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The Burning Island: Jock Serong in conversation with Mirandi Riwoe

February 18, 2021

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FRIDAY

12 March

6pm

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The Burning Island: Jock Serong in conversation with Mirandi Riwoe


Byron Writers Festival in partnership with Lennox Art Board (LAB) invite you to join celebrated Australian storyteller Jock Serong and acclaimed writer Mirandi Riwoe for a lively discussion about Jock’s new novel The Burning Island.

Irresistible prose, unforgettable characters and magnificent, epic storytelling: The Burning Island delivers everything readers have come to expect from Jock Serong. It may be his most moving, compelling novel yet.

Event details

When: Friday 12 March, 6pm
Where: 
Lennox Cultural Centre, 1 Mackney Ln, Lennox Head
Tickets:
$20 Members / $25 General + booking fee

Accessibility
This event will be Auslan interpreted.

Health & Safety

  • This is a Covidsafe event, therefore we will be operating at restricted capacity with social distancing measures in place.
  • For the health & safety of all, signage & sanitising stations are set up throughout the venue.
  • We ask that you adhere to all Covid guidelines while attending the event.

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About Jock Serong

Jock Serong was once a criminal lawyer. He’s since been the editor of Great Ocean Quarterly, and a regular writer in the surfing media and more generally in publications such as The Monthly, The Guardian, the SMH and the Australian Financial Review. His first novel, Quota, appeared in 2014, and since then his work has been awarded the Colin Roderick Prize, the Staunch Prize and an ACWA Ned Kelly. His current book, The Burning Island, is the second novel of a trilogy about the early history of Bass Strait’s Furneaux Islands. He’s in the late stages of a Creative Writing PhD based around his first historical novel, Preservation. More than anything, he likes to write about the sea.

About Mirandi Riwoe

Mirandi Riwoe is the author of Stone Sky Gold Mountain, which won the Queensland Literary Award for Fiction and the inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize. Her novella The Fish Girl won Seizure’s Viva la Novella V and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her work has appeared in Best Australian Stories, Meanjin, Review of Australian Fiction, Griffith Review and Best Summer Stories. Mirandi has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies (QUT).


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Bob Carr in conversation with Kerry O’Brien

February 8, 2021

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FRIDAY

5 March

6pm

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Former NSW Premier, Foreign Minister and writer Bob Carr in conversation with Kerry O’Brien


Byron Writers Festival is proud to present an evening of conversation between celebrated journalist Kerry O’Brien and former NSW Premier, Foreign Minister and writer Bob Carr.

Topics will range from bushwalking to books, Australia-China relations, post-Trump America and what to expect from Joe Biden, political lessons from the pandemic and understanding the tale of two Labor Parties—the one that dominates the states and territories and the one that struggles federally

Event details

When: Friday 5 March, 6pm
Where:
Byron Theatre, 69 Jonson Street Byron Bay
Theatre Tickets:
$20 Members / $25 General + booking fee

Accessibility
This event will be Auslan interpreted.

Health & Safety

  • This is a Covidsafe event, therefore we will be operating at restricted capacity with social distancing measures in place.
  • For the health & safety of all, signage & sanitising stations are set up throughout the venue.
  • We ask that you adhere to all Covid guidelines while attending the event.

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About Bob Carr

Professor the Hon Bob Carr is the longest continuously serving Premier in the history of New South Wales. Bob entered the Senate in 2012 and served as Australia’s Foreign Minister for 18 months. Since leaving politics Bob has led a distinguished career as a defacto diplomat, author and academic. Bob received the Fulbright Distinguished Fellow Award Scholarship. He has served as Honorary Scholar of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue. He is the author of: My Reading Life (2008), Thoughtlines (2002) and Diary of a Foreign Minister (2014) and his political memoir Run for Your Life (2018).

He is a of Professor of Climate and Business at the University of Technology, Sydney.

About Kerry O’Brien

Kerry O’Brien is an Australian journalist and author. Over 25 years he anchored the iconic ABC current affairs programs – Lateline, 7.30 and Four Corners. His memoir is Kerry O’Brien: A Memoir.


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Live & Local

April 12, 2017

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SATURDAY

1 May

1:45pm – 3PM

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Live & Local: Sarah Krasnostein & Helen Garner live from Sydney Writers’ Festival


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Byron Writers Festival is pleased to once again bring Sydney Writers’ Festival’s live-streaming event Live & Local to Byron Theatre in 2021!

One of Australia’s best-loved forums for literature, ideas and storytelling, Sydney Writers’ Festival will be streaming Sarah Krasnostein & Helen Garner live from Carriageworks in Sydney direct to Byron Theatre on Saturday 1 May.

In this very special conversation, author of The Trauma Cleaner Sarah Krasnostein discusses her new book, The Believer, a deftly drawn enquiry into the power of belief, with Helen Garner.

Audiences will also have the opportunity to participate in a Q&A session at the event, sending questions direct to the stage.

Event Details

When: Saturday 1 May
Time: 1.45pm for a 2pm start
Where: Byron Theatre, 69 Johnson Street Byron Bay
Tickets: Members plus one guest FREE; General Admission $10


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Sarah Krasnostein & Helen Garner in conversation

After the runaway success of Sarah Krasnostein’s debut The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster, Sarah spent time in Australia and the US talking to six extraordinary people who held fast to a belief even though it rubbed against the grain of conventional wisdom. Her research culminated in The Believer: Encounters with Love, Death & Faith, a deeply humane and deftly drawn enquiry into the power of belief. Sarah is joined by fellow observer of human nature, Helen Garner, to explore what we believe in and why – from ghosts and UFOs to God and the devil, to dying with autonomy and beyond.

About Sarah Krasnostein

Sarah Krasnostein is a writer. She is admitted to legal practice in Australia and America, and holds a doctorate in criminal law. Sarah is the bestselling author of The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster, which won the Victorian Prize for Literature, the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Non-Fiction, the Australian Book Industry Award for General Non-Fiction and the Dobbie Literary Award. It also jointly won the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, was nominated for the Walkley Book Award, and was shortlisted for the National Biography Award, the Melbourne Prize for Literature and the Wellcome Book Prize (UK). Sarah’s work has appeared in a variety of publications in Australia, the UK and America. She is currently working on a Quarterly Essay on mental illness in Australia.

About Helen Garner

Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for non-fiction and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award. In 2019 she was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. Her books include Monkey Grip, The Children’s Bach, Cosmo Cosmolino, The Spare Room, The First Stone, This House of Grief, Everywhere I Look and Yellow Notebook.


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