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Brisbane Writers Festival UPLIT is a cultural champion of curiosity and creativity across . OPENING ADDRESS SPECIAL EVENTS PHILOSOPHERS-IN-RESIDENCE returns for the 54th time to explore ideas, identity Brisbane Writers Festival will continue 5 6 12 to thrive as the centrepiece to UPLIT’s and imagination through program. But fifty years of organic and conversation and debate significant growth means we now exist well powered by the year’s beyond these five days and encompass a year-long suite of events and bespoke GOOD THINKING best writing. community programs and projects. INSPIRE @ BWF IN CONVERSATION You’ll notice we look a little different.

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RE[a]D BOX CALENDAR OF EVENTS PANEL DISCUSSIONS AMPERS&ND THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS BWF TEAM Julie Beveridge, Festival Director / CEO 24 26 33 READERS CIRCLE Tanya Cooling, Administration Manager Mrs Kay Bryan, Dominic and Dr Mary Rita Michelle Grant-Iramu, Producer McGann, Wendy Nichols, Manny and Lara Shprem, Program Coordinator Gail Pohl, Paul and Sue Taylor, Anonymous. Kate Bartlett, Development Manager CHAPTER ONE FOUNDING AMBASSADORS Emily Kinny, Development Manager BWF IN THE ‘BURBS! BWF AT UQ ALPHABET ZOO Julie Beveridge, Joanna Brand, Edwin Parra, Patron Services Coordinator Roslyn Capeness, Zoe Connolly, Kate Kylie Rathborne, Marketing and 34 35 36 Eltham, David Fishel, Kirsty Graham, Communications Manager Jennie Jahnke, Alasdair Jeffrey, Cassandra Ramsay, Marketing Coordinator Kathleen Jennings, Joy & Craig Lawn, Cinnamon Watson, Publicity Manager Petrina Macpherson, Steve Minon, Bernd Neumann, Technical Manager Meg Vann, Volunteer Coordinator LOVE YA! Virginia Miranda, Tom Nelson, Madonna MASTERCLASSES TICKET INFORMATION Perkins, Ellen Reiner, Kathy Sawyer, BWF BOARD RN BOOKS & ARTS LIVE Penny Shield, dale spender, Nina Stacey, Dominic McGann, Chair 37 38 42 Jenny Stubbs, Brian Tucker, Warren Penny Shield, Treasurer Ward, Dilshani Weerasinghe. Thanks Kirsty Graham also to our supporters who wish to Ben Hamley remain anonymous. Alasdair Jeffrey Join the Conversation Steve Minion #bwf16 Support from generous and passionate individuals enables our vision to become a leading platform for ideas and imagination to come to life. Write yourself into our story. Donate at uplit.com.au 2 BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL 3

Premier and Festival Director Minister for the Arts and CEO

ANNASTACIA PALASZCZUK JULIE BEVERIDGE

Why change our sacred myths A MESSAGE FROM... for your sacred myths? No, not assimilation, but integration, not submergence, but our uplifting,

Brisbane Writers Festival, an annual well-represented with Nick Earls, – OODGEROO NOONUCCAL, celebration of local literary culture, Ellen van Neervan, Richard Fidler, FROM INTEGRATION – YES! has a reputation as a friendly and Angela Slatter, Rebecca Sparrow A MESSAGE FROM... A MESSAGE welcoming event that encourages and Yassmin Abdel-Magied. participation, provokes lively debate Connection makes us. Alone we are passion for stories, for the books that and makes space for reflection. For the first time, the Festival will curious individuals, collectively we build contain them and the authors who host a Philosopher-in-Residence to greater understanding, more insight win our devotion. In 2016, Brisbane Writers Festival stimulate deeper discussions, to be and meaningful exchange. When explores the themes of family and shared between magazine editor Welcome to Brisbane’s superb annual connected we can change the world. belonging and introduces authors and Antonia Case and UQ Professor celebration of words and ideas. Your ideas across many genres, inspiring us Frederick d’Agostino. The faster our world becomes, the voice is welcome, your viewpoint to read more widely and think outside less it’s built with real connection in too – allow it to be challenged, open the box. Children’s writer and illustrator mind, we are erecting higher fences, yourself to the opportunity to be Katherine Battersby’s forthcoming living more of our lives indoors and inspired by the storytellers and The Festival will feature an opening book Little Wing will come to online, and growing more fearful iconoclasts who seduce, elevate address by noted American author life during the Festival as part of of everything. and change us. Lionel Shriver (We Need to Talk Alphabet Zoo, an interactive world From 7 – 11 September, Brisbane About Kevin) and appearances by for ages 3 – 8. Writers Festival connects bright vampire trilogy writer Justin Cronin, and curious minds – writers, We would like to respectfully acknowledge photographer and true-crime The long-running Brisbane Writers artists, thinkers, innovators – the Traditional Owners of the land and sea writer Mark Tedeschi, along with an Festival is one of the country’s most for a city-wide conversation. on which we will gather, the Jagera and impressive range of international, well-established events and my Turrbal people. We wish to pay respect to More than that, the Festival creates national and local literary names. Government continues to support the their Elders, past, present and emerging, a vibrant platform to come together Festival and encourage the ongoing and recognise that the places where we in one place to stoke the fire of host our Festival have always been a It is wonderful to see that our own engagement between readers our collective curiosity. It stirs our gathering place of rich storytelling. talented Queensland writers will be and writers. 4 BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL 5

Connection and Belonging with Lionel Shriver

Writer and straight-talking activist Lionel Shriver isn’t afraid of controversy. Her 13 novels, including We Need To Talk About Kevin, Big Brother, The Post- Birthday World and most recently, The Mandibles, have explored themes like motherhood, obesity, I am in flight economic collapse, America’s health system, and terrorism – uncomfortable realities written from an outsider’s perspective. Lionel opens this year’s Festival with her reflections on why we identify with each other in communities, from my own and how belonging to one group shouldn’t preclude us from exploring another. As a writer who inhabits unfamiliar and sometimes unlikeable characters, Lionel is a firm believer in branching out beyond the world she inhabits. With her trademark candour and dry wit, Lionel discusses breaking boundaries, story every and how writing about the unknown is a form of OPENING connection in itself. ADDRESS day and it LIONEL SHRIVER PANEL: INHERITANCE OPENING ADDRESS Lionel joins Jeremy Gavron, Neil THURSDAY 8 SEPTEMBER MAIWAR GREEN, SLQ Strauss and Ruth Clare to examine 7.30PM–8.30PM $25–$35 the ties that bind and the legacy of dogs me like a inheritance, for better or worse. Presented by McCullough Robertson SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER QUEENSLAND TERRACE, SLQ 2.30PM–3.30PM $12–$17

faithful stray. IN CONVERSATION: LIONEL SHRIVER ON THE MANDIBLES Lionel sits down one-on-one with RN’s Big Ideas Presenter Paul Barclay to discuss her provocative and powerful novel The Mandibles.

Presented by The

SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER AUDITORIUM 1, SLQ 6PM–7PM $20–$25 6 BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL 7

SPECIAL BWF’s Great Debate Bareknuckle Press Launch BWF’s Most Wanted EVENTS The annual BWF Great Debate returns! Watch the The Bareknuckle Poet Anthology 2015 was described You know you want them… some of our favourite Festival temperature gauge soar as Team takes as “beautifully produced and packed with punchy crime writers, including Caroline Overington, Angela on the world with this satirical discussion on ideas reading” in The Australian ‘Best Books of 2015’. Editors Slatter, Justin Cronin and more come together in one and politics. Two teams including A.C. Grayling, A. G. Pettet and Brentley Frazer have maintained that session to explore the nuances and rising popularity of Dave O’Neill, Yassmin Abdel-Magied and debate quality with the 2016 Anthology, sourcing work from this genre. A must-see for any fan of crime fiction. some of the finest emerging, established, Australian and moderator David Astle will bring this heated debate to the stage. international writers. FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER MAIWAR GREEN, SLQ Presented by McCullough Robertson FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 7.30PM–8.30PM FREE QUEENSLAND TERRACE, SLQ SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 5.00PM–6.00PM FREE THE EDGE, SLQ 7.30PM–9.30PM $30–$35 Wisdom Tree Live Story + Australian literary legend Nick Earls returns to the 2016 Festival for a special one-off event. Story+ returns to BWF for the fourth year running. This Nick’s novella series Wisdom Tree has been published year, internationally renowned award winning writer and worldwide, one novella per month, from May to

digital creator Kate Pullinger and Google Creative Labs SPECIAL EVENTS September this year. These five pocket-sized, richly Director Tom Uglow will engage in conversation with Dr intelligent novellas explore what it’s like to be a family in Donna Hancox about the Future of Literature at Kelvin Grove’s Creative Industries Precinct. a century of unpredictability, celebrity and terrorism. This event offers BWF audiences a chance to explore Wisdom Tree will transport audiences across the world, our digital futures with two of the most innovative from New York to Vancouver, from L.A. to Alaska, thinkers in the world as they talk about their own recent arriving right back home in Brisbane, in a beautiful, projects and broader ideas about literature. The venue subtle and intriguing adventure. at Kelvin Grove allows for this conversation to be Be enchanted by Wisdom Tree Live, where surprise streamed live to Southbank and also the Roma library so Festival Artists will be reading all five of Nick’s Novellas participants from the July workshops are able to access live for the very first time. We’re just world class arts activities regardless of their location. Presented by The Weekend Edition Presented by QUT SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER MAIWAR GREEN, SLQ drops in the BUILDING Z9, LEVEL 5, ROOM 540 6.00PM–8.30PM FREE QUT KELVIN GROVE CAMPUS 6:30PM-8:00PM FREE same ocean. BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL

BWF’s First Offenders Nick Seeley, Caroline Kepnes, Emma Viskic and Michael Collins line up for an arresting First Time Offenders session, offering a taste of their dangerous new works as the Festival Club is plunged into darkness. YASSMIN ABDEL-MAGIED

FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER MAIWAR GREEN, SLQ 6.30PM–7.30PM FREE NICK EARLS 8 BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL 9

Neil Strauss tells The Truth “People used to Ten years ago, his book The Game incited think I was just millions of men to shun monogamy. Now, reformed pick-up artist and New York Times a shouty comic, bestselling author Neil Strauss shares some uncomfortable revelations about love, but I was doing commitment and personal redemption with RN’s Big Ideas Presenter Paul Barclay. stuff about Sartre.” FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER THE EDGE, SLQ ALEXEI SAYLE 6.30PM–7.30PM $20–$25 SPECIAL EVENTS Neil Strauss Alexei Sayle SPECIAL EVENTS SPECIAL

Thatcher Stole “There comes My Trousers a time in every with Alexei Sayle English comedy pioneer Alexei Sayle man’s life when chronicles the intersection of comedy and politics set against 1970’s Britain he looks around in Thatcher Stole My Trousers. Join him for a signature blend of and realizes he’s memoir, politics, love and laughter. made a mess of Presented by Bigfish

FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER everything.” THE EDGE, SLQ NEIL STRAUSS 8.00PM–9.00PM $20–$25 10 BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL 11

“Having lived so Memoir Readings Without You, There Is No Us More than ever before we love delving into the seemingly with Suki Kim long with fairy tales ordinary lives of others. Memoirist Jeremy Gavron, Elspeth Muir, Marie Munkara and Hugo Race share Five years ago Suki Kim went undercover in their pages live. North Korea to infiltrate and understand a world and evasions, what built on secrecy and lies. Her investigations and

FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER insights form the fascinating New York Times I wanted was the MAIWAR GREEN, SLQ bestselling non-fiction Without You, There Is No Us. 2.00PM–3.00PM $12–$17 Presented by The University of Queensland facts.” Moderated by Prof Tim Dunne JEREMY GAVRON SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER UQ Student Reading AUDITORIUM 1, SLQ 7.30PM–8.30PM $20–$25 We’ve collected some of the best new voices from Yann Martel The University of Queensland and thrust them onto Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi, heads to Brisbane the mainstage to debut their latest work. for one night only to discuss his latest The High FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER Mountains of Portugal.

MAIWAR GREEN, SLQ SPECIAL EVENTS Presented by State Library Queensland 2.00PM–2.30PM, 3.30PM–4.00PM FREE

WEDNESDAY 31 AUGUST AUDITORIUM 1, SLQ 6.30PM–7.30PM $30–$35 The Saturday Paper The Saturday Paper’s Editor Erik Jensen and regular contributor Maxine Beneba Clarke discuss SPECIAL EVENTS SPECIAL A Night By the Fire what’s making news. Join them over a coffee for a Sameness conversation about what’s making headlines. On the eve of Indigenous Literacy Day, Anita Heiss discusses her latest titles Barbed Wire Presented by The Saturday Paper in partnership with Aesop and Cherry Blossoms. SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER Presented by State Library Queensland TALKING CIRCLE, SLQ has a way of 10.00AM–4.00PM FREE, BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL TUESDAY 6 SEPTEMBER TALKING CIRCLE, SLQ 6.00PM–7.00PM FREE wearing you Rebellious Daughters Krissy Kneen, Michelle Law and Leah Kaminsky Things I Carry Around Good daughters hold their tongues, obey their elders down. and let their families determine their destiny. Rebellious In this intimate event, Troy Cassar-Daley will share daughters are just the opposite. They’ve been sent to stories from his memoir Things I Carry Around and this room to think about what they have done, come and songs from his multi-award winning career as one of hear what they have to say for themselves. Australia’s best loved country music singers.

SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER SUKI KIM WEDNESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER QM THEATRE TALKING CIRCLE, SLQ 2.30PM–3.30PM $12–$17 6.00PM–7.00PM $15–$20 12 BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL 13

INSPIRE: SONG

Rocker Bono once declared that ‘music can change the world because it can change people’. PHILOSOPHERS Join these music aficionados as they celebrate and explore the -IN- transformative nature of music RESIDENCE and song. FEATURING BARRY JONES DAVINIA CADDY HUGO RACE MODERATOR DR LIAM VINEY

Presented by Lock Stock & Barrel ANTONIA CASE PROFESSOR FREDERICK D’AGOSTINO

SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER INSPIRE AT BWF THE EDGE, SLQ 9.30AM–11.00AM $25-$35

Introducing Antonia Antonia Case was previously the PHILOSOPHERS-IN- INSPIRE: literary editor of New Philosopher RESIDENCE: CLOSING ADDRESS Inspire Case and Professor Magazine before founding and DEATH Frederick d’Agostino becoming editor of Womankind, a Our two Philosophers-in- publication that discusses the best Residence, Antonia Case Death takes many forms; quick You’ve heard from your favourite ideas from philosophy, sociology and Professor Frederick or slow, expected or sudden,

PHILOSOPHERS-IN-RESIDENCE at author, discovered a debut novelist and economics. With a background d’Agostino, are spending ritual, illegal and often taboo. and pondered ideas, big and small. in journalism, Antonia’s Festival the week immersed in Inspire DEATH presents three But now you’re wondering: how does approach weaves philosophical the festival and will different perspectives on this affect me? What can I do next? thought throughout the themes close the show with a Brisbane the inevitable. And what does it all mean? of belonging and connection, philosophical bang! underpinning the notion of story. FEATURING Over the course of the Festival, our Presented by The University ANDREW MCMILLEN two 2016 Philosophers-in-Residence of Queensland Writers LEAH KAMINSKY Professor Frederick d’Agostino is a will be attending events, posing AND MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED philosopher and social scientist based SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER questions, and approaching our MAIWAR GREEN, SLQ at The University of Queensland. He SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER attendees to find out what people 5.30PM–6.30PM FREE has edited the Australasian Journal THE EDGE, SLQ are talking about and why. They will Festival of Philosophy; Politics, Philosophy 9.30AM–11.00AM $25-$35 connect the dots and highlight the and Economics, and the Routledge ideas that resonate, culminating in a Companion to Political and Social closing address on Sunday. Philosophy. Professor d’Agostino is passionate about people, and will

ASK QUESTIONS OR FOLLOW engage with artists and audiences OUR PHILOSOPHERS both on the ground and online PICTURED: @BWFPHILINRES throughout the Festival. BARRY JONES 14 BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL 15

Jacinta Halloran: The Words and Lyrics Graeme Innes: Science of Appearances with Barry Jones Finding a Way Author and GP Jacinta Halloran Broadcaster and social activist Blind from birth, Graeme Innes reflects on the intersection of Barry Jones pursues the was blessed because he had a medical science and creativity extraordinary and the beautiful family who instilled in him a belief in her new book, The Science in his latest book, The Shock of in his own abilities. Finding a Way of Appearances. Recognition. Join him for a rich and shares his memories of love and lively reflection on the music and support and of overcoming the FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER literature that has shaped his life. discrimination so many people QUEENSLAND TERRACE with disabilities face. 2.00PM–3.00PM $12–$17 FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER Presented by The University AUDITORIUM 1, SLQ of Queensland 3.30PM–4.30PM $12–$17 Moderated by Prof Alan Rix IN CONVERSATION You Know Me Well SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER Talking Turkey with with David Levithan AUDITORIUM 1, SLQ Richard Fidler Planet According to the 10.00AM–11.00AM $12–$17 YA Superstar David Levithan Master conversationalist Movies with Marc Fennell

Richard IN CONVERSATION reveals the inspiration and Fidler’s latest book Ghost Empire is process behind his latest work Which nation is best equipped both a love letter to a lost civilisation You Know Me Well. to survive an apocalypse? Which The Ice Age with and a personal voyage of discovery. fictional country links Predator, Hear about Richard’s adventures Luke Williams FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER Commando and Die Hard? through Istanbul with his son Joe. CINEMA A, GOMA Join Marc Fennell as he tells When journalist Luke Williams began researching ice addiction, Presented by Brisbane Airport 2.00PM–3.00PM $12–$17 the hidden stories behind the Corporation movies you know and love. he didn’t count on becoming one of the statistics, trapped within the Presented by Dendy Cinemas drug’s ferocious grip. In The Ice Moderated by Aimée Lindorff Ruth Clare’s Enemy Age, Williams shares his personal FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER experience and recovery as a RICHARD FIDLER Ruth Clare’s childhood in rural MAIWAR GREEN, SLQ THE EDGE, SLQ cautionary tale to a nation facing 5.00PM–6.00PM $12–$17 Queensland was defined by her 5.00PM–6.00PM $12–$17 an epidemic. violent and controlling father, a

Vietnam veteran. Her debut book SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER Enemy is a gripping memoir on CINEMA B, GOMA The Sting with Kate Grantlee Kieza on Natasha Lester: A Kiss the cross-generational effect of My Last Continent 10.00AM–11.00AM $12–$17 war and her surprising journey to Kyriacou Monash From Mr Fitzgerald Join Midge Raymond as she lifts understanding and empathy. the lid on the quiet magic that lies In her day job as The Courier- Join Grantlee Kieza in Natasha Lester invites you to the within her stunning debut novel Mail’s Chief Crime Reporters, Kate conversation as he traces the roaring twenties in the Manhattan FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER set against the dramatic Antarctic Kyriacou has written about some journey of this reluctant Australian of gin, jazz and prosperity; where AUDITORIUM 2, SLQ landscape, My Last Continent. atrocious cases. Join her as she hero from womanising son-of-a- women wear makeup and hitched 3.30PM–4.30PM $12–$17

reveals the fascinating detail of the rabbai to visionary military leader. hemlines, enjoying a freedom to Presented by Queensland Art Gallery l sophisticated sting that brought Gallery of Modern Art Presented by The University work and vote. Daniel Morcombe’s killer to justice. of Queensland FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER Moderated by Dr Martin Crotty FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER AUDITORIUM 1, SLQ FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER THE EDGE, SLQ 5.00PM–6.00PM $12–$17 AUDITORIUM 2, SLQ FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2.00PM–3.00PM $12–$17 2.00PM–3.00PM $12–$17 AUDITORIUM 1, SLQ 2.00PM–3.00PM $12–$17 16 BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL 17

Meg & Tom Keneally: Melina Marchetta: Private Lives, Public Kirsty Eagar’s The Art of Reading Econobabble with The Soldier’s Curse Tell The Truth, History with Anna Clark Summer Skin with Damon Young Richard Denniss From Australia’s newest familial Shame The Devil Historian Anna Clark examines Kirsty Eagar’s feminist romance In a breathtakingly beautiful What does it all mean? Chief creative partnership comes fast- Australian readers have grown up the role history plays in our Summer Skin is a slick, honest and meditation on a bookish life, Economist Richard Denniss paced, witty and gripping historical with Melina Marchetta, and her lives, from the personal and hilarious story about love, sex and philosopher Damon Young exposes the flawed reasoning and crime series from Tom Keneally work grows with us. Join her to our collective stories, and why modern intimacy on campus. reflects upon the intimate pleasure nonsensical jargon that dominates and his eldest daughter Meg. discuss her latest title for adults it matters to move beyond of reading and the literary virtues public debate in his new book the rhetoric. SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER of his lifelong devotion. Econobabble. Presented by State Library of Tell The Truth, Shame The Devil. QAG LECTURE THEATRE Queensland Moderated by Gillian Whitlock Moderated by Ros Petilin SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 11.30AM–12.30PM $12–$ 17 SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER CINEMA B, GOMA SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER QAG LECTURE THEATRE SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 11.30AM–12.30PM $12–$17 MAIWAR GREEN, SLQ 10.00AM–11.00AM $12–$17 CINEMA B, GOMA QAG LECTURE THEATRE 10.00AM–11.00AM $12–$17 1.00PM–2.00PM $12–$17 1.00PM–2.00PM $12–$ 17 Ashleigh Wilson on Brett Whiteley: Art, Life Surrender: Joshua Skeleton School with The Beast’s Garden and the Other Thing Where The Trees Were: The Last Days Yeldham Andrew McMillen with Kate Forsynth Australians remain fascinated with

Inga Simpson of Ava Langdon IN CONVERSATION Surrender: A Journey For My the life and times of artist Brett Journey beyond the fable with Award-winning journalist Andrew Daughter is the beautiful first Whiteley. Journalist Ashleigh Inga Simpson is one of Australia’s with Mark O’Flynn internationally-bestelling author McMillen was given unprecedented foray into literature from visual Wilson shares the unprecedented most important contemporary Join novellist and poet Mark Kate Forsyth. Her latest novel The access to education anatomy artist Joshua Yeldham. Join behind-the-scenes access to writers. Her latest title Where O’Flynn for a lively discussion of Beast’s Garden reimagines the facilities. Join him as he shares the him for a meditation on his rare notebook sketches and The Trees Were, explores the his latest work, a witty and poignant Brothers Grimm version of Beauty stories of those who donate their life’s journey. candid family photos in his new innocence of youth and the story inspired by eccentric real-life and The Beast in the German bodies to science. Whiteley biography. scars that stay with us for life. novelist Eve Langley, who famously underground resistance to Hitler in Presented by Queensland Art Gallery l Gallery of Modern Art SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER dressed as Oscar Wilde and World War II. Presented by Philip Bacon Galleries SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER IN CONVERSATION THE HERITAGE ROOM wielded a sword around Katoomba. Moderated by Alison Kubler Moderated by Philip Bacon THE HERITAGE ROOM Moderated by Kim Wilkins 11.30AM–12.30PM $12–$ 17 1.00PM–2.00PM $12–$17 Moderated by Judith Seaboyer SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER THE HERITAGE ROOM THE EDGE, SLQ SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER QM THEATRE 10.00AM–11.00AM $12–$17 1.00PM–2.00PM $12–$17 KURIL DHAGUN, SLQ 10.00AM–11.00AM $12–$17 2.30PM–3.30PM FREE Switched On with John The Whale Years with Elder Robison Gregory O’Brien The Island Will Sink In Switched On, free-range A Brain for Life with Marie Munkara: Between 2011 and 2014, poet and Aspergian John Elder Robison with Briohny Doyle Dr Nicola Gates artist Gregory O’Brien found The Death of All Things Of Ashes and Rivers shares his experience with a Melbourne writer Briohny Doyle’s Brain and Mind Psychology is Dr himself following the migratory Seen with Michael Collins that Run to the Sea revolutionary new brain therapy gripping debut novel The Island Will Nicola Gates practice, promoting routes of whales and seabirds across Booker-shortlisted Irish author promising to unlock emotional Sink offers a glimpse into a grave brain, mind and body health for vast tracts of the South Pacific Michael Collins tackles complex With honesty and courage Marie intelligence. Join this deeply personal new world where human activity life. Join Nicola as she discusses Ocean. Join Gregory as he discusses family secrets set against the Munkara shares a powerful reflection on the remarkable now dominates Earth’s geology. facilitating lifestyle and mindstyle The Whale Years; his homage to the backdrop of the 2008 financial journey in her new memoir, as a advances in neuroscience. Join her in conversation about change for personal growth and cultural heart and health of an ocean crisis in his new novel, The Death life-changing encounter leads her memory, legacy and simulated Presented by The University optimal functional health. in memorable, musical, moving lines. of All Things Seen. back home. reality of a not-too distant future. of Queensland Presented by The University Presented by Philip Bacon Galleries Moderated by Bronwyn Lea SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER Moderated by Sophie Overett SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER of Queensland CINEMA B, GOMA KURIL DHAGUN, SLQ AUDITORIUM 1, SLQ SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2.30PM–3.30PM $12–$17 10.00AM–11.00AM FREE 11.30AM–12:30PM $12–$17 KURIL DHAGUN, SLQ QUEENSLAND TERRACE, SLQ KURIL DHAGUN 11.30AM–12.30PM FREE 1.00PM–2.00PM $12–$17 1.00PM–2.00PM FREE

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The Hate Race with Matt Vickers on Elspeth Muir: Wasted Maxine Beneba Clarke Lecretia’s Choice Wasted charts familiar territory Maxine Beneba Clarke’s Matt Vickers shares the intensely for Australian communities, where eloquent and brutally honest personal story of his late wife excessive alcohol consumption memoir The Hate Race chronicles Lecretia’s battle with the New among young people is the norm. growing up black in white middle Zealand High Court for the right Join Elspeth Muir as she shares class suburban Sydney. Join her to choose her own end as a a deeply personal story about the for a fierce interrogation of racism terminal brain tumour took hold. real costs of such behaviour. in Australia – then and now. Join him for an important and Moderated by Hayley Singer passionate argument for living Moderated by Melissa Lucashenko and dying with dignity. SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER QAG LECTURE THEATRE Presented by The University QAG LECTURE THEATRE 10.00AM–11.00AM $12–$17 of Queensland 2.30PM–3.30PM $12–$17 Moderated by Edwina Shaw

SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER Beautiful Failures with THE HERITAGE ROOM The Sound with Lucy Clark Kidnapped with 4.00PM–5.00PM $12–$17 Sarah Drummond Journalist Lucy Clark challenges Mark Tedeschi Sea salt swirls from every page the purpose of childhood, In 1960, the nation was gripped of Sarah Drummond’s first a “broken” education system by the kidnapping case of The Easy Way Out novel The Sound, based on the and the yardsticks of success in Beautiful Failures. Join this honest a Sydney schoolboy whose with Steven Amsterdam remarkable true story of the parents had recently won the Aboriginal women and children and necessary conversation lottery. Author and Senior Crown Would you help someone end their plundered by sealing crews on navigating today’s pressure Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi life? Join Steven Amsterdam as sailing from Van Diemen’s Land to cooker school environment. he explores the most taboo and AM QC explores in meticulous Western Australia in the 1820s. Presented by McCullough Robertson detail this extraordinary crime heartbreaking of dilemmas. IN CONVERSATION and the pioneering investigation SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER techniques used by NSW Police. SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER QM THEATRE AUDITORIUM 1, SLQ 10.00AM–11.00AM $12–$17 SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER Presented by The University 4.00PM–5.00PM $12–$17 THE EDGE, SLQ of Queensland 2.30PM–3.30PM $12–$17 Moderated by Dr Robyn Fitzgerald

SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER Sarah Ridout: Le Chateau AUDITORIUM 1, SLQ The Fighter: Arriving at their family chateau in 2.30PM–3.30PM $12–$17 Arnold Zable southern France, Charlotte hopes Justin Cronin’s Avalanche with Cambodia Noir with Arnold Zable shares a moving and to regain her memories. Instead, City of Mirrors Julia Leigh Nick Seeley poetic portrait of two fighters; a strange events hint at underlying champion boxer and his mother, darkness and menace. Sarah After a decade immersed in Avalanche brings us a courageous Nick Seeley’s electric debut lost to madness. Ridout, in the style of Daphne du vampires and viruses, author personal account of the expensive, novel hurtles through Phnom Penh Maurier and Kate Morton, presents Justin Cronin surfaces to explore emotional limbo that is IVF. Join in a haze of drugs, booze and SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER a suspenseful gothic tale full of the blurred lines between good Julia Leigh as she discusses her mystery. Join him in conversation QAG LECTURE THEATRE beauty and mystery. and evil as his Passage trilogy book and her hopes for a more about writing noir and exploring 5.30PM–6.30PM FREE reaches its epic conclusion. honest and open conversation Cambodia’s dark corners. Moderated by Cass Moriarty about fertility. Moderated by Leah Scott SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER AUDITORIUM 1, SLQ KURIL DHAGUN, SLQ SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 10.00AM–11.00AM $12–$17 10.00AM–11.00AM FREE QUEENSLAND TERRACE, SLQ CINEMA B, GOMA 10.00AM–11.00AM $12–$17 10.00AM–11.00AM $12–$17 20 BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL 21

The Summer of ‘82: The Trust Deficit with Jennifer Rayner’s Karen Pickering: Doin’ It Illuminae with Amie Caroline Kepnes: Dave O’Neill Sam Crosby Generation Less Join feminist, activist and founder Kaufman and Jay Hidden Bodies In the sultry summer of ‘82, Why has our faith in politicians Will young Australians be the of the Melbourne chapter of Kristoff Following her chilling debut novel SlutWalk Karen Pickering as she comedian Dave O’Neill had ten eroded and can it be rebuilt? first generation since the Great Hold onto your space boots! You, Caroline Kepnes is back with female power and the significance weeks to fill between finishing school Former Rudd advisor Sam Depression to be worse off than Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff the highly anticipated Hidden Bodies. of sex-positive female voices in her and figuring out his next move. Join Crosby examines how trust is their parents? Jennifer Rayner descend to talk Illuminae, their The sequel follows charismatic yet new anthology, Doin’ It. him as he reminisces about the used for political advantage in ruminates on their prospects in unforgettable New York Times psychotic bookseller Joe Goldberg (mostly accidental) adventures that his new book The Trust Deficit. her new book Generation Less. bestselling novel and the first in as he dives into social media, SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER turned a boy into a man. Tinder and Hollywood. QAG LECTURE THEATRE a heart-stopping trilogy about SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER Presented by Grassroots IT 1.00PM–2.00PM $12–$ 1 7 truth, courage and zombies. QM THEATRE CINEMA B, GOMA SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER Moderated by Leah Scott 11.30AM–12.30PM $12–$17 1.00PM–2.00PM $12–$17 Presented by Dendy Cinemas CINEMA B, GOMA

SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 4.00PM–5.00PM $12–$17 SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER QM THEATRE KURIL DHAGUN, SLQ 11.30AM–12:30PM $12–$17 Everyone Brave 2.30PM–3.30PM FREE A Woman on the Edge of Jonathan Unleashed is Forgiven with Time with Jeremy Gavron with Meg Rosoff Chris Cleave Six Square Meters:

Margaret Simons IN CONVERSATION My Sister Rosa with In his brave and searing memoir Winner of the 2016 Astrid Lindgren Award-winning Irish author Chris A Woman on the Edge of Time, Memorial Award Meg Rosoff Road Series with Justine Larbalestier Cleave draws on the improbable In her thoughtful and beautifully Jeremy Gavron investigates reflects on writing humour, canine and beautiful courtship of this Hugo Race observed memoir, journalist and Che Taylor’s little sister Rosa is the the eerie similarities between the characters and shifting gears grandparents in Everyone Brave Road Series is both love story gardening enthusiast Margaret most terrifying person he’s ever met. life and death of his mother and between YA to adult fiction for her is Forgiven. Escape with him for and elegy, a true and revealing Simons takes us on a journey Can he protect her from the world, Sylvia Plath. Join him to dissect latest novel Jonathan Unleashed. a discussion about love via long- tale. Music and travel collide and through the seasons, through her and the world from her? Join Justine the suffocation felt by intelligent, distance wartime mail. Moderated by Edwina Johnston coalesce, join Hugo Race as he life, and through the tiny patch of Larbalestier in conversation about ambitious women in the 1960s. inner-urban earth that is home to Presented by The University gives us a rare insights into what SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER

IN CONVERSATION her disturbing new psychological of Queensland it means to devote one’s life to her garden. thriller, My Sister Rosa. SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER AUDITORIUM 1, SLQ Moderated by Judith Seaboyer the musical journey. QAG LECTURE THEATRE 1.00PM–2.00PM $12–$17 SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 11.30AM–12.30PM $12–$17 SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER Moderated by Andrew McMillen AUDITORIUM 1, SLQ CINEMA B, GOMA AUDITORIUM 1, SLQ 4.00PM–5.00PM $12–$17 SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 11.30AM–12.30PM $12–$17 2.30PM–3.30PM $12–$ 17 AUDITORIUM 2, SLQ Shelley Davidow’s 2.30PM–3.30PM $12–$17 The Midnight Watch Whisperings in with David Dyer the Blood Sarah Kanake: Ruins with Rajith Vigil with Angela Slatter Ever heard of SS Californian, the ship Spanning four continents and one Sing Fox To Me Savanadasa that ignored the Titanic’s distress Can you picture Brisbane as a hundred years, Shelley Davidow Set amid the remote wilderness of dark supernatural playground? In the aftermath of the Sri Lankan rockets? Former doctor, merchant traces her family’s emotional North Tasmania, Sarah Kanake’s Award-winning writer Angela civil war, one family’s bond stretches sailor, lawyer and academic David immigrant journey in Whisperings haunting debut novel Sing Fox Slatter conjures up a spellbinding to breaking point as they search Dyer’s debut novel based on this in the Blood. To Me traces a family haunted by urban fantasy with heart in Vigil, for redemption. Join author Rajith true story explores how the smallest betrayal. Join her in conversation Presented by Brisbane Airport her debut novel and the first in her Savanadasa – a gifted new talent in mistakes can lead to the greatest about her richly-drawn characters, Corporation Verity Fassbinder trilogy. Australian fiction – in conversation catastrophes. the evocative natural environment about his new novel Ruins. SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER and the ties that bind. Presented by State Library of Queensland SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER KURIL DHAGUN, SLQ Moderated by Joy Lawn Moderated by Ashley Hay QAG LECTURE THEATRE 1.00PM–2.00PM FREE 2.30PM–3.30PM $12–$17 SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER KURIL DHAGUN AUDITORIUM 1, SLQ KURIL DHAGUN, SLQ 4.00PM–5.00PM FREE 11.30AM–12.30PM $12–$17 11.30AM–12:30PM FREE SATURDAY 10 SEPT

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Sarah Kanake Sarah to Tribute A Caroline Kepnes Caroline First Nations Nations First Larissa Recovery and and Recovery Pereceptions of of Pereceptions Margaret Simons Margaret

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Presented by The University The University by Presented of Queensland d’Agostino Frederick Prof by Moderated 9 SEPTEMBER FRIDAY SLQ 1, AUDITORIUM $25-$35 6:30PM–7.30PM A.C. Grayling A.C. writing is grounded Grayling’s A.C. should philosophy in the idea that and make with the world engage itself title The Age useful. His latest Centuryof Genius: The Seventeeth and the Birth of the Modern Mind moment the exact investigates history course sothat changed shape to and began profoundly With a followed. that everything deft and charming good touch an insightful offers Grayling humour, in the history and examination of humanity. philosophy

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The Right to Belong Retreat to Move Forward Moral Compass Michael Burge, Heather Has global trade improved or Humanity’s moral compass has Faulkner and David Hardy trapped social revolutions? transformed significantly over the discuss the disconnection that is Investigative journalists Suki years. A.C. Grayling, Antonia created in a time and place where Kim and David Bandurski join Case, and Daniel Crimston a person’s sexual orientation urbanist Andy Merrifield and Dr explore the shifting sands of dictates the rights they have in Gerhard Hoffstaedter to examine attitudes towards ‘good’ and ‘bad’. society. Should it be this hard? the correlation between national Moderated by Prof Frederick growth and the rise of social turmoil. Presented by McCullough Robertson d’Agostino Presented by The University FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER of Queensland AUDITORIUM 2, SLQ AUDITORIUM 1, SLQ 1.00PM–2.00PM $12–$17 5.00PM–6.00PM $12–$17 SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER QUEENSLAND TERRACE, SLQ PANEL 11.30AM–12.30PM $12–$17 Our Own Worst Enemy DISCUSSIONS Crime and Curiosity From Policy to Pockets Leadership spills have defined

Why are we captivated by Jennifer Rayner and Richard PANEL DISCUSSIONS recent Australian politics, but why stories of pretty dead girls? Pyscho Denniss lead a discussion that are internal party tensions played Kate Kyriacou, Mark Tedeshi Creepy children. Stalkers. explores the context of economic out more publicly than during the and Emily Maguire investigate Con Artists. Murderers. policy. What do government Hawke/Keating years? Join Sarah why we love to play detective. Justine Larbalestier, Caroline funding announcements really Ferguson, Sam Crosby and Overington and Caroline Kepnes mean? Where does the money Barry Jones for a conversation Presented by Dendy Cinemas explore the curious appeal of the come from and how do we about party loyalty – or the lack of SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER darkest characters. measure it’s impact? it – in Australian politics. QUEENSLAND TERRACE, SLQ Presented by The University 10.00AM–11.00AM $12–$17 Moderated by Meg Van of Queensland SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER Moderated by Prof John Quiggin AUDITORIUM 2, SLQ SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 11.30AM–12.30PM $12–$17 SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER SARAH FERGUSON THE EDGE, SLQ AUDITORIUM 2, SLQ 4.00PM–5.00PM $12–$17 Pathways To Publication 1.00PM–2.00PM $12–$17 Rajith Savandasa is a graduate of the Hachette Manuscript Development Program. Mark Eat Local Smith’s first book was plucked Journey through the diversely Big Politics Small Writers And Their Where the News Stops Fan Girl For Life from the slush. Anna Daniels won beautiful Scenic Rim region of SEQ Politics Gardens and the Story Begins Melina Marchetta and Meg an unpublished manuscript award. with chef Brenda Fawdon and Three authors reveal their unique photographer Christine Sharp, Disillusioned with modern politics Margaret Simons, author of Six John Birmingham and Lucy Rosoff discuss their favourite routes to publication. co-authors of Eat Local: Food, and our major political parties, Square Metres: Gardening in the Clark navigate the line between books. What did they love to read Farming and Conversation in the voters are increasingly turning to Inner City and Damon Young, reporting and storytelling in a world growing up? Which books had the Presented by State Library of Queensland Scenic Rim. Independents and Greens. Young author of Philosopher in the Garden where audiences embrace forms of most impact on their lives and their Moderated by Kelly Higgins-Devine people aren’t voting or joining major revel in their shared love of literature journalism like Making a Murderer. writing? A not-to-be-missed panel Presented by Scenic Rim Council SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER parties. Alexei Sayle heads a line- and gardening. for bookworms young and old. Presented by Bigfish AUDITORIUM 2, SLQ SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER up of thought leaders to reflect on Presented by Mondo Organics Moderated by Skye Doherty Moderated by David Burton 10.00AM–11.00AM $12–$17 MAIWAR GREEN, SLQ the rise of progressive politics. 11.30AM–12.30PM $12–$17 FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER MAIWAR GREEN, SLQ QUEENSLAND TERRACE, SLQ THE EDGE, SLQ QM THEATRE 3.30PM–4.30PM $12–$17 3.30PM–4.30PM $12–$17 3.30PM–4.30PM $12–$17 1.00PM–2.00PM $12–$17 28 BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL 29

On The Ropes New Philosopher The Rules of Overlords and Imagining The Future Science and Belonging The recent death of Muhammed Ali Antonia Case and guest panellists Engagement Underworlds Don’t miss Andy Merrifield, Ashley Science is the endless quest for has reignited conversation about Damon Young, Margaret The artists, the artforms and the Some of us daydream in the real Hay and Brendan Gleeson as they knowledge and truth. Dr Maggie boxing and it’s cultural significance. Simons and Dr Nicola Gates industry have changed, but what world, but some of us reside in imagine that there is a future and Hardy, Dr Maree Kimberley, Four boxing enthusiasts, Arnold frame philosophical commentary of the audiences? Kate Pullinger, strange and distant underworlds, with what it might look like. Prof Tamara Davis and Ellen van Zable, Phil Brown, Grantlee Kieza around the latest edition of New Neervan come together to share Caroline Keins and Matt Finch dark edges. Masters of genre Justin Presented by Smith Journal and Luke Stegemann yarn about Philosopher, challenging readers address the changing rules of Cronin, Angela Slatter and Candice their excitement about some recent the sport they all love. to ponder life’s big questions. cultural engagement. Fox reveal the places they go, when SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER breakthroughs and the implications AUDITORIUM 2, SLQ they hold for all of us. Presented by Lock Stock & Barrel Presented by New Philosopher they leave the real world behind. Presented by Bigfish 11.30AM–12.30PM $12–$17 Presented by State Library of Queensland SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER Moderated by Phil Brown Moderated by Trent Jamieson Moderated by Matt Finch AUDITORIUM 2, SLQ AUDITORIUM 2, SLQ SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2.30PM–3.30PM $12–$17 4.00PM–5.00PM $12–$17 SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER QAG LECTURE THEATRE THE EDGE, SLQ THE PARLOUR, SLQ 4.00PM–5.00PM $12–$17 5.30PM–6.30PM $12–$17 Do You See What I See? 11.30AM–12.30PM FREE The media and popular culture is slowly moving beyond the Inheritance Reporting The World stereotypes towards a more

On the back of her latest novel Foreign correspondents Reasons To Be Not Your Average Hero accurate representation of PANEL DISCUSSIONS Jeremy After Party The Mandibles about family Gavron, Nick Seeley and Rod Optimistic Sarah Kanake and Emma Viskic Australia’s diverse communities. dysfunction in trying times, Lionel Nordland discuss the trials and Dive into a conversation with (The First 90 Days) Professors’ Alex Bellamy, Pankaj have both written powerful, curious Shriver joins Jeremy Gavron, tactics of reporting the world. Michelle Law, David Levithan, Sah and Ross Cunnington from and complicated protagonists Approximately 90 days after Neil Strauss and Ruth Clare to Have their experiences translated Marc Fennell and Yassmin Abdel- The University of Queensland who are set apart by living with a election Anne Tiernan, Stan examine the ties that bind and the through the news outlets they work Magied about the positives and talk about their current projects disability. Join them as they explore Grant and Sam Crosby legacy of inheritance, for better for. They share some of their stories negatives of media identity. and provide a reason for us to be identity in literature. investigate the new or for worse. that remain, shamefully, untold. government post-election. optimistic about the future. Presented by Brisbane Airport Presented by State Library of Queensand Presented by Griffith University Corporation Moderated by Antonia Case SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER Presented by The University Moderated by Anne Teirnan PANEL DISCUSSIONS PANEL Moderated by Dr Kasun Ubayasiri Moderated by David Burton QUEENSLAND TERRACE, SLQ of Queensland SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2.30PM–3.30PM $12–$17 SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER Moderated by Prof Joanne Wright QUEENSLAND TERRACE, SLQ SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER MAIWAR GREEN, SLQ 11.30AM–12.30PM $12–$17 QUEENSLAND TERRACE, SLQ AUDITORIUM 2, SLQ SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 11.30AM–12.30PM $12–$17 4.00PM–5.00PM $12–$17 10.00AM–11.00AM $12–$17 AUDITORIUM 1, SLQ 4.00PM–5.00PM FREE Music and the Mind The Politics of Davinia Caddy, Eve Klein, PNG: A State of Writing Mary Broughton and Margaret Constitutional Reform Urbanisation Barrett enjoy a lyrical discussion PNG Authors Francis Nii, Daniel 50 Shades Flipped We remain the only Commonwealth How does the way we build cities Kumbon and Leonard Roka that explores the positive 50 Shades took the world by country without a signed treaty influence our behaviour and habits? ruminate on the state of their effects of music on your mind, storm. Now meet three women, with our Indigenous people. Stan Andy Merrifield, David Bandurski from childhood development to nation, from a political and social Emily Harris, Karen Pickering Grant, Prof Cindy Shannon and and Ian Lowe explore how urban enduring your golden years. perspective, and dares to imagine and Kirsty Eagar who are busy Larissa Berhendt imagine a way environments shape political beliefs their people’s future. positioning sex in a positive light. forward from this national shame. and how we live. SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER QM THEATRE SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER Presented by The University Presented by McCullough Robertson Presented by Arkhefield 2.30PM–3.30PM $12–$17 KURIL DHAGUN of Queensland Moderated by Andrew Gutteridge SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 4.00PM–5.00PM FREE SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER MAIWAR GREEN, SLQ SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER QM THEATRE 10.00AM–11.00AM $12–$17 THE EDGE, SLQ 4.00PM–5.00PM $12–$17 11.30AM–12.30PM $12–$17

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I to You. Our Sporting Nation Historical Fiction Here in Australia, we love a good Let’s take it back a step. Or two. I to We. book. We love a good ballet and we Or two hundred. Why is historical love a good basketball team. We fiction so important? What does I to This. are a sporting nation, and we wear it suggest about our future? our stripes with pride. Join Geoff Enjoy a genre chat with Sarah JULIA LEIGH Woolcock, Ellen van Neervan, Drummond, David Dyer and Edwina Shaw and Yassmin Kate Forsyth. Abdel-Magied as they kick Presented by Queensland Art Gallery l around their ideas. Gallery of Modern Art Building a Family Moderated by Luke Stegemann Moderated by Phil Brown

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