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Welcome to the sixteenth program of the Byron Bay author and to delve into the issues and subjects that are
Writers’ Festival. You will find nestled within these pages closest to your heart. I urge you to also stretch yourself
the complete range of marquee sessions, workshops, and try something unexpected for it is those moments,
special feature events and book launches that together when we venture into the unknown, that are often the
form our celebration of reading, writing and ideas. The most memorable. Should your interest be piqued by our
program is deliberately eclectic, a reflection of the diversity special feature events and workshops, please be sure not
of communities that call the Northern Rivers home. to leave booking too late as all of these sessions have
limited capacity.
We welcome writers from Karachi to Washington, along
with writers from across Australia and around the corner At the heart of this Festival is good conversation. It
to our much loved festival. For some writers this is their begins when you pore over this program with a friend
first time visiting our neighbourhood; for others, we and culminates in early August when we all get together
welcome their return so that we can discover what new with the writers profiled in these pages. I encourage you
literary gems they have published since we last had the to join in the conversation, re-affirm old connections and
pleasure of hosting them. make surprising new ones. On behalf of the whole festival
team I invite you into our special world of discussing
By immersing yourself in this program you will discover the
reading, writing and ideas.
richness of our literary culture and have the opportunity
to plan your personal itinerary from the delights on offer. Jonathan Parsons,
Naturally, you will be excited to hear from your favourite Festival Director
Credits Staff:
Festival director Jonathan Parsons
Management Committee: Operations manager Sarah Ma
Centre manager Siboney Duff
Chairperson Chris Hanley
Events manager Simon Pyle
Vice chairperson Lynda Dean
Sponsorship manager Erin Gascoine
Secretary Russell Eldridge
Publicist Rachel Bending
Treasurer Cheryl Bourne
Volunteers & schools coordinator Virginia Clarke
Members Jesse Blackadder,
Travel & ticketing coordinator Cherrie Sheldrick
Fay Burstin, Marele Day,
Robert Hanson, Brenda Shero Events & administration assistant Melissa Scott
Site assistant Tracy Dreelin
Special thanks to all our wonderful volunteers!
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Friday Program
SCU Marquee Macquarie Marquee Red Marquee
9.00am – 10.00am 9.15am – 10.15am 9.30am – 10.30am
Collectables: The bounty of our Raw Nerves: Should some topics Curdled Milk: Schoolyard
desires be off-limits memories
Gay Bilson, Adrian Franklin, Nicole Moore Paul Carter, Tony Cavanaugh, Jim Hearn Jon Doust, Ned Manning, John Marsden
Chair: Jill Eddington Chair: Simon Marnie Chair: Mary Delahunty
Sponsored by Zentveld’s Roastery
10.15am – 11.15am 10.30am – 11.30am 10.45am – 11.45am
Bashed, sued, celebrated, revered Save ten lives with a paper clip Bad Mothers’ Club
Bob Brown in conversation with Kerry O’Brien Morris Gleitzman in conversation Mandy Nolan, Fiona O’Loughlin
Sponsored by Southern Cross University Chair: Gideon Haigh
11.30am – 12.30pm 11.45am – 12.45pm 12.00pm – 1.15pm
Is the big country big enough? Journalism, love, and exploding Bringing history to life
Ian Lowe, George Megalogenis mangoes Michelle Aung Thin, Jane Caro, Sulari Gentil,
Chair: Richard Fidler Mohammed Hanif in conversation with Chris Rohan Wilson
Sponsored by Ad Agency Hanley Chair: Edna Carew
Sponsored by Macquarie Bank Sponsored by Inside History
12.45pm – 2.00pm 1.00pm – 2.00pm 1.30pm – 2.30pm
Our Literary Heritage: What role Wild Things: Remembering “All writers are journeymen”
do the classics play in our culture? Maurice Sendak Tom Keneally in conversation with Chris Hanley
Shane Maloney, Wayne Macauley, John Tranter, Isobelle Carmody, Morris Gleitzman, Sponsored by Pantera Press
Susan Wyndham John Marsden
Chair: Jane Gleeson-White Chair: Ashley Hay
Sponsored by Booked Out Agency
2.15pm – 3.15pm 2.15pm – 3.15pm 2.45pm – 3.45pm
Sweeping Small town boy, literary icon Is he out of his mind?
Elliot Perlman in conversation with Andrea Hirata in conversation with Shamini Flint Paul Carter in conversation with Rhoda Roberts
Mary Delahunty Sponsored by Writing WA
3.30pm –4.30pm 3.30pm – 4.30pm 4.00pm – 5.00pm
Female desire The war on whingeing Tamil Tigress
Bella Elwood-Clayton, Susan Johnson George Megalogenis in conversation with Niromi de Soyza in conversation with
Chair: Caroline Baum Petria Wallace Sally Neighbour
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ABC3 Marquee Blue Marquee Lakehouse
9.30am – 10.30am 8.30am – 11.00am
Breakthroughs: How new words ABC North Coast
and languages fuel innovation on-site broadcast
Robyn Arianrhod, Peter Doherty, Jane Gleeson-
White
Chair: Ashley Hay
10.45am – 11.45pm
Straight to the Point: The craft of
short stories
Nick Earls, Wayne Macauley, plus the Heading
North winner
Participating Chair: Arnold Zable
12.00pm – 1.00pm 12.00pm – 1.00pm
The future of reading The rhythms of dramatic language
James Cowan, Andy Griffiths, Rhoda Roberts, A rehearsed reading of Andrew Bovell’s Speaking
Vikki Wakefield in Tongues
Chair: Meg Vann Directed by Susan Melhuish with action from the
Fourth Wall Theatre Company
Sponsored by Currency Press
1.15pm – 2.45pm 1.15pm – 2.15pm
Wanderlust Writers’ Groups: Comrades or
John Bailey, Mike Ladd, Ailsa Piper, Tony Taylor competitors?
Chair: Hannie Rayson Sarah Armstrong, Jessie Cole, Lisa Walker
Chair: Jesse Blackadder
3.00pm – 4.00pm 2.30pm – 3.30pm 3.00pm – 4.00pm
Deadly Swan Retro Launch
Michael O’Loughlin in conversation with Adrian Franklin in conversation with Bernie David Lovejoy
Mick O’Regan Hobbs Heresy – The life of Pelagius
Launched by Victor Marsh
4.15pm – 5.15pm 3.45pm – 4.45pm 4.00pm – 5.00pm
Extreme Journeys Pioneering Australia: Explorers Launch
Ailsa Piper, Anna Rose, Jessica Watson and thugs Mungo MacCallum
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Saturday Program
SCU Marquee Macquarie Marquee Red Marquee
9.00am – 10.00am 9.15am – 10.15am 9.00am – 10.30am
The stupid country Truth in Politics: Towards a fair Surviving
Jane Caro, Ned Manning society Sophie Cunningham, Niromi de Soyza,
Denise Leith, Sally Neighbour
Participating Chair: Mary Delahunty Geoff Gallop in conversation with Petria Wallace Chair: Julianne Schultz
Sponsored by Writing WA
10.15am – 11.15am 10.30am – 11.30am 10.45am – 11.45am
Classic crime fiction and its View from the bench Old Songs, New Worlds
new protagonists Michael Kirby with Daryl Dellora
Chair: Mick O’Regan
James Cowan, Sue Woolfe
Chair: Rhoda Roberts
Sulari Gentil, Stuart Littlemore, Shane Maloney, Sponsored by the Byron at Byron Resort & Spa.
Kel Robertson,
Chair: Chris Hanley
Sponsored by First National Byron Bay
11.30am – 12.30pm 11.45am – 12.45pm 12.00pm – 1.15pm
How the merchants of Florence True lies: Writing memoir Public Grilling: The art of the
and Venice changed the world Paul Carter, Ned Manning, Jessica Watson interview
Jane Gleeson-White, Gideon Haigh Chair: Alan Close Monica Attard, Fran Kelly, Sally Neighbour,
Chair: John M Green Chris Uhlmann
Sponsored By Rochdale Accounting and Chair: Edna Carew
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12.45pm – 1.45pm 1.00pm – 2.00pm 1.30pm – 2.30pm
What is Australia for? “Somewhere between Steiner and Reaching the World: Writing that
Peter Doherty, Michael Kirby, Julianne Schultz the Simpsons” crosses cultures for adults and
Chair: Antony Funnell John Marsden in conversation with Mick O’Regan children
Sponsored by Griffith REVIEW Sarah Brennan, Xu Xi
Chair: Jane Camens
2.00pm – 3.00pm 2.15pm – 3.45pm 2.45pm-4.00pm
Resilience in the US and India The Sex Lives of Australians Writing Country
Katherine Boo in conversation with Fran Kelly Frank Bongiorno, Michael Kirby, Nicole Moore, Sophie Cunningham, Alex Miller, Tony Taylor,
Sponsored by Beach Suites Bernard Salt, Sue Woolfe
Chair: Mick O’Regan Chair: Venero Armanno
3.15pm – 4.00pm 4.00pm – 5.15pm 4.15pm-5.15pm
Thea Astley Lecture The “F” Word: Feminism in 2012 Canberra, the funniest city in
Gail Jones Jane Caro, Bella Elwood-Clayton, Susan Johnson, Australia
Michaela McGuire Steve Lewis, Chris Uhlmann
Chair: Bernadette Young Chair: Petria Wallace
Sponsored by Allen and Unwin
4.15pm – 5.15pm
Giving up the Day Job: Lawyers
turned writers
Shamini Flint, Sulari Gentil, Elliot Perlman
Chair: John M Green
Sponsored by Holding Redlich
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ABC3 Marquee Blue Marquee
9.15am – 9.45am
Meet Arnold Zable
30 minutes of readings and musings from Arnold
Zable
9.30am – 10.30am 10.00am – 11.00am
Oceans Pitch Perfect
Tim Baker, Jessica Watson MC Shamus Sillar with Siboney Duff
Chair: Gideon Haigh Hopeful authors pitch live to a panel of
publishers
Sponsored by Harlequin
10.45am – 12.15pm 11.15am – 12.15pm
Women of Letters: Performance Burma, then and now
Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire Michellle Aung Thin speaks to Janie Conway-
Herron
12.30pm – 1.30pm 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Real food The Gods of Wheat Street: Keeping
Gay Bilson, Mungo MacCallum, Charlotte Wood the family together in Casino
Chair: Caroline Baum Jon Bell, Deb Cox, Lois Randall
Chair: Jill Moonie
Sponsored by Screenworks
1.45pm – 2.45pm 1.45pm – 2.45pm
Making language sing We are Family: Uncomfortable
John Tranter and Mark Tredinnick truths
Chair: Mike Ladd Kirsten Tranter, Kari Gislason, Amanda Webster
Chair: Meg Vann
3.00pm – 4.00pm 3.00pm – 4.00pm
The secret life of birds Unexpected crime in unexpected
Janine Burke, Peter Doherty, Carrie Tiffany places
Chair: Ashley Hay Martin Chatterton, Maggie Groff, Kel Robertson
Chair: Kate Veitch
4.15pm – 5.15pm 4.15pm – 5.15pm
Wireless Women: Writing in Writers’ Residences: Alaska, Hong
cyberspace Kong, Varuna
Haylee Kerans, Viginia Murdoch, Marieke Hardy Jessie Cole, Leanne Hall, Xu Xi
Chair: Jeanti St Clair Participating Chair: Jesse Blackadder
Sponsored by D Publishing
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Sunday Program
SCU Marquee Macquarie Marquee Red Marquee
9.15am – 10.30am 9.15am-10.15am 9.30am – 10.30am
Righting the world The fine craft of the novelist Slow Simmer: nurturing ideas in
Katherine Boo, Niromi De Soyza, Andrea Hirata, Gail Jones in conversation with Charlotte Wood today’s fast-paced world
Ian Lowe Robyn Arianrhod, Venero Armanno, Peter Doherty
Chair: Russell Eldridge Chair: Ashley Hay
Sponsored by Robert Oatley Vineyards Sponsored by Byron Bay Accom
10.45am – 12.00pm 10.30am – 11.30am 10.45am – 11.45am
Speaking Freely: The impact of Stellar Women: Recognising our Digital Big Bang: expanding
censorship female writers horizons for the work of writers
Mohammed Hanif, Denise Leith, Nicole Moore Sophie Cunningham, Susan Johnson, Marc Fennell, Antony Funnell, Stephen Sewell
Chair: Julianne Schultz Kirsten Tranter Chair: Simon Groth
Sponsored by The Byron Shire Echo Chair: Meg Vann Sponsored by Echonetdaily
12.15pm – 1.15pm 11.45am – 12.45pm 12.00pm – 1.15pm
Lust for Life (and Art) Rabelaisian adventures in post Keeping the pages turning
Alex Miller in conversation with Susan Wyndham colonial India Tony Birch, Nick Earls, Sulari Gentil,
Kiran Nagarkar in conversation with Stuart Littlemore
Gideon Haigh Chair: Russell Eldridge
Sponsored by Frontline Copy Centre
1.30pm – 2.30pm 1.00pm – 2.15pm 1.30pm – 2.30pm
It’s not easy being good Small world Uncomfortable tales from tears to
Ailsa Piper, Hannie Rayson, Charlotte Wood Melissa Lucashenko, Anna Rose, Kate Veitch, laughter
Chair: Caroline Baum Arnold Zable Jon Doust in conversation with Fay Burstin
Chair: Julianne Schultz
2.45pm – 3.45pm 2.30pm – 3.45pm 2.45pm – 3.45pm
Sapphires and Other Jewels: What Going to the dark side Stories that take us home. Ideas of
makes a great film adaptation? Denise Leith, Tony Cavanagh, Stephen Sewell place and family in Sicily, Iceland
Andrew Knight, Elliot Perlman, Keith Thompson Chair: Ashley Hay and rural Australia
Chair: Roger Simpson Venero Armanno, Kari Gislason, Carrie Tiffany
Sponsored by Australian Writers’ Guild Chair: Mary Delahunty
4.00pm – 5.00pm 4.00pm – 5.00pm 4.00pm – 5.00pm
What gives you hope for the Resuscitating your child’s guinea Australian Biographies: how
future? pig and other domestic skills people from our past shape our
Marc Fennell, Shamini Flint, Ian Lowe, Hannie Jane Caro, Mandy Nolan, Fiona O’Loughlin future
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ABC3 Marquee Blue Marquee Lakehouse
All youth sessions are sponsored by ABC3 9.30am – 10.30am
Sinning Across Spain in
9.15am – 9.30am performance
Intro by ABC3 presenters Ailsa Piper performs a monologue about the walk
Amberley & Kayne and her verse guides, inspired by the script she
wrote for ABC Radio’s Poetic Program
9.30am – 10.00am 10.45am – 11.45am
MEET Sarah Brennan Something in the Water: Byron’s
debut authors
10.15 – 10.45am Jessie Cole, Shamus Sillar, Lisa Walker,
MEET Leigh Hobbs Amanda Webster
Chair: Jesse Blackadder
11.00am – 11.30am 12.00pm – 1.00pm
MEET Shamini Flint Cooking your way to Salvation
Jim Hearn and Wayne Macauley
11.45am – 12.15pm Chair: Michaela McGuire
MEET Andy Griffiths
1.15pm – 2.00pm
12.30pm – 1.00pm I’m so over books!
MEET Morris Gleitzman Movie advice from Marc Fennell
1.15pm – 1.45pm
MEET Isobelle Carmody 2.15pm – 3.15pm
Nests
2.00pm – 2.30pm Gay Bilson, Janine Burke, Mark Tredinnick
MEET Leanne Hall Chair: Jill Eddington
2.45pm – 3.15pm 3.30pm – 4.00pm 3.00 – 4.00pm
MEET John Marsden Meet Xu Xi Launch
30 minutes of readings and musings with Xu Xi Ed Chatterton launches two books
3.30pm-4.00pm Mortal Combat
MEET Nick Earls A Dark Place to Die
4.15pm – 5.00pm 4.00pm – 5.00pm
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Feature Events
FRIDAY 3 AUGUST SATURDAY 4 AUGUST SATURDAY 4 AUGUST
8.00pm 8.00pm 7pm-9.30pm
Community Centre Theatre, Community Centre Theatre, Dendy Byron Bay Cinemas, Jonson St.
Jonson St, Byron Bay Jonson St, Byron Bay Cost: $25, or $20 for NRWC and Club Dendy
Cost: $30 Cost: $30 members, and festival pass holders.
Stand Up Comedy Australia’s political future? The Sapphires
Jon Doust, Mandy Nolan, Fiona O’Loughlin Geoff Gallop, Mungo MacCallum, Directed by Wayne Blair
MC: Shamini Flint George Megalogenis Produced by Rosemary Blight and Kylee Du Fresne
Three mums with a dozen kids between them, and Chair: Fran Kelly
Screenplay by Keith Thompson and Tony Briggs
one bloke who specialises in playing deros and ABC Radio National’s voice of breakfast, Fran
idiots in TV ads, will keep the laughs coming on Kelly, will chair this panel discussion on Australia’s Starring: Chris O’Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica
this night of stand-up comedians who’ve turned political future with academic and retired Premier Mauboy, Shari Sebbens and Miranda Tapsell
into authors. Jon Doust, Mandy Nolan, and Fiona of WA Geoff Gallup, senior journalist and political 1968 was the year the planet went haywire. All
O’Loughlin are all masters of the laugh. The MC is commentator with The Australian George around the globe, there were riots and revolution
lawyer-turned-author Shamini Flint – who should Megalogenis, political editor of The Australian in the streets. There were hard drugs, soft drugs,
be a stand up comedian. Financial Review Laura Tingle, and long-time free love and psychedelic music. There was the
political journalist and author Mungo MacCallum. shock of Martin Luther King’s and Bobby Kennedy’s
assassinations.
And dominating every other news story… There
was Vietnam.
For four gorgeous young women from a remote
Aboriginal mission, 1968 was the year that changed
their lives forever. Sisters Gail, Julie and Cynthia,
together with their cousin Kay, are discovered
by Dave, a down-on-his-luck Irish musician with
attitude, a taste for Irish Whiskey, and an ear for
Soul Music. Dave steers the girls away from their
Country & Western origins then flies them to the
Jon Doust Fiona O’Loughlin Geoff Gallop war-zones of South Vietnam, where they sing Soul
Classics for the American Marines. On tour in the
Mekong Delta, the girls sing up a storm, dodge
bullets… and fall in love.
Inspired by a true story, The Sapphires is a
triumphant celebration of youth, courage, love,
family and Soul Music.
The film will be introduced by Rhoda Roberts and
screenwriter Keith Thompson. Following the film
will be a Q&A with Keith Thompson, hosted by
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12.00pm – 3.00pm 7.30pm – 10.30pm 7.30pm – 10.30pm
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Words that Matter: The Australian literary treasures
Lawyers and murderers: sharp daily news and investigative Literary Dinner
legal mind turns to crime reporting Gail Jones and Charlotte Wood in conversation
fiction
Literary Dinner Gail Jones has won numerous literary awards for
Literary Lunch Fran Kelly and Sally Neighbour in conversation with her novels; she is also the author of two collections
Stuart Littlemore in conversation Mick O’Regan of short stories. Her most recent novel is the
exquisite Five Bells, which vividly describes four
Stuart Littlemore is one of Her Majesty’s Counsel, Respected radio presenter, current affairs journalist lives that chime and resonate over a single day
practising at the bar across Australia. In his legal and political correspondent Fran Kelly hosts ABC in Sydney. Charlotte Wood is first and foremost
work he specialises in media law, criminal law and Radio National’s agenda-setting Breakfast program an author of fiction, her most recent book Love &
administrative law. and joins journalist colleague Sally Neighbour. Sally Hunger: Thoughts on the Gift of Food is about the
Stuart has maintained a parallel career in the media. is an award winning investigative journalist, author emotional and symbolic meaning of cooking for
He is probably best known for his writing and and leading Australian commentator on terrorism, people you love.
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Workshops More detailed information about these
workshops is available on the Festival website
Laurel Cohn Tim Baker Gay Bilson John Bailey Melissa Lucashenko
MONDAY 30 JULY 1.30pm – 4.30pm topics ranging from personal be addressing? What do you want to
relationships and sexual health to address? What words best serve your
10am – 4pm SAE Institute, finance, economics, politics, business purpose?
SCU Room, Byron Community 373 Ewingsdale Rd, Byron Bay
and travel. Her work has led her to If food is a shared material, economic
Centre, Jonson St, Byron Bay $60/$50* Code 3W
interview prime ministers, senior
and cultural concern for all people,
$100/$85* Code 1W John Bailey: politicians and high-level bureaucrats,
then we need food journalism to
company executives, doctors and
Laurel Cohn: The Picky Burglar: health professionals, media moguls,
include serious and informed writing
about food security, food waste, food
The art of revision Shame, hate and truth nuns, truck drivers, funeral directors
pricing, food distribution, food and
Successful authors often note that the in biography and artists. In her workshop she will
health, and, especially, agriculture and
share how best to prepare for an
art of a good book lies in the revision Do you want the truth – or do you all that agriculture entails – climate,
interview and organise research as
process. Getting your story down want to be read? Is there a message soil, labour, the uses to which land
well as anecdotes revealing pitfalls in
(whether fiction or non-fiction) is a for the present times, or no message? is put.
the process.
great achievement, but the real work Are you writing history, or are you We will read and critique two essays
begins with rewriting. And rewriting. writing inspiration? Who cares about (sent to you before the workshop)
And more rewriting. your subject? Do you care? Why 10am – 4pm and attempt a short piece of our own.
care? Do you gleefully highlight the SAE Institute,
In this workshop, designed specifically nasty bits or leave them out? What
for writers with a completed draft of 373 Ewingsdale Rd, Byron Bay
will the rellos think?
$100/$85* Code 6W 1.30pm – 4.30pm
a book-length work, editor Laurel
This workshop is planned to be very Veranda Room, Byron Community
Cohn explores the three key aspects Mandy Nolan:
interactive. Participants are asked Centre,
to the art of revision: stepping out of
writer mode and into revision mode;
to challenge their methods, their Something funny Jonson St, Byron Bay
approach to biography, and how $60/$50* Code 7W
identifying the heart of the narrative;
they do their research. It will be a
about writing
and shaping the text to honour the sharing of ideas, disappointments and Join Mandy Nolan in a full day Melissa Lucashenko:
story. Each of these aspects requires challenges. workshop where she focuses on Writing the Aboriginal
a different perspective and particular bringing humour into your writing.
tools and strategies. “It’s about finding your authentic
world
TUESDAY 31 JULY voice, committing to comic ideas as Aboriginal themes and characters are
9.30am – 12.30pm a way of perpetuating or continuing of increasing interest to Australian
9.30am – 12.30pm SCU Room, Byron Community the theme, rather than clichéd writers and to a world audience, but
SAE Institute, Centre, Jonson St, Byron Bay sensationalism”. Good comedy constructing stories and ideas which
373 Ewingsdale Rd, Byron Bay $60/$50* Code 4W writing should be moving, original reflect modern Aboriginal realities
$60/$50* Code 2W and of course very, very funny! This is and are not simply rehashes of old
Edna Carew: a perfect workshop for anyone keen racist tropes is a complex process.
Tim Baker: The art of research and to start a regular blog, or for writers In this half day workshop Melissa
Surf Writing interview wanting to invest more humour in Lucashenko, an award-winning
their work! Bundjalung novelist and essayist,
Best-selling author Tim Baker has Who has not walked out of an examines ways that non-Aboriginal
been writing about surfing for 25 interview wondering if and how it writers can successfully enter this
years. He believes surfing makes could have been better handled? It 1.30pm – 4.30pm difficult terrain. Topics covered
ideal subject matter for story-telling can happen to the best. Learn how SCU Room, Byron Centre, Jonson include: What is an Aboriginal
because it fits the template of “the to ensure top results from interviews St, Byron Bay anyway? Can outsiders write the
hero’s journey,” the classic three-act and research from a professional $60/$50* Code 5W Aboriginal voice? What is and isn’t
narrative arc that has defined our who, in the course of her work on negotiable in Aboriginal storytelling?
most enduring stories for millennia. profiles, biographies and company Gay Bilson: And most of all, how to create
Learn the secrets of story-telling, histories, has interviewed countless What we talk about authentic and convincing Aboriginal
simple free writing exercises, women and men from various walks
of life.
when we talk about people on the page.
and key techniques to help you
record your most precious surfing Edna Carew, author of more than
food
memories as dynamic, compelling twenty books, has through her What is it we are addressing when we Workshops are
tales. journalism and writing covered write about food? What should we continued on page 1414 BYRON BAY WRITERS’ FESTIVAL PROGRAM
Workshops Participants are asked to bring along a
notebook to this workshop.
Themes that will be explored are:
WEDNESDAY 1 AUGUST Part I: Before you start writing
Nature and landscape; Cultural
Coming up with ideas; Finding and
10am – 4pm fine-tuning the angle; Knowing your
encounter and experience;
SCU Room, Byron Community Streetscapes; Scraps and quotes.
audience; Who will you interview and
Centre, Jonson St, Byron Bay how will you find them?; Interview Participants will be encouraged to
$100/$85* Code 8W techniques and tips; Mapping it out begin the process of using their field
before you start writing. book through demonstration during
Kim Falconer: the course of the workshop. Kim Falconer
Part II: Writing a feature story
Write, sell and promote Different styles of feature articles;
your genre fiction Structure: know the rules so you can THURSDAY 2 AUGUST
learn to break them; Flow: connecting
Awaken the writer in you! Join Kim 9.30am – 12.30pm
Falconer for an intensive full day ideas and voices in your story; Editing
SCU Room, Byron Community
workshop on the dynamics of writing your own work; Proof-reading: the
Centre, Jonson St, Byron Bay
genre fiction including manuscript importance of producing clean copy.
$60/$50* Code 15W
re a d i n e s s a n d p re s e n ta t i o n , Part III: Getting published
publication options, working with an How to make a pitch; How to stand Shane Maloney:
editor and the all important leap into out from the crowd Cooking Up a Plot:
the world of social media.
You will also learn some tips for how Crime writing
If you are an emerging writer who to survive as a freelance journalist and
What are the essential ingredients
loves to read and write genre fiction, make it work as your full-time gig.
of a page-turning murder mystery? Anneli Knight
from fantasy, romance, adventure,
Join award-winning author Shane
horror, science fiction, historical,
erotica to dystopia, YA to adult, and 10am – 4pm Maloney for a fast, furious, hands-on
guide to cooking up a plot. Roll up
want to hone your skills and sell your Veranda Room, Byron Community
your literary shirt-sleeves and join
work, this workshop is for you. Centre, Jonson St, Byron Bay
the fray as he shares his tips on such
$100/$85* Code 10W
Kim Falconer is a bestselling essential topics as setting, character
speculative fiction author with six James Cowan: and pace. Bring a sharp pencil, an
novels out through HarperCollins open mind and a sense of humour.
Voyager Worldwide. She lives and The Field Book: A
This half day intensive workshop
writes in Byron Bay, runs an astrology journey on the page will begin with a discussion of
forum, teaches Law of Attraction and One of the most important tools of common writing problems and how
is working on a third series set in a a writer, whether of poetry, fiction to overcome them, based on Shane’s
whole new world. or non-fiction, is the field book. It own experience. The group will then
represents the palette on which ideas, work with Shane to devise a setting James Cowan
visual impressions, and meditations and cast of characters for a classic
10am – 4pm murder mystery.
are mixed together to become
SAE Institute,
the basis for new literary images Finally participants will devise a
373 Ewingsdale Rd, Byron Bay
and thoughts. There are valuable storyline utilising these “ingredients”.
$100/$85* Code 9W
techniques that can be learnt in order Along the way, the class will discuss
Anneli Knight: to use a field book as a vehicle for characterisation, motive, dialogue,
creative endeavour. narrative voice and other essentials
Freelance journalism that can be applied to the participants’
International author James Cowan
In this one-day workshop you will own writing projects. The workshop
will give some helpful tips on how to
learn how to approach a feature go about using a field book. During will conclude with a writing exercise.
story from the spark of an idea until it the course of his field trips in various
spools from your printer. parts of the world gathering material
The day will be divided in to three for his work, he has made the field Thursday Workshops are
parts and topics covered will include: book central to his literary practice. continued on page 19 Shane Maloney
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Workshops
Thursday Workshops
continued from page 14
THURSDAY 2 AUGUST
9.30am – 12.30pm
SAE Institute,
373 Ewingsdale Rd, Byron Bay
$60/$50* Code 13W Ailsa Piper Mark Tredinnick Meg Vann Tony Cavanaugh Andy Griffiths
Ailsa Piper:
“If not because grief or joy/ Has seized With the advent of new technologies be looking at the steps one has to take
I, I, I, Me, Me, Me you?” With Rumi and the mystics, Orr and ideas, today we have a host of in this process. As well, information
Oh, enough about me. What do YOU would add that each poem is not just choices and opportunities for writers will be provided on what each format
think of me? Ailsa Piper’s workshop will a complex, oblique, emotional cry to looking to connect with readers, looks like and what is expected in the
focus on writing in the first person. It the Beloved – a yearning for the rest and writers have a lot more options professional environment.
was the biggest challenge she faced in of who, and where, you thought you when it comes to driving their own
writing Sinning Across Spain, but was careers. Specifically we’ll be looking at and
were. Each poem is, somehow, the
just as pressing when she wrote the discussing the key ingredients for
Beloved – returned and embodied, in From traditional publishing houses, to
characters in her play Small Mercies. all his or her manifold and maddening scriptwriting: the development of
e-books, to social media, in today’s
How to locate that authentic voice, contradiction. A poem “should always character; where to set your story;
world there are as many paths to
and not censor it? How to find the “I” of replace a yearning,” writes Don how to structure your story for the
publication as there are writers.
a character, even when the character Paterson. “A poem must take the shape screen; and how to write dialogue.
is…I? Whether as writer, director, Join Meg Vann, manager of The
of a woman, a man, a god, or a ghost, The workshop will take into account
workshop-leader or actor, Ailsa has Australian Writers Marketplace ,
or else it is probably no poem at all.” all forms of narrative storytelling, in
spent a lifetime dealing with the twin together with a published author to
Form and voice, then, are a big deal learn about digital publishing options all genres.
challenges of authenticity and self-
in a poem. By forcing hard linguistic for writers today, and what it means The key to being a successful
criticism. And she has many practical
choices on a poet, line after line, to be an Amplified Author. screenwriter is to be yourself, to be
techniques at her fingertips to help
poetic form frees language (forces original and to be inventive.
others find a pain-free way through See website for special AWM offer.
it, perhaps) to do the other work we
the woods of locating character.
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what a poet’s heart says to her mind, through to the packaging and selling writing exercises, he’ll explore how
and her voice finds a body for. Each Meg Vann: of it to a producer or a network. to find, generate and develop ideas,
good poem is shapely god; keeping The amplified author We will be examining how one characters and storylines with comic
its own secrets, it tells us our own. What does digital publishing mean for develops an idea through to an potential for all children, young and
“Why write poems,” writes Gregory Orr, writers today? outline then on to a screenplay. We’ll old.
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Biographies More detailed biographies are available on
the Festival website including session times
Robyn Arianrhod Bustin’ Down The Door, and Jesse Blackadder Fay Burstin
Surfari. He is a former editor
Robyn Arianrhod is a writer of Tracks and Surfing Life Jesse Blackadder is fascinated Journalist and former lawyer
and mathematician (she is an magazines. by adventurous women and Fay Burstin currently curates
Adjunct Research Fellow at cold landscapes. Her novels and manages Splendour
Monash University). Her latest include After the Party, The Forum, the live discussion
book is Seduced by Logic. Caroline Baum Raven’s Heart and Chasing the program at Splendour In The
Caroline Baum is a well Light: A novel of Antarctica Grass music and arts festival. Venero Armanno
(forthcoming).
Venero Armanno known journalist and
Dr Venero (Veny) Armanno is a
broadcaster. The founding Edna Carew Ed Chatterton
well known Australian novelist,
editor of Good Reading, Frank Bongiorno Edna Carew’s many books Alongside his career as
Caroline is a regular
and works as a senior lecturer contributor to online and print Frank Bongiorno is the include bestsellers Fast Money, a children’s author, Ed
in creative writing at University media and a guest at writers’ author of The Sex Lives of Language of Money, Paul Keating, Chatterton’s debut crime novel,
of Queensland. Black Mountain festivals across Australia and Australians: A History, and is Prime Minister and Westpac, A Dark Place To Die (Random
is his latest book. overseas. She is the Editorial associate professor of history the bank that broke the bank. House) will be launched
Director for Booktopia, at the Australian National internationally in August.
University.
Sarah Armstrong Australia’s leading online Isobelle Carmody
Sarah Armstrong’s first novel
bookseller.
Isobelle Carmody is Australia’s
Laurel Cohn
Salt Rain was shortlisted for
Katherine Boo most highly acclaimed author Laurel Cohn is an editor and
the 2005 Miles Franklin Literary Jon Bell Katherine Boo is a staff writer at of fantasy titles for older readers. mentor passionate about
Award, the Queensland Jon Bell comes from the The New Yorker. Her reporting Most recently, The Red Wind communication and the power
Premier’s Literary Award and Aboriginal nations Wiradjuri has been awarded a Pulitzer from The Kingdom of the Lost of narrative to engage, inspire
the Dobbie Award. and Bundjalung. He has made prize. Behind the Beautiful series was the winner of the and challenge. Since the late
two short films and created Forevers is her first book. 2011 CBCA Book of the Year 1980s she has been helping
Award for Younger Readers. writers develop their stories and
Monica Attard the upcoming series The
prepare their work for print and,
Monica Attard spent 28
Gods of Wheat Street. Sarah Brennan more recently, online publication.
years at the ABC, working Sarah Brennan is the
Jane Caro
across radio and television. Gay Bilson Australian-born, Hong Kong- Jane Caro wears many hats;
She has five Walkley awards based children’s author and including author, lecturer,
Alan Close
Gay Bilson was a restaurateur
including Gold for excellence and cook, centrally as owner publisher of the best-selling mentor, social commentator, Alan Close’s most recent
in journalism and an Order of of Berowra Waters Inn (1977- Chinese Calendar Tales and columnist, workshop facilitator, book is Before You Met Me:
Australia. 1995). She is the the popular Dirty Story series. speaker, broadcaster and award A Memoir Of One Man’s
author of Plenty: winning advertising writer. Just Troubled Search For Love.
a Girl is her latest book. He was a columnist in Good
Michelle Aung Thin Digressions Bob Brown Weekend magazine.
on Food
Michelle Aung Thin was Bob Brown has been a
born in Burma, grew up in
(Penguin) and
prominent environmentalist
Paul Carter
Canada, and currently lives
On Digestion
since the Franklin campaign Paul has lived, worked, gotten
Jessie Xanthe Cole
(MUP). into trouble and been given a Jessie Cole’s work has
in Melbourne. The Monsoon and a Greens parliamentarian
Bride is her first novel. for 26 years. He is the serious talking to in too many appeared in Kill Your Darlings,
author of several books, countries to list here. Smoking Meanjin, and the Big Issue.
including one of Monkeys, Drilling Rigs, Bio- This year sees the publication
John Bailey poetry. diesel Bikes and Other Stories of her debut novel Darkness
John Bailey’s latest book Into combines Paul Carter’s three on the Edge of Town.
the Unknown is a biography of international bestselling books.
Ludwig Leichhardt. Other titles
Janine Burke
Janine Burke is an
James Cowan
include The White Divers of
author, art historian
Tony Cavanaugh James Cowan is author of
Broome and Mr Stuart’s Track.
and award-winning Tony Cavanaugh is an award 30 books, including novels,
novelist. Her most winning writer and producer travel books, non-fiction,
Tim Baker recent book is Nest: for films and television. His poetry and essays. His novel,
Tim Baker is the bestselling The Art of Birds. first novel Promise was A Mapmaker’s Dream, was
author of Occy, High Surf, Bob Brown published in April 2012. awarded the ALS gold medal.
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Katherine Boo Sarah Brennan Deb Cox Niromi de Soyza Bella Ellwood-Clayton Nick Earls
Deb Cox Niromi de Soyza Peter C Doherty Jill Eddington Bella Ellwood-
Deb Cox is a story creator, Niromi de Soyza is a Peter Doherty is a research Jill Eddington is a consultant Clayton
writer, editor and creative mother of two in Sydney’s biologist who is passionate in both the arts and education Dr Bella Ellwood-Clayton is
producer. She developed a range North Shore. But at age 17, she about sustaining the health of sectors. a sexual anthropologist. She
of feature film and television fought in the Sri Lankan civil humanity and the natural world appears regularly on television
projects, the latest being Miss war as a militant Tamil Tigress. we share with all life forms. Russell Eldridge and radio and is the author of
Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. Sex Drive: In Pursuit of Female
Russell Eldridge is a retired
Mary Delahunty Jon Doust newspaper editor. He now
Desire.
Sophie Author, founding CEO/National Jon Doust lives in Western writes fiction and freelance
Cunningham Director Writing Australia Ltd, Australia. He has written two articles, trains journalists and Kim Falconer
Sophie Cunningham has former Government Arts/ novels for children, and his first conducts corporate media
Education/Planning Minister, novel for adults, Boy on a Wire, training. He has worked in Kim Falconer is a bestselling
worked in publishing in speculative fiction author
Australia for more that twenty- award winning television was long-listed for the Miles South Africa, Sydney and
journalist. Founder of Franklin Award in 2010. northern NSW. with two series out through
five years and is the current HarperCollins Voyager
Chair of the Literature Board Rosebank residential writers’
retreat. Worldwide. She lives and
of the Australia Council. She is Nick Earls writes in Byron Bay.
the author of three books.
Nick Earls is the author of
Daryl Dellora fifteen books. Two of his
Daryl Dellora is an award- novels have become feature
winning documentary films and five have become
filmmaker. Michael Kirby: Law, stage plays. His newest book is
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Biographies
Marc Fennell Sulari Gentill John M Green
Marc Fennell is an award- John’s ‘spectacular political
Sulari ‘s latest novel, Miles Off
winning film critic, technology thriller’, Born to Run, was
Course, is the third book in
geek and media mischief- launched by Bob Carr at Byron
the Rowland Sinclair Series.
maker who likes to pull Bay Writers’ Festival last year.
She is also author of The Hero
high-brow culture down off its His latest novel, The Trusted, Adrian Franklin Leanne Hall Mohammed Hanif
Trilogy, a fantasy adventure
high horse and give it a solid will be released in November
series.
spanking. 2012. novel, This Is Shyness, was written four nonfiction books
published to critical acclaim and a novel, The Body in the
Richard Fidler Kári Gislason in 2010. Queen of the Night is Clouds, which was long-listed
Kári Gíslason teaches creative
Andy Griffiths for the International IMPAC
her second novel.
Richard Fidler is a well-known Andy Griffiths is Australia’s
writing and literary studies Dublin Literary Award.
Australian republican and most popular children’s writer.
at Queensland University of
Australian ABC TV and radio
Technology. His bittersweet He is the author of over 20 Mohammed Hanif
presenter. books, including nonsense Mohammed Hanif was born in
Jim Hearn
family memoir, The Promise
of Iceland (UQP, 2011), verse, short stories, comic Okara, Pakistan, in 1965. He has Jim wrote High Season:
Shamini Flint explores the meaning of novels and plays. written plays for the stage and a memoir of heroin and
home. BBC radio, and his film The hospitality, after quitting his
Shamini Flint’s most recent
job as head chef at Rae’s on
crime novel is Inspector Maggie Groff Long Night has been shown at
Watego’s and enrolling in the
Singh Investigates: A Curious film festivals around the world.
Maggie Groff is the author writing program at SCU.
Indian Cadaver. Her latest A Case of Exploding Mangoes
of two non-fiction books,
children’s books are Diary won the Commonwealth
Mothers Behaving Badly
of a Soccer Star and Diary and Hoax Cuisine. Her first
Writers’ Prize for Best First Andrea Hirata
of a Cricket God. Novel, was shortlisted for the
novel Mad Men Bad Girls Andrea Hirata is one of
Guardian First Book Award and
and the Guerilla Knitter’s Indonesia’s most popular and
longlisted for the 2008 Man
Adrian Franklin Institute is set in Byron
Booker Prize.
successful contemporary
Bay. writers. His first novel, The
Professor Adrian Franklin Marc Fennell
Rainbow Troops, has sold in
is a sociologist, TV
Simon Groth Chris Hanley the millions and been adapted
presenter (ABC Collectors), for film, television and musical
radio commentator and Chris Hanley is the founder
Simon is the manager of theatre.
columnist with interests in the and Chair of the Byron Bay
if:book Australia exploring
Writers’ Festival. He is a
arts, design and contemporary Jane Gleeson-White digital futures for readers and
business coach and speaker Bernie Hobbs
society and culture. writers. He lives in Brisbane,
Jane Gleeson-White is the and a writer across a range of
Australia. Bernie Hobbs is an award-
author of Double Entry, genres from short stories to
Antony Funnell Australian Classics and business articles.
winning science writer and
broadcaster and was a regular
Antony Funnell is a Walkley Classics. She has degrees in Gideon Haigh Chris is the Principal of Byron judge on ABC TV’s The New
award-winning broadcaster literature and economics and Gideon Haigh has been Bay’s leading real estate Inventors.
and the author of The Future blogs at bookishgirl.com.au writing about sport and company, Byron Bay First
and Related Nonsense (Harper and overland.org.au. business for more than twenty National.
Collins). He presents Future years. He wrote regularly
Leigh Hobbs
Tense on Radio National. Morris Gleitzman for The Guardian during the
Marieke Hardy Leigh Hobbs is an artist,
2006–07 Ashes series. He has children’s author and illustrator.
Morris Gleitzman’s bestselling Marieke Hardy is a broadcaster,
Geoff Gallop children’s books explore
written and edited more than
screenwriter, blogger,
His most recent book is
twenty books. Horrible Harriet’s Inheritance,
Professor Geoff Gallop was serious and sometimes columnist, and author. She is published by Allen & Unwin in
Premier of Western Australia confronting subjects in a regular panelist on the ABC July 2012.
2001–2006. He is Director humorous and unexpected Leanne Hall TV’s First Tuesday Book Club.
of the Graduate School of ways. His titles include Too Leanne Hall lives in Melbourne
Government at the University Small To Fail, Pizza Cake, and works as a children’s
Susan Johnson
of Sydney, and in high Once, Then and Now, and literature specialist at an
Ashley Hay Susan Johnson is the author
demand as a columnist and are published in more than independent bookstore. Her A former literary editor of of six novels, a memoir on
public speaker. twenty countries. refreshingly original debut The Bulletin, Ashley Hay has motherhood, A Better Woman,
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a 15% discount off coffee, tea & chocolate purple
Byron Baymust be 269c please! Tel. 6685 5744
on your next order through www.zentvelds.com
offer ends 31/10/12
coupon code BBWF12
Zentveld’s Roastery
events . wholesale . roastery door sales mon-friday
193 broken head road newrybar
02 6687 2045 www.zentvelds.com
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