11.30am – 12.30pm 11.00am – 12.00pm 11.45am – 12.15pm
IN CONVERSATION From the mouth of the merlion: 30 MINUTES WITH
Requiem for a species: how Singapore presents Readings and musings from
long do we have left Kim Cheng Boey, Shamini Flint, Tony Martin
Clive Hamilton and Ian Lowe O Thiam Chin, Alvin Pang
with Fran Kelly Chair: Janet Steele
12.45pm – 1.45pm 12.15pm – 1.15pm 12.30pm – 1.30pm
What lies beneath: intimate Secrets and yearnings: the IN CONVERSATION
lives of ordinary people writing of memory and memoir Living it large: two wildly
Cate Kennedy, Krissy Kneen, David Carlin, Josephine Emery, worldly women
Alex Miller, William McInnes Rodney Hall, Yvonne Louis Kathy Lette and Gretel Pinniger
Chair: Murray Waldren Chair: Virginia Lloyd with Nic Pullen
Sponsored by HWL Ebsworth Lawyers
2.00pm – 3.00pm 1.30pm – 2.30pm 1.45pm – 2.45pm
IN CONVERSATION Truth and nothing but the truth: IN CONVERSATION
The life and death of getting history right Writing, growing and Bob
democracy Mike Carlton, Michael Cathcart, Blanche d’Alpuget with Ian Robertson
John Keane with Julianne Schultz Sam Everingham Sponsored by Holding Redlich
Sponsored by Griffith REVIEW Chair: Mungo MacCallum
3.15pm – 4.15pm 2.45pm – 3.45pm 3.00pm – 4.00pm
Fleshing it out: the role of Eat me: writing food, Fit to be seen: adaptation
imagination in non-fiction glorious food for film
AJ Mackinnon, Jack Marx, Victoria Cosford, Ramona Koval, Ross Grayson Bell, Bret Easton Ellis,
William McInnes Luke Nguyen Hannie Rayson
Chair: Irina Dunn Chair: Joanna Savill Chair: Jacqueline Woodman
Sponsored by Ferment Sponsored by AFTRS
4.30pm – 5.00pm 4.00pm – 5.00pm 4.15pm – 5.15pm
THEA ASTLEY LECTURE Fantastical and magical: Defining home: the migrant
The lost art of reading expanding the conventional experience
Rodney Hall world Yvonne Louis, Angelo Loukakis,
Kim Falconer, Tom Cho, Luke Nguyen, Mohezin Tejani
Maria van Daalen Chair: Joanna Savill
Chair: Angela Meyer
4ABC3 MARQUEE LAUNCHPAD CHATROOM
10.00am – 10.45am
Saturday 7 August
KIDS’ SESSIONS IN CONVERSATION
Mr Isherwood changes trains:
Shamini Christopher Isherwood and
Flint
9.00am – 9.30am the search for the home self
MEET Shamini Flint Victor Marsh with Moya Costello
11.00am – 11.30am
9.45am – 10.15am 10.00am – 11.00am 30 MINUTES WITH
MEET Ursula Dubosarsky LAUNCH Readings and musings from
Anna Bonshek David Carlin
Heniek
10.30am – 11.00am 12.00pm – 1.00pm
MEET Terry Denton Pitch perfect: fiction
Six emerging writers compete
with live pitches of their works in
11.15am – 11.45am 11.30am – 12.30pm progress to a panel of publishers.
MEET Randa Abdel Fattah & FOURTH WALL Who will win? Be first to meet the
Jack Heath PERFORMANCE new wave of Australian writing talent
The work of Hannie Rayson
Director Susan Melhuish and local 1.30pm – 2.30pm
12.00pm – 12.45pm actors present a rehearsed reading RAILWAY WONDERLAND
MEET Phillip Gwynne & of plays by award winning READINGS WITH NORPA
Matthew Reilly playwright Hannie Rayson. Readings and music from Northern
Rivers residents on the abandoned
railway network. NORPA is
1.00pm – 1.30pm developing a site specific show to
MEET Georgia Blain be performed on railway stations
in 2011 and has collaborated with
writers to hear local stories to inform
1.45pm – 2.30pm development of the work.
MEET Rebecca James & 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Daniel Ducrou LAUNCH
Hilary Kerr
Look to see: the art of drawing
Michael Robotham
Launched by Mandy Nolan
2.45pm – 3.45pm 2.30pm – 3.30pm 2.45pm-3.45pm
IN CONVERSATION LAUNCH Twelve words
Intertextuality: the story Lynne West Can you tell a story in twelve words?
behind the story Scurby Ernest Hemingway wrote one in six –
Kirsten Tranter with Moya Costello “For sale; Baby shoes; Never used”
12words.com.au is a National,
online twelve-word story competition
for 15-25 year olds funded by Arts
4.00pm – 5.00pm 4.00pm – 5.00pm NSW
Work/life balance: from LAUNCH
pressure cooker to chill Daniel Ducrou 4.00pm – 4.30pm
James Knight, Susan Maushart, The Byron journals 30 MINUTES WITH
Juanita Phillips Text Publishing Readings and musings from
Chair: Michael Cathcart Mark Dapin
5Sunday 8 August 2010
SCU MARQUEE BLUE MARQUEE MACQUARIE MARQUEE
9.30am – 10.30am 9.00am – 10.15am 9.00am – 10.15am
IN CONVERSATION Fathers Talk to me: the interviewer’s art
Red Square blues: the decline Larissa Behrendt, Kim Cheng Boey, Ramona Koval, Jack Marx,
and fall of the Soviet Union David Carlin, Damien Leith Ben Naparstek, Sally Neighbour
Kim Traill with Chris Hanley Chair: Alan Close Chair: Michael Cathcart
10.45am – 12.00pm 10.30am – 11.45am 10.30am – 11.30am
You can’t pick’em but you can You’re on air: the journalists IN CONVERSATION
pick ‘em clean: families as we let into our homes Imperial bedrooms
fodder Steve Cannane, Mike Carlton, Bret Easton Ellis with Simon Marnie
Tony Martin, Susan Maushart, Fran Kelly, Juanita Phillips
Justin Sheedy, Brian Thacker Chair: Candida Baker
Chair: Irina Dunn Sponsored by The Northern Star
Sponsored by Rochdale Accounting
12.15pm – 1.15pm 12.00pm – 1.15pm 11.45am – 12.45pm
IN CONVERSATION Significant others: writing the IN CONVERSATION
Fanaticism and idealism life of an icon Aren’t you married to what’s
Sally Neighbour and Megan Stack Sam Everingham, Reg Mombassa, ‘is name?
with Janet Steele Gretel Pinniger, Murray Waldren A glimpse behind the scenes
Chair: Jill Eddington Kathy Lette with Sian Prior
1.30pm – 2.30pm 1.30pm – 2.30pm 1.00pm – 2.15pm
How big is too big? IN CONVERSATION Clever, clever men: writing satire
Australia’s population growth Australian tragic: tales from for performance
Annabel Crabb, Clive Hamilton, the dark and the strange John Doyle, Tony Martin, Tim Pye
Ian Lowe Mark Dapin and Jack Marx with Chair: Jacqueline Woodman
Chair: Mungo MacCallum Michael Cathcart Sponsored by
The Australian Writers’ Guild
2.45pm – 3.45pm 2.45pm – 3.45pm 2.30pm – 3.30pm
Love and other bruises: The muso, the cook, the couch Keeping the faith: are writers
unravelling the intricacies surfer and the priestess: wide influenced by the market
of love windows on the world Larissa Behrendt, Kim Falconer,
Alex Miller, Michael Robotham, Sam Cutler, Luke Nguyen, Matthew Reilly
Kate Veitch Brian Thacker, Maria van Daalen Chair: Candida Baker
Chair: Chris Hanley Chair: Shamini Flint
4.00pm – 5.00pm 4.00pm – 5.00pm 3.45pm – 4.45pm
It came from outer space: Simpler times: boyhoods of Music to our ears: the
where writers find their muse the past universality of song
Omar Musa, O Thiam Chin, Rodney Hall, Justin Sheedy, Robert Forster, Damien Leith,
Tasma Walton Peter Skrzynecki Linda Neill, Monica Trapaga
Chair: Virginia Lloyd Chair: Phillip Edmonds Chair: Sian Prior
Megan Stack
6ABC3 MARQUEE LAUNCHPAD CHATROOM
9.00am – 9.30am 9.45am – 10.45am
READINGS A-listers: three short listed
Morning book readings writers from the NRWC/LitLink
in the ABC3 Marquee Unpublished Manuscript
Mohezin Tejani, Brian Thacker Award
Chair: Peter Bishop
9.45am – 10.45am 10.00am – 11.00am 11.00am – 11.30am
IN CONVERSATION LAUNCH 30 MINUTES WITH
Too big for Hollywood: the wild Paula Morrow Readings and musings from
ride of adventure writing Darwin’s dilemma: the damage Victoria Cosford
Jack Heath and Matthew Reilly done and the battle for the
Sunday 8 August
with Mark Dapin forests 11.45am-12.15pm
Launched by Cr. Jan Barham, 30 MINUTES WITH
Mayor of Byron Shire Council
Readings and musings from
11.00am – 12.00pm 11.30am – 12.30pm Akmal Saleh
IN CONVERSATION LAUNCH
Knit one, bake one: busy books Kevin Palmer 12.30pm – 1.30pm
that celebrate life Boys’ home to Broadway Pitch perfect: non-fiction
Loani Prior and Monica Trapaga with Magabala Books Six emerging writers compete
Joanna Savill with live pitches of their works in
progress to a panel of publishers.
Who will win? Be first to meet the
12.15pm – 1.15pm 1.00pm – 2.00pm new wave of Australian writing talent
Keeping it real versus going LAUNCH
too far: writing Young Adult Margaret King
fiction The King’s taste of Thailand
Ursula Dubosarsky, Daniel Ducrou,
Darren Groth, Rebecca James
Chair: Rosemary Sorensen
1.30pm – 2.30pm 2.30pm – 3.30pm
Heightened states: fragility and LAUNCH
danger in young lives Patt Gregory
Amy Barker, Georgia Blain, Woodwork for women
Patrick Holland
Chair: Peter Bishop
Luke Nguyen
2.45pm – 3.45pm 2.00pm – 2.30pm
IN CONVERSATION 30 MINUTES WITH
Mum, how many zeroes Readings and musings from
in a million? Earning the big Ali Cobby Eckerman
advance
Rebecca James and Kirsten Tranter 3.00pm – 3.30pm
with Lucy Clark 30 MINUTES WITH
Readings and musings from
4.00pm – 5.00pm Sam Everingham
Make it or break it: the role of
the literary review
Rosemary Sorensen, Murray Waldren,
Susan Wyndham
Chair: Alan Close
7Foodtalk
Thursday 5 August
12.00pm – 3.00pm
breakfast
Friday 6 August
8.00am – 9.30am
Saturday 7 August
8.00am – 9.30am
Having a ball: why sport Breakfast with Loani Prior Breakfast with Monica Trapaga
matters LITERARY BREAKFAST LITERARY BREAKFAST
SPORTS LUNCH Join the queen of the tea cosies for a
woolly breakfast and conversation
ST ELMO’S
Join Steve Cannane, Michael Fletcher St, Byron Bay
Cathcart, Phillip Gwynne, Adam $35.00 Code BSA
Ramanauskas and Mark Skaife for ST ELMO’S
lunch and conversation Fletcher St, Byron Bay Sponsored by St Elmo’s
$35.00 Code BFR
BANGALOW DINING ROOMS Sponsored by St Elmo’s
Bangalow Hotel, Bangalow 7.30pm – 10.30pm
$75.00 Code FSL
Sponsored by Bangalow Dining Rooms 12.00pm – 3.00pm Amore & amaretti: a love affair,
with food
The mind & times of
Reg Mombassa LITERARY DINNER
dinner
Join Victoria Cosford and Joanna
LITERARY LUNCH Savill for dinner and conversation
Join Reg Mombassa and Murray
Waldren for lunch and conversation BYRON BEACH CAFE
Clark’s Beach, Byron Bay
ITALIAN AT PACIFIC $125.00 Code BCD
Beach Hotel, Byron Bay
Sponsored by Byron Beach Café
$115.00 Code PDL
Monica Trapaga
Sponsored by Italian at Pacific
and Ferment
7.30pm – 10.30pm
Sunday 8 August
In whom we trust: the power
of the press
LITERARY DINNER 8am – 9.30am
Join Mike Carlton, Fran Kelly and Breakfast with Lily Bragge
Juanita Phillips for dinner and
conversation LITERARY BREAKFAST
FISHHEADS RESTAURANT ST ELMO’S
Fletcher St, Byron Bay
(BYO)
$35.00 Code BSU
$95.00 Code FHD
Sponsored by St Elmo’s
Sponsored by Fishheads, Byron Bay
Mike Carlton
8Bret Easton
Feature Events
Ellis Kathy Lette
Friday 6 August Friday 6 August Saturday 7 August
Meet Bret Easton Ellis Poetry evening Meet Kathy Lette 9
Byron Theatre SCU Room Byron Theatre
Byron Community Centre, Byron Bay Community Centre, Byron Community Centre,
Jonson St, Byron Bay Jonson St, Byron Bay Jonson St, Byron Bay
$30 CODE BEE 3 day pass or $20 CODE FP $30 CODE MKL
7.00pm 7.30pm 5.00pm
Join the Byron Bay Writers Festival A conversation hour with the
A conversation hour with the
poets and winners of the Byron queen of the quip. Come prepared
author of Less than Zero, The
Bay Writers Festival Picaro Poetry to love, honour and most of all
Rules of Attraction, American
competition for an evening of laugh. Kathy Lette first achieved
Psycho, Glamorama and Lunar
feature
lyrical language, rollicking rhyme succes de scandale as a teenager
Park and the short story collection
and powerful poetry. Readings and with the novel Puberty Blues. After
The Informers. Your chance to
ruminations from the masters of several years as a newspaper
meet this iconic author in the
metre. columnist and television sitcom
intimate setting of the Byron
events
MC Omar Musa. writer in America and Australia,
Theatre.
she wrote the internationally-
With Ramona Koval.
bestselling Girls Night Out, The
Feature Events
Sponsored by Macquarie Group Llama Parlour, Foetal Attraction,
Mad Cows, Altar Ego, Nip ‘n’
Tuck, and Dead Sexy. Her novels
have been published in fourteen
languages around the world.
With Simon Marnie.
Sponsored by Macquarie Group
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• En-Suite Rooms with Private Verandahs
• Private Tropical Gardens
• Pool and Heated Jet Spa
• 5 Minutes to Byron Bay
• Air Conditioning/Heating
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Akmal Saleh
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Saturday 7 August Saturday 7 August
The comedy hour. Or two Ghostboy with Golden Virtues Cabaret
Byron Theatre The Buddha Bar Cabaret festivals. Swallow & Exit
Byron Community Centre, Skinners Shoot Rd, Byron Bay features original writing & songs
Jonson St, Byron Bay $30 CODE SC from their debut album Enter
$45 CODE SE 8.00pm as well as twisted re-workings
8.00pm Join avant-garde cabaret brutes of Serge Gainsbourg, Iggy Pop,
Ghostboy with Golden Virtues and Katie Perry! Renowned QLD
Join an alarmingly sharp and
as they present their Green Room performance poetess Pascalle
devilishly clever line-up of
nominated hybrid art rock theatre Burton will also perform as well as
Australian writers of comedy and
show Swallow & Exit. Infamous for burlesque guests and libidinous
satire as they dissect their process
their exploding live shows, GBGV literary delights.
of writing, making us laugh,
have (dis)graced stages to critical
making us cry and all the bits in
acclaim including Woodford Folk, Think along the lines of a high-art
between. Learn their influences
Melbourne Fringe & Brisbane Hedwig but with a lot more punk
and anxieties and moments when
and a lot sexier.
they’ve gone too far. Lily Bragge,
aussietheatre.com
John Doyle, Tony Martin, Tim Pye
and Akmal Saleh are ready and
waiting to spill the beans on funny
business.
Ghost boy with
Golden Virtues Cabaret
10Loani Prior
Workshops
Amy Barker
Monday 2 & Tuesday 3 August
Workshops have a maximum Tuesday 3 August 1.30pm – 4.30pm
attendance of 20 except where noted.
10am – 4pm SCU Room,
* Concession rate applies to students Verandah Room, Byron Community Centre,
and NRWC members
Byron Community Centre, Jonson St, Byron Bay
Jonson St, Byron Bay $55/ $45* Code 5W
$195/ $165* Code 3W Max 10 Amy Barker
Monday 2 August Loani Prior Breaking through: getting
10am – 4pm Wild knitting: turning tea your first novel published
SCU Room, cosies on their heads Every aspiring fiction author dreams
Byron Community Centre, Loani uses the iconic tea cosy to of seeing their words in print and their
Jonson St, Byron Bay demonstrate the wild and sculptural debut novel on bookshelves and
$100/$80* Code 1W possibilities of knitting. You will be in the hands of readers. Yet for
learning to knit in the round on two a new writer getting published
Alan Close
circular needles: a skill you can can seem as elusive as discovering
Extreme memoir then transfer to knitting socks and a door to Narnia in the back of your
If you’re not on the edge you’re jumpers and bags and all sorts of wardrobe! This seminar will teach
taking up too much space: taste fabulous things. And you will learn to you what you need to know to turn
the exhilaration of telling the truth. knit beautiful motifs and accessories. your dream of becoming a published
Got a story you want to tell? How If you can knit a stitch and purl a author into reality.
about a story you really don’t want stitch and cast on and cast off, you Whether you simply have a great
to tell? Yep, that’s the one everyone can join this class. If you consider idea for a book, are attempting to
yourself to be an advanced knitter write your novel, or have just typed
wants to hear. Come to the edge
and would like to start to knit outside ‘the end’ this seminar will show you
and jump. The view might be scary the square of a pattern, this might what to do next. Amy will take you
but the feeling is great. And don’t also be the class for you. through each stage of the journey to
worry, your family will talk to you publication as well as tell you what to
afterwards. Even if they have to yell Tuesday 3 August expect when it comes to the editing of
at you first. 9.30am – 12.30pm your book, its launch, marketing, and
SCU Room, critical reviews.
Monday 2 August
Byron Community Centre,
Jonson St, Byron Bay Tuesday 3 August
10am – 4pm
$55/ $45* Code 4W 1.30pm – 4.30pm
Workshops
SAE Institute, Kim Falconer SAE Institute,
373 Ewingsdale Road, Byron Bay Cast the spell: finding magic 373 Ewingsdale Road, Byron Bay
$100/ $80* Code 2W in immersion $55/ $45* Code 6W Max 25
Marele Day Want to hook your readers on the first Mark Dapin
Criminal intent line? Keep the pages turning until Feature writing for magazines
Ned Kelly Award winner Marele the end? This workshop is all about Why don’t magazine editors ever call
Day covers everything you need immersion, the magical ingredient you back? Will they steal your ideas
that makes a story compelling and if you ever do get to talk to them?
to know to kick-start your crime
allows readers to believe in something Is there really a market for a feature
writing: the ‘rules’ and what readers they know isn’t true. Novelist Kim about what you did on holiday?
want, research for crime, bringing Falconer has a lot to say on the topic Good Weekend journalist Mark Dapin
characters to life on the page and as well as techniques to help you bring has been a freelance writer and an
keeping the writing suspenseful. immersive qualities to the page. editor-in-chief and everything in
11Daniel Ducrou
Workshops continued...
between. He talks about the way the juicier young adult subjects and Wednesday 4 August
magazines work, discusses the bringing them to life. 9.30am – 12.30pm
common mistakes freelance writers The workshop will also include SAE Institute,
make in pitching features, and the theoretical discussion and some 373 Ewingsdale Road, Byron Bay
kind of stories that magazines need hands-on writing-exercises aimed at $55/ $45* Code 9W
and don’t need. helping writers who are new to the Josie Emery
The most important point to genre of young adult fiction to come Don’t you dare tell anyone
remember is most stories start from to grips with exactly who, and what, that!
an interview, so Mark will talk about they are writing for. When silence is compliance
how to use quotes and interview when shame becomes poetry.
people, and also how not to do it, Wednesday 4 August Memoir is the affirmation of
using examples from his own vast 1.30pm – 4.30pm individual worth.
library of personal mistakes. SCU Room, A memoir requires a life worth living
Byron Community Centre, and the courage to live it. It requires
Wednesday 4 August Jonson St, Byron Bay the talent to write it with no fear
9.30am –12.30pm $35/ $25* Code 8W Max 50 of the consequences. It requires
SCU Room, Irina Dunn discipline and storytelling skill. For a
Byron Community Centre, Preparing a publishing memoir is a story. A story requires
Jonson St, Byron Bay proposal drama and structure, to make a
$55/ $45* Code 7W It is estimated that some 8,000– space where reader and writer can
Daniel Ducrou 10,000 unsolicited manuscripts hit discover themselves together. A
Writing young adult fiction the desks of Australian publishers memoir is a step towards healing for
So you want to write young adult each year. How do you get yours to both writer and reader.
fiction but don’t know where to the top of the slush pile? This workshop asks what is the
start? You may be wondering: how Can you avoid the slush pile story you have to tell and how will
hard is it to get published? How do altogether? These days, publishers you tell it?
I make my stories both believable spend little on editing, and if they
and challenging? How can I improve see your manuscript contains Wednesday 4 August
quickly? grammatical errors, spelling mistakes 1.30pm – 4.30pm
Young adult fiction often focuses and other faults, they will reject it in Anzac Room, Byron Bay Services
upon the pivotal moments in favour of those which “present well”. Club, Byron Bay
young people’s lives: the life- If your manuscript is not word $55/ $45* Code 10W
changing decisions, accidents and perfect and, preferably, edited by a Sam Everingham
experiences that shape the people professional, you may lose your only Digging up the dirt: writing a
they become. Young people are opportunity to interest a publisher killer biography
prone to taking risks and making in your work as you will if your Australian author Sam Everingham
spectacular mistakes on a variety submission as a whole is poorly draws on his own experiences
of fronts: relationships, sex, drugs, presented. Writers are very good and those of participants to shape
first love, even just day-to-day living. at writing but many baulk at the an entertaining, yet practical
This not only provides the writer thought of approaching a publisher workshop designed for anybody
with the key ingredients for dramatic with a submission and do not know who has started or is thinking
storytelling, it also makes these how to go about it. This workshop of penning life stories, whether
characters a tremendous amount will take you through the processes for their own enjoyment, for
of fun to write. This workshop will of preparing a submission and by family or a much wider audience.
equip you with a range of ideas and the end you will be confident of Employing a combination of expert
techniques for tapping into some of preparing your own. input, participant input and group
12Cate Kennedy
Josie Emery Rodney Hall
discussion, participants will learn This hands-on workshop in writing Thursday 5 August
how to shape narratives which are techniques actively involves all 9.30am – 12.30pm
both engaging and meaningful. participants equally. No previous Verandah Room,
We will discuss the ethics and legal writing experience is necessary. Byron Community Centre,
risks involved in life writing, explore The material for the workshop Jonson St, Byron Bay
the importance of understanding $65/$50* Code 14W Max 15
is created, under guidance, on
psychological motives and the Cate Kennedy
the spot. Those who enrol need
advantages of drawing on multiple How does a story tell
only bring an adequate supply of
perspectives. Participants will a story?
paper and a reliable pen plus open In this stimulating half-day workshop
review the techniques required for
minds and a desire to write. The Cate Kennedy will explore the idea
successful biography, including the
techniques explored can also be of event and narrative in fiction (or in
use of oral history, letters, diaries,
applied later with advantage to short fiction) and the way they open
print media and official documents.
non-fiction. up everything that makes a story
Wednesday 4 August memorable: character dimension,
1.30pm – 4.30pm Thursday 5 August metaphorical subtext, and satisfying
SAE Institute, 10am – 4pm resolution. How does an author
373 Ewingsdale Road, Byron Bay SCU Room, decide on what actually happens in
Byron Community Centre, a story to reveal these elements to
$55/ $45* Code 11W
Jonson St, Byron Bay their fullest potential, and how can
Brian Thacker
ordinary life provide the inspiration
Something to declare $75/$55* Code 13W Max 75
for these key fictional turning points?
You’ve climbed a mountain in Nuts and Bolts: a publishing
If you have felt dissatisfied that your
Kyrgyzstan with a bunch of goats. industry primer for
plots and storylines feel too “slight” to
You’ve eaten rancid shark in Iceland Australian writers sustain the ideas you want to convey,
and had afternoon tea with the King Writing is an art, but publishing is this workshop will help you refresh
of Togoville. You want to write about a business. In this 5 hour industry your thinking.
your journey, but you’re not too sure seminar, the team from The
how to start, what to say and how to Australian Writer’s Marketplace will Thursday 5 August
make it interesting for other people. guide you through the publishing 1.30pm – 4.30pm
In this workshop Brian will reveal his process, including developing your Verandah Room,
Top Ten Tips including: creating a work, submitting your manuscript Byron Community Centre,
good ‘hook’; finding and focusing to agents and publishers, book Jonson St, Byron Bay
Workshops
your story; the art and craft of travel $65/ $50* Code 15W Max 15
contracts, advances and getting
writing; ways to evoke a sense of Virginia Lloyd
paid. You’ll also explore e-books and
place and getting published and Your life, edited: approaches
the new age of digital publishing.
making contacts. to editing memoir
This session is for emerging writers
You’ve been writing a memoir for a
Wednesday 4 August seeking sustainable careers as
while now, and you’re wondering where
10.00am – 4.00pm authors and those who are just plain all your words are heading. Perhaps you
Verandah Room, curious about books and publishing. feel stuck and don’t know how to bring
Byron Community Centre, Meet top industry professionals, the elements of your story together.
Jonson St, Byron Bay including publishers and agents, and Maybe you don’t like how it’s turning
$100/ $80* Code 12W Max 14 walk away with tools and insider out, or your story’s not coming to life
Rodney Hall knowledge to help you navigate a on the page as you imagined. If any of
The craft of fiction pathway in the marketplace. these things apply, then it’s time you
13Angela Meyer
Workshops continued...
considered editing your work. At this the aromas and flavours as Luke New stories out of old: the
workshop Dr Virginia Lloyd (author, prepares the food he loves and we fine art of adaptation
The Young Widow’s Book of Home crave. Kirsten’s novel The Legacy
Improvement, and memoir mentor) reshapes elements from Henry
will explore approaches to editing Thursday 5 August James’ classic Portrait of a Lady to
so that you can better edit your own 10 am – 4pm create a contemporary meditation
material. By the end of the class, you Pandanus Room, Byron Bay on art, truth, friendship and loss
will feel more confident about the work Services Club, Byron Bay set in contemporary Sydney and
you still need to do, and you’ll have a $100/$80 Code 18W post-9/11 New York. The concept
clearer way forward to finishing your Sian Prior of making stories out of the raw
manuscript. The fact of the matter materials of other stories has a
It’s official, non-fiction is the new long and illustrious history, from
Thursday 5 August darling of the publishing world. The Ovid to Shakespeare through to
9.30am –12.30pm range and breadth of subject is the contemporary obsession with
SAE Institute, unlimited: from memoir and travel adaptations of Jane Austen. In
373 Ewingsdale Road, Byron Bay narrative to spiritual journeys and Shakespeare’s time, hardly anyone
$55/ $45* Code 16W how-to manuals, writers are writing thought about making up their own
Angela Meyer about the world they live in and the story: the whole idea of artistic
On my own: blogging and things they know, while readers invention was invested in other
self publishing are soaking it up and clamouring aspects of the process – not the
These days it’s so easy to create for more. Truth being stranger than story itself, but how it was told and
your own path and have fun fiction is a given. What’s less well- re-told, reframed and reinterpreted.
experimenting in new or alternate known is that truth is also, in many Our ideas about originality are very
mediums. From the basics of ways, harder to write. This is a one- different now, but we still love to
blogging and self-publishing, day workshop that deals with the hear our favourite stories re-told
through to tips on embracing social specific challenges that non-fiction in a way that makes us see them
media, and promoting yourself online writing presents. anew: or turns them inside out. We
and off, Angela Meyer will show you Non-fiction writers need all the will choose two or three classic
how to form communities of readers, writing craft skills of fiction writers. stories and brainstorm ideas about
how to choose what medium is right But that’s not all. In addition they how these plots could be adapted
for you, what not to do, and how to must deal with a swarm of other into different settings and forms,
maintain balance in your writing life issues such as gathering material, addressing key questions such
while embracing technology. You authenticating facts, dodging as how stories need to adapt to
don’t need a publishing contract or a defamation suits and finding their different temporal and cultural
massive audience to be able to write place in a crowded market. The settings; how do you choose
and create meaningful connections. Fact of the Matter will be a fabulous which elements to adapt, and to
The tools are there for you. grab-bag of tips, shortcuts and what extent to follow or change
invaluable insights that non-fiction the original; where to draw the
Thursday 5 August writers can’t fail to profit from. line between adaptation and
1.30pm – 4.30pm plagiarism; and what happens
North Beach Dining Room, Thursday 5 August when you imagine the story from
Byron Bay 1.30pm – 4.30pm the perspective of a marginal or
$85/ $65* Code 17W Max 50 SAE Institute, invented character.
Luke Nguyen 373 Ewingsdale Road, Byron Bay
The Songs of Sapa $55/$45* Code 19W
Become a voyeur and savour Kirsten Tranter
14Biographies
Randa Abdel-Fattah is the author Peter Bishop has been Creative
of Does My Head Look Big In This? (A Director of Varuna – The Writers’ House
Notable Book by the Children’s Book since 1993. Through the Macquarie
Council 2006 and the winner of the Bank Foundation LongLines Program
Australian Book Industry Awards) Randa and the NSW LitLink Program, he travels
also works as a lawyer. She is married around Australia each year consulting
with two young children and lives in with writers.
Sydney.
Georgia Blain has published four
Candida Baker is currently editor of the novels and was named one of The
Weekender for The Northern Star. She Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young
also works as a creativity coach. Her
latest novel is The Hidden.
Novelists in 1998. Darkwater is her first
venture into Young Adult territory. Tom Cho
Janis Balodis has written for television Laura Bloom was born in Sydney. She
and radio. He was an Associate Director of Tom Cho began writing fiction in his
is the author of In The Mood, the first in a mid-teens. His stories have appeared
Melbourne Theatre Company (1988–93), series of five novels set at different times
and Dramaturg-in-Residence and Artistic in many publications in Australia and
in the last century. overseas, He is currently completing a
Associate at Queensland Theatre Company
(1995–6). He is Director of the Northern Kim Cheng Boey was born in Singapore doctorate at Deakin University.
Rivers Conservatorium. and became an established poet in Lucy Clark is a journalist with 25 years
his home country before migrating to experience working on newspapers and
Amy Barker’s first novel, Omega Park Australia in 1997.
(UQP, 2010), a confronting and sobering magazines in Sydney, London and New
tale of modern warfare in a housing Lily Bragge is a Melbourne-based York. She has been a literary editor for
estate, won the Queensland Premier’s writer and journalist who, in what feels 11 years and currently works in that role
Literary Award for an emerging author like somebody else’s life, used to be a for Sydney’s Sunday Telegraph and the
in 2008. writer and performer for stage, comedy, Brisbane Sunday Mail.
film and television. Alan Close is the author of Before
Larissa Steve Cannane Having worked as a You Met Me: A Memoir Of One Man’s
Behrendt reporter, producer and presenter for Troubled Search For Love. He edited the
anthology Men Love Sex and writes on
triple j, Steve Cannane also presented men’s issues for the national media.
Hack, triple j’s current affairs show. He
has been working in current affairs for Bryce Corbett is the author of the best-
ABC TV and has written First Tests on selling travel memoir, A Town Like Paris.
backyard cricket The book is based on his experience of
living and working in Paris for ten years.
David Carlin Our Father Who Wasn’t His second book, Memoirs Of A Showgirl,
There (Scribe, 2010) is David’s first book is written in conjunction with his Moulin
Larissa Behrendt is author of the of creative non-fiction. He has previously Rouge-dancing wife, Shay Stafford. He
award-winning Home and Legacy, a worked in film, theatre and circus. currently works as the Associate Editor
barrister and Professor of Law and of The Australian Women’s Weekly.
Director of the Jumbunna Indigenous Mike Carlton is one of Australia’s best-
House of Learning at the University of known broadcasters and journalists. Victoria Cosford writes for the Byron
Technology. She is a member of the He currently writes a column for The Shire Echo to which she has also
Eualeyai/Kamilaroi nations of north-west Sydney Morning Herald. Cruiser is his contributed a weekly food column for
New South Wales and was named as new book. the past 7 years. Amore & Amaretti is
2009 NAIDOC Person of the Year. Michael Cathcart is a high profile writer her first book.
Ross Grayson Bell produced and ABC broadcaster. His latest book Moya Costello has published two
groundbreaking movies Fight Club and is The Water Dreamers, an imaginative collections of short fiction, Kites in
Under Suspicion, wrote the Barry Cox exploration of the history and cultural Jakarta and Small Ecstasies and one
story for BBC Films UK, and is now Head significance of water in Australia. He novella, The Office as a Boat: A Chronicle
of Screenwriting at AFTRS. lives in Melbourne and is married to published. She teaches Creative Writing
Hannie Rayson. at Southern Cross University.
Judith Beveridge has published four
books of poetry and has won many Annabel Crabb is the author of The
major prizes. Her most recent book is Rise of the Ruddbot: Observations from
Storm and Honey, Giramondo Publishing the Gallery, and Stop at Nothing: The Life
2009. and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull.
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Sam Cutler has been at the centre of Madonna Duffy is Head of Publishing eccentrics. His recent biography of artist
some of the most exciting developments at The University of Queensland Press, Gretel Pinniger is his third book.
in the music industry, and has worked one of Australia’s most respected Kim Falconer is a HarperCollins
with the two largest grossing live artists small publishing houses. Madonna Voyager author writing speculative
in the world, the Rolling Stones and the has previously worked for publishers in fiction in Byron Bay and completing a
Grateful Dead. You Can’t Always Get Sydney and in London since she joined Masters Degree in Writing through Open
What You Want is his first book. the industry in 1990. She is an active Universities Australia.
member of the Brisbane Writers Festival
Management Committee. Shamini Flint worked as a corporate
lawyer before resigning to be a stay-
Irina Dunn is Director of the Australian at-home mum, writer, part-time lecturer
Writers Network. Previously she was and environmental activist.
Director of the NSW Writers’ Centre and
Blanche d’Alpuget Manager of the Australian Writers’ Guild
Authorship Collecting Society.
Robert Forster was a founding member
of The Go-Betweens. His book The 10
Rules of Rock and Roll was published in
Blanche d’Alpuget was born in Ali Cobby Eckerman is a nunga poet 2009 by Black Inc.
Sydney and has worked as a journalist and writer from the Northern Territory,
now living in the “intervention-free” Darren Groth has authored four novels,
in Australia and the UK. She is author of including Most Valuable Potential which
South Australian village of Koolunga. Her
numerous bestselling books including poetry charts a long journey to reconnect was shortlisted at the Queensland
Mediator: A Biography of Sir Richard with her Yankunytjatjara family. ‘little bit Premier’s Literary Awards. Kindling, his
Kirby, Turtle Beach, On Longing and long time’ was first published by the latest, is being launched at the Byron
Robert J Hawke: A Biography. Australian Poetry Centre as part of their Bay Writers Festival 2010.
Mark Dapin moved to Australia in the New Poets series. Phillip Gwynne grew up in rural areas
late 1980s. He has been editor-in-chief Jill Eddington has worked in the in Victoria and South Australia. Gwynne’s
of ACP’s men’s magazines, and is a creative industries for 30 years. Jill first novel, Deadly, Unna? was widely
hugely popular columnist for Fairfax’s currently consults to government, praised and won several awards for its
Good Weekend. He lives in Sydney with corporate and not for profit arts and contribution to Australia’s Young Adult
his partner and two children. cultural organisations in evaluation, fiction. The background of Australian Rules
project and strategic development. Football has made the novel’s examination
Terry Denton is one of those lucky of race relations in rural Australia attractive
people who can both write and illustrate. Phillip Edmonds is the Managing to young male readers.
He has written fourteen children’s books Editor of Wet ink (the magazine of new
himself and collaborated on thirty more writing). He is the author of two volumes Rodney Hall was born at Solihull,
with some of the most popular children’s of short fiction and a Lecturer in the Warwickshire, in England and came to
authors in Australia. His work has won English Department at the University of Australia as a child. Rodney is the author
countless children’s choice awards Adelaide. of over 30 books and countless articles.
throughout Australia. He has won the Miles Franklin Award
Russell Eldridge recently retired as twice and many of his novels and poems
John Doyle is one of Australia’s finest editor of The Northern Star newspaper. have been published internationally. He
writers for stage and screen. His work He is an actor, published writer and lives in Melbourne. His latest book is
spans the theatrical success of The committee member of the Northern Popeye Never Told You.
Pig Iron People for the Sydney Theatre Rivers Writers’ Centre.
Jacinta Halloran is a Melbourne GP
Company to the small screen acclaim of Bret Easton Ellis is the author of six and writer. She has written on medical
series such as Marking Time and Changi best selling novels including Less Than topics for a wide variety of publications,
for the ABC. Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American including The Sunday Age and Inside
Ursula Dubosarsky has published Psycho and Glamorama. Imperial Story.
over 25 books for children and won Bedrooms is his latest release.
several national literary awards. Her Josephine Emery first wrote as John
most recent titles are The Terrible Plop Emery. She has published five books
and The Return of the Word Spy. and written many feature films. A lot of
Clive Hamilton
Daniel Ducrou is a writer based her current work is for cross-platform
in Melbourne. His first novel, The delivery.
Byron Journals, was shortlisted for the Sam Everingham has a passion
2007 Australian/ Vogel Literary Prize for bringing to life unknown aspects Clive Hamilton is author or co-author
and will be launched at the Festival. of Australia’s rich history and great of Affluenza, Growth Fetish, Scorcher,
16Silencing Dissent and, most recently, a decade in the Parliamentary Press Gallery Angelo Loukakis was born in Australia
Requiem for a Species. He is one of in Canberra, as Political Correspondent and has worked as a teacher, editor,
Australia’s leading thinkers. for ABC Radio, Political Editor for The publisher and scriptwriter. He is the
7.30 Report and Political Editor on Radio author of a children′s book on Greeks in
Chris Hanley is a founder and Chair National Breakfast, the programme she
of the Byron Bay Writers Festival. He Australia, and a travel book on Norfolk
now presents from Sydney. Island. Houdini’s Flight is his latest
is a business coach and speaker and
a writer across a range of genres from Cate Kennedy is the author of two novel.
short stories to business articles. Chris poetry collections, Signs of Other Fires Ian Lowe Professor Ian Lowe AO is
is the Principal of Byron Bay’s leading and Joyflight and a travel memoir Sing president of the Australian Conservation
real estate company, Byron Bay First and Don’t Cry: a Mexican journal as well Foundation (ACF), emeritus professor
National. as her short story collection Dark Roots
and novel The World Beneath (both of science, technology and society at
Jack Heath is 22. As well as writing, published in Australia by Scribe.) She Griffith University in Brisbane and an
and composing music, Jack teaches a lives in north eastern Victoria and works adjunct professor at Sunshine Coast
creative writing course at the Canberra as a mentor, editor and judge, especially University and Flinders University.
Institute of Technology. of the short story form. His latest book is A Voice of Reason:
Reflections on Australia.
Karen Hitchcock is a writer and doctor. Krissy Kneen is the author of Affection:
Her first collection of short stories, Little A Memoir of Love, Sex and Intimacy
White Slips, was published by Picador (Text Publishing). She works at Avid
in 2009. Reader Bookshop.
Patrick Holland’s writing takes up James Knight A bipolar sufferer,
Mungo
MacCallum
geographical and theological themes. whose latest of five books, A Theory of
His novel The Mary Smokes Boys Moments, recounts a year’s backpacking
(Transit Lounge) is about horse thieves adventure through South America and
and broken promises. Africa with his wife. Mungo MacCallum has worked as
Kate Howarth is an emerging writer. Ramona Koval is a journalist, writer a political commentator, writer and
Her first book 10 Hail Marys, a memoir (fiction and non-fiction) and broadcaster. broadcaster since 1965 and currently
in the tradition of Angela’s Ashes, is a She presents The Book Show on ABC writes for the Byron Shire Echo. A prolific
frank, funny and incredibly moving Radio National. author, his latest book is Poll Dancing.
Australian story of hope and survival. AJ Mackinnon is the author of The Well
Damien Leith was born in Ireland and
Rebecca James grew up in various became an Australian citizen in January at World’s End, and the bestselling The
towns in New South Wales. Her Young 2007. He is the winner of television’s Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow.
Adult novel Beautiful Malice was the Australian Idol 2006. Remember June is Simon Marnie stumbled into food
subject of an international bidding war his second novel. media after an accidental career in
that netted her a $1 million advance. Kathy Lette first achieved succes radio and television spanning more than
de scandale as a teenager with the 25 years. Currently Weekend Presenter
novel Puberty Blues. After several for 702 ABC Sydney and with Lifestyle
years as a newspaper columnist and Televisions “Food” Channel, Simon also
television sitcom writer, she wrote the judges for the Sydney Royal Agricultural
internationally-bestselling Girls Night Society’s Fine Food Awards.
Out, The Llama Parlour, Foetal Attraction,
John Keane Mad Cows, Altar Ego, Nip ‘n’ Tuck, and Victor Marsh After careers in TV and
Dead Sexy. Her latest is To Love, Honour theatre, Victor got his PhD at 62. He has
& Betray. taught meditation in a dozen countries
on behalf of his guru. Mr Isherwood
John Keane Born in Australia and Virginia Lloyd is a former book editor, Changes Trains is his first book.
educated at the Universities of Adelaide, a communications consultant to non-
Toronto and Cambridge, John Keane profit organisations, and the author Tony Martin Comedian Tony Martin is
was Professor of Politics at the University of The Young Widow’s Book of Home the author of Lolly Scramble and A Nest
of Westminster. In 2010 he takes up Improvement. of Occasionals, and the editor of humour
a Professorship at the University of website The Scriveners Fancy.
Sydney. Yvonne Louis, author of A Brush with
Mondrian, has been a teacher/ librarian Jack Marx is a Walkley Award winning
Fran Kelly has a reputation as a “tough but for over twenty years and is one of the journalist, blogger and author. His new
fair” interviewer – a reputation forged over founding members of KOALA (Kids Own book, Australian Tragic, was released in
years of interviewing politicians. She spent Australian Literature Awards). 2009.
17Biographies continued...
Susan Maushart Columnist, author Sally Neighbour is an award-winning Gretel Pinniger, dominatrix, fetishist,
and social commentator Dr Susan investigative journalist, author and clothes designer and artist is well-known
Maushart is a columnist for the Weekend leading Australian commentator on to many in Australia and beyond. She is
Australian Magazine. Her latest book is Islamic extremism and terrorism. the subject of a recent extraordinary
The Winter of our Disconnect. biography.
Linda Neil is an accomplished musician
William McInnes One of Australia’s and award-winning documentary Loani Prior lives on Queensland’s
most popular actors, William McInnes is producer with a PhD in Creative Writing. Sunshine Coast where her woolly
also a much loved writer. William’s fourth Her memoir, Learning How to Breathe, obsessions border on becoming a
book, The Making of Modern Australia (UQP, 2009) is a true story of love, family disorder. The Queen of the Tea Cosies
was released in July. and music. admits to having a knit change since
publishing her first book, Wild Tea
Susan Melhuish has worked in theatre, Luke Nguyen is the chef and owner
acting, directing & producing for over 20 Cosies in 2008.
of the award-winning Vietnamese
years. A senior drama teacher, Susan restaurant, Red Lantern, and author of Sian Prior has had twenty years
is also Director for Byron’s FourthWall the bestselling books, Secrets of the Red experience as a journalist and
Theatre. Lantern and The Songs of Sapa. In his broadcaster in radio, television, print and
Angela Meyer’s fiction, reviews, spare time, Luke hosts 13-day culinary online, specialising in reporting on the
articles and interviews have appeared discovery trips to Vietnam and is the arts and popular culture. She has been
widely. She is a former editor of television chef of a cooking series for a newspaper columnist, opinion writer,
Bookseller+Publisher and is well-known SBS Television, called Luke Nguyen’s theatre and opera critic and a book
online for her blog LiteraryMinded. Vietnam. reviewer.
O Thiam Chin is a Singaporean writer Nic Pullen Media lawyer and
whose stories have appeared in several commentator, Nic Pullen looks after
literary journals and anthologies. He many of Australia’s leading and
has also published two books of short independent book publishers. He also
stories. has fun advising authors, entertainers
and media personalities.
Kerry O’Brien is one of the most
Alex Miller prominent and respected names in
Australian journalism. He has won
numerous accolades, including the top
Tim Pye is an Australian writer, producer
and executive producer who has been
working in television drama and comedy
Alex Miller is the author of nine novels. award in journalism, the Gold Walkley. for over twenty years.
He has twice won the Miles Franklin Adam Ramanauskas was living
Literary Award and is an overall winner Alvin Pang Poet and editor Alvin Pang
was Singapore’s Young Artist of the Year every boy’s dream. At twenty-two he’d
of the Commonwealth Writers Prize. His been noted as a star of the future and
ninth novel, Lovesong, was received for Literature in 2005, and received
the Singapore Youth Award in 2007. had an AFL premiership under his belt.
with critical rapture and became an The discovery of a lump in Adam’s right
instant best seller when it was released He has appeared in major festivals
and publications around the world, shoulder led to the words no one wants
in November 2009. to hear: ‘You have cancer.’ Over the next
and co-edited Over There: Poems from
Reg Mombassa is a musician, painter, Singapore and Australia with John few years, his three battles with cancer
writer, poet, humanist, sage, dispenser Kinsella in 2008. required every ounce of courage he
of arcane wisdom, buggerer of sacred could summon.
cows and much loved national treasure.
Hannie Rayson has an established
Omar Musa is of Malaysian-Australian reputation for topical, complex dramas.
heritage. He has lived in London and Her plays include Hotel Sorrento, Life
California and spends most of his time After George, Inheritance, Two Brothers
Juanita Phillips
on the road, performing and writing. and The Swimming Club.
Ben Naparstek gained degrees in arts Matthew Reilly is the international
and law from the University of Melbourne. Juanita Phillips is best known as the bestselling author of seven novels. the
He returned to Melbourne to become editor ABC’s 7pm news presenter in NSW, but children’s book Hover Car Racer and
of The Monthly in May 2009, after eight one novella, Hell Island. His books are
she has also spent 25 years writing for
years of writing about books and ideas for published in over 20 languages, with
newspapers and magazines, and is the
more than 40 newspapers and magazines. worldwide sales approaching 4 million
author of a series of children’s books. copies.
In Conversation is his first book.
Her latest book is the autobiographical A
Pressure Cooker Saved my Life.
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