August 16, 2017
Missed it this year? Need a memory jog? Catch our session highlights from the 2017 Byron Writers Festival.
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Our official wrap-up gallery tells the story of the 2017 Byron Writers Festival in pictures
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August 7, 2017
What is the function of a name? Imagine our different conception of the world if our language described what it means ‘to tree’… Just one of the propositions at the Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors session.
August 6, 2017
Roger Cohen, Madeline Gleeson and Jock Serong on ‘talking about stories which matter’, giving a voice to asylum seekers, and questioning Australia’s ethical involvement in offshore detention.
August 6, 2017
The hot topic of this session with Clementine Ford, Susan Carland and Alice Pung was the backlash against Yassmin Abdel-Magied, following her controversial ANZAC Day Twitter post this year.
August 6, 2017
Imagine growing up with parents who were affected by appalling trauma.
August 6, 2017
Jock Serong and Michael Sala explore the nature of violence in their books and within their own lives in a discussion with Anneli Knight.
August 6, 2017
Aspirations, worst jobs, career disasters, and the ultimate question: 'do you feel successful?'. Tracy Spicer, Meshel Laurie and Peter Helliar lay it on the line. Note: this story has a strong language warning.
August 6, 2017
There could hardly be a more appropriate place to discuss what it means to writing about the landscape than Byron Bay, but it is the connections to country that count.