WILD, WEIRD & WONDERFUL 03-05 MAY 2019 Voyager Estate 2019 Festival Hub DAY ONE FRIDAY 3 MAY

9.30am 11am 12Pm VOYAGER ESTATE MAIN STAGE VOYAGER ESTATE MAIN STAGE VOYAGER ESTATE MAIN STAGE Kathleen O’Connor Man at the Window Star-Crossed of Paris Man at the Window is an With the rights to Star-Crossed Join Amanda Curtin as she explores atmospheric crime novel with now sold in 19 countries and questions of life and of art, in her a burning moral dilemma at with a major film and TV deal in latest book Kathleen O’Connor of its heart. Join Robert Jeffreys negotiation, Minnie Darke is a rising Paris. Part biography, part travel as he speaks about his debut literary star. Star-Crossed is fresh, narrative, this is the story of an artist novel Man at the Window, the funny and romantic, with characters in a foreign land who, with limited first in the Detective Cardilini that ooze warmth and charm and resources, worked and exhibited series, set in 1960s Western has been described as a literary in Paris for over forty years. Australia. cousin of the film, Love Actually.

PRESENTED BY: PRESENTED BY: PRESENTED BY: WILL YEOMAN GILLIAN O’SHAUGHNESSY WILL YEOMAN SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: MARGARETS SPONSORED BY: LIONS CLUB OF MARGARET RIVER FOREST HOLIDAY APARTMENTS CAVALCADE DESSERTS $20 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $20 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $20 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS

1Pm VOYAGER ESTATE MAIN STAGE High School Special: The Future of Us What will our planet look like in the future? Join Astrophysicist Lisa Harvey-Smith, Novelist Lisa Walker and Author & Daydreamer Josh Langley for a light-hearted discussion on the future of planet earth with local high school students; blending science, fun and fantasy. PRESENTED BY: GLYNN GREENSMITH SPONSORED BY: LOTTERYWEST

5 DAY ONE FRiDAY 3 May

2Pm VOYAGER ESTATE MAIN STAGE Salt, Sleet and Wild Seas Join West Australian writers Amanda Curtin and Sarah Drummond as they discuss their stories of salt, sleet and women on wild seas. Amanda’s much-loved novel Elemental begins in the first years of the twentieth century where lives are ruled by men, and men by the witchy sea. Sarah’s novel The Sound depicts a violent and lawless world on a sealing boat voyage from Tasmania to WA.

PRESENTED BY: RASHIDA MURPHY SPONSORED BY: FREMANTLE PRESS $20 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS

3.30Pm 9.30am 11am VOYAGER ESTATE MAIN STAGE VOYAGER ESTATE WRITERS’ ROOM VOYAGER ESTATE WRITERS’ ROOM Anna Funder In Mutch More to Where the wild Conversation the Story writers grow Anna Funder has become a Ian Mutch is a Dunsborough- What makes a writer want to significant part of the Australian based artist and author exploring write? And more importantly, literary landscape and is one beauty through nature, narrative keep writing? Sit down with of our most acclaimed and and details. Mutch draws Chairperson of writing WA celebrated writers. Join the inspiration from travelling, Tabetha Beggs who will speak Miles Franklin Award-winning landscapes, animals, stories and to a motley panel of Perth writer, author of All That I Am and patterns. Join in this free lunch authors including Elizabeth Stasiland, as she speaks about time session to hear about Ian’s Lewis, Holden Sheppard and her impressive body of work. story from artist to children’s book Sarah Drummond, to find out. author and everything in between.

PRESENTED BY: WILL YEOMAN PRESENTED BY: NICOLE SINCLAIR PRESENTED BY: TABETHA BEGGS SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: WONDERLAND TENTS AND EVENTS ROTARY CLUB OF MARGARET RIVER KSP WRITERS’ CENTRE $20 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $10 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $10 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS

6 6PM - 8PM VOYAGER ESTATE MAIN STAGE

Festival Launch image: TIM CAMPBELL Join us for the opening of the 2019 Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival. Enjoy Voyager Estate wines plus a delicious selection of canapés, while the funky jazz sounds of local band, The River Bugs fill the air. Guests will then be seated for a welcome to country by Wadandi man Iszaac (Waalitj) Webb, and a talk by special guest Professor Germaine Greer, who will share stories about her life and career. SPONSORED BY: VOYAGER ESTATE & MARGARET RIVER CATERNG AND HIRE $35 / $25 ARTS HUB MEMBERS image: Wayne Webb

12pm 2Pm 3.30Pm VOYAGER ESTATE WRITERS’ ROOM VOYAGER ESTATE WRITERS’ ROOM VOYAGER ESTATE WRITERS’ ROOM The Art of Coming Home Anywhere Persuasion But Here Join award-winning author A conversation will take place Join Lisa Walker and Holden Susan Midalia as she speaks between Stolen Generation Sheppard as they discuss their about her debut novel The Art mother and Wadandi Elder, Young Adult coming-of-age of Persuasion. Weaving politics Sandra Hill and her daughter stories. Paris Syndrome is a and literature, this contemporary Tracie Pushman, regarding funny and poignant coming-of- romance has been described as the difficult, painful and age story while Invisible Boys warm, witty and wonderful. unique journey that Sandra explores growing up gay in experienced navigating her the country. way home to family, culture and community.

PRESENTED BY: RASHIDA MURPHY PRESENTED BY: PRESENTED BY: NICOLE SINCLAIR SPONSORED BY: UNDALUP ASSOCIATION SPONSORED BY: PEPPERMINT BROOK COTTAGES $10 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS LIONS CLUB OF BUSSELTON $10 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $10 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS

7 DAY TWO SATURDAY 4 May

9.30am 11Am 12Pm VOYAGER ESTATE MAIN STAGE VOYAGER ESTATE MAIN STAGE VOYAGER ESTATE MAIN STAGE The Great Cave Rescue Out of the Forest Germaine Greer: South-East Asia Correspondent He was once living in near On Rape for Fairfax Media, James total-isolation in the forest, Join one of the most significant Massola, shares the story foraging for food and eating feminist voices of our time, behind his book The Great Cave bats. When he finally emerged, Germaine Greer, as she discusses Rescue. The book covers the emaciated and close to her controversial new essay, On miraculous rescue of the death, he was determined to Rape. While the #metoo movement Wild Boars soccer team and give society another chance. has brought the pervasive nature their coach in Tham Luang Today, Dr Gregory Peel Smith, of predatory behaviour to top of cave in northern Thailand in who left school at the age mind, Greer argues that centuries July 2018. of fourteen, has a PhD and of different approaches to rape,

PRESENTED BY: JAMES LUSH teaches at university. Out of as inflicted by men on women, SPONSORED BY: the Forest is his remarkable have got us nowhere and there MARGARET RIVER BOOKSHOP memoir. has to be a better way. $20 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS PRESENTED BY: WILL YEOMAN SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: TOURISM WESTERN AUSTRALIA COUNTRY ARTS WA $40 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $20 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS

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2.30Pm 4Pm 1Pm VOYAGER ESTATE MAIN STAGE VOYAGER ESTATE MAIN STAGE VOYAGER ESTATe MAIN STAGE Leunig Live Calling Out the Past Raise Your Voice Australian cartoonist, writer, Join literary icons Anna SLAM Poets take the stage painter, philosopher and poet Funder and Kim Scott for a for a free lunch time session Michael Leunig produces discussion on uncovering the that will blow your mind. Hear work which is open to many past and challenging elements Jesse Oliver, winner of the interpretations. Leunig describes of history that are outlandish 2017 Australian Poetry SLAM his approach as regressive, and horrific in retrospect — in action, as well as SLAM humorous, messy and mystical while reflecting on the current sensation Maddie Godfrey — see for yourself as he shares political, social and cultural plus Allan Boyd, Saoirse Nash his love of cartooning and human landscape. and Jakob Boyd as they give observation, while drawing live. a creative showcase of the

SPONSORED BY: SOUTH WEST PRESENTED BY: WILL YEOMAN spoken word. DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION SPONSORED BY: THE BREAK - PRESENTED BY: PERTH SLAM $25 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS MARGARET RIVER BEACH HOUSES SPONSORED BY: LOTTERYWEST $20 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS FREE EVENT

9 DAY TWO SATURDAY 4 May

11Am 2.30pm VOYAGER ESTATe writers’ room VOYAGER ESTATe writers’ room Aussie 2.0 Scrublands Join William McInnes and Set in a fictional town at the Dave Warner for a yarn about height of a devastating drought, Australian popular culture and Scrublands is one of the most the aussie things and people original crime novels to be written that make us cringe with in Australia. Join journalist recognition and laugh with turned Novelist, Chris Hammer 9.30am affection. Does cultural cringe as he speaks about his latest VOYAGER ESTATe writers’ room still exist or have we moved on? compulsive thriller. Coffee & Papers PRESENTED BY: JAMES LUSH PRESENTED BY: SARAH McNEILL SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: Start your morning with a coffee, EMPIRE EVENTS MARGARET RIVER TOURING COMPANY the day’s news and hot topics as $10 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $10 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS told by our journalists, festival guests and local icons. 12Pm 4pm Features: VOYAGER ESTATe writers’ room VOYAGER ESTATe writers’ room • Ian Parmenter, Seeking Love & Women of a • Rosemary Sayer, Revenge Certain Age • Gillian O’Shaughnessy Minnie Darke and Pip Drysdale Join Editors Jodie Moffat and • Chris Hammer. talk all things love — and love Susan Sullivan, together with PRESENTED BY: gone wrong, as told in their new contributors Liz Byrski and GLYNN GREENSMITH page-turning novels. Minnie Sarah Drummond for wonderful SPONSORED BY: • Augusta-Margaret River MAIL Darke’s Star-Crossed is a funny, stories of identity and survival. • POST NEWSPAPERS feel-good novel that has sold Women of a Certain Age is a $10 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS around the world, while Pip celebration of getting older Drysdale’s The Sunday Girl shows and wiser, and becoming more what it feels like to be broken- certain of who you are and hearted and bent on revenge. where you want to be.

PRESENTED BY: SARAH McNEILL PRESENTED BY: ROSEMARY SAYER SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: Karri House and BUNBURY JAGUAR AND RANGE ROVER SEVEN SEAS TEA $10 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $10 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS

10 DAY THREE SUNDAY 5 MAY image: T essa ross

9.30am 11am 12Pm VOYAGER ESTATE MAIN STAGE VOYAGER ESTATE MAIN STAGE VOYAGER ESTATE MAIN STAGE Fatherhood Protecting Wild Places When Galaxies with Germaine Greer Collide Join William McInnes, one of Germaine Greer bought You’ll never look up at the Australia’s best-known storytellers 60ha of steep rocky land in night sky in the same way. Join and actors, as he talks about southeast Queensland in 2001. Astronomer Lisa Harvey-Smith his latest book Fatherhood. Germaine became an interface as she gives you a glimpse Warm, witty and nostalgic, these between the forest and the 5.86 billion years into the future wonderful tales are just like a world of humans, doing to consider the fate of Earth and friendly chat over the back fence, her best to protect it from its inhabitants, as told in her book or the banter of a backyard BBQ. exploitation and desecration. When Galaxies Collide.

PRESENTED BY: SARAH McNEILL Join Professor Greer as she PRESENTED BY: JAMES LUSH SPONSORED BY: CAPE LODGE recounts the experience and SPONSORED BY: $20 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS shows how we all have an MARGARET RIVER HOTEL $20 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS opportunity to do the same.

SPONSORED BY: TOURISM WESTERN AUSTRALIA $40 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS

11 DAY THREE SUNDAY 5 May

1Pm VOYAGER ESTATE MAIN STAGE Margaret River Press Short Story Competition Winners Join the winners of the Margaret River Press Short Story Competition as they discuss their writing. This event features: Kit Scriven (winner), Catherine Noske (runner up) and Rachel McEleney (South West Prize). PRESENTED BY: NICOLE SINCLAIR SPONSORED BY: MARGARET RIVER PRESS image: T essa R oss

2Pm 3.30Pm 4.30Pm VOYAGER ESTATE MAIN STAGE VOYAGER ESTATE MAIN STAGE VOYAGER ESTATE MAIN STAGE Taboo Drawing Fire Riveting Reads: Taboo takes place in the present Michael Leunig’s work explores Closing Event day, in the rural South-West of politics, human folly and Join Liz Byrski, Kim Scott and Western Australia, and tells the spirituality and spans more William McInnes as they talk story of a group of Noongar people than forty years. More than a about the most intriguing books who revisit, for the first time in few things have changed in that they have read and why they many decades, a taboo place. time. Now, in the current media stayed with them long after A must-see session with Kim Scott, and political environment, what’s they had finished turning the two-times winner of the Miles appropriate and what’s not? pages. Franklin Literary Award. Is humour in trouble?

PRESENTED BY: WILL YEOMAN PRESENTED BY: JAMES LUSH PRESENTED BY: SARAH McNEILL SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: SHEPHERDSON TRANSPORT MAINBREAK TRAVEL LIONS CLUB OF COWARAMUP $20 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $25 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $20 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS

12 9.30am 11Am 12Pm VOYAGER ESTATe writers’ room VOYAGER ESTATe writers’ room VOYAGER ESTATe writers’ room A Month of Sundays Dangerous Ideas The Sunday Girl About Mothers For over ten years, Ros, Adele, Mothers are a topic on which This novel is The Girl on the Train Judy and Simone have been almost everybody has an opinion. meets Before I Go to Sleep with in an online book club, but Now those opinions are funnelled a dash of Bridget Jones in a they have never met face to into and amplified on social media, chilling tale of love gone horribly face — until now. A Month where conversations turn ugly and wrong. Pip Drysdale is a writer, of Sundays by Liz Byrski, advice is commercialised. Join actor and musician who grew up reminds us of the joy, the co-editor Rachel Robertson and in Africa and Australia and now comfort and the occasional contributor Christina Fernandes lives in Margaret River. Join her challenge we can find in the as they talk about Dangerous as she speaks about her debut pages of a book. Ideas about Mothers. novel The Sunday Girl.

PRESENTED BY: ROSEMARY SAYER PRESENTED BY: PRESENTED BY: SPONSORED BY: MARGARET RIVER NICOLE SINCLAIR GILLIAN O’SHAUGHNESSY BUSSELTON TOURISM ASSOCIATION SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: AND NIGHT HAVEST WINES DORAL MINERAL SANDS BETTENAYS MARGARET RIVER $10 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $10 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $10 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS

2Pm 3.30Pm VOYAGER ESTATe writers’ room VOYAGER ESTATe writers’ room Back from off-track Strange Things in Dr Gregory Peel Smith was once Small Towns a mysterious man who roamed What is it about small towns that the forest, while local writer & inspire writers to create weird and photographer Tom de Souza lost wonderful stories that so aptly his teenage years to ice addiction capture our imaginations? Join and crime. This session provides a Chris Hammer, Dave Warner and unique insight into how life can go Tanya Heaslip as they discuss the off track and a powerful reminder small town settings of their latest that we can find our way back. books and the characters within.

PRESENTED BY: JAMES LUSH PRESENTED BY: SARAH McNEILL SPONSORED BY: SOUL CAMPING SPONSORED BY: AND MARGARET RIVER NATURAL Rosily wines SPRING WATER $10 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS $10 OR INCLUDED IN FESTIVAL PASS 13 FEATURE EVENTS image: TIM C

For the ultimate festival experience, book tickets to AM P one or more of these feature events for emerging BELL writers, avid readers and those who enjoy their books served with the region’s best produce.

Please note, tickets to Feature Events are not included in Festival Passes. Bookings essential.

saturday 4 MAY 9.30Am - 10.30Am saturday 4 MAY 1pm - 2.30Pm Margaret River Organic Garden THE RIVER HOTEL

Wednesday’s Garden River of Salt Every Wednesday for three Join author, musician and decades, local gardeners have screenwriter Dave Warner, come to create and maintain the as he speaks about his life beautiful, rambling, Margaret and career. He originally River Organic Garden. Every gained national recognition Saturday the garden plays host as a musician-songwriter and to the colourful community formed Australia’s first punk cafe. Every other day, locals and band in 1973. Since then, Dave visitors alike, find friendship and Warner has had an immensely solace in the magnificent ambient successful writing career with surrounds, free to all. The book his latest crime thriller River of FREE EVENT Wednesday’s Garden has been Salt, capturing the essence of GOLD COIN DONATIONS TO THE published to help protect one of the surf and music scene. MARGARET RIVER ORGANIC GARDEN APPRECIATED. our most precious places. PRESENTED BY: GLYNN GREENSMITH PRESENTED BY: MARGOT EDWARDS, SPONSORED BY: THE RIVER HOTEL SHELLEY CULLEN & PETER RIGBY $25 / $20 ARTS HUB MEMBERS SPONSORED BY: DRINKS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE. ZANI PLACE ARTIST’S RETREAT

14 FRIday 3 MAY 6PM - 8pm VOYAGER ESTATe MAIN STAGE Festival Launch Join us for the opening of the 2019 Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival. Enjoy Voyager Estate wines plus a delicious selection of canapés, while the funky jazz sounds of local band,

image: The River Bugs fill the air. Guests will then be seated image: Way for a welcome to country by Wadandi man TIM C

AM Iszaac (Waalitj) Webb, and a talk by special n e Webb P BELL guest Professor Germaine Greer, who will share stories about her life and career.

SPONSORED BY: VOYAGER ESTATE & MARGARET RIVER CATERNG AND HIRE $35 / $25 ARTS HUB MEMBERS

saturday 4 MAY 4pm - 5Pm saturday 4 MAY 7Pm saturday 4 MAY 7.30Pm RIVERSMTH VOYAGER ESTATE RESTAURANT MARGARET RIVER H.E.A.R.T. image: T essa R oss

Book Launch: An evening with Movie screening: Alice to Prague William McInnes Bookweek Join former Margaret River Known for his best-selling When it looks like his novel is local Tanya Heaslip as she books and leading roles in going to be published, high launches her wonderful memoir Blue Heelers and Sea Change, school English teacher and once Alice to Prague. A chance William McInnes is one famous novelist – Nicholas meeting takes her from a cattle of Australia’s best-known Cutler – thinks his luck has station in outback Australia storytellers and actors. finally changed. But what to Prague, where she falls Join William as he shares promises to be the best week of headlong into misadventures the happy, hilarious, sad his life professionally, spirals into that change her life forever. and unexpectedly poignant seven days of hell personally,

moments of his life and career. forcing Mr Cutler to re-examine

Three course meal included. just what’s most important in

Wine available for purchase. his life.

PRESENTED BY: MARGOT EDWARDS SPONSORED BY: VOYAGER ESTATE SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: RIVERSMITH CAFE $85 / $80 ARTS HUB MEMBERS SHIRE OF AUGUSTA MARGARET RIVER $25 / $20 ARTS HUB MEMBERS $15 ADULT / $12 ARTS HUB MEMBERS / $8 CHILD BAR OPEN FOR DRINK PURCHASES.

15 FEATURE EVENTS

suNday 5 MAY 8Am - 9.30Am suNday 5 MAY 9.30Am - 11Am MARGARET RIVER MOUTH VOYAGER ESTATE RESTAURANT image: BE N P AR K ER

Walking with the Wadandi Foreign Correspondent Join Iszaac (Waalitj) Webb for a walk commencing Reporting news from around the globe, at the Margaret River rivermouth. Listen to stories of covering anything from politics to natural Boodja (country) that have been passed down through disasters, conflicts, to living conditions; foreign the generations as you take in the magnificent wild correspondents are the public’s eyes and ears scenery on this early morning walk. Meet at the around the world. Join former correspondent Margaret River rivermouth or catch the bus from Chris Hammer, together with Jakarta- The River Hotel at 7.45am. Bus departs at 9.30am for based correspondent James Massola for a return drop off to The River Hotel or Voyager Estate. captivating start to the day. Includes breakfast.

PRESENTED BY: Iszaac (Waalitj) Webb PRESENTED BY: James lush SPONSORED BY: UNDALUP ASSOCIATION INC SPONSORED BY: Voyager estate $30 / $25 ARTS HUB MEMBERS $45 / $40 ARTS HUB MEMBERS

suNday 5 MAY 10.30Am SUNDAY 5 MAY 2Pm - 3pm VOAYGER ESTATE OUTDOOR AREA settlers tavern Cultural Bush Tucker with Margies Poetry SLAM Iszaac (Waalitj) Webb SLAM contestants are given a microphone, a live audience and just two minutes to impress the judges Join Wadandi Cultural Custodian Iszaac (Waalitj) with their original spoken word, poetry, hip hop Webb, who grew up on Wadandi Boodja as he monologues and stories. Grab the microphone and tells stories of Boodja (country) and shares his perform your words – or sit back, buy a drink from knowledge of native foods passed down through the the bar and enjoy wild, weird and wonderful words in generations. Includes interactive demo and tasting. poetry as you’ve never heard it before. SPONSORED BY: LOTTERYWEST FREE EVENT, ALL WELCOME PRESENTED BY: PERTH SLAM SPONSORED BY: SETTLERS TAVERN, FREE EVENT, BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL 16 image S : mi ch FREE EVENTS elle troo

FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY p LIVE MUSIC STORYTELLING TENT FOOD VANS FREE TALKS AT 1 pm each day and more

For details visit www.mrrwfestival.com

experience the Curious Creations Sculpture Walk A Visual Stories exhibition as listed in Margaret River Region Open Studios

LOCAL LIBraries

FRIDAY 3 MAY 10Am - 11Am FRIDAY 3 MAY 7Pm - 8.30Pm aUgUSTA Library MARGARET RIVER Library

Arkie’s Pilgrimage to Library After Dark: the Next Big Thing Writing Crime with Robert Jeffreys Join Lisa Walker as she talks about her delightfully Meet the new voice in crime writing! Join funny and inspiring novel. Arkie used to be a Robert Jeffreys after dark in the library, as he trendspotter, advising companies on ‘the next big discusses the secrets to writing compelling crime thing’ until she lost her marriage and her mojo. Funds fiction. Under 18s must be accompanied by an adult. are tight, so instead of a pilgrimage in Japan, Arkie goes on a very Australian trip, to all the ‘Big Things’. SPONSORED BY: SHIRE OF AUGUSTA MARGARET RIVER SPONSORED BY: SHIRE OF AUGUSTA MARGARET RIVER FREE EVENT, BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL. FREE EVENT, BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL. INCLUDES A GLASS OF WINE ON ARRIVAL.

17 FESTIVAL WORKSHOP SERIES

For full access to some of the festival’s top writing talents, immerse yourself in the Festival Workshop Series to gain friendly tips and practical experience, whatever your writing passion may be.

FRIDAY

friday 3 MAY 9.30am - 11am friday 3 MAY 1.30pm - 3pm friday 3 MAY 4Pm - 5pm South Regional TAFE South Regional TAFE South Regional TAFE

Find Your The Write How To Get Creative Mojo Resources Published Based on the book by award- As the peak body for writing The Director of Margaret River winning author and illustrator in WA, writing WA along with Press, Caroline Wood, will Josh Langley, this workshop many other organisations guide workshop participants will teach you to face your fears, across the State, provide a through the process of writing overcome procrastination and self- range of services to support all a book, including how to make doubt, and to take the first vital levels of writers. Join writing your characters believable steps in uncovering your creative WA Chairperson Tabetha Beggs and how to get your side. Josh and co-host, writer, poet for a hands-on and practical manuscript published. and thinker, Andy Macleod, will workshop on everything you take you on a fun and insightful need to know when getting journey of creative discovery. started.

SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: South regional tafe KSP WRITERS’ CENTRE MARGARET RIVER PRESS $50 BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL $25 BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL $25 BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL

18 saturDAY 4 MAY 9.30Am - 11.30Am SOUTH REGIONAL TAFE Write to Speak Join Allan Boyd from Perth SLAM for this annual festival workshop, back by popular demand, where you can discover how to write your story and perform your words with crowd-pleasing confidence. Then, take the stage in the Margies Poetry SLAM on Sunday. SPONSORED BY: PERTH SLAM FREE BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL

SATURDAY SUNDAY SATURday 4 MAY 1.30Pm - 3Pm sATURday 4 MAY 3Pm - 5Pm suNday 5 MAY 9.30am - 11am South Regional TAFE SWINGS TAPHOUSE South Regional TAFE

Flash Write Drunk, Creating Art Fiction Edit Sober with Heart Flash fiction is the perfect Learn to write free from Join artist and illustrator opportunity to build your inhibition, but edit with a clear Ian Mutch for a fun and fiction muscles. With the head in this workshop with hands-on session on creating guidance of author Lisa Susan Midalia. Whether it’s stories and illustrations Walker, start, continue or paring back or embellishing; with meaning and purpose. complete a piece of short finding alternative words; or Learn tips and techniques fiction by giving yourself changing perspectives, Susan on illustration and learn the freedom to discover will guide you towards your how to use your creativity and strengthen your best work yet. Wine available to communicate a message writer’s voice. for purchase. or idea.

SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: SOUTH REGIONAL TAFE SWINGS TAPHOUSE SOUTH REGIONAL TAFE $50 BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL $50 BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL $50 BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL

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