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Welcome to the 2018 Brisbane Writers Ashley Hay, Trent Dalton, Melissa Lucashenko, Festival, a leading literary event that Nick Earls, Richard Fidler and Janet Lee. Festival Friends – champions curiosity and creativity and Queensland’s young readers and creative provides a unique opportunity to share minds will again find inspiration in the Sign-up & Support BWF and celebrate our Queensland stories. popular schools program Word Play, and From 6 to 9 September, the Festival will Love YA celebrates the characters and Full: $50 How to Book encourage the exchange of ideas through authors that make the world of Young Adult its theme of ‘what the world needs now’ and Fiction unforgettable. Concession: $45 ONLINE explore the incredible power of storytelling. The Queensland Government is proud to It will feature an extraordinary line-up support Brisbane Writers Festival and its role Embrace everything the Brisbane Writers Festival has to offer by becoming VISIT BWF.ORG.AU of international authors such as Lauren in sharing the beauty of the written word with a Festival Friend! There are great benefits on offer including: Weisberger (The Devil Wears Prada), Veronica growing audiences — offering more than 200 MINISTER FOR ENVIRONMENT AND THE Roth (Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant), A.J. events, attracting over 15,000 visitors to the — Early bird Festival ticket access GREAT BARRIER REEF, MINISTER FOR Finn (The Woman in the Window), human rights State Library of Queensland, and engaging — Discounted Festival tickets PHONE SCIENCE, AND MINISTER FOR THE ARTS barrister Geoffrey Robertson A.O. Q.C., and more than 120 schools from across the state. — 20% off click and collect on SLQ bookstore online orders for titles Call (07) 3255 0254 South African writer Sisonke Msimang whose I encourage you to participate in the offered alongside ticketing Mon to Fri 10:00–16:00 work focuses on race, gender and democracy. exciting and rich program of Brisbane — Discounted food and beverages during the Festival (6 – 9 September) and They will be joined by a host of Australian Writers Festival 2018. — A Festival tote bag from BWF to collect on arrival. authors including Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, Morris Gleitzman, Jared Thomas, Clare Atkins, IN PERSON Alison Goodman, Sarah Epstein, Dr Anita BWF Box Office is open one hour Heiss, Billy Griffiths and Brendan Lawley as before the first event of each day. well as Queensland literary talents such as Day Passes Available Until Sold Out Booking fees may apply. Workshops, Special Festival Events, the Marion Taylor Opening Address and BWF Closing Address are not included in the day passes. Day pass holders must redeem their pass to book into specific sessions.
Day Pass Two Day Pass Three Day Pass Ticket Holder Attend up to 6 sessions Attend up to 12 sessions Attend up to 18 sessions Ann McLean in one day. across two days. across Friday, Saturday Discount Full: $75 Full: $149 and Sunday. Concession: $72 Concession: $145 Full: $199 Ticket holders spending more than What is the future you want to see? How As this year’s leader at BWF, I have been given Festival Friends: $70 Festival Friends: $140 Concession: $195 $35 online at SLQ’s Library Shop would you go about making that happen? a wonderful opportunity to share the curatorial Festival Friends: $190 receive 20% if they order before We all have an idea about ‘what the world driving with Carl Lindgren, our Guest Artistic 3 September. Some titles will be needs now’. This is something we are all Director, and our program team of Ella Peile offered in the ticketing process talking about, whether over dinner with and Rachel Fry. Brisbane Writers Festival online, with books available for family or house mates, with friends at is staffed by a dedicated team, supported pick-up during the Festival. school or work, or online. The idea that we by our generous Board with whom we have might imagine the future we could create created a special experience. I am so grateful Special Events Single Sessions QWC Workshops to work with these warm, talented people. for ourselves is fantastic, and perhaps the Special Festival Events, Full: $20 Full: $90 inspiration and positivity BWF brings us BWF’s team and Board also acknowledge our the Marion Taylor Opening Concession: $17 Concession: $85 can make a difference to our every day. sponsors and partners and genuinely thank Address and BWF Closing Festival Friends: $15 Workshops are three hours’ long. It is encouraging to know there are others who them for their contributions. My special thanks Address have limited ACTING CEO believe in a better future for everyone, and it also go out to every donor, volunteer, patron, capacity. Book early. BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL speaker and interviewer on this amazing is great to have an opportunity to hear about Full: $39 Disability other people’s ways of making a difference. program. All your goodwill and support Free Events Rush Tickets contributes to the future for BWF as a strong, Concession: $37 All art is a gift to the future audience Look for free events listed in BWF Box Office will have vibrant Festival with more great stories to offer Festival Friends: $35 Access of the work. That’s what is so exciting the program and online. rush tickets on sale for communities all over Brisbane and Queensland. Please note: some sessions just $12. Ask at Box Office about being a reader, receiving the gift may vary in price. BWF Festival precinct and all Council on the day or look for of the story, one page at a time. Libraries are wheelchair accessible. #BWF2018RUSH online. Writers devote their craft, investing great Volunteer way finding assistance is effort in the future by publishing their work. available. A quiet room is available They work with the premise that readers will for patrons requiring refuge. Auslan experience their unique stories, love them, sign language interpretation can be share them, be astounded by them and Terms and Conditions arranged with two weeks' notice for even disgusted by them. BWF deepens the specific sessions. UPLIT – BWF reserves the right to alter the program and artists, and to cancel sessions where necessary. No refunds or connections between readers and writers. exchanges are possible once bookings are complete and payment received unless the Festival has cancelled the session. Program details are correct at the time of printing. Proof of concession may be required when booking your event. Full Terms and Conditions are available at bwf.org.au. 4 BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL BWF.ORG.AU 5
Special Events Special Events
TICKETED / 101 TICKETED / 103 Dinner with Dinner with Irvine Welsh (UK) Lauren Weisberger (US) in conversation with Andrew Stafford in conversation with Marie-Louise Theile Dead Men’s Trousers is a continuation of the phenomenally Meet Lauren Weisberger, author of the iconic novel The Devil influential Trainspotting story. The original characters have Wears Prada as she talks about her new bestseller When Life moved on, some more than others. Join Irvine Welsh for a Gives you Lululemons. Enjoy a lavish 3 course banquet with discussion about contemporary culture, wide ranging ideas matched wines by the award winning team at Gerard’s Bistro. and issues reflected in his new book.
$165 (limited capacity) / Wed 5 Sept / 18:30–21:00 $135 (limited capacity) / Wed 29 Aug / 18:30–20:30 Gerard’s Bistro, Fortitude Valley Emporium Hotel, South Bank
TICKETED / 232 TICKETED / 102 When Life Gives You Irvine Welsh (UK) Lululemons: Lauren in conversation with Andrew Stafford Weisberger (US) (Trainspotting, Dead Men’s Trousers) in conversation with Suzi Derbyshire The conversation will be followed by a special screening of the 1996 feature film Trainspotting, as well as a book signing. The Devil Wears Prada story of sassy wit continues in Lauren’s new book.
$35–$39* / Tue 28 Aug / 19:00–23:00 The Tivoli $35–$39* / Fri 7 Sept / 19:00–20:00 Under 18s to be accompanied by a guardian. SLQ AUD1
TICKETED / 1 0 7 Marion Taylor Opening Address Geoffrey Robertson Q.C. Geoffrey Robertson Q.C. is a human rights barrister, academic, author and broadcaster. Rather His Own Man is his second
witty, engrossing and sometimes poignant memoir. Australia’s TICKETED / 355 TICKETED / 353 inimitable Geoffrey Robertson charts his progress from pimply state schoolboy to top Old Bailey barrister and thence Detours Welcome to Country: onwards and upwards to a leading role in the struggle for Tim Rogers, You Am I frontman, singer, poet, romantic, Aboriginal History and Tourism human rights throughout the world. raconteur in conversation with Robert Forster Prof Marcia Langton in conversation with Assoc Prof Sandra Phillips $35–$39* / Thu 6 Sept / 19:30–20:30 Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre $35–$39* / Sat 8 Sept / 19:30–20:30 $35–$39* / Sat 8 Sept / 19:30–20:30 The Edge SLQ AUD1
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Special Events
TICKETED / 104 Dinner with Veronica Roth (US) in conversation with Marianne de Pierres Join us for an exquisite experience of hearing from #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth (Divergent, Carve The Mark) and then enjoying a two-course dinner from acclaimed Brisbane chef Josue Lopez with matched wines at the new flagship Emporium Hotel South Bank at Southpoint.
$135 (limited capacity) / Wed 5 Sept / 18:30–20:30 Emporium Hotel, South Bank
How you can TICKETED / 105 An Evening with Veronica Roth (US) Cosplay + Live music + Q&A with Kim Wilkins help BWF Join Veronica Roth (Divergent, Carve The Mark) and Kim Wilkins (Sisters of Fire) for this very special Festival event. Get in the cosplay spirit – come as Tris or Caleb or any of your spec fic faves. Or just come as yourself! Featuring a live performance What the world needs now is... more ideas, by Monkey Monkey Shake Shake. and your donation to help our BWF $35–$39* / Thu 6 Sep / 18:30–20:30 communities to love reading and writing. The Edge Presented by The University of Queensland
Brisbane Writers Festival needs private Thank you support to operate. While the majority of our We’d like to take this opportunity to send 435 revenue comes from government funding, a special thank you to all our donors. Your industry sponsorships and ticket sales, about contribution has built on the quality of 20% of what we raise each year is through the Closing Address: the program this year. You have funded generosity of private donors. writers’ fees, grown our Word Play What the World Making a donation is a wonderful way children’s program, added staff hours and to support key community engagement made our audience research possible. Needs Now activities such as Word Play, which inspires From the staff and Board of UPLIT – Dr Karl Kruszelnicki more than 7000 children each year, from all Brisbane Writers Festival, thank you. over Queensland. Join legendary Australian science communicator and author Dr Karl Kruszelnicki (Karl, The Universe and Donate online at bwf.org.au as an addition Everything) as he tackles the theme of BWF 2018 to your ticket purchase, or at any time ‘what the world needs now’. throughout the year. All donations of $2 and more are tax deductible. $35–$39* / Sun 9 Sept / 15:45–16:45 SLQ AUD1
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BWF in Your Suburb
Brisbane Writers Festival is heading out to the Registration is free but bookings are essential suburbs again in 2018 to bring your favourite authors via www.bwf.org.au. to your local library. Co-presented with Brisbane City Council and Logan City Council Libraries
FREE / 501 FREE / 5 1 5 FREE / 5 1 0 Grantlee Kieza Tim Ayliffe Amanda Dunn Award-winning journalist and author of epic Tim Ayliffe’s The Greater Good is “an absolute The New Puberty uses the latest research biography, Mrs Kelly: The astonishing life of cracker of a thriller” which proves that nothing to tackle complex questions for parents on Ned Kelly’s mother. Chair: Craig Zonca is more dangerous than a man who can fall no how to help young people through this vital further. Chair: Christina Lee stage of life. Chair: Kathleen Noonan Thu 6 Sept / 18:00–19:00 Indooroopilly Library Sat 8 Sept / 10:30–11:30 Sat 8 Sept / 14:00–15:00 Love YA Logan North Library Mount Ommaney Library FREE / 5 0 2 FREE / 5 0 6 FREE / 511 Nikki Gemmell Manal al-Sharif Dervla McTiernan International bestselling author and Daring to Drive is the story of how Manal The Ruin, international bestseller, is columnist in conversation with Kathleen al-Sharif became the unexpected leader of an unsettling small-town noir drawing Noonan, discussing On Quiet, about the the courageous movement that won Saudi us deep into the dark heart of Ireland. power of quiet in today’s shouty world. women the right to drive. Chair: Christina Lee Co-presented by Brisbane City Council Libraries, Join host Rhianna Patrick and a bevy Chair: Jay Ludowyke Fri 7 Sept / 18:00–19:00 Sat 8 Sept / 15:00–16:00 of YA stars as they explore the power of Love YA is a full day of free programming especially Chermside Library Sat 8 Sept / 11:00–12:00 Ashgrove Library fiction to create and reflect culture and for fans of young adult fiction. Sunnybank Hills Library identity, and immerse you in thrilling
tales and fantasy worlds. Featuring SUBURB IN YOUR BWF Hosted by Rhianna Patrick, with youth curators panels, Q&As and book signings for all FREE / 503 FREE / 508 FREE / 512 Hazel Law + Madeline McGregor YA lovers, no matter your age. Peter Cochrane A.J. Finn (US) Lauren Chater Set against the awe-inspiring immensity of Best-selling American crime writer and The Lace Weaver is a breathtaking the hinterland west of the Hawkesbury River, chair Kay Saunders discuss The Woman in debut about love and war, and the battle The Making of Martin Sparrow is an immersion the Window, a smart, sophisticated novel of to save a precious legacy. into another time, a masterpiece of language psychological suspense. Chair: Alex Adsett and atmosphere. Chair: Myles McGuire Sat 8 Sept / 13:30–14:30 Sat 8 Sept / 15:00–16:00 Fri 7 Sept / 18:00–19:00 Holland Park Library Carina Library Kenmore Library
FREE / 505 FREE / 509 FREE / 513 Kelly Doust Sarah Bailey Kate Grenville Author of Precious Things discusses her Riveting suspense, incisive writing and a Based on careful research, The Case Against new historical fiction work set in Edwardian fascinating cast of characters make Into Fragrance is accessible and personal, and England and the London Blitz, Dressing the The Night an utterly addictive crime thriller. will make you see—and smell—the world LOVE YA / 601 LOVE YA / 602 LOVE YA / 603 LOVE YA / 604 Dearloves. Chair: Kristina Schulz Chair: Helene Young differently. Chair: Christina Lee Crossing Worlds Crafting Futures World-Building in Criminal Minds Sat 8 Sept / 9:30–10:30 Sat 8 Sept / 13:00–14:00 Sun 9 Sept / 11:00–12:00 Jared Thomas + Clare Veronica Roth (US) + Cally Historical Fantasy Sarah Epstein + Everton Park Library Mitchelton Library Garden City Library Atkins + Brendan Lawley + Black + Chair: Charlotte Nash Alison Goodman + Chairs: Chair: Jeann Wong Chair: Aimée Lindorff Veronica Roth joins local author Sylvia Kelly + Blake La Burniy Sarah Epstein discusses FREE / 504 FREE / 516 FREE / 514 Three Aussie authors discuss Cally Black to discuss how they Alison Goodman, author of Lady her gripping and creepy their cross-cultural narratives reflect on our present through Helen and the Dark Days Club, YA debut, Small Spaces. Gabriella Coslovich Dr Karl Kruszelnicki Adam Courtenay and the value of contemporary the lens of dark futures. shares how she researches and Whiteley on Trial investigates a remarkable Grab your towel and hitchhike across the The Ship That Never Was is the entertaining YA fiction. crafts detailed Regency-era case of alleged art fraud and exposes the galaxy with Australia’s most popular scientist and rollicking story of what is surely the settings for her fantasy series. avarice of the art world and the fragility of Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. Chair: Robyn Williams greatest escape in Australian colonial history. authenticity. Chair: Courtney Pedersen Chair: Kay Saunders Sat 8 Sept / 11:00–12:00 Sat 8 Sept / 12:45–13:45 Sat 8 Sept / 14:30–15:30 Sat 8 Sept / 16:15–17:15 Sat 8 Sept / 14:00–15:00 The End Room, The End Room, The End Room, The End Room, Sat 8 Sept / 10:00–11:00 Wynnum Library Sun 9 Sept / 14:30–15:30 Brisbane Square Library Brisbane Square Library Brisbane Square Library Brisbane Square Library Bulimba Library Carindale Library 10 BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL BWF.ORG.AU 11 Friday 7 Sept Program
223 Healing: Addressing Men’s Mental Health Osher Günsberg + Joe Williams + 2 1 2 2 1 3 2 1 4 2 1 5 Samuel Maguire + Chair: David Burton Ecology in Your The Rapids / The Responsibilities Writing as Backyard Waiting for Elijah We Hold for the Future Women’s Work Uniquely familiar stories of three extraordinary men who Darryl Jones + Helen Jukes (UK) Sam Twyford-Moore + Kate David Neiwert (US) + David Ann-Marie Priest + Melissa have experienced deep mental anguish and now reach + Chair: Emma Griffiths Wild + Chair: Lisa Kunde McKnight + Chair: Prof James Ashley + Chair: Margaret out to talk about it. Bird at My Table / A Honeybee Twyford-Moore & Wild discuss Taylor Carson Henderson 16:00–17:00 Heart Has Five Openings. mental illness in a digital and a Alt-America / Populism Now! A Free Flame / The Birdman’s Wife. The Edge Theatre Bird feeders + bee keeping. regional Australian landscape. 14:30–15:30 14:30–15:30 14:30–15:30 14:30–15:30 The Edge Theatre GOMA Cinema A SLQ AUD2 GOMA Cinema B Presented by Griffith University Presented by The University of Queensland
2 0 1 2 0 3 2 0 4 FREE / 2 0 5 FREE / 216 2 1 7 2 1 8 2 1 9 Expo 88: We’ll Show Satire in Political War Stories: Best We A Hundred Small First Things First Wintering Before I Let You Go / Incorrigible Optimist The World Commentary Forget / ANZAC Sniper Lessons Melissa Lucashenko + Prof Krissy Kneen in conversation Lovesome Gareth Evans in conversation FRIDAY 7 SEPTEMBER FRIDAY 7 SEPTEMBER FRIDAY Jackie Ryan + Chair: TBC Antony Funnell + Prof Ross Peter Cochrane + Roland Ashley Hay in conversation Marcia Langton + Prof Ciaran with Fiona Stager Kelly Rimmer + Sally with Peter Greste O’Faircheallaigh + Chair: How Brisbane came of age. Fitzgerald + Ian McFadyen + Perry + Chair: Ursula Cleary with Kristina Olsson A disappearance set in the Seltmann + Chair: Bec Mac Sometimes moving, often Assoc Prof Sandra Phillips 30 years on, explore the Chair: Steve Austin A fascinating WW1 story and the A beautiful story of home Tasmanian wilderness. Stories of loss, longing and love. entertaining, and always lucid controversies, characters Political commentary with biography of Stan Savige of WW1 and belonging. Australia’s First Nations peoples memoir looking back over the 14:30–15:15 15:30–16:30 and legacy. renowned comedians and and WW2. speaking about current issues. highs and lows of Evans’ public life. 11:30–12:30 QAG Theatre QAG Theatre journalists. 10:00–11:00 11:30–12:30 SLQ Gallery 14:30–15:30 15:45–16:45 QAG Theatre 11:30–12:30 GOMA Cinema B Festival Hub, Maiwar Green GOMA Cinema B SLQ AUD2 Presented by Griffith Review Presented by The University of Queensland
2 0 7 2 0 8 FREE / 209 2 1 1 2 2 0 221 222 2 2 4 On Writing: Sleepwalking to Hope and Community End of Epidemics / The Woman in the Australian Histories Always Another What Will Be Worn Writing Culture Armageddon / Sisonke Msimang + Anaesthesia Window Discovered Country / The Break Melissa Fagan in for Young People Atomic Thunder Katherena Vermette (CA) Dr Jonathan D Quick (US) + A.J. Finn (US) in conversation Billy Griffiths + Henry Sisonke Msimang + conversation with Sue McPherson + Dr Helen Caldicott + Elizabeth A discussion about how we view Kate Cole-Adams + Chair: with Kay Saunders Reynolds + Patrick Nunn + Katherena Vermette (CA) + Zenobia Frost Jared Thomas Tynan + Chair: Emma Griffiths our world and the future we want Paul Barclay Noir fiction that would make Chair: Maurice Serico Chair: Melissa Lucashenko Brilliantly researched McWhirters to create for our communities. Books that empower young A frightening but necessary Hope for the future and the ethics Hitchcock proud. Number 1 NY Deep Time Dreaming / The Black Stories of exile and home; giving a building and family story. people to identify with pride, assessment of the threat posed 14:00–14:45 involved in ‘going under’. Times Bestseller. Gripping thriller. Arm Band / The Edge of Memory voice to previously unheard stories. 16:00–17:00 show respect and understanding. by nuclear weapons in the 21st SLQ Gallery 14:30–15:30 16:00–17:00 16:00–17:00 16:00–17:00 GOMA Cinema A century; and the Maralinga story. 13:00–14:00 SLQ AUD1 SLQ AUD1 SLQ Queensland Terrace SLQ AUD2 Presented by The University of Queensland GOMA Cinema B 13:00–14:00 Presented by Griffith University Presented by The University of Queensland SLQ AUD2 12 BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL BWF.ORG.AU 13 Friday 7 Sept Program Saturday 8 Sept Program
302 All Things Futuristic Tim Dunlop + Ellen Broad + Angela Meyer + Chair: Dr Karl 225 2 2 6 2 2 7 2 2 8 301 Kruszelnicki On Writing: The Trauma Choose Somebody Else Balancing Acts: Nurturing Difference, Eggshell Skull Cleaner Yvonne Fein in conversation Women in Sport Fact and fiction – beyond the bounds of reality Advocating Change as we know it. The future of democracy; Bri Lee with editor Kate Sarah Krasnostein with Krissy Kneen Holly Isemonger + Erin Through Stories artificial intelligence, imagination and ethics in conversation with Stewart + Chair: Liam Ferney (CA) Goldsworthy and publisher Yiddish storytelling in style and tone. in this new world. Katherena Vermette + Jane Palfreyman Paul Barclay Big and banal; thought provoking Championing the voices of women Shireen Morris + Zoya Patel 9:30–10:30 Truth is stranger than fiction. A discussion of life’s questions. in a male-dominated arena. + Chair: Jonathan Sri Making a book the best it can be. SLQ Queensland Terrace phenomenal biographical account. 17:30–18:30 Advocates with important, familiar 16:00–17:00 17:30–18:30 Presented by Griffith University SLQ Queensland Terrace and relevant stories to share. Festival Hub, Maiwar Green 17:30–18:30 SLQ AUD2 SLQ AUD1 9:30–10:30 SLQ AUD1
2 3 0 FREE / 231 SPECIAL EVENT / 2 3 2 FREE / 2 3 3 3 0 3 3 0 4 305 3 0 7 Sunburnt Country: Book Launch: When Life Gives Rabbit Journal: Irish Crime and The Book of Colours Love & Friendship New Wave Vision The History & Future The Edge of Memory You Lululemons Australian Crime Robyn Cadwallader Bridie Jabour + Sally Piper + Hayden Cox in conversation FRIDAY 7 SEPTEMBER FRIDAY Sport Edition Launch
(UK) 8 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY of Climate Change Patrick Nunn Lauren Weisberger (US) in Jessica Wilkinson Dervla McTiernan + Janet in conversation with Helen Jukes + Chair: Alex with Phil Brown conversation with Suzi Lee + Chair: Kay Saunders Alison Goodman Adsett Dr Joëlle Gergis in conversation The geology of folk tales and RABBIT intends to celebrate the Award winning designer and Derbyshire with Dr Helen Caldicott climate change. potential for poetry to explore and The Ruin / The Killing of Louisa. Creativity and power in the story The Way Things Should Be / entrepreneur who successfully Secrets of the past exposed of a medieval manuscript. Geography of Friendship / turned his childhood passion – Piecing together Australia’s 18:00–18:45 Following The Devil Wears Prada, a interrogate the boundaries of non- through crimes of the present. A Honeybee Heart Has surfing, and business into a climate history for the first time. Red Box dazzling look into a sexy, over-the-top fiction writing. 9:30–10:30 world, where nothing is as it appears. Chilling true crime. Five Openings. best-selling international brand. 17:30–18:30 19:00–19:45 The Edge Theatre Presented by The University of Queensland 10:00–10:45 Festival Hub, Maiwar Green 19:00–20:00 Festival Hub, Maiwar Green 9:30–10:30 9:30–10:30 SLQ AUD1 SLQ AUD2 Festival Hub, Maiwar Green GOMA Cinema A
229 Ode to the Ocean:
RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR 306 3 0 8 310 3 1 2 In Search of the Soul of the Sea Cardinal: The Rise Magical New Fiction: Pompey Elliott at War The Lace Weaver Philip Hoare (UK) in conversation and Fall of George Pell Nagaland / Trick of Ross McMullin in conversation Lauren Chater in with Bronwyn Lea Louise Milligan in conversation the Light with Ursula Cleary conversation with Alex Adsett with Dr Aurelia Armstrong Ben Doherty + Laura Elvery + WW1 soldier’s letters reveal a story RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR has passages of beautiful nature and The most recognisable face of the Chair: Nick Earls of our society. Carefully researched 1941, Estonia. As Stalin’s brutal travel writing, lyrical memoir, seams of American and English and shared through performance Red Army crushes everything Australian Catholic Church. He A forgotten people living in the far history, and much more. Unmissable creative non-fiction. and discussion. Pompey Elliott, an in its path, Katarina and her was the Ballarat boy who studied north-east of India, struggling to accomplished tactician and ‘the family survive only because their 17:30–18:30 at Oxford and rose through the survive in the modern world / The bravest of the brave.’ precious farm produce is needed. The Edge Theatre ranks to become the Vatican’s fears and fantasies of everyday Presented by The University of Queensland indispensable ‘Treasurer’. people searching for meaning. 10:30–11:30 11:00–11:45 Heritage Collections SLQ AUD1 10:00–10:45 10:00–10:45 Learning Room GOMA Cinema B QAG Theatre 14 BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL BWF.ORG.AU 15 Saturday 8 Sept Program
324 Dressing the Dearloves Kelly Doust in conversation with 3 1 4 3 1 5 3 1 6 FREE / 3 1 8 3 2 6 FREE / 3 2 7 Melissa Fagan Overlander When Galaxies Collide On Quiet / Happy Children’s Session: The Life to Come The Adani Show Rupert Guinness in Dr Lisa Harvey-Smith in Never After Storytelling for Michelle de Kretser in by Backbone Youth Arts Moving from Edwardian England to the London Blitz conversation with Roland Perry conversation with Dr Karl Nikki Gemmell + Jill Stark conversation with Michael Under 7s About environmental issues this to present day London. Kruszelnicki Williams Guinness set out on the trip of a On the power of quiet in today’s Alison Lester generation will face as they grow The corrosiveness of family older. Includes music, performance, lifetime: to race across Australia in Consider and discuss the far shouty world. Stark discusses For under 7s. Join Children’s The stories we tell and don’t tell secrets and the seductive video work, and even trivia. the inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel future questions about our place having everything, and why she Laureate, Alison Lester, for a ourselves as individuals, societies, power of dressing up. Race. A story involving strength, in the galaxy. wasn’t as happy as expected. and nations. It explores emigration, Three 10–12 year olds who have storytelling session. 12:15–13:15 tragedy and the human spirit. and ethnic and class conflict. collaborated with artists under 30. 11:00–11:45 11:00–11:45 11:00–11:45 SLQ AUD2 12:20–12:45 11:00–11:45 The Edge Theatre Festival Hub, Maiwar Green SLQ Gallery 12:15–13:15 Presented by The University of Queensland SLQ Queensland Terrace SLQ AUD2 Festival Hub, Maiwar Green
319 3 2 0 3 1 7 FREE / 3 1 1 3 2 8 FREE / 3 2 9 3 3 0 331 Teachers Too Much Lip On Writing: From War Time Letters The Juliet Code / Who We Are Daring to Drive Coal: Adani Stories Gabrielle Stroud in Melissa Lucashenko in Personal Passions State Library Archives Session The Love That I Have Peter Mares + David Peetz Manal al-Sharif in David Ritter + Lindsay SATURDAY 8 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY conversation with Prof conversation with Bec Mac and Experiences (following Pompey Elliott at War). Christine Wells + James + Maria Tumarkin + Chair: conversation with Simpson + Quentin 8 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY Judith McLean A dark and funny new novel from A.J. Finn (US) + Trent Dalton + Hear the archivist’s stories about Moloney + Chair: Vicki Bennett Anne Tiernan Prof Brydie-Leigh Bartleet Beresford + Chair: Ben Smee A powerful and moving memoir the multi-award-winning author Chair: Helene Young these unique original documents. A post-war story packed full of Australia’s changing reality. A memoir of life in Saudi Arabia, Deeply researched content from about how the current system is of Mullumbimby. Big issues of belonging, citizenship, being arrested for driving and experts, investigating one of the True life informs powerful writing. 11:30–12:00 spies, love, betrayal and secrets. letting down children and parents participation, and how contemporary her campaign for women’s rights most controversial government- 11:00–11:45 White Gloves Room And a powerful and heartbreaking and breaking dedicated teachers. 11:10–12:00 Australia might evolve. to drive. business partnerships in SLQ AUD2 story set during WW2. GOMA Cinema B contemporary Australian history. 11:00–11:45 13:00–14:00 13:00–14:00 13:45–14:45 GOMA Cinema A QAG Theatre Festival Hub, Maiwar Green SLQ AUD2 13:45–14:45 Presented by Griffith Review Presented by Griffith University SLQ Queensland Terrace
3 2 1 322 3 2 3 FREE / 325 3 3 2 333 FREE / 3 4 8 3 3 5 Saga Land Future is Female: Young People Black Arm Band Price of Life / Children’s Literature Readings of the Martin Sharp: Richard Fidler + Kári Gíslason Women in Public Life These Days Henry Reynolds in The Greater Good with the Laureates Microfiction His Life and Times From two good friends who share Kate Grenville + Katherena Jessica Watson + Nicole conversation with Stephen Mam Nigel Brennan + Tim Ayliffe Morris Gleitzman + Alison Competition Winners Joyce Morgan in conversation (CA) a passion for the sagas of Iceland. Vermette + Chair: Susan Gibson + Samuel Maguire + On the history wars. Reynolds’ work + Chair: Bec Mac Lester + Chair: Megan Daley 200 words on ‘what the world with Phil Brown Filled with the rough and tumble Harris Rimmer Jay Carmichael + Chair: has focused on the frontier conflict Bundaberg photojournalist Nigel How children’s literature can needs now’. The best of the The Australian artist who created of the Middle Ages – blood feuds, What women have to say and Claire Christian between European settlers in Brennan’s true tale of kidnapping change the way a child sees their entries for 2018. vibrant Pop art-influenced album fearless women, murder – the sagas Australia and Indigenous Australians. and ransom in Somalia, and Ayliffe’s world. The contribution writers covers that helped to define the how empowerment comes from Discussing their outlooks on life, 14:15–15:00 are amongst our greatest stories. battered war correspondent John make to children’s lives. look of the psychedelic 1960s. so many sources. challenges and what the future holds. 12:15–13:15 SLQ Gallery Bailey is haunted by nightmares of 11:30–12:30 12:15–13:15 12:15–13:15 kuril dhagun 13:45–14:45 Presented by The University of Queensland 14:30–15:30 being kidnapped in Iraq. QAG Theatre SLQ AUD1 SLQ Queensland Terrace Presented by The University of Queensland SLQ AUD1 QAG Theatre Presented by Griffith University 13:45–14:45 SLQ AUD2 16 BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL BWF.ORG.AU 17 Saturday 8 Sept Program
3 3 6 3 3 7 338 3 3 9 206 3 4 9 3 5 0 3 5 1 The Power of Hope / Common People Alt-America The Other Wife Rebel with a Cause The Choke Sea Worshippers Into the Night / The Asylum by Boat Tony Birch in conversation David Neiwert (US) in Michael Robotham Jacqui Lambie in conversation Sofie Laguna in conversation Philip Hoare (UK) + Micheline Woman in the Window Kon Karapanagiotidis + with Michael Williams conversation with in conversation with with Peter Greste with Susan Wyndham Jenner + Chair: Dr Karl Sarah Bailey + A.J. Finn (US) + Claire Higgins + Chair: This is the good and the Paul Barclay Jackie Ryan Real and sometimes raw. A compassionate and Kruszelnicki Chair: Helene Young Gabriella Coslovich bad—short stories of The story of the remarkable Childhood sweethearts have Jacqui handles it with humour, claustrophobic vision of a child Sharing a sense of urgency and New crime talents from Melbourne A powerful and inspiring, the common people. An resurgence of right-wing been married for sixty years. honesty and dignity. in danger and a society in deep passion for marine realms, expressed to New York City. A.J. Finn’s #1 best unforgettable collection. extremists in the United States. When something goes wrong, the trouble, navigating a world of through creative non-fiction and personal and political discussion 17:30–18:30 selling novel and Bailey’s razor- reality of their family life unravels. male power, guns and violence. adventures in marine biology. about refugees. 15:15–16:00 15:15–16:00 Festival Hub, Maiwar Green sharp writing. Thrilling suspense. 15:15–16:15 SLQ Queensland Terrace SLQ AUD2 15:15–16:00 Presented by The University of Queensland 18:00–19:00 18:00–19:00 18:00–19:00 SLQ AUD1 The Edge Theatre SLQ AUD1 SLQ AUD2 The Edge Theatre
FREE / 3 4 0 3 4 1 FREE / 3 4 2 343 357 356 SPECIAL EVENT / 353 3 5 4 A Long Way from Whiteley on Trial Prime Minister’s The Long Drop / In the The Future of No Place Like Home: Welcome to Country: Australian Heist No Go / Growing Up Gabriella Coslovich in Literary Awards Panel Garden of Fugitives Everything Repairing Australia’s Aboriginal History & James Phelps in SATURDAY 8 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY Aboriginal in Australia conversation with Philip Bacon Liam Ferney + Anthony Denise Mina (UK) + Ceridwen Tim Dunlop in conversation Housing Crisis Tourism conversation with Cathy 8 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng + Dr The biggest case of alleged art fraud Lawrence + Eileen Chong + Dovey + Chair: Paul Mazerolle with Dr Jonathan D Quick (US) Peter Mares in conversation Prof Marcia Langton in McLennan Anita Heiss + Chair: Stephen Mam in Australian history, a $4.5 million Chair: Zenobia Frost True Scottish crime; and intense From the author of Why the Future with Anne Tiernan conversation with Assoc Prof True historical crime. In 1862 sting drawing by one of the country’s Navigating the treacherous waters From headwaters, cityscapes to fiction involving the obscure workings is Workless. Dunlop discusses all Everyone has an opinion and the Sandra Phillips a gang of bushrangers pulled most gifted and ultimately tragic off the largest gold robbery in of childhood; and showcasing many online communities, three poets of guilt in the human psyche. things future. solutions are never as simple as A travel guide introducing Aboriginal artists? True crime in the art world. imagine our world anew. Australia’s history. diverse voices and experiences. 16:30–17:30 18:00–19:00 they sound. and Torres Strait Islander people, 16:00–17:00 culture and places of interest. 15:15–16:00 16:00–17:00 QAG Theatre SLQ Queensland Terrace 19:15–20:00 19:30–20:30 QAG Theatre SLQ AUD2 kuril dhagun Festival Hub, Maiwar Green Presented by Griffith University Festival Hub, Maiwar Green 19:30–20:30 Presented by Philip Bacon Galleries SLQ AUD1
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3 4 4 3 4 5 FREE / 346 3 4 7 Detours Flames The Case Against Treaty Headstrong Tim Rogers in conversation Robbie Arnott in conversation Fragrance / Anaesthesia Prof Megan Davis + Prof Daughters with Robert Forster with Krissy Kneen Kate Grenville + Kate Marcia Langton + Stephen Nadia Jamal in conversation Opening with a moment of Cole-Adams + Chair: Scott Mam + Chair: Assoc Prof with Kelly Higgins-Devine A charming, honest, funny, sad, tender and beautiful literary Sandra Phillips memoir, from Tim Rogers of You Am I. Think Patti Smith meets transformation: ‘Our mother Stephens Jamal takes us inside the lives Dylan Thomas, by way of Banjo Paterson. returned to us two days after we What’s in fragrance? What An exploration of where we have of ordinary Muslim women from spread her ashes over Notley does it do to people? Grenville come to and where Australia can around Australia, showing how 19:30–20:30 Fern Gorge,’ Arnott explores the investigated. And how does the progress to together. they find ways to stay true to their The Edge Theatre overwhelming nature of grief with unconscious mind deal with the 16:30–17:30 faith, and to themselves as well. a magical twist. body’s experience of going under? kuril dhagun 16:30–17:30 16:30–17:30 16:30–17:30 SLQ AUD1 SLQ Queensland Terrace The Edge Theatre 18 BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL BWF.ORG.AU 19 Sunday 9 Sept Program
402 Beautiful Revolutionary Laura Elizabeth Woollett in conversation with Claire Ashman 4 1 0 4 1 1 4 1 3 FREE / 4 1 4 Waiting for Elijah Finn’s Feather On Writing: Love Out Loud In the summer of 1968, Evelyn Lynden is a woman at war with Kate Wild in conversation Rachel Noble in conversation Contemporary Fiction Nicole Gibson herself. Enter the Reverend Jim Jones, the dynamic leader with Bri Lee with Ashley Hay Sofie Laguna + of the Peoples Temple. The story of those pulled into the Self-awareness for all generations Michelle de Kretser + – designed to help you make destructive orbit of Jim Jones. Wild asks why in the NSW country A story about resilience and town of Armidale, a mentally memory—about a child, his brother, Chair: Michael Williams tangible the illusive feeling of love, 10:00–11:00 ill young man is shot dead by a and a friend who meets him where Two of Australia’s leading literary and to help you create your own SLQ AUD1 police officer. he is. The grief of losing a sibling, in contributors discuss writing. road map to get you back home. a children’s book. A session for all. #LOL 10:00–10:45 11:00–11:50 QAG Theatre 11:00–11:45, Heritage Collections GOMA Cinema A 11:00–11:50 Learning Room SLQ Gallery
FREE / 4 4 1 403 404 405 FREE / 4 4 0 416 4 1 8 4 1 9 Children’s Session: Funny Stories The Dark and the Community, Gender Book Launch: A Long Second Sight / Mrs Kelly Growing Up Storytelling for Katherine Collette + Wil Light: Poets Session and Identity Way from No Go The Long Drop Grantlee Kieza in Amanda Dunn + Madonna SUNDAY 9 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY 9 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY Under 7s Patterson + Chair: Aimée Zenobia Frost + Rebecca Nevo Zisin + Jay Carmichael Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng Aoife Clifford + Denise conversation with Alison King + Nevo Zisin + Chair: Mem Fox Lindorff Jessen + Shastra Deo + Krissy Kneen + Chair: with publisher Cathi Lewis Mina (UK) + Chair: Ben Hobson Goodman Susan Johnson Laura Roberts For under 7s. Join Mem Fox The Helpline / Mr Ordinary Goes Original, diverse voices from A memoir of an amazing Crime and secrets in an Australian Through the life of Ned’s mother, Growing up, raising teens, for a storytelling session. to Jail. Community conflicts in a Brisbane’s poetry community, Finding Nevo / Ironbark Aboriginal woman with grit town alongside 1950’s Glasgow. the making of Australia from becoming who you truly are. nursing home and true crime from sharing their insights. and talent. Every good crime story has struggling backwater to modern A deeper look at identity. 10:00–11:00 10:00–10:45 within prison. a beginning. nation. SLQ Gallery 10:00–11:00 The Edge Theatre 11:15–12:00 11:30–12:15 10:00–11:00 SLQ Queensland Terrace GOMA Cinema B 11:30–12:15 11:30–12:15 The Edge Theatre GOMA Cinema B SLQ AUD1 SLQ AUD2
415 Non-Fiction & Fiction: Balancing Threads of Past & Present FREE / 406 4 0 7 4 0 8 4 0 9 4 1 7 Maria Tumarkin + Justin Growing Up Aboriginal Book Ninjas On Writing: Crafting a Outspoken The Making of Martin Heazlewood + Chair: in Australia Michelle Kalus + Ali Berg + Photo Essay Fr Rod Bower in Sparrow / The Ship David Burton Dr Anita Heiss in conversation Chair: Kristina Schulz David Kelly (photographer) + conversation with That Never Was with Marnee Shay A charming, offbeat story about Benjamin Allmon ( journalist) Susan Forde Peter Cochrane + Adam Interrogating conventional wisdom about the role of the past in shaping the present. And an What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in love and books, and how Frankie The Saltwater People. Three days, Anglican priest Rod Bower from Courtenay + Chair: Anna incredibly powerful memoir about love, family, Australia? Showcasing many diverse shakes things up by embarking two canoes, one unforgettable Gosford parish church sparked Johnston mental illness and growing up. on the ultimate love experiment a social media revolution on voices, experiences and stories. adventure. The journey of the Convict stories of survival. in the search for a relationship. Saltwater people of the Gold Coast Facebook. 11:30–12:15 10:00–11:00 For lovers of The Rosie Project. 11:30–12:30 QAG Theatre and creating a special photo essay. 10:00–10:45 kuril dhagun SLQ Queensland Terrace 10:00–11:00 GOMA Cinema A Presented by The University of Queensland 10:00–10:45 Presented by The University of Queensland Festival Hub, Maiwar Green SLQ AUD2 20 BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL BWF.ORG.AU 21 Sunday 9 Sept Program
426 False Claims of Colonial Thieves Charmaine Papertalk-Green + 4 3 0 431 4 3 2 4 3 3 John Kinsella (on screen) + Philosophers Circle The Yellow House / Made by Humans / Off the Record Chair: Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng Dr Helen Caldicott + Laura Saltwater A Superior Spectre Craig Sherborne in Kinsella and Papertalk-Green articulate a political poetry Roberts + Chair: Julienne Emily O’Grady + Cathy Ellen Broad + Angela Meyer + conversation with Ashley Hay that responds to land occupation, resource exploitation van Loon McLennan + Chair: Susan Chair: Elizabeth Stephens A satirical novel that stylishly and historical wrongdoing. They are moral voices fighting Public participation Johnson Explore our role and skewers tabloid journalism and against power and privilege. welcome in this discussion of Powerful stories from regional responsibilities in automation. male vanity. 13:00–14:00 contemporary philosophy. Queensland. Loyalty, betrayal 14:30–15:30 14:30–15:15 SLQ AUD2 and redemption. 14:30–15:30 The Edge Theatre QAG Theatre SLQ Queensland Terrace 14:30–15:30 Presented by The University of Queensland SLQ AUD2
4 1 2 FREE / 4 2 1 422 4 2 4 4 3 4 4 3 6 4 3 7 438 The Apology Journaling for Refugee Stories On Mother The Valley Danger Music Shell William Robinson: Ross Watkins in Better Writing Mem Fox + Imtiaz Ali + Sarah Ferguson in conversation Steve Hawke in conversation Eddie Ayres in conversation Kristina Olsson in A New Perspective SUNDAY 9 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY 9 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY conversation with Laura Facilitator: Vicki Bennett Kagi Kowa + Lili Sanchez + with Leanne de Souza with Tony Birch with Liam Viney conversation with Matt Nick Earls + William Elizabeth Woollett Chair: Kon Karapanagiotidis Condon An opportunity for self-reflection Sarah Ferguson’s homage to A murder in the remote bush in An extraordinary year teaching Robinson + Chair: Ashley Hay Adrian Pomeroy teaches English and visualization. Take a break The panel discusses the importance her mother. A mother’s love over 1916 sparks a chain of events that music in Afghanistan. The building of Sydney Opera Earls and Robinson share a dry at a boys’ school. He finds himself of sharing diverse stories. decades and across continents. will haunt a family for generations. House in the time of conscription from your busy life and reflect. 15:45–16:45 wit that is distinctly Australian. at the centre of an allegation that The sudden death and the for the Vietnam War. Their stories are imbued with a 12:30–13:15 12:45–13:30 14:30–15:15 QAG Theatre might end his career. individual revealed. strong sense of place. SLQ Gallery QAG Theatre Festival Hub, Maiwar Green Presented by The University of Queensland 15:45–16:45 11:40–12:30 Presented in partnership with guests of 13:00–14:00 SLQ Queensland Terrace 15:45–16:45 Multicultural Development Australia. Festival Hub, Maiwar Green SLQ AUD1 The Edge Theatre
SPECIAL EVENT / 435 Closing Address: What the World
4 2 5 4 2 7 4 2 8 4 2 9 439 Needs Now Boy Swallows Turmoil The Tattooist of The Museum of Parting Words / The Dr Karl Kruszelnicki Universe Robyn Williams in conversation Auschwitz Modern Love Secrets at Ocean’s Edge Join legendary Australian science with Tamara Davis Trent Dalton in conversation Heather Morris in Heather Rose in conversation Cass Moriarty + Kali Napier + communicator and author Dr Karl Kruszelnicki with David Kelly Williams, Presenter of The Science conversation with Angela with Lauren Chater Chair: Dr Aurelia Armstrong (Karl, The Universe and Everything) as he Trent Dalton bends his own Show on ABC Radio, reveals a Meyer Rose’s reimagining of Abramović’s An absorbing tale of family secrets, tackles the theme of BWF 2018 ‘what the horrific story of a chaotic youth in searingly honest and often blackly Three years at Auschwitz and 2010 performance of The Artist is lies, betrayal and sacrifice with world needs now’. funny reflection on his life, friends, the heroin-drenched suburbs that the passion two people shared Present, in which the artist sat in authenticity from painstaking 15:45–16:45 the people he loves and loathes. Brisbane forgot into a bright and amid the brutality. True historical silence at the Museum of Modern research. Moriarty asks: how well SLQ AUD1 brilliant phantasmagoria. 13:00–14:00 account. Art in New York every day for three do we really know our parents? months. 13:00–14:00 The Edge Theatre 13:00–14:00 15:45–16:45 SLQ Queensland Terrace Presented by The University of Queensland Festival Hub, Maiwar Green 14:30–15:30 SLQ AUD2 SLQ AUD1 22 BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL BWF.ORG.AU 23
Authors & Chairs Index
Adam Courtenay Antony Funnell Cally Black Craig Sherborne Emma Griffiths Helene Young Jeann Wong Kári Gíslason Kon Karapanagiotidis Dr Lisa Harvey-Smith The Ship That Never Was So Far, So Good In the Dark Spaces Off the Record PAGE 11 PAGE 9 / 14 / 17 PAGE 8 Saga Land The Power of Hope When Galaxies Collide PAGE 9 / 19 PAGE 10 PAGE 8 PAGE 21 PAGE 14 PAGE 16 / 20 PAGE 14 Erin Stewart Henry Reynolds Jessica Watson Aimée Lindorff Aoife Clifford Cass Moriarty Craig Zonca Balancing Acts: Women The Black Arm Band Indigo Blue Krissy Kneen Lisa Kunde PAGE 8 / 18 Second Sight Parting Words PAGE 9 in Sport PAGE 11 / 14 PAGE 14 Wintering PAGE 11 PAGE 12 PAGE 19 PAGE 21 PAGE 11 / 12 / 16 / 18 A.J. Finn (US) Darryl Jones Holly Isemonger Jessica Wilkinson Louise Milligan The Woman in the Window Ashley Hay Cathi Lewis The Birds at My Table Fiona Stager Balancing Acts: Women Rabbit: a journal for Kristina Olsson Cardinal Dr Karl Kruszelnicki PAGE 11 in Sport PAGE 9 / 11 / 14 / 17 A Hundred Small Lessons PAGE 19 PAGE 11 nonfiction poetry / Issue Shell PAGE 13 Karl, The Universe and PAGE 12 25: The SPORT Issue PAGE 10 / 19 / 21 Everything PAGE 10 / 21 Alex Adsett David Burton Gabriella Coslovich PAGE 12 Madonna King Ian McFadyen PAGE 7 / 9 / 13 / 14 / 17 / 21 PAGE 9 / 13 Dr Aurelia Armstrong How to Be Happy Whiteley on Trial Kristina Schulz Fathers and Daughters PAGE 9 / 16 PAGE 10 Jill Stark PAGE 13 / 21 PAGE 10 / 19 Kate Cole-Adams PAGE 9 / 18 PAGE 19 Ali Berg Happy Never After Imtiaz Ali Anaesthesia The Book Ninja David Kelly Gabrielle Stroud PAGE 14 Laura Elizabeth Woollett Manal al-Sharif Backbone Youth Arts Cathy McLennan Teacher Multicultural Development PAGE 10 / 16 PAGE 18 backbone.org.au ‘The Saltwater People’ (Essay) Beautiful Revolutionary Daring to Drive Saltwater Australia Joe Williams PAGE 18 / 20 PAGE 14 PAGE 9 / 15 PAGE 15 Kate Goldsworthy PAGE 18 / 20 Alison Goodman PAGE 17 / 21 PAGE 20 Defying The Enemy Within David McKnight Gareth Evans Editor Lady Helen and the Dark Bec Mac PAGE 10 Laura Elvery Ceridwen Dovey Irvine Welsh (UK) PAGE 12 Days Pact Populism Now! Incorrigible Optimist Trick of the Light PAGE 11 / 14 / 15 In the Garden of the Dead Men’s Trousers PAGE 8 / 13 / 19 PAGE 11 Dr Joëlle Gergis Fugitives PAGE 11 PAGE 13 Ben Doherty PAGE 4 Sunburnt Country PAGE 16 Alison Lester David Neiwert (US) PAGE 12 Laura Roberts Nagaland Jackie Ryan Prof Marcia Langton Children’s Laureate Alt-America PAGE 18 / 21 / 25 PAGE 13 Charlotte Nash We’ll Show the World: Welcome to Country Imagine PAGE 11 / 16 John Kinsella The Paris Wedding Expo 88 PAGE 5 / 11 / 16 / 17 PAGE 14 / 15 / 25 Ben Hobson False Claims of Colonial Kate Grenville Lauren Chater PAGE 8 David Peetz PAGE 10 / 16 Thieves To Become a Whale Geoffrey Robertson Q.C. The Case Against The Lace Weaver Margaret Henderson Amanda Dunn PAGE 15 PAGE 20 Fragrance PAGE 9 / 13 / 20 PAGE 19 Charmaine Rather His Own Man Jacqui Lambie PAGE 11 The New Puberty Papertalk-Green PAGE 9 / 14 / 16 David Ritter PAGE 4 Rebel with a Cause Dr Jonathan D Quick (US) PAGE 9 / 19 Ben Smee False Claims of Colonial Maria Tumarkin The Coal Truth PAGE 17 The End of Epidemics: Kate Wild PAGE 15 Thieves Grantlee Kieza Axiomatic Andrew Stafford PAGE 15 The Looming Threat to PAGE 20 Waiting for Elijah Mrs Kelly James Moloney Humanity and How to PAGE 15 / 19 Pig City Benjamin Allmon PAGE 11 / 19 Denise Mina (UK) PAGE 9 / 19 The Love That I Have Stop It PAGE 4 ‘The Saltwater People’ (Essay) Christina Lee Marianne de Pierres The Long Drop PAGE 15 PAGE 10 / 17 Lauren Weisberger (US) PAGE 9 Katherena Vermette (CA) PAGE 18 When Life Gives You PAGE 7 Angela Meyer PAGE 16 / 19 The Break James Phelps Jonathan Sri Lululemons A Superior Spectre Billy Griffiths Christine Wells PAGE 10 / 11 / 13 / 14 Marie-Louise Theile Dervla McTiernan Australian Heist PAGE 13 PAGE 5 / 12 PAGE 13 / 20 / 21 Deep Time Dreaming The Juliet Code PAGE 5 The Ruin PAGE 17 Katherine Collette PAGE 11 PAGE 15 Joyce Morgan Leanne de Souza Dr Anita Heiss PAGE 9 / 13 Hayden Cox The Helpline Marnee Shay Prof James Taylor Carson Martin Sharp PAGE 20 Growing Up Aboriginal Blake La Burniy Prof Ciaran New Wave Vision PAGE 18 PAGE 18 in Australia O’Faircheallaigh Eddie Ayres PAGE 11 PAGE 15 PAGE 8 PAGE 13 Danger Music PAGE 16 / 18 PAGE 11 Jane Palfreyman Prof Judith McLean Kathleen Noonan Matt Condon Brendan Lawley PAGE 21 Heather Morris PAGE 9 PAGE 21 Ann-Marie Priest Claire Ashman Allen & Unwin PAGE 14 Bonesland The Tattooist of Auschwitz A Free Flame Lessons from a Cult Eileen Chong PAGE 12 Kay Saunders Maurice Serico PAGE 8 PAGE 20 Justin Heazlewood Survivor Painting Red Orchids Liam Ferney PAGE 11 Janet Lee Get Up Mum PAGE 9 / 11 / 13 PAGE 11 Bri Lee PAGE 18 PAGE 16 Heather Rose Content Anna Johnston The Killing of Louisa PAGE 19 Kelly Doust Megan Daley Eggshell Skull The Museum of Modern PAGE 12 / 16 PAGE 19 Claire Christian Elizabeth Stephens Love PAGE 13 Dressing the Dearloves PAGE 15 PAGE 12 / 19 Julienne van Loon Beautiful Mess PAGE 21 Liam Viney PAGE 20 / 25 PAGE 21 PAGE 9 / 15 Anne Tiernan PAGE 14 Jared Thomas PAGE 21 Prof Megan Davis Bridie Jabour Elizabeth Tynan PAGE 15 / 17 Dr Helen Caldicott Songs That Sound Like Kagi Kowa Kelly Higgins-Devine First Things First The Way Things Should Be Blood Griffith Review #60 Claire Higgins Atomic Thunder Sleepwalking to PAGE 16 Lili Sanchez PAGE 13 / 25 Multicultural Development Asylum by Boat PAGE 10 Armageddon PAGE 8 / 10 Australia Multicultural Development PAGE 16 PAGE 16 PAGE 10 / 12 / 21 / 25 Kelly Rimmer Australia Bronwyn Lea Jay Carmichael PAGE 20 Melissa Ashley Ellen Broad Before I Let You Go PAGE 20 PAGE 12 Ironbark The Birdman’s Wife Clare Atkins Made by Humans Helen Jukes (UK) Kali Napier PAGE 11 Between Us PAGE 13 / 21 A Honeybee Heart Has PAGE 14 / 18 Lindsay Simpson PAGE 11 Anthony Lawrence Prof Brydie-Leigh The Secrets at Ocean’s Five Openings Bartleet PAGE 8 Edge Kim Wilkins Adani, Following Its Dirty Headwaters Jay Ludowyke Melissa Fagan Emily O’Grady PAGE 11 / 13 PAGE 7 Footsteps: A Personal PAGE 16 / 25 PAGE 15 PAGE 21 Courtney Pedersen The Yellow House Carpathia Story What Will Be Worn PAGE 9 PAGE 21 PAGE 9 PAGE 15 PAGE 11 / 15 24 BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL BWF.ORG.AU 25
Authors & Chairs Index
Melissa Lucashenko Patrick Nunn Robyn Cadwallader Sarah Ferguson Tamara Davis Children’s Activities Too Much Lip The Edge of Memory Book of Colours On Mother PAGE 20 PAGE 11 / 14 PAGE 11 / 12 PAGE 13 PAGE 20 Tim Ayliffe 318 441 Mem Fox Paul Barclay Robyn Williams Sarah Krasnostein The Greater Good Storytelling for Under 7s FREE / FREE / I’m Australian Too PAGE 10 / 12 / 16 Turmoil The Trauma Cleaner PAGE 9 / 15 Alison Lester Mem Fox PAGE 18 / 20 / 25 PAGE 9 / 20 PAGE 12 Sat 8 Sept / 11:00–11:45 Sun 9 Sept / 10:00–10:45 Paul Mazerolle Tim Dunlop SLQ Gallery SLQ Gallery Michael Robotham PAGE 16 Fr Rod Bower Scott Stephens The Future of Everything The Other Wife Outspoken PAGE 16 PAGE 13 / 17 Peter Cochrane PAGE 16 PAGE 18 / 25 Best We Forget Tim Rogers Michael Williams PAGE 9 / 10 / 19 Roland Perry Detours PAGE 15 / 16 / 19 Anzac Sniper PAGE 5 / 17 Peter Greste PAGE 10 / 14 / 25 Micheline Jenner PAGE 10 / 11 Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng Workshops Shastra Deo The Secret Life of Whales Prof Ross Fitzgerald A Long Way from No Go Peter Mares The Agonist PAGE 17 PAGE 10 PAGE 16 / 19 / 20 PAGE 18 No Place Like Home WORKSHOP / 202 WORKSHOP / 352 FOR WRITERS Michelle de Kretser PAGE 15 / 17 Ross McMullin Shireen Morris Cyanotype Printing Finding Your Voice 20 pages in 20 minutes The Life to Come Pompey Elliott at War Phil Brown Radical Heart An engaging and hands-on activity. Create Contemporary activism with Laura Roberts Have your manuscript read by an editor, PAGE 15 / 19 PAGE 13 PAGE 13 / 15 PAGE 13 your own cyanotype, using text-based and guests Nevo Zisin and Fr Rod Bower. literary agent or publisher. If you have resists. Drop in. Gold coin donation. a manuscript ready for a publisher and Michelle Kalus Ross Watkins Sat 8 Sept / 18:00–19:00 Philip Bacon Sisonke Msimang Tony Birch you want advice on it, you can submit the The Book Ninja The Apology Fri 7 Sept / 10:00–12:00 Red Box PAGE 16 Always Another Country Common People first 20 pages of it. Selected submissions PAGE 18 PAGE 20 Festival Hub, Maiwar Green PAGE 10 / 11 PAGE 16 / 21 / 25 receive feedback in a face-to-face Philip Hoare (UK) 20-minute consultation with a publishing Morris Gleitzman Rupert Guinness RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR Sofie Laguna Trent Dalton professional. Children’s Laureate Overlander WORKSHOP / VARIOUS WORKSHOP / 430 PAGE 12 / 17 / 25 The Choke Boy Swallows Universe Places are strictly limited. Available by PAGE 15 PAGE 14 PAGE 17 / 19 PAGE 14 / 20 White Gloves Room Philosophers Circle application only. Visit bwf.org.au to apply. Quentin Beresford Nadia Jamal Sally Piper Sessions Philosophy for modern day with Julienne Adani and the War Over Stephen Mam Ursula Cleary Headstrong Daughters The Geography of Access to the collection with a curator, van Loon and guests Dr Helen Caldicott Coal PAGE 14 / 16 PAGE 10 / 13 PAGE 16 Friendship including the fashion archives, war time and Laura Roberts. See the website bwf.org.au to find PAGE 15 PAGE 13 Steve Austin letters and more. Additional activities Sun 9 Sept / 14:30–15:30 out more. Festival guests are featured in Nevo Zisin in the library, including the automated sessions within the Lifestyle Exhibition on Rachel Noble PAGE 10 SLQ Queensland Terrace Finding Nevo Sally Seltmann robotic scanner. Level 2, State Library of Queensland. Finn’s Feather PAGE 18 / 19 / 25 Lovesome Steve Hawke PAGE 19 PAGE 11 The Valley Nick Earls Veronica Roth (US) Rebecca Jessen PAGE 21 William Robinson: A New Sam Twyford-Moore Carve the Mark Gap Perspective The Rapids Sue McPherson PAGE 7 / 8 PAGE 18 PAGE 13 / 21 PAGE 11 Brontide Vicki Bennett Rhianna Patrick PAGE 10 Nicole Gibson Samuel Maguire The Little Stowaway In-Depth Workshops hosted by QWC PAGE 8 Love Out Loud No Point in Stopping Susan Forde PAGE 15 / 20 PAGE 14 + 19 PAGE 10 / 14 PAGE 18 Wil Patterson WORKSHOP / 401 WORKSHOP / 309 WORKSHOP / 334 Nigel Brennan Assoc Prof Susan Harris Rimmer Mr Ordinary Goes To Jail Writing Poetry Writing Short Stories Writing Biography The Price of Life Sandra Phillips PAGE 14 PAGE 18 Anthony Lawrence Tony Birch Roland Perry PAGE 15 Griffith Review 60 Richard Fidler Susan Johnson Yvonne Fein Fri 7 Sept / 10:30–13:30 Sat 8 Sept / 10:30–13:30 Sat 8 Sept / 14:30–17:30 PAGE 5 / 11 / 16 / 17 Nikki Gemmell Saga Land PAGE 19 / 21 Choose Somebody Else Queensland Writers Centre Queensland Writers Centre Queensland Writers Centre On Quiet PAGE 14 Sarah Bailey PAGE 12 Susan Wyndham PAGE 9 / 14 The Dark Lake WORKSHOP / 210 WORKSHOP / 443 WORKSHOP / 442 Robbie Arnott PAGE 17 Zenobia Frost PAGE 9 / 17 Flames Salt and Bone How To Write Your Book Imagination – Turning Writing Creative Suzi Derbyshire PAGE 16 Sarah Epstein PAGE 11 / 16 / 18 and Get Published Your Ideas into Stories Non-Fiction PAGE 5 / 12 (UK) Small Spaces Bridie Jabour Heather Rose Philip Hoare Robert Forster Zoya Patel PAGE 8 Fri 7 Sept / 14:30–17:30 Sun 9 Sept / 10:00–13:00 Sun 9 Sept / 14:30–17:30 Grant & I Sylvia Kelly Osher Günsberg No Country Woman PAGE 8 Queensland Writers Centre Queensland Writers Centre Queensland Writers Centre Back, After the Break PAGE 5 / 17 PAGE 13 PAGE 10 BWF Team and Board THE FUTURE BELONGS TO Board Members THOSE WHO DESIGN THEIR Fiona Taylor Chair OWN PATHWAY Michelle Clark Unleash your creative genius Treasurer with a degree in Communication, Alasdair Jeffrey Journalism, Creative Arts or Bronwyn Lea Interactive Media and Design at Bond University. 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