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Missed it this year? Need a memory jog? Catch our session highlights from the 2017 Byron Writers Festival.
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August 16, 2017 0
Our official wrap-up gallery tells the story of the 2017 Byron Writers Festival in pictures
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jock Serong and Michael Sala explore the nature of violence in their books and within their own lives in a discussion with Anneli Knight.
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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.
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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.