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Byron Writers Festival 2018 BYRON’S DESTINATION FOR GREAT BOOKS OFFICIAL BOOKSELLER OF THE BYRON WRITERS FESTIVAL 2018 SHARE YOUR BUCKET LIST DREAM TO WIN $10,000 TO ENTER your GROW BOLD wish, visit us at the Byron Writers Festival or enter online at feroscare.com.au/bold-bucket-list ENTRIES CLOSE 15 NOVEMBER, 2018 Terms and conditions apply. At Byron At Lennox At Newrybar 27 Fletcher Street, 2/60 Ballina Street, 19 Old Pacific Highway, Byron Bay NSW 2481 Lennox Head 2478 NSW Newrybar 2479 NSW Ph: 02 6685 8183 Ph: 02 6687 5639 Ph: 02 6687 2233 \\\\ real farmers, real food Welcome LOCAL PRODUCE LIVE MUSIC GREAT COFFEE GOURMET FOOD Friday program 6 PROUD SPONSORS OF THE BYRON WRITERS FESTIVAL Saturday program 8 Sunday program 10 Feature Events 13 Image: Kate Holmes Workshops 17 Biographies 21 Image Kate Holmes Image Kate Partners 32 Site Map & Directory 34 Welcome to the 22nd Byron Writers Festival program! Travel 37 It is a thrill to showcase this year’s line-up of 140 writers and thinkers who help shape our national conversation with their Tickets 38 engaging stories and ideas. We are honoured to host them in Byron Bay, recently named Australia’s most creative regional centre by the Regional Australia Institute. FOLLOW US Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform Connect, share Festival highlights and join the conversation. and shape life. The role of the writer is to lift people up, not Tag your comments, photos and highlights with #byronwf2018 lower them down. E.B. White @byronwritersfestival @bbwritersfest This year the stories in our program will take us from the @byronwritersfestival wilds of New Zealand to North Korea, Tuscany and back home to near-by Goonengerry. We traverse much territory KITCHEN AND BATHROOM SHOWROOM including anxiety, crime, the Frontier Wars, the SUPPORT US Anthropocene, science, comedy, immigration, the wellness Byron Writers Festival is Australia’s largest and leading annual industry and poetry. We explore music, whales, romance and regional literary gathering made possible by the generosity of ITALIAN QUALITY IN BYRON BAY debate whether reading can make you happier. Writers will patrons, sponsors and supporters. Any donations you contribute nominate the books that changed them, and will explore how over $2 are tax deductible and graciously accepted. To make a to shape life into story. donation please contact [email protected] The Festival is an examination of how we live both on a BOARD personal level and as a society. It offers writers and patrons Chairperson Jennifer St George alike an opportunity to reflect our world back to each other in Vice Chairperson Adam van Kempen story. It examines everything from how we communicate, Secretary Russell Eldridge how we migrate, how we farm, how we cope with grief, how Treasurer Cheryl Bourne we process change – how we live now resonates throughout Members Jesse Blackadder, Kate Cameron, Marele Day, Festival sessions. The Festival offers us space to enjoy ‘the Lynda Dean, Hilarie Dunn, Lynda Hawryluk & Anneli Knight art of listening’ and seeing where conversations and stories can take us. STAFF Director Edwina Johnson On behalf of the Festival Board, my heartfelt thanks to the Program & Operations Manager Sarah Ma staff and many sponsors, patrons and volunteers who make Acting General Manager Hilarie Dunn this much-loved Festival possible. We look forward to Site Manager & Technical Production Mic Deacon welcoming you to our iconic coastal town in August. Partnership Manager Emma Keenan Travel Manager Cherrie Sheldrick Edwina Johnson Communications Manager Anika Ebner Director Schools and StoryBoard Coordinator Gabby Le Brun Festival Administrator Emily Brugman Publicist Clare McGregor • Italian interior design • Free measure and quote • Free virtual reality 360 imaging • Customer centred service Volunteers Coordinator Shien Chee And a massive army of volunteers 2018 Festival creative & program design 4/64 Centennial Circuit, Byron Bay • 02 6680 8542 Megan Louis, Everywhen [email protected] • www.cipriano.com.au Byron Writers Festival acknowledges the Arakwal Bumberbin People Plastic water bottle free event. of the Byron Shire as the traditional custodians of this land. BYO bottle for free refills. byronwritersfestival.com 5 PROGRAM FRIDAY 3RD SOUTHERN CROSS YELLOW BRICK ROAD FEROS CARE GREENSTONE PARTNERS THE SATURDAY PAPER BELONGIL ROOM UNIVERSITY MARQUEE PAVILION MARQUEE MARQUEE MARQUEE Gates open from 8.30am. Beat the rush — enjoy coffee, breakfast, market stalls & entertainment 8.30—11.00 32 9.30am Welcome to Country with Delta Kay and the Bunyarra Dancers ABC North Coast Live Broadcast with AM 10.00—10.45 1 10.00—11.00 7 10.00—11.00 13 10.00—11.00 19 10.00—10.45 25 Joanne Shoebridge 1O Jane Harper Living Wild Comedy: The Most This Book Changed Sarah Wilson 8:35 Gareth Evans in conversation with Jessie Cole, Miriam Lancewood, Addictive Thing You'll My Life in conversation with 8:50 Sarah Wilson Marele Day Gregory Smith Ever Do Gareth Evans, Josephine Wilson, Rosemarie Milsom 9:10 Jane Harper 9:25 Josephine Wilson Chair Nathan Scolaro Kitty Flanagan, Andrew Hansen Chris Womersley Supported by Velvet Cafe 9:45 Michael Ableman Supported by Dumbo Feather Chair Mandy Nolan Chair Adam Suckling Supported by the Copyright 10:10 Hyeonseo Lee Agency's Cultural Fund 11.00—11.45 26 10:25 Ben Hobson AM 11.00—12.00 2 11.15—12.15 8 11.15—12.15 14 Hyeonseo Lee 10:45 Bri Lee 11 Bernhard Schlink Matt Haig Resilience, Hope 11.15—12.00 20 in conversation with in conversation with in conversation with and Love Jane Hutcheon 11.15—12.00 33 Gold from the Stone: Steven Carroll William MacNeil Sarah Kanowski Barney & Kada Miller Spoken Word Artists Chair Alan Close in conversation with Supported by Southern Cross Courtney Sina Meredith, 12.00—12.45 27 University School of Law & Justice Michael Williams Supported by Feros Care Lemn Sissay Eddie Ayres PM Chair Zacharey Jane in conversation with 12.15—1.00 34 12 12.15—1.15 3 12.30—1.30 9 12.30—1.30 15 Supported by Chris Hanley & Bernard Zuel Foreign Correspondents Tracey Moffatt, Visual Gareth Evans Dawn Standfield Bri Lee Peter Greste, Chris Hammer, Artist: Dismantling in conversation with in conversation with 1.00—1.45 Ailsa Piper Debbie Whitmont the Conventions of Kerry O'Brien 12.15—1.15 21 28 Tom Keneally PM Chair Karen Middleton Storytelling Supported by Rochdale How Immigration 1 Supported by The Byron Shire Echo Introduced by Jill Eddington Accounting & Advisory Influences Our Culture in conversation with 1.15—2.00 35 Anne Aly, Future D. Fidel, Steven Gale Lloyd Jones 1.30—2.30 4 1.45—2.45 10 1.45—2.45 16 Kon Karapanagiotidis, in conversation with Dervla McTiernan Michael Williams Kitty Flanagan How to Get Boys Reading From the Good Earth: 2.00—2.45 29 Chair Sunil Badami PM in conversation with Ben Hobson, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Sustainable Living Kon Karapanagiotidis 2.15—3.00 36 2 Mandy Nolan Tim Rogers Michael Ableman, Carey Gillam, 1.30—2.30 22 in conversation with Chair Tristan Bancks The Secret Life of Whales Charles Massy Revelations Melissa Lucashenko Supported by Yellow Brick Road Chair Elizabeth Finkel Micheline Jenner in conversation Michelle de Kretser, Ceridwen Dovey Supported by The Saturday Paper Wealth Management Supported by Brookfarm with Mick O'Regan Chair Caroline Baum 2.45—3.45 5 PM 3.00—3.45 Tanya Plibersek 3.00—3.45 11 3.00—4.00 17 30 3.15—4.00 37 2.45—3.45 23 3 in conversation with Sarah Sentilles in How to Buy Less Stuff Clive Hamilton Charles Massy Meet the Crime Writers Matthew Condon conversation with and Save the World in conversation with in conversation with Margaret Throsby Mark Brandi, Chris Hammer, Jane Hutcheon Ashley Hay Richard Denniss, Miriam Jane Harper Lancewood, Christine Milne Chair Alex Adsett PM Chair Sarah Armstrong 31 4.15—5.00 11738 Supported by Greenstone Partners 4.00—5.00 4 4.00—5.00 6 4.00—5.00 12 Supported by Byron Shire Council Should Children's Stories Anne Aly Making the Beast First Things First: 4.00—5.00 Always Have a Happy in conversation with 24 Chris Hanley Beautiful Indigenous Australia 4.15—5.15 18 Poetry: Gateway to Ending? Jessie Cole, Dervla McTiernan, Tony Birch, Melissa Lucashenko, Women Like Us the Human Experience Oliver Phommavanh, Matt Stanton, 5.15—6.15 39 Sarah Wilson Henry Reynolds Ellen Briggs, Mandy Nolan Lian Tanner Ali Alizadeh, Shastra Deo, Book Launch Chair Sarah Krasnostein Chair Brigid Delaney Chair Michael Williams Chair Jill Eddington Selina Tusitala Marsh, Courtney The True Colour of the Sea Sina Meredith by Robert Drewe Chair Lynda Hawryluk Launched by Margaret Throsby 6 byronwritersfestival.com byronwritersfestival.com 7 PROGRAM SATURDAY 4TH SOUTHERN CROSS YELLOW BRICK ROAD FEROS CARE GREENSTONE PARTNERS THE SATURDAY PAPER BELONGIL ROOM UNIVERSITY MARQUEE PAVILION MARQUEE MARQUEE MARQUEE AM 9.00—10.00 40 9.00—10.00 47 9.00—10.00 54 9.00—10.00 61 9.00—9.45 68 9.00—9.45 75 9 Abuse of Power How Fiction Can Foster The Wellness Industry Kia Ora: New Zealand David Ritter Ceridwen Dovey and Privilege Empathy Brigid Delaney, Sarah Wilson Writers in conversation with in conversation with Allan Clarke, Bri Lee, Trent Dalton, Matt Haig, Chair Bernard Zuel Lloyd Jones, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Phillip Frazer Ashley Hay Louise Milligan Elise Valmorbida Supported by Pukka Herbs Courtney Sina Meredith Chair Matthew Condon Chair Nicole Abadee Chair Laura Kroetsch Supported by Creative New Zealand 10.00—10.45 69 Supported by The Book Room Warren Mundine 10.00—10.45 76 AM 10.15—11.15 10.15—11.15 41 55 10.15—11.00 in conversation with Josephine
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