5 August 2019
Exploring how research skills are used and appreciated in writing with Jesse Blackadder, Jock Serong and Jessica White.
News & Editorial
4 August 2019
‘I’m a spearpoint,’ Uncle Jack Charles said. ‘I land in the hearts and minds of people who are a bit iffy on change.’
4 August 2019
A silent, sombre hush fell over the Banksia Pavilion early this Sunday morning as we waited for our caller from Manus Island.
4 August 2019
#MeToo: where to go in a society that still faces so many complicated, interconnected challenges.
4 August 2019
Laughter, dancing and story making: Sunday was funday as the Kids Big Day Out program took over a whole marquee at Byron Writers Festival.
4 August 2019
Jess Hill's book on domestic violence was supposed to take six to eight months to write; instead it took three, somewhat harrowing, years.
4 August 2019
We think about archaeology as an earthbound science, with its focus firmly in the past. But 'Dr Space Junk' asks us to think how it can also tell us about space and the future.
4 August 2019
Our world is quite adept at presenting the nearly 7.7 billion of us with instances of significant adversity but when disaster strikes, it happens on a day out of the blue.
3 August 2019
Writing a personal memoir takes strength of mind and soul. To talk publicly and write about the self and the life history of one’s own family is a feat no one should dismiss as anything other than monumental.
3 August 2019
Author Markus Zusak only wants to write books that 'mean everything' to him. And considering his international best-selling author status, his six novels must mean everything to his readers too.
3 August 2019
An annual highlight at the Byron Writers Festival is the captivating array of sculptures throughout the native parkland festival site.
3 August 2019
Juggling motherhood and a career in writing is not always smooth sailing, but the rewards are profound. Four authors, also mothers, share their experiences.
2 August 2019
Who better to call in to facilitate a conversation with Kevin Rudd than a political journalist? Karen Middleton led a lively, but friendly pas de deux with the former Prime Minister.
2 August 2019
Our ancestors are speaking to us: Tara June Winch and Melissa Lucashenko on the power of language and country.
2 August 2019
Social media blowbacks, death threats and ‘graphic things of what men think they should do to me': Clementine Ford on challenging our views of what healthy masculinity looks like.
2 August 2019
John Marsden, Isobelle Carmody, and Karen Foxlee on how they pumped out more than 100 manuscripts between them.
2 August 2019
The 23rd Bryon Writers Festival kicked off this morning with a fortuitous sighting of a rainbow and welcome sunshine.
1 August 2019
Southern Cross University student journalists will return for a ninth year to report news from the frontline of Byron Writers Festival.
1 August 2019
Read on for our comprehensive guide to the 2019 Byron Writers Festival and get ready for three heartwarming days of ideas, storytelling, debate, laughter, and inspired conversation.
25 July 2019
From behind the walls of Manus Island Prison, Behrouz Boochani's No Friend But The Mountains explores courage, human rights and the desire for justice.