Jessica Mudditt is the author of two memoirs, Our Home in Myanmar and Once Around the Sun – From Cambodia to Tibet. She is also the founder of hybrid publisher, Hembury Books, and a former journalist with bylines in Forbes, CNN and the BBC.
SESSIONS:
Title: Self-Publishing (13)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly marquee
Bridie grew up around the Clarence Valley. She is an op-shop enthusiast, Bulldogs tragic and will always go for an ocean swim no matter how cold. Her favourite books are musical memoirs, and she loves local author Melissa Lukashenko. Bridie is the Breakfast presenter of ABC North Coast.
SESSIONS:
Title: ABC North Coast Live Broadcast (3)
Date: Friday 9 August
Session Time: 8.30am – 10.00am
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
Kate and Jol Temple are internationally awarded authors of over 26 hilarious books for kids, including Bin Chicken, Frog Squad and The Underdogs.
SESSIONS:
Title: KBDO – Main stage presentation (73)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Anne-Marie Te Whiu is an Australian-born Maori (Te Rarawa) currently living on unceded Wangal lands. She is a poet, editor, weaver and cultural producer. Most recently she has edited Woven.
SESSIONS:
Title: Red Room Poetry Month Showcase (21)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
Venue: Hakea marquee
Title: Anthologies: One Vision, Many Voices (32)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Venue: Melaleuca marquee
Title: Woven (51)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Venue: Hakea marquee
Title: Poetry as Practice (94)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM
Venue: Hakea marquee
Benjamin Stevenson is the author of the global bestsellers Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone, currently being adapted for television by HBO, and Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect.
SESSIONS:
Title: Ethics in Crime Writing (18)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly marquee
Title: Writing with Humour (47)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Venue: Melaleuca marquee
Matt Stanton is an award-winning children’s author/illustrator of over 45 books. He has sold more than one million books in Australia. His new book is Fluff, Mess Up!
SESSIONS:
Title: KBDO – Main stage presentation (73)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Title: Writing Books That Children Love (W)
Date: Thursday 8 August 2024
Session Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Venue: Byron Community Centre
Professor Mary Spongberg is Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research at Southern Cross University. She is a cultural historian. Her recent book is Empathetic History: Women Writers and the Nation’s Past.
SESSIONS:
Title: Women Make History (2)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 9:15 AM – 10:15 AM
Venue: Hakea marquee
Nicole Smede is an artist of Warrimay/ Birribay and colonial descent. Reconnection to ancestry, language and culture ripples through her work in voice, song, sound and poetry.
SESSIONS:
Title: Red Room Poetry Month Showcase (21)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
Venue: Hakea marquee
Title: Poetry Walk (106)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM
Venue: Meeting at the Coolamon tent
Title: Electric Poetics (F)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Peter Singer’s books include Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, and The Buddhist and the Ethicist. He founded the charity The Life You Can Save and co-hosts Lives Well Lived podcast.
SESSIONS:
Title: Animals, Us and Them (36)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 9:15 AM – 10:15 AM
Venue: Hakea marquee
Title: Effective Altruism (83)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Venue: Acacia marquee
Julianne Schultz is an acclaimed author of several books, including Reviving the Fourth Estate and Steel City Blues. Her latest is The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation.
SESSIONS:
Title: Becoming Murdoch (4)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 8:45 AM – 9:45 AM
Venue: Lilly Pilly marquee
Title: Deadlock: Ending Fossil Fuels (74)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Venue: A&I Hall
Title: Balcony over Jerusalem (81)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Venue: Melaleuca marquee
Title: The Mungo Panel: Press Freedom (89)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
Venue: Hakea marquee
Nell Schofield is a broadcaster with Bay FM and activist who co-hosts the podcast This Week In Cyberspace. She is also a writer, MC, organiser and Community Engagement Officer.
SESSIONS:
Title: True Crime (5)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Venue: A&I Hall
Title: A Seat at My Table: Philoxenia (19)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Molly Schmidt is a writer and journalist. Salt River Road is her award-winning debut novel. She’s now writing a biography celebrating the stories of the Traditional Custodians of her hometown.
SESSIONS:
Title: Kin & Community (9)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Venue: A&I Hall
Title: On Grief (67)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 4:30 PM – 5:15 PM
Venue: Melaleuca marquee
Mykaela Saunders is the award-winning author of Always Will Be, and the editor of This All Come Back Now. Mykaela belongs to the Tweed Goori community.
SESSIONS:
Title: Always Will Be (12)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
Title: Powerful Short Stories (23)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Title: Anthologies: One Vision, Many Voices (32)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
Sarah Sasson is a physician-writer, whose work has been published in Meanjin and Kill Your Darlings, among other places. Tidelines is her first novel.
SESSIONS:
Title: Family Ties (38)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 8:45 AM – 9:45 AM
Venue: Lilly Pilly marquee
Title: Writing Pain (52)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Venue: Melaleuca marquee
Sara M Saleh is a writer, human rights lawyer and daughter of Palestinian, Lebanese and Egyptian migrants. Songs for the Dead and Living and The Flirtation of Girls are her first novel and collection.
SESSIONS:
Title: Songs for the Dead and the Living (10)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Greenroom call: 10:45 AM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Title: Red Room Poetry Month Showcase (21)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Title: Archaeology of Memory (42)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Greenroom call: 9:30 AM
Session Time: 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee, Festival site
Title: The Archive of Remembering and Forgetting (W)
Date: Thursday 8 August 2024
Session Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Venue: Byron Community Centre
Lizzie Rose is co-founder of MakeShift, providing trauma-informed creativity and mental health programs. She is a community development practitioner, sustainability educator and qualified yoga teacher.
SESSIONS:
Title: The Power of Creativity (77)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Venue: Melaleuca marquee
Title: Creative First Aid Workshop (108)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Venue: Coolamon tent
Jodi Rodgers is a sexologist, counsellor and special education teacher, who featured on ABC and Netflix’s Love on the Spectrum. Unique is her first book.
SESSIONS:
Title: Love, Sex & Autism (68)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly marquee
Title: Unique (92)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Title: Jodi Rodgers in conversation (S)
Date: Thursday 8 August 2024
Session Time: 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: Ewingsdale Hall
Rhoda Roberts AO is a Bundjalung woman from northern New South Wales, and a producer, director, writer, broadcaster, performer and arts executive.
SESSIONS:
Title: Aboriginal Sporting Legends (66)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM
Venue: Hakea marquee
Title: My Cousin Frank (109)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: Coolamon tent
Isabelle Reinecke is an expert in the intersection of the law, politics and power. Her first book is Courting Power: Law, Democracy and the Public Interest in Australia.
SESSIONS:
Title: Holding Power to Account (7)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Venue: Hakea marquee
Title: Generational Inequality (59)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Title: Slick: Australia’s toxic relationship with Big Oil (69)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Sana Qadar is the award-winning host and producer of All in the Mind. She has previously reported and produced for ABC News and ABC Everyday.
SESSIONS:
Title: Powerful Short Stories (23)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly marquee
Title: Writing with Humour (47)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Venue: Melaleuca marquee
Title: Good Mourning podcast (101)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Venue: Coolamon tent
