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Let’s get
Curious
Friday 10
Saturday 11
Sunday 12
August 2018
bendigowritersfestival.com.au
#BWF2018
PROUDLY PRESENTED BY
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Information
and tickets
PASSES TICKETED EVENTS Contacts
Festival passes provide access to Festival Prelude Dinner at Fortuna Rosemary Sorensen, director,
voxbendigo@gmail.com
pass-only day sessions in four Villa Thursday 9 August: $90
Capital Venues and Events
venues, plus pass-or-ticket day Feature Events General manager: David Lloyd
sessions in Ulumbarra Theatre. They $25 (concession $20) Marketing and business development coordinator:
do not include ticket-only events. David Stretch, d.stretch@bendigo.vic.gov.au
Quick Pick Series $15 (concession $12) Volunteer coordinator: Deborah Blake
Festival Three-Day Pass Ulumbarra Theatre Pass-or-Ticket Administration coordinator: Lorelle Henderson
Access to 59 pass-only sessions event $15 (concession $12) Business innovation and improvement
coordinator: Shelley Slade
plus 16 pass-or-ticket sessions FRIDAY WORKSHOPS Venue and event coordinator: Stephen Henderson
$110 (concession $88) $50 (concession $40) Festival production manager: Helen Morris
TONY TAN COOKING DEMO Saturday Box office team leader: Elizabeth Simpson
Friday Pass 11 August: $50 (no concession) Committee: Claire Flanagan-Smith,
Cr Rod Fyffe OAM, Glenn Harvey (Bendigo Tourism),
14 pass-only sessions plus GOOD TASTE TRAM Sunday 12 Peter Kennedy (Bendigo Weekly), Gina Pederick
6 pass-or-ticket sessions August: $65 (no concession) (La Trobe University)
Text Marks the Spot coordinator: Sarah Mayor Cox
$40 (concession $32)
HOW TO BOOK Communications officer: Cecile Shanahan
Saturday Pass Online at
Capital Venues and Events: (03) 5434 6100
With thanks to: Terrin Conley, Amelia Hinneberg,
25 pass-only sessions plus bendigowritersfestival.com.au Jenny Mitchell, Rachel Nightingale
6 pass-or-ticket sessions By phone: (03) 5434 6100 This program is correct at time of printing.
Events may change due to unforeseen
$65 (concession $52) In person at: The Capital, 50 View circumstances. Please check online for updates.
Sunday Pass Street, Bendigo. Box office open
Thanks
Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
20 pass-only sessions plus To our volunteers, to the many friends who encourage
us, to our sponsors and supporters, and to the staff
5 pass-or-ticket sessions at Capital Venues and Events, we say a very sincere
Please note: to ensure your seat for pass
thank-you.
$55 (concession $44) sessions, please arrive early as some events
in the smaller venues may reach capacity.
Acknowledgement of Country
Youth Pass Bendigo Writers Festival takes place on Dja Dja
Access for under-25s to 15 Wurrung and Taungurung Country, whose ancestors
and their descendants are the traditional owners.
designated “youth-friendly” We acknowledge their living culture and their
events across the weekend $25 unique role in the life of this region.
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Let’s get
Curious
End of winter. Time for renewal. And time once more for our warm and inviting Festival,
packed with events we hope will please, inspire and delight you.
Let’s get curious – about what it means to be human, about where we’ve been and where we would like to head now, about why stories
capture our imagination and who we should listen to, what we need to preserve and what to change.
Let’s fall in love all over again, with words, ideas, good talk and great conversation.
We start this year with a “prelude”: on Thursday 9 August, the gracious Fortuna Villa - a short drive from View Street - hosts our Festival
Prelude dinner.
Another innovation is our hybrid sessions on Friday. We’re opening up some of the events on the Text Marks the Spot schools program to
pass and ticket holders. It’s our way to acknowledge that literacy and the enjoyment of books and writing is for everyone, regardless of
age and situation.
We’re also responding to the feedback that tells us some people want just to dip into the program across the weekend. It’s very important
to us to make sure people with Festival Passes have excellent access to events, so we’ve created a ticket-or-pass series in the big
Ulumbarra Theatre, plus a Quick Pick series in the intimate Strategem Studio, for tickets only.
As always, it’s been an enormous privilege to plot this year’s program, trying to make sure there’s something for all tastes and interests.
It’s more than a gathering, it’s a festival. Let’s do it.
Rosemary Sorensen, director
From strength to strength – La Trobe University is proud to sponsor Bendigo
that’s the story for the City of Writers Festival for a seventh time this year.
Greater Bendigo and also for It is hard to imagine how the Festival can get bigger
its wonderful Writers Festival, and better each year, and yet it continues to play an
now in its seventh year. inspirational role in bringing together writers, readers
This year’s program, with its and thinkers to share the wonders of the written
focus on the enriching power of word with the citizens of Bendigo and beyond.
curiosity, welcomes a dazzling The way we discuss ideas and record events is as important as ever, and the
line-up of writers once again. We are especially proud Festival provides a dynamic intellectual setting to immerse ourselves in the
to welcome the Festival’s international guests to our concepts that matter.
beautiful city and hope they enjoy the warmth and
La Trobe University is delighted to be part of this superb event. I wish
hospitality which are so much a part of our identity.
Rosemary Sorensen, the City of Greater Bendigo and the La Trobe academics,
To all our visitors, from near and far, may your festival staff and students involved every success with the 2018 edition of this
be full of fun and inspiration. important Festival.
Cr Rod Fyffe OAM Professor John Dewar
Bendigo Writers Festival chair Vice-Chancellor, La Trobe University
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Feature
events
Thursday 9 August, 7-10pm, Fortuna Villa
Festival Prelude Dinner: Time Travel
Tom Griffiths and Rosalie Triolo in conversation
Fortuna Villa, once home to mining magnate George Lansell, is now a restored and gracious
venue, the setting for our Festival Prelude dinner event. You will be greeted with canapes
and wine in the ornate entrance hall, then on to dine in what was formerly the elegant
Music Room. Rosalie Triolo will introduce Tom Griffiths, for a conversation about writers
who have impressed and inspired him, and about new ways of writing history. This is a
special opportunity to enjoy the ambience of one of the finest colonial houses in Victoria
in the company of one of our most distinguished and interesting historians.
Tickets $90
Thursday 9 August, from 7pm, Capital Theatre
ABC Radio broadcasting LIVE at The Capital
Lindy Burns and David Astle
ABC Radio Melbourne and Victoria’s Evenings Program present the warm-up event that
gives the whole state an opportunity to listen in. On Festival eve, at the Capital Theatre,
presenters Lindy Burns and David Astle will host a bevy of talented writers from this
year’s Bendigo Writers Festival program. The atmosphere is warm and inviting, the
hosts charming and witty, and with all in readiness for a huge weekend of events,
the conversation is sure to be brilliant. To be part of the audience for this special live
broadcast, and for updates on guests, visit abc.net.au/centralvic
Free event
FRIDAY 10 AUGUST, 6.15PM-7.15PM, ULUMBARRA THEATRE
CREATIVE BENDIGO
David Astle, Marg O’Rourke, Marcus Westbury and panel
Bendigo has a strong reputation as a creative place, open to new ideas. As the City of
Greater Bendigo moves towards a new Arts and Creative Industries Strategy, David Astle
with Mayor Marg O’Rourke and Renew Newcastle founder Marcus Westbury host a panel
discussion about turning ideas into practice, about embedding positive and inspiring
values in the social fabric, and about how the cityscape itself can embody those values.
Free event: bookings essential
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Friday 10 August, 8pm-9.30pm, Ulumbarra Theatre
Festival Friday Night: Let’s Get Curious
Benjamin Law hosts Ann Cleeves, Gareth Evans,
Morris Gleitzman and Jenny Graves
It was actually “care and worry” that killed the cat in the original proverb, not curiosity.
So how come we now use it to stop people asking questions? Indefatigable questioner
Benjamin Law hosts devilishly clever crime writer Ann Cleeves, international relations
expert Gareth Evans, Australian Children’s Laureate Morris Gleitzman and PM’s Prize for
Science recipient, Distinguished Professor Jenny Graves, for a discussion about asking the
right questions, and whether curiosity can ever go too far.
Tickets $25 (concession $20)
Saturday 11 August, 7.30pm-9pm, Ulumbarra Theatre
A WOMAN’S PLACE
Lindy Burns hosts Timmah Ball, Nadia Jamal,
Sarah Sentilles and Tracey Spicer
In the home, at the Bar, on the footy field... and on the grand stage of Ulumbarra Theatre.
That’s a woman’s place in 2018, and to find out what that means for all of us, Lindy
Burns hosts Timmah Ball, Nadia Jamal, Sarah Sentilles and Tracey Spicer. What are their
memories about mothers and grandmothers? As children, who did they want to be when
they grew up? What do they want for the women of tomorrow?
Tickets $25 (concession $20)
Saturday 11 August, 8pm-9pm, Strategem Studio
SOMETHING DARK
Lemn Sissay
In this one-act one-man performance, Lemn Sissay tells his story. As a baby in England
in the 1960s he was given up by his Ethiopian mother, renamed Norman Greenwood and
nicknamed Chalky White throughout his turbulent childhood in care. When he discovered
his real name at the age of 18, he left the brutal suburbs of Lancashire for the bright lights
of Manchester where he became a celebrated performance poet. Aged 21 Lemn left for
Gambia in search of his mother and the truth about his father. This unique and powerful
monologue has been performed internationally to critical acclaim.
Tickets $25 (concession $20)
Sunday 12 August, 5.30pm-6.30pm, Capital Theatre
BRIDGE BURNING
Kitty Flanagan
One of Australia’s favourite entertainers, Kitty Flanagan uses her own life experiences
to provide honest and hilarious cautionary advice for us all. A fitting finale to Festival
2018, Kitty thumbs through the pages of her life, to offer up advice you didn’t even know
you needed.
Tickets $25 (concession $20)
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five festival launches and
themes exhibitions
WHIPSTICK
Friday 10 August, 3pm,
Festival Hub at The Capital
Good Country In April this year, five emerging writers
Celebrating our indigenous gathered in the historic Mechanics
Institute building at Eaglehawk, for a
history, culture and writing workshop conducted by Mark
the environment Brandi, author of the award-winning
crime novel, Wimmera. Their topic was RESPONDING LINES
“Whipstick”, and during the workshop An exhibition of photographic images
and in the weeks following, they by Darron Davies with “responding lines”
developed stories with Mark’s help. written by the students of the Dunolly
Bendigo publisher, Amy Doak, has region.
turned them into a small book, the first
Good Life ever story collection to come out of this
Saturday 11 August and
Food, home and garden, haunting landscape north of Bendigo. Sunday 12 August, 12pm-3pm,
health and wellbeing, Join Mark, Amy and the writers to Old Court House, Dunolly
celebrate the launch of Whipstick. Darron Davies has captured the eerie
life stories
stillness of abandoned goldfields sites.
Connecting them to the present day,
he asked local children in and around
Free event. No bookings required.
Dunolly to respond in poetry or prose, and
their words accompany the images in this
unique exhibition. Dunolly is a tiny town,
Hear This WISP an hour’s drive west of Bendigo, and its
Spoken word, performance, Saturday 11 August, 11.30am, heritage buildings have been lovingly
podcasting, community Festival Hub at The Capital restored by a dedicated committee.
Meet the artist: Darron Davies hosts
discussions and a Zana Fraillon’s new picture book, Wisp,
illustrated by Kate Greenaway Medal- a floor-talk on the Responding Lines
Festival debate exhibition, on Saturday 11 August 2pm.
winner Grahame Baker Smith, is a refugee
story of immense power and beauty. In
this very special first-release event, with
the kind assistance of Zana and Hachette Free event. No bookings required.
Australia, Bendigo’s children’s book
Writing Wrongs expert Sarah Mayor Cox will launch this
incredible tale of hope for freedom reborn. ILLUSTRATIONS FOR CHILDREN
Crime stories, ethics Free event. No bookings required. 7 August - 3 September,
in society, courage and
The Capital Foyer
hope for change
COLUMBINE’S TALE Children’s book illustrations by
Liz Duthie, including artwork from her
Sunday 12 August, 1pm, charming new picture book, Coming
Festival Hub at the Capital to a Cushion Concert, which was
Rachel Nightingale’s Tales of Tarya is a commissioned to celebrate The Capital’s
series set in a place of dreams, wonder concert series for pre-schoolers.
and magic, about the gift of storytelling
Youth-friendly and the mystery of creativity. Following
on from the first in the series, Harlequin’s Love Letters to Dja Dja
Talking about words by, Riddle, comes a mesmerising blend of Wurrung Country
with and for young people theatrical illusion and intrigue, characters A book of selected letters written
who leap off the page and invite you to by central Victorians, celebrating
follow to a destination both wonderful and the Regional Centre for Culture 2018.
dangerous. Join Rachel and Kelly Gardiner Launched Wednesday 8 August, 6.30pm,
to celebrate the launch of Columbine’s Tale. Bendigo Bank Theatre at The Capital.
Free event. No bookings required. All welcome.
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Quick
picks
Dip in to the Festival 2.30pm-3.30pm 11.30am-12.15pm
program or ADD AN EVENT Kalangadoo AFTER SUDAN
TO YOUR FESTIVAL PASS WITH Bryan Dawe Majok Tulba with
THIS TICKET-ONLY QUICK PICK Roly and Sonya Parks were created by Calla Wahlquist
Bryan and Jody Seidel - who will make Majok Tulba is a South Sudanese refugee.
SERIES In the Strategem a guest appearance as Bryan revisits the His stories remember the paradise that his
Studio at Ulumbarra. early days, takes us back to the fabulous country was before the soldiers came - and
European tour, and reads a selection of the they tell the “truth about what shapes
glorious Letters from Kalangadoo. us all as human beings”. He talks to Calla
Quick Picks session tickets Wahlquist about his work with refugees
$15 (concession $12) each 4.15pm-5.15pm and his new novel, When Elephants Fight.
MIDAWARR/HARVEST
John Wolseley 1pm-1.45pm
Saturday 11 August Over the years artist John Wolseley BUTTERFLY ON A PIN
10am-11am has developed a deep friendship with
Alannah Hill with
AN URBAN FOOD MANIFESTO Yol u elder, the artist Mulkun Wirrpanda.
Their shared interest in foraging and food Suzanne Donisthorpe
Michael Ableman with plants evolved into Midawarr/Harvest. “You’ll never amount to anything,” Alannah
Prue Mansfield John Wolseley talks about this unique Hill’s mother told her. Suzanne Donisthorpe
Vancouver street-food pioneer Michael and ground-breaking collaboration. talks to this feisty survivor, about rock-
Ableman in conversation with Prue bottom despair and resilient recovery, about
Mansfield about how he brings sustenance what is both vexing and precious about her
and hope to the urban frontier. 6pm-7pm personal and business relationships, about
Supported by the City of Greater Bendigo’s FIFTH ESTATE – WHITEWASH feathers, frills and the search for happiness.
Regional Sustainable Development Unit. Carey Gillam with Sally Warhaft
This is the book Monsanto doesn’t want you
to read. American journalist Carey Gillam
2.15pm-3pm
11.30am-12.15pm researched the effects of the weedkiller SHARING TABLE
WAKE-UP CALL Roundup, shocked by a corporate power Chloe Shorten with
that put profit before public safety. She talks Kon Karapanagiotidis
Helen Caldicott with to Sally Warhaft about the story behind her Chloe Shorten’s husband Bill says her cooking
Sharon Kemp important book, Whitewash. is “soooo good!”. She talks to avid cook Kon
Passionate campaigner against nuclear Presented in partnership with the Wheeler Karapanagiotidis about The Secret Ingredient
energy, Dr Helen Caldicott talks with Sharon Centre. in making meals to share and care.
Kemp about what first drew her to the anti-
nuclear cause, the personal story behind
the headlines and how she still maintains 3.30pm-4.15pm
hope for the future. DARK EMU REVISITED
Sunday 12 August Bruce Pascoe and Tony Birch
1pm-1.45pm 10am-11am Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu began challenging
conversations about the way Aboriginal
THE QUALITIES OF A HERO EDIBLE BENDIGO
people lived before colonisation. With Tony
John Flanagan with Panel discussion Birch, Pascoe will revisit Dark Emu and ask:
Hosted by Prue Mansfield from Access What does challenging the past mean for
Sarah Mayor Cox Australia, a panel including City Planner the present?
Internationally-adored creator of Ranger’s Trevor Budge, Councillor Jennifer Alden,
Presented in partnership with the Wheeler
Apprentice John Flanagan talks to Sarah restaurateur Sonia Anthony and Meg
Centre.
Mayor Cox about the worlds he creates, and Caffin from Bendigo Sustainability Group,
a life spent conjuring up spectacular books will explore the idea of how Bendigo can
that grip readers from the first page. evolve into a city of gastronomy.
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workshops
and demos
Friday 10 August, Saturday 11 August,
4pm-7pm, 1pm-4pm, BSSC Training
Trades Hall Meeting Room Kitchen at Ulumbarra
WORKSHOP: TONY TAN COOKING
POETRY STARTER DEMONSTRATION
Ali Alizadeh Tony Tan
To write poetry is easy. To write it well is What are the secrets behind delicious
perhaps the most difficult, challenging Chinese cooking? There’s no one in the
and revered act of communication we world better to ask than Tony Tan, whose
can achieve. In this workshop, poet love and knowledge of Hong Kong cuisine
and teacher Ali Alizadeh asks you to is unsurpassed. In the training kitchen
consider form and genre in poetry, and at Ulumbarra Theatre, master chef Tony
how a poem is different to other forms Tan presents a cooking demonstration
of writing. You’ll read contemporary of dishes from his superb new book,
Australian poetry, in order to ask, what including wontons with chilli oil,
does a poem achieve and how? Ali will stir-fried gai lan and mango pudding.
talk about how to begin and complete Please note: this is a demonstration
writing a poem. Participants will be session, with tastings of the dishes
provided with session notes prior to the prepared, not full serves. This session
workshop and you may bring samples is not suitable for people with special
of your writing for discussion. dietary requirements, including vegan/
$50 (concession $40) Max 30 participants vegetarian or gluten intolerance.
This venue is not wheelchair accessible: $50 (no concession) Max 30 participants
if you require assistance, please notify
box office when you book.
Sunday 12 August,
12.30pm-2.30pm
Friday 10 August, THE GOOD TASTE TRAM
9.30am-12.30pm,
Nick and Sonia Anthony
Trades Hall Meeting Room
Food Fossickers and Bendigo Tourism
WORKSHOP: invite you to travel with Masons of
CRIME STARTER Bendigo’s acclaimed foodie couple, Nick
and Sonia Anthony, on one of Bendigo’s
Andew Nette heritage tram fleet. Nick will serve up a
If you’re keen to start a crime novel or are taster menu featuring the best of regional
part way through your first manuscript produce, along with regional wines and
and need help to finish, this interactive Sonia’s informative commentary about
course is ideal for you. Combining the who, how and where of central
theory with practical writing exercises, Victoria’s food culture.
Andrew shows you the elements of a Departs from the Alexandra Fountain
thrilling crime read. The workshop will tram stop on Pall Mall,
touch on the history of crime fiction, $65 (no concession)
explore the rules of the genre (and
how to break them), and consider the
essential ingredients in crime fiction: SAM THE STORY TRAM
premise, character, plot and pace. It Storyteller Narelle Stone hosts pre-
will also provide tips on how to push schoolers and their carers on this
through blockages and problem passages. decorated Story Tram, leaving from the
Designed for early and emerging writers. tram depot and heading to Central Deborah
$50 (concession $40) Max 30 participants Mine for an hour of stories and fun.
This venue is not wheelchair accessible: Departs 10am daily, August 2-9.
if you require assistance, please notify Free but bookings essential:
box office when you book. The Capital box office (03) 5434 6100
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SHARE
FAIR
Explore Bendigo
Sunday 12 August,
11am-2pm, Trades Hall
This year at Bendigo Writers Festival,
we’re partnering with the Small Press
Network, to create a place to meet writers
and publishers from the vibrant and
diverse small publishing sector. There
will be displays and information, as
well as author talks and Q&As, including
writer and academic Emmett Stinson from
Deakin University, talking about why Want to experience more of Bendigo’s
small presses are dominating literary cultural scene? Here are some other special
awards. events to help plan your weekend.
You can also swap a book or two at the
MYURAN SUKUMARAN
Share Fair Indigenous Literacy Foundation
Big Book Swap, and help that wonderful Exhibition floor talks
organisation raise funds. Saturday 11 August and
There will be displays of information Sunday 12 August, 12.30pm-
to browse, and you may also have the
opportunity to meet people from local
1pm, Bendigo Art Gallery
organisations doing great work in the Another Day in Paradise presents the
creative community. work Myuran Sukumaran produced
while incarcerated in Bali’s Kerobokan
You can “Consult an Expert” to get you
Prison, Denpasar and during the final
started on that writing project you’ve
72 hours of his life. For Myuran, painting
been thinking about: details about that
was redemptive.
will be available in July, so check online
for updates. Free
Image Credit: Myuran Sukumaran,
Publishers involved include White
Self-Portrait, Time is Ticking (detail)
Crane Press, Kids’ Own Publishing,
MidnightSun, Wombat Books/Rhiza Press,
Spineless Wonders, Miscellaneous Press, BENDIGO COMMUNITY
Threekookaburras, and Express Media FARMERS MARKET
(Voiceworks magazine).
Saturday 11 August, 9am-1pm,
In partnership with the
Small Press Network
Sidney Myer Place
www.smallpressnetwork.com.au Connect with real food and those who
grow it at this bustling, friendly market
in the heart of Bendigo. A short walk
across Rosalind Park from the festival
venues in View Street.
BENDIGO VISITOR CENTRE
Every day, 9am-5pm,
51-67 Pall Mall
Built in 1887, the former Bendigo Post
Office building is now home to Bendigo
Visitor Centre, which includes
the Living Arts Space and Post Office
Use #explorebendigo to join the Gallery. The Living Arts Space showcases
work by the region’s artists. The Post
conversation on social media Office Gallery tells the story of Bendigo’s
history. Its current exhibition is
www.bendigotourism.com Bankrolling Bendigo: Building a City.
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Friday
10 august
9.30am-10.30am 10.45am-11.30am 12.15pm-1pm
LET’S GET CURIOUS: SCHOOLS OPENING JUDGING INKY BIG WORDS
Ulumbarra This year’s State Library Victoria Inky Following the announcement of the Lemn Sissay with Dan Bendrups
Inky Awards shortlist, teen judges talk
Theatre Awards for youth literature shortlist is
announced at the opening event of the about how they went about choosing
Discovering poetry when he was a boy
saved UK performer Lemn Sissay’s life. Using
Text Marks the Spot schools program at their favourites. his poems in big, bold ways, led him to a
PASS OR Bendigo Writers Festival. Festival Pass, Friday Pass, Youth Pass distinguished career. He talks to Dan Bendrups
TICKET Festival Pass, Friday Pass, Youth Pass or ticket $15 (concession $12): session about why poetry should be everywhere.
or ticket $15 (concession $12): session available to school groups
Festival Pass, Friday Pass, Youth Pass
available to school groups or ticket $15 (concession $12): session
available to school groups
CAPITAL
THEATRE
PASS
BENDIGO 1.30pm-2.15pm
FREE FROM ANXIETY
BANK David McRae
THEATRE AT In this workshop-style session, therapist
THE CAPITAL David McRae talks about his book, Freedom
from Stress and Anxiety, introducing recovery
strategies through a 12-piece “jigsaw” of
PASS health and wellbeing.
Festival Pass or Friday Pass
1.30pm-2.15pm
THE RISE AND RISE OF PODCAST
ENGINE Kelly Gardiner and Adele Walsh
Let’s get ROOM
Curious
with Miffy Farquharson
AT OLD FIRE Adele Walsh and Kelly Gardiner host the
STATION Unladylike pocast, sharing ideas that might
not be heard in the mainstream. Miffy
Farquharson finds out where it started
and their advice for wannabe podcasters.
Friday 10 August, 9.30am-3pm PASS Festival Pass, Friday Pass or Youth Pass:
session available to school groups (limited)
This year’s free Festival schools program includes workshops with Katrina
Nannestad and Belinda Murrell, Susan Green’s Guide to Good Books, best-
selling novelists Kate Forsyth and John Flanagan, picture-book creators
Andrew Hansen and Jessica Roberts, debut young author Jay Carmichael,
the ABC Heywire team and school group tours of the Myuran
Sukumaran exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery.
La Trobe Art
Festival events on Friday in Ulumbarra Theatre – including INSTITUTE ON
Lemn Sissay, Hyeonseo Lee and Zana Fraillon – are also
available for school groups. VIEW STREET
The full Text Marks the Spot program for schools is online at
bendigowritersfestival.com.au PASS
For information and bookings:
contact The Capital box office on (03) 5434 6100.
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1.30pm-2.15pm 3.15pm-4.15pm 4.45pm-5.45pm
GROWING UP POST-TRUTH ART AS REDEMPTION RAW WIND OF THE NEW WORLD
Zana Fraillon and Hyeonseo Lee with Jo Lampert Sarah Sentilles with Tansy Curtin Matt Haig with Claire Nichols
For many young people, the world is now an alien In Draw Your Weapons, Sarah Sentilles writes: Matt Haig’s writing sets a pounding pace,
place. Jo Lampert asks writers Hyeonseo Lee and “Behold, we are making a new thing.” That thought thumping with energy and optimism. His best-
Zana Fraillon what the idea “post-truth” means for sustained Myuran Sukumaran in his final months, selling Reasons to Stay Alive is the true story
them and particularly for young refugees who are awaiting execution in an Indonesian jail and learning about conquering depression. He talks with
looking for ways to start a new life. to paint. Tansy Curtin, curatorial manager at Bendigo Claire Nichols about writing books to counter
Festival Pass, Friday Pass, Youth Pass or ticket $15 Art Gallery, talks with Sarah about art as redemption. the “raw wind of the new world”.
(concession $12): session available to school groups Festival Pass, Friday Pass or ticket $15 (concession $12) Festival Pass, Friday Pass or ticket $15 (concession $12)
2.45pm-3.45pm 4.30pm-5.30pm 6pm-7pm
A FAIR AND TRUTHFUL RELATIONSHIP MY FAIR LADY CONFRONTING POWER
Julie Andrews hosts Bain Attwood, Beatrice Alba hosts Santilla Chingaipe, Sian Gard hosts Helen Caldicott,
Tom Griffiths and Henry Reynolds Kon Karapanagiotidis and Emily Maguire Carey Gillam and Drew Rooke
In the wake of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, The #MeToo movement has fundamentally Taking on corporate and government power is ever
four historians come together for a timely discussion changed gender relations - or has it? Beatrice more complicated as controls of information tighten
about truth and history. How might we best come to Alba leads the discussion about what has in response to terrorism and the use of social media
terms with the past? changed and what still needs to change. confuses truth and opinion. What does it require
Festival Pass or Friday Pass Festival Pass or Friday Pass to confront powers?. How can writers protect both
themselves and their sources? Is there a price to pay?
Festival Pass or Friday Pass
2.45pm-3.30pm 4.15pm-5pm 5.30pm-6.30pm
SCRUBLANDS WHEN ELEPHANTS FIGHT NURTURING YIDDISH
Chris Hammer with Suzanne Donisthorpe Majok Tulba with Miffy Farquharson Bente Kahan with Arnold Zable
Chris Hammer’s novel pits a reporter’s need for Majok Tulba’s long-awaited second novel, Norwegian actor and singer, Bente Kahan
objective analysis against a small town threaded When Elephants Fight, takes us into the refugee established a foundation to restore the White Stork
with secrets and lies. He talks to Suzanne camps. Miffy Farquharson talks to Majok about Synagogue in Poland and create a centre for Jewish
Donisthorpe about his brilliant debut thriller, resilience and survival - and about his own journey Culture and Education there. She talks with author
Scrublands. to writing stories that witness the horrors of history. Arnold Zable about the poetry, songs and stories
Festival Pass or Friday Pass Festival Pass or Friday Pass that have inspired her.
Festival Pass or Friday Pass
2.45pm-3.30pm 4.15pm-5pm 5.30pm-7pm
THE GARRET PODCASTER DIY PUBLISHING FESTIVAL DEBATE: YOU CAN JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS GENRE
Astrid Edwards with Tamara Marwood Amy Doak, Mira Schlosberg and Blaise van Hecke Host Jonathan Ridnell
Astrid Edwards is one of the creators of The with Deanne Sheldon-Collins We’ve lined up a panel of genre writers and experts
Garret podcast. She talks with Bendigo creative A lot has changed in publishing since the and asked them to take sides in this celebration
producer Tamara Marwood about developing paperback revolution. How will print-on-demand, of the popularity and power of the best genre writing.
The Garret and why this accessible form of the internet and readers’ insatiable curiosity The For-team: Jess Anastasi, Andrew Nette, Rachel
writing-related discussion has become so popular. influence the future of books and writing? Nightingale. The Against-team: Mark Brandi, Peter
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2.45pm-3.30pm 4.15pm-5pm 5.30pm-7pm
AN ACTIVIST LIFE FOOD FOR THOUGHT WRITE STUFF PRESENTS
Christine Milne with Meg Caffin Michael Ableman with Jennifer Alden Spoken word with Em Burgess-Gilchrist
In her memoir, Christine Milne starts with 18 objects, We can’t truly address social issues without and Simon Wooldridge
ordinary things that have momentous significance providing access to meaningful work, good food, Something wonderful happens when people gather
for her. Meg Caffin talks to Christine about the and a sense of purpose and belonging. Michael to share stories, encouraging each other to stand up
decisions she’s made, what it means to be a woman Ableman talks to Jennifer Alden about his activism, and speak out. Em and Simon bring their writers-and-
in politics and the big issues she is still fighting for. writing, photography, and the inspiration for his readers gathering to the festival with experienced
Festival Pass or Friday Pass Sole Food Street Farms. readings alongside brand new work, and open mic
Festival Pass or Friday Pass at the conclusion. To be a Write Stuff reader, contact
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10am-11am 11.30am-12.30pm 1.15pm-2.15pm
MAGIC IS FOR REAL STORIES MAKE US GREEN CITY
Kate Forsyth and Angela Slatter Morris Gleitzman with Fiona Parker Tim Entwisle hosts Michael Ableman,
Ulumbarra with Sarah Mayor Cox Morris Gleitzman says we’ve always needed Tess Robinson and Byron Smith
From backyards to public parks, from
Theatre When it comes to blending action, romance,
mystery and that spice of magic to be found
stories, but never more urgently than now.
He wants his role as Australian Children’s feeding a family to feeding a community,
in the fairytale tradition, these two writers Laureate to help curious and hopeful young from horticulture to agriculture, the future
PASS OR are top shelf. Sarah Mayor Cox talks to Kate Australians confront the daunting prospect of food sustainability may well be in cities.
TICKET Forsyth and Angela Slatter about creating of the future. He talks with Fiona Parker. Tim Entwisle is joined by Michael Ableman
imaginative worlds. and the urban garden duo, Byron Smith and
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Tess Robinson, to talk about greening cities
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practically.
or ticket $15 (concession $12)
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10am-11am 11.30am-12.30pm 1.15pm-2.15pm
WHAT MAKES A MAN? CROSSING BORDERS INCORRIGIBLE OPTIMIST
capital Cordelia Fine with Paul Barclay Hyeonseo Lee with Nick Bisley Gareth Evans with Claire Flanagan-Smith
Are men from Mars and women from Hyeonseo Lee’s dangerous journey out Politics has changed fast since Gareth Evans
Theatre Venus? What’s the role of biology in ‘boy of North Korea captured the attention of was an influential foreign minister in the
toys’ and the ‘pink aisle’ for girls? Is the millions. Now, living in South Korea, she Hawke-Keating ministries. But he remains
continuing power imbalance natural? works to raise awareness of the plight hopeful and even optimistic. He talks to
PASS Common assumptions are cut to shreds of North Korean refugees. She talks with Claire Flanagan-Smith about activism,
by Cordelia Fine. With Paul Barclay, she Nick Bisley about human rights and reform and idealism, and about whether he
unpacks gendered biases, and replaces refugees, and about what recent political was ever in danger of losing his sense of
them with real science. developments might mean for her people. humour.
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10am-11am 11.30am-12.30pm 1.15pm-2.15pm
BENDIGO WRITING FOR CURIOUS KIDS WALK BACK OVER LANDCARE
BANK Dana Twycross hosts Zana Fraillon,
Samantha Grover and Belinda Murrell
Timmah Ball, Jeanine Leane
and Ellen van Neerven
Tony Birch and Christine Milne
with Karen Corr
THEATRE AT What’s that? How does it work? Who made Jeanine Leane’s collection of poetry, Walk What are the connections between
THE CAPITAL that happen? Are we there yet? Thank
goodness there are books to help answer
Back Over, is an invitation to listen to the landcare and the social and spiritual
past, to walk back over it, to “see what you wellbeing of humanity? Karen Corr talks
questions from curious kids. A conversation missed the first time”. Timmah Ball talks with Christine Milne and Tony Birch about
about the curiosity that drives both writer with Jeanine and fellow poet Ellen van their own connections to land, and how to
PASS and reader. Festival Pass or Saturday Pass Neerven, about the “act of remembering” better understand our relationship to our
that is writing poetry. environment.
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ON EDGE THE BEARER OF THE TALE SECRETS, LIES AND DARK DEEDS
ENGINE Michael Brissenden and Christian White Ben Doherty and Sarah Krasnostein with Michael Robotham with Cecile Shanahan
ROOM AT OLD with David Astle Leo D’Angelo Fisher Clean prose and whipcrack pacing - that’s
FIRE STATION Disturbing, but familiar. That’s Michael
Brissenden’s foray into thriller fiction.
How much responsibility does a writer have
towards the people, places and events that
the novels of Michael Robotham. With a
brand new thriller to add to his stack of
Christian White cut his teeth on true crime inspired the book? Leo D’Angelo Fisher asks international bestsellers, Michael Robotham
but his goal is edgy, disconcerting novels. Sarah Krasnostein and Ben Doherty about joins Cecile Shanahan to talk about The
PASS David Astle hosts a discussion about writing being the “bearer of the tale”, and how they Other Wife.
that sets out to put readers on edge. negotiated with themselves, their subjects Festival Pass or Saturday Pass
Festival Pass or Saturday Pass and the reader, to write their books.
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La Trobe PULP FICTION DEEP TIME ON A MISSION
Art Andrew Nette with John Richards Billy Griffiths with Robert Stephenson Pam Ahern with Matt Ruby
Institute on Andrew Nette is a fan and a scholar of the History is elusive. Ways of thinking that Pam Ahern named her sanctuary for
View Street now almost forgotten genre of pulp fiction.
He talks to John Richards about girl gangs
seem rational and natural turn out to be
learned and partial. Billy Griffiths talks to
rescued farm animals Edgar’s Mission in
honour of the pig who started it all. Matt
and biker boys, pulp’s lost history and the Robert Stephenson about the reassertion of Ruby talks to Pam about her mission to
lure of out-of-bounds literature. Aboriginal identity and revelations of deep rescue animals from suffering and about
PASS time history - a story that changes the way how it’s possible to “cook with kindness”
Festival Pass or Saturday Pass we think about everything. and still eat wonderfully well.
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2.45pm-3.45pm 4.15pm-5.15pm 6pm-7pm
DEFENDING PEACE HISTORY AND TRUTH SURVIVING WORDS
Tim Costello and Sarah Sentilles Tom Griffiths and Alex Miller Bente Kahan
with Sarah Macdonald According to Alex Miller, “My allegiance is to the Singer Bente Kahan presents songs and poetry
How to live in the face of so much suffering? How truth of dreams not to the interpretation of factual written in Yiddish German Polish by writers
to respond to violence that feels like it can’t be reality”. According to historian Tom Griffiths, Mordechai Gebirtig, Ilse Weber and Tadeusz
stopped? These are the questions Sarah Sentilles “History doesn’t own truth, and fiction doesn’t own Różewicz. Accompanying herself on guitar,
asks, and Tim Costello answers, “with faith and hope”. imagination, but … it is hard to draw the line.” Join Bente’s stirring musical interpretations of these
Sarah Macdonald hosts a conversation about where these two writers as they continue a conversation unforgettable words - from the ghetto, Auschwitz
inspiration can be found to transform the world. they have valued over many years, about whether and the underground resistance - are hauntingly
Festival Pass, Saturday Pass or ticket $15 truth changes over time. beautiful.
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2.45pm-3.45pm 4.15pm-5.15pm 6pm-7pm
THIS WHISPERING IN OUR HEARTS NOTES ON A NERVOUS PLANET CASE CLOSED
Henry Reynolds with Jennifer Jones Matt Haig with Brigid Delaney Ann Cleeves with Penelope Curtin
Henry Reynolds’ writing about Aboriginal history The world is messing with our minds. Rates of stress Ann Cleeves created the shrewd and uncompromising
across many decades offers us new ways to think and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is Vera Stanhope and the empathetic, thoughtful Jimmy
about history and why it matters. To celebrate a new creating fast and nervous lives. Matt Haig talks to Perez. Penelope Curtin talks to this best-selling, award-
edition of This Whispering in Our Hearts, Jennifer Brigid Delaney about how to stay sane on a planet winning author, about her extraordinary career, and
Jones hosts a conversation with one of our most that makes us mad. about Wild Fire, the final book in the Shetland series.
distinguished and influential writers. Festival Pass or Saturday Pass Festival Pass or Saturday Pass
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2.45pm-3.45pm 4.15pm-5.15pm 6pm-7pm
DEAD RIGHT NOT SUCH A BAD PLACE TO GROW UP THE POWER OF HOPE
Richard Denniss with Rebecca Huntley Paddy O’Reilly hosts Jay Carmichael, Kon Karapanagiotidis with Chris Kelly
Going private was going to be the cure to all social Sofie Laguna and Ellen van Neerven Kon Karapanagiotidis believes that “hope is only
ills. A couple of devastating Royal Commissions Australian fiction was once all about cities. exhausted if we forsake ourselves”. Chris Kelly
have sliced open the bubble of faith in corporate Now country towns are alive with stories, where talks to this inspirational leader about the life he
regulation and it’s not pretty. Richard Denniss talks landscape is as much a character as those who has led, the moments along the way that gave
to Rebecca Huntley about how neoliberalism has live there. Paddy O’Reilly talks with three novelists him courage, and how to face the world with
changed the economy and culture – and how to about coming of age in out-of-the-way places. compassion, kindness and hope.
limit the damage. Festival Pass, Saturday Pass or Youth Pass Festival Pass or Saturday Pass
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SAND, MAGIC, MUMMIES, SMOOTHIES BOOK NINJAS LOST CAUSE IS THERE ANY SUCH THING AS NON-
Andrew Hansen and Jessica Roberts Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus Jeff Sparrow with Cate Kennedy FICTION?
with Astrid Edwards with Jenny Mitchell For Jeff Sparrow, writing about Paul Tim Dunlop hosts Santilla Chingaipe,
Jessica Roberts and Andrew Hansen Robeson meant telling a “ghost story”. Drew Rooke and Robert Skinner
Ali and Michelle are behind the
have created a new madcap kids’ book Cate Kennedy talks to Jeff about why
Books on the Rail reading initiative Speedy journalism has changed long-
about animal mummies and weird he chose to write about this complex,
beards. Astrid Edwards finds out how in Melbourne. They co-wrote a funny, form non-fiction. Should writers talk
tragic American singer, and what his
this creative duo worked together on romantic contemporary novel that asks about themselves? What does this
story tells us about commitment and
the first of their character-inspired the question, can you love someone mean for reportage? Tim Dunlop
ideology.
series and what they learned about who doesn’t share your reading tastes? hosts a conversation that asks:
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writing for kids along the way. Festival Pass, Saturday Pass or Youth can we trust what we read?
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DEATH, DECAY, DISASTER – A SURVIVAL STORY WOMAN OF WOOL A COMPLICATED AUSTRALIAN
Sarah Krasnostein with Gemma Rayner Michelle Scott Tucker with Ruth Ford Bruce Pascoe with Claire Flanagan-Smith
Sarah Krasnostein’s award-winning book about If history were fair, Elizabeth Macarthur would Bruce Pascoe argues for a more nuanced way
Sandra Pankhurst is unlike any other biography ever be the face on the $2 note, instead of her feckless of looking at pre-colonial Aboriginal history.
written. She talks with Gemma Rayner about why husband John. Michelle talks to Ruth Ford about Claire Flanagan-Smith talks with the storyteller
she decided to tell the story and how she gradually her biography of the woman who established who calls himself a typical “complicated
built this portrait of the “trauma cleaner”. Australia’s wool industry. Australian”.
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12 august
10am-10.45pm 11.15am-12.15pm
HONG KONG FOOD CITY CRIME GANG
Ulumbarra Tony Tan with Kath Bolitho Robert Gott hosts Mark Brandi, Ann Cleeves,
Theatre Tony Tan is in love with Hong Kong food - Susi Fox and Michael Robotham
Cantonese, Chiu Chow, Sichuan, Jing Chai. What do you call a gathering of crime writers?
PASS OR He talks with Kath Bolitho about his new A posse? A cabal? Or maybe, like crows, their
TICKET compendium of Hong Kong cooking and collective title is a murder. Robert Gott finds out,
the city that inspired it. when he hosts a conversation about character
Festival Pass, Sunday Pass or ticket $15 assassinations and plot revelations.
(concession $12) Festival Pass, Sunday Pass or ticket $15
(concession $12)
10am-11am 11.30am-12.30pm
POWER IN WORDS THE MESSAGE OF FOOD
CAPITAL Lemn Sissay with Paul Barclay Bryley Savage hosts Pam Ahern,
Theatre Paul Barclay talks to Lemn Sissay about his
battle to confront the dehumanising cruelty
Chloe Shorten and Spiri Tsintziras
Breaking bread - it’s a term we use to
that destroyed his childhood, and about suggest trust, friendship and the importance
PASS what came next – finding the redemptive of sharing. A conversation about what
power of words. sharing food means, favourite dishes and
Festival Pass, Sunday Pass or Youth Pass the messages that are served up with them.
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Bendigo 10am-11am 11.30am-12.15pm
Bank A STOLEN SEASON RESTORATION
Rodney Hall with Sarah L’Estrange Angela Slatter with Rachel Nightingale
Theatre at Rodney Hall’s writing is not easy to Where does strange come from? What does
The Capital categorise or describe. Sarah L’Estrange it mean to speculate in fiction? How does a
talks to one of our most distinguished writer put the light into a dark tale? Rachel
and powerful writers about his new novel, Nightingale talks with Angela Slatter about
PASS A Stolen Season. working between worlds.
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10am-10.45am 11.15am-12pm
Engine IRONBARK WILD WORDS
Room at Old Jay Carmichael with Em Burgess-Gilchrist Simon Wooldridge hosts Timmah Ball,
Azja Kulpinska and Robert Skinner
Fire Station The ironbark is dark, rough and beautiful,
but resistant too. Em Burgess talks to Jay Behind new publishing enterprises, there
about his clever, atmospheric debut novel is discipline, devotion, and a fair dose of
set in central Victoria. anarchic fun. How do you turn ideas into
PASS
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10am-10.45am 11.15am-12pm
BENDIGO’S DRAGONS ONE LAST SPIN
La Trobe Leigh McKinnon with Penny Davies Drew Rooke with Jenny Valentish
Art The Golden Dragon Museum is home to How did Australia become such a “pokie
Institute on much-loved ceremonial dragons, including nation”? And what is it about poker
View Street the magnificent Sun Loong. Leigh McKinnon
talks with Penny Davies about the cultural
machines that makes this form of gambling
so addictive? Drew Rooke talks to Jenny
centre’s treasures. Festival Pass or Sunday Valentish about the personal and social
PASS Pass costs of “one last spin”.
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1pm-1.45pm 2.15pm-3.15pm 3.45pm-4.45pm
LOVE STORY CREATIVE PARTNERS THE FULL CATASTROPHE
Alex Miller with Fiona Parker David Astle hosts Tess Robinson, Byron Smith, Rebecca Huntley and Sarah Macdonald host
At the start of his novel, The Passage of Love, Andrew Hansen, Jessica Roberts, Ali Berg and Santilla Chingaipe, Matt Haig, Jeff Sparrow
Alex Miller’s fictional self asks: “What was it that Michelle Kalus and Jenny Valentish
I had found over the horizon line of nothingness? Writing a book - together. Brilliant way to share A live show about when life was so bad it was
...grace or damnation?” Fiona Parker talks with ideas? Or dangerous? David Astle meets three funny. Hosts Sarah Macdonald and Rebecca Huntley
this celebrated writer about his life and work. creative partnerships to find out. invite four brave writers to share their memories of
Festival Pass, Sunday Pass or Ticket $15 Festival Pass, Sunday Pass, Youth Pass incidents so excruciating you have to laugh.
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1.15pm-2.15pm 2.45PM-3.30PM 4PM-4.45PM
HOW TO MAKE A CITIZEN LAUGHTER AS AN ETHICAL CHOICE THE NOMADIC MIND
Julie Rudner hosts Richard Denniss, Charlotte Wood Robyn Davidson
Carey Gillam and Billy Griffiths In this Festival address, Charlotte Wood examines What do we lose, when we lose nomadic ways of
If Aristotle was right, citizens will be both happy how infusing a literary work with laughter can seeing the world? In this Regional Centre for Culture
and virtuous if they actively participate in politics. crack open our beliefs, make us brave and show us Festival address, Robyn Davidson talks about
A conversation about people-power, corporate and that optimism is a moral imperative. travelling and taking risks, about nomadism as
government accountability and the role of citizen- Festival Pass or Sunday Pass both personal choice and investigation of otherness.
groups. Festival Pass or Sunday Pass
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1pm-1.45pm 2.15pm-3.15pm 3.45pm-4.45pm
ON BORROWED TIME WEALTH, POWER AND LUCK THERE’S A BOOK IN THAT
Robert Manne with Jeff Sparrow Stuart Kells Lisa Dempster hosts Michael Brissenden,
Robert Manne’s writing has been reinvigorated and The power of the Big Four global accounting firms Chris Hammer and Spiri Tsintziras
his love of life intensified, despite his sharpened is profound - not just in finance and investment, Once a book is written and published, is all the slog
understanding that we are all living on “borrowed but for governments, corporations and society. forgotten? Lisa Dempster talks to three writers about
time”. Robert talks with Jeff Sparrow about the Is that changing? Are we really on the cusp of the moment they thought, “there’s a book in that”,
importance of personal and social values. a new era of transparency? and what happened next.
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12.30pm-1.15pm 2pm-3Pm 3.30PM-4.30PM
SPEAK OUT CHILD’S PLAY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Keep it in the day. Even if it’s night. Even if it’s Susi Fox and Christian White with Adam Ford Sofie Laguna and Emily Maguire
heavy. Keep it light. Spoken word poets, Jeanine A missing child: you’ve got the fear factor already with Sarah L’Estrange
Leane, Lian Low and Lemn Sissay perform their hitting high levels when your story starts with that How much is the novelist’s task one of finding
work, hosted by Deanne Sheldon-Collins. terrible possibility, so how does a writer proceed from answers to dangerous questions? How do you make
Festival Pass, Sunday Pass or Youth Pass there? A conversation about lost-child stories that sense of drama that threatens to overwhelm reason?
asks: would you recommend this to new parents? What makes a character come alive? And can they
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12.30pm-1.15pm 2pm-2.45pm 3.30pm-4.15pm
GOOD COUNTRY MYTH AND TRUTH LEAVE TAKING
Bain Attwood with Dianne Dempsey Ben Doherty with Emma Robertson Lorraine Marwood with Cecile Shanahan
Our Festival takes place on Dja Dja Wurrung country, Ben Doherty’s Nagaland is about the history, In her new verse novel for younger readers, Lorraine
merrygic barbarie – good country. Dianne Dempsey the mythology and the people of this remote Marwood’s Toby finds a way to say goodbye to a
talks to Bain Attwood about his ground-breaking north Indian state. Ben talks with Emma place and a sister he loves. Cecile Shanahan talks
history of the people of this central Victorian region. Robertson about where his story began. to Lorraine about her reasons for writing about loss
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bendigowritersfestival.com.au15tracks
bendigo
A workshop 10am-1pm 2.40pm-3.40pm
program for World Building, Editing and Publishing:
young writers Setting and Identity with Mira Schlosberg
aged 14 to 25, Workshop with Maxine Beneba Clarke What happens once you’ve finished writing
presented by
Express Media. Explore the building blocks of fiction including your story? Is an editor just a grammar-pedantic
methods for creating strong characters, developing wielder of a red pen? How to prepare your writing
Saturday 11 sound plot, structuring work, and establishing for submitting, and what to expect when you’re
August, 9am-5pm, and developing setting and atmosphere. selected for publication.
Trades Hall
on View Street OR OR
Registration for full-
day program: $25 which 10am-1pm 2.40pm-3.40pm
includes membership Crafting Character & Ready to Read:
to Express Media and
Representing Real Life Performing Your Work
Writers Victoria. Free for
Express Media members. Workshop with Lian Low with Hawiine Kadir
More information Unpack the fundamentals of good nonfiction A crash course in how to perform your work
and to register: storytelling, including how to frame the narrative, aloud to build your confidence, build your
expressmedia.org.au the role of the writer in the work, representing community, and improve your writing.
character, and the ethics of writing real-life.
4pm-5pm
1.40pm-2.40pm Twilight Tales: Showcase Event
Opportunities for Young Writers & Literary Networking
Where do you start when you want to write? Hear some of Victoria’s best young writers
How do you get your work in front of a reader? share their words in this special line-up with
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With Bethany Atkinson-Quinton (Express Media), Manisha Anjali, Linh Thùy Nguye^ n, Dean
Deanne Sheldon-Collins (Writers Victoria), Cecile Gervasoni, Lasith Kulasekara, Taylor Clayton.
Shanahan (Bendigo Writers Festival), Em Burgess
(Write Stuff), Simon Wooldridge
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(Bendigo Writers
Council), Linh Thùy Nguye^ n (Emerging Writers
Festival) and Marion Drummond (Ink Slingers).
Maxine Beneba Clarke is the Hawiine Kadir, known Lian Low was an editor and Mira Schlosberg is a writer,
author of the short fiction also as Soreti, is an Oromo, a board member of Peril. She comics artist, and editor who
collection Foreign Soil and multidisciplinary creative writes across spoken word, makes work about queerness
the memoir The Hate Race. whose expression includes creative non-fiction and and spirituality. Mira is the
Carrying the World won the performance poetry, writing, memoir. editor of Voiceworks.
2017 Victorian Premier’s music and entrepreneurship.
Literary Award for Poetry.
16 LET’S GET Curious #BWF2018participants
MICHAEL ABLEMAN is a farmer, author, BAIN ATTWOOD is a Professor of History at MICHAEL BRISSENDEN has worked for the
photographer and local food systems Monash University. His books include Telling ABC for more than 30 years as a political
advocate. Michael has been farming the Truth about Aboriginal History, and he journalist and foreign correspondent.
organically since the early 1970s and is is co-editor of Frontier, Race, Nation: Henry A two-time Walkley Award winner,
one of the pioneers of the organic farming Reynolds and Australian History. His new Michael is now a reporter with the ABC’S
and urban agriculture movements. He is book, The Good Country relates the history of 4 Corners. His novel, The List, is a
the author of Fields of Plenty, Street Farm; central Victoria’s Dja Dja Wurrung people. Fri contemporary thriller about terrorism.
Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban 2.45pm, Sun 12.30pm. Sat 10am, Sun 3.45pm.
Frontier. Fri 4.15pm, Sat 10am, Sat 1.15pm.
TIMMAH BALL is an emerging writer and TREVOR BUDGE is Manager, Regional
PAM AHERN is the urban researcher of Ballardong Noongar Sustainable Development at the City of
founder and director descent. She launched the zine Wild Tongue Greater Bendigo. He is an Adjunct Associate
of Edgar’s Mission, as part of Next Wave Festival. Sat 11.30am, Professor in the Community Planning and
a not-for-profit Sat 7.30pm, Sun 11.15am. Development Program at the Bendigo
sanctuary near campus of La Trobe University. Fri 6.45pm,
DAN BENDRUPS is a research academic at La Sun 10am.
Lancefield in the
Trobe University, Bendigo. His focus is on the
Macedon Ranges. EM BURGESS-GILCHRIST is a poet, writer
role of music in expressing and sustaining
She is the Australian World Animal Day and occasional songstress. She is a co-
cultural heritage in Indigenous and migrant
Ambassador. Her new vegan cookbook is founder of the Write Stuff, a Bendigo-based
communities. Fri 12.15pm.
Cooking with Kindness. Sat 12.30pm, Sun writing collective which hosts bi-monthly
11.30am. PAUL BARCLAY is a Walkley Award-winning spoken word events throughout the region.
journalist and broadcaster. He is the Fri 5.30pm, Sun 10am.
BEATRICE ALBA is a Research Fellow in the
presenter of the ABC Big Ideas radio program
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health LINDY BURNS got her start on ABC
and has just returned from a six-month
and Society, School of Psychology and Newcastle’s Saturday sports program before
sabbatical in Berlin. Sat 10am, Sun 10am. hosting the state-wide Sunday Show in
Public Health at La Trobe University. She
writes on gender and feminism online at ALI BERG & MICHELLE KALUS are the co- New South Wales, and presenting Drive on
The Conversation. Fri 4.30pm. authors of the contemporary romance novel, ABC Newcastle. Lindy moved to Melbourne
The Book Ninja. Together, they began Books in 2005 to host Drive before moving to
JENNIFER ALDEN is a City of Greater Bendigo Evenings in 2012. Sat 7.30pm.
on the Rail in Melbourne and their network
councillor who runs a consultancy business
is now Australia-wide. Ali is Creative MEG CAFFIN is an urban forester who
specialising in health, environmental and
Director for the Hedgehog Agency and consults widely to local and state
social outcomes. Fri 4.15pm, Sun 10am.
Michelle is a primary school teacher. governments. Her focus is on integrating
ALI ALIZADEH was born in Tehran and is Sat 3.15pm, Sun 2.15pm. urban greening and green infrastructure
now a lecturer at Monash University. His into cities for improved liveability and
TONY BIRCH is the
books include Transactions, the poetry urban resilience. Fri 2.45pm, Sun 10am.
author of Ghost River,
collections Even in Times of War and Ashes
Blood, Shadowboxing, HELEN CALDICOTT
in the Air, translations of the Sufi poet Attar,
and three short story is the co-founder
Iran: My Grandfather and The Last Days of
collections – Father’s of Physicians for
Jeanne d’Arc. Fri 4pm. Social Responsibility,
Day, The Promise and
JESS ANASTASI is a central Victorian Common People. Tony a nominee for the
speculative fiction romance author. With lives in Melbourne and is a Senior Research Nobel Peace Prize,
three Galaxy Awards for Excellence in Fellow at Victoria University. Sat 1.15pm, and the 2003 winner
Science Fiction Romance to her name, to Sun 3.30pm. of the Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom.
date she has published 14 books. Fri 5.30pm. The author of The New Nuclear Danger,
NICK BISLEY is Head of the School of Nuclear Power is not the Answer, and
JULIE ANDREWS is a lecturer in Aboriginal Humanities and Social Sciences and Loving this Planet, she most recently edited
Studies and Anthropology at La Trobe Professor of International Relations Sleepwalking to Armageddon: The Threat of
University. Fri 2.45pm. at La Trobe University. Sat 11.30am. Nuclear Annihilation. Fri 6pm, Sat 11.30am.
SONIA AND NICK ANTHONY run Masons KATH BOLITHO runs Tough Cookie Marketing, JAY CARMICHAEL is a writer and editor.
of Bendigo. Sonia hosts food tours and is based in Bendigo, focusing on the services His first novel, Ironbark, was shortlisted
the author with Amy Doak of A Sense sector. Sun 10am. for the Victorian Premier’s Award for an
of Place, about food producers in central Unpublished Manuscript in 2016. His
MARK BRANDI won the 2016 UK Crime writing has appeared widely in print and
Victoria. Sun 10am, Sun 12.30pm.
Writers’ Association Debut Dagger for his online, including in Overland, The Guardian,
DAVID ASTLE is a word nerd, puzzle writer, first novel, Wimmera. He mentored the SBS, and The Telling Tree project. Sat 4.15pm,
author and regular presenter on ABC radio writers in the Festival’s Whipstick project. Sun 10am.
in Melbourne. Fri 6.15pm, Sat 10am, Sun Fri 5.30pm, Sun 11.15am.
2.15pm.
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