A big congratulations to our winners, runners-up and everyone who submitted their stories to our annual Student Writing Prizes. We received 138 submissions across the three categories for the Southern Cross University Writing Prize, the Susie Warrick Young Writers Award and the Jesse Blackadder Prize.
Byron Writers Festival 2024 was a great success, with Arakwal woman Delta Kay welcoming eager crowds to the festival’s beautiful location at Bangalow Showground on Bundjalung Country.
Australia’s largest regional writers festival explores the theme ‘From the ground up’ Featuring 160 writers including Trent Dalton, Richard Flanagan, Jane Harper, Melissa Lucashenko, Charlotte Wood, Bruce Pascoe, Bob Brown, Julia Baird, Nam Le, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Lynette Noni, Bryan Brown, Tony Birch, William McInnes, Chigozie Obioma, Caoilinn Hughes, Tayi Tibble, Meena Kandasamy, Louise Milligan, Kim Williams, Kerry O’Brien, and many more.
Byron Writers Festival is thrilled to announce the first wave of authors set to grace its stages at the 2024 festival 9th-11th August, plus a limited number of Earlybird tickets are on sale, now!
We are pleased to announce that Byron Writers Festival 2023 (11-13 August) was an overwhelming success, welcoming capacity crowds to bask in the winter sunshine at our stunning new location at Bangalow Showground.
Byron Writers Festival is thrilled to announce the winners and runner up for the year 10-12 category of the Susie Warwick Young Writers Award Writing Prize.
Byron Writers Festival is thrilled to announce the winner and runner up for the year 7-9 category of the Susie Warwick Young Writers Award Writing Prize.
Byron Writers Festival is thrilled to announce the winner and runners up for the Jesse Blackadder Student Writing Prize.
Byron Writers Festival, in partnership with Southern Cross University, is thrilled to announce the winner and runners up for the Greener Futures Writing Prize.
Our official wrap-up gallery tells the story of the 2023 Byron Writers Festival in pictures.
We are pleased to announce that Byron Writers Festival 2023 (11-13 August) was an overwhelming success, welcoming capacity crowds to bask in the winter sunshine at our stunning new location at Bangalow Showground.
Byron Writers Festival is delighted to announce it has received a pledge of $1M from the Vasudhara Fund.
The work of Sydney-based artist Liz Payne explores colour, shape, form and abstraction through a variety of mediums including painting, embroidery and beading. Earlier this year, Payne was commissioned by Byron Writers Festival to produce a piece for this year’s event. We sat down with her to discuss her creative process and more.
Ahead of a key panel at Byron Writers Festival 2023 with Anna Funder and Pip Williams, Northern Rivers author Sally Colin-James examines how a conscious awareness of linguistic diversity can open hearts, cultivate meaningful human connection and help expose power structures inherent in monolingual culture.
Where is AI taking the world, and how is it embedded with long-held, damaging bias and prejudice? These questions are among those posed by Tracey Spicer in her new book, Man-Made.
Byron Writers Festival proves that the Northern Rivers region remains a creative hotspot in 2023 with more than 30 local writers, thinkers, artists and performers featured at this year’s festival including Marele Day (Reckless), Sally Colin-James (One Illumined Thread), Kayte Nunn (The Only Child), Hilton Koppe (One Curious Doctor), Amanda Reichelt-Brushett (Marine Pollution), Hakea Hustler and Carl Merrison (Diraarn) and many more.
We’re inviting the curious, open-minded and deeply compassionate to get in touch with the magic world of the Mind Spa marquee at Byron Writers Festival 2023, this 11-13 August.
If anyone knows how to throw a literary party, it’s the slam poets! Get ready for Byron Writers Festival’s Saturday night feature event, Voices In the Wild, a cabaret of spoken word that will bring the house down.
Byron Writers Festival 2023 invites audiences aged 35 and under to soak up the festival experience with a Saturday PM Under 35s Pass. This new pass gives access to twelve sessions taking place at the festival site from 2pm, Saturday 12 August for just $35.
The Deep Dives marquee will be a place for reflective one-on-one conversations; where you can dive head first into a world of extraordinary and emotive topics that leave you yearning to discover more. If you love hearing from the authors of this year’s biggest and most compelling books and better still, meeting them in person afterwards, read on for a taste of what to expect.
