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7–11 September 2016 Uplit.Com.Au BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL 7–11 September 2016 uplit.com.au BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL Contents Our story continues Brisbane Writers Festival UPLIT is a cultural champion of curiosity and creativity across Queensland. 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. LECTURES UPLIT enriches and connects Queensland CONTINUES OUR STORY 13 14 23 For the very first time, BWF will be brought communities through stories and ideas. to you by UPLIT. As of July 2016, this will Come with us as we write our next chapter. be the new name of the organisation. FIND OUT MORE AT UPLIT.COM.AU 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 FROM... A MESSAGE 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 University of Queensland 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 Australia 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 EVENTS SPECIAL 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.
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