Victoria Purman is a bestselling Australian historical fiction author, workshop presenter and mentor. The Radio Hour is out now.
SESSIONS:
Title: Women Make History (2)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 9:15 AM – 10:15 AM
Venue: Hakea marquee
Title: Publishing: An Insider’s View (99)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Venue: Coolamon tent
Ailsa Piper has written three memoirs. Her most recent, For Life, is an unflinching look at grief and celebration of renewal and wonder.
SESSIONS:
Title: Writing Pain (52)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Venue: Melaleuca marquee
Title: For Life (63)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly marquee
Title: Attention/Devotion (W)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: Bangalow Uniting Church
Sarah Percy is a writer and broadcaster and Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of Queensland. Forgotten Warriors is her new book.
SESSIONS:
Title: History: Facts & Fictions (14)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Maggie Walters writes about her own mental health diagnosis, challenging stereotypes around dissociation and trauma recovery. Her memoir is Split.
SESSIONS:
Title: Split: Living with Multiple Personality Disorder (27)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
Venue: Melaleuca marquee
Karen Viggers is the author of five bestselling novels. Sidelines is about junior sport and parents living vicariously through their kids.
SESSIONS:
Title: Family Ties (38)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 8:45 AM – 9:45 AM
Venue: Lilly Pilly marquee
Leo Vardiashvili is a Georgian-born, UK-based novelist and author of Hard by a Great Forest.
SESSIONS:
Title: Hard by a Great Forest (25)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM
Venue: Acacia marquee
Title: Archaeology of Memory (42)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Venue: Melaleuca marquee
Title: War & Brotherhood (75)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Venue: Acacia marquee
Title: Better Off Said (F)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Jessie Tu is a book critic and journalist. A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing won the ABIA 2020 Literacy Fiction Book of the Year. The Honeyeater is her second novel.
SESSIONS:
Title: Family Ties (38)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 8:45 AM – 9:45 AM
Venue: Lilly Pilly marquee
Title: How We Love (71)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: Coolamon tent
Title: Art & Power (105)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 9:15 AM – 10:15 AM
Venue: Hakea marquee
Steph Tisdell is an actor, writer, comedian and proud Yidinji woman. Her debut novel is The Skin I’m In.
SESSIONS:
Title: Coming of age stories (22)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
Title: Writing with Humour (47)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
Title: Generational Inequality (59)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
Venue: A&I Hall, Festival site
Title: Better Off Said (F)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Venue: A&I Hall, Festival site
Tayi Tibble (Te Whanau a Apanui and Ngati Porou) is a writer and poet. She is the author of Poukahangatus and Rangikura and was the first Maori writer to be published in The New Yorker.
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 as Practice (94)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM
Venue: Hakea marquee
Title: Electric Poetics (F)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Sarah Temporal is a prize-winning poet living on Bundjalung lands in the NSW Northern Rivers. Her writing is concerned with revealing our hidden selves, and ranges from personal confessions to reclaimed fairy tales. Her work appears in Best of Australian Poems, Heroines Anthology, Australian Poetry Anthology and more, and was shortlisted for the Val Vallis Award. With a background in education, she has taught poetry to hundreds of people from ages 8 to 89, and now runs a regional arts initiative (Poets Out Loud) to empower voices of all ages. Arriving after twenty years of performing live, Tight Bindings is her first published collection.
SESSIONS:
Title: Poets Out Loud Youth Slam (S)
Date: Thursday 8 August 2024
Session Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Venue: The Citadel
Rob Waters is a Gomeroi poet and storyteller. He was the 2023 Australian Poetry Slam Champion.
SESSIONS:
Title: Slam Your Poetry (W)
Date: Wednesday 7 August 2024
Session Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Venue: Byron Community Centre, Wategos 2
Title: Australian Poetry Slam – Byron Heat (S)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Venue: Coolamon Tent
Title: Media & Justice (48)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Title: Wordworks (S)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: Bangalow Bowls Club
P.A. Thomas lives in the Byron Bay region, the setting for his first novel, The Beacon. He is also a wilderness landscape photographer, and his images have appeared in Australian Geographic.
SESSIONS:
Title: Writing Byron (86)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Venue: Coolamon Tent
Title: North Coast Noir (100)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Award-winning author, Nova Weetman has published 19 books for children and young adults. Her memoir Love, Death & Other Scenes is her first book for adults.
SESSIONS:
Title: Life on the Page: Writing Memoir (8)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Title: On Grief (67)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 4:30 PM – 5:15 PM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
Title: Kids Big Day Out (73)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Title: Love, Death & Other Scenes (95)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
Lili Wilkinson is the award-winning author of nineteen books for young people, including A Hunger of Thorns and Deep is the Fen.
SESSIONS:
Title: Fantasy Worlds (11)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Kim Williams AM has had a long involvement in the arts, entertainment and media industries. He is the twentieth chair of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
SESSIONS:
Title: Our ABC (45)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Nicky Winmar is a former AFL player whose stance against a hostile crowd in 1993 became an iconic moment of a proud and defining stand against racism. Nicky Winmar: My Story is his autobiography.
SESSIONS:
Title: Aboriginal Sporting Legends (66)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Title: My Story (93)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Rhianna Patrick is a Torres Strait Islander media professional with over twenty years experience working across radio, TV, news and current affairs.
SESSIONS:
Title: Fantasy Worlds (11)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Title: Close to the Subject (85)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
Claire Nichols is the host of The Book Show on ABC Radio National, a weekly podcast and radio show that features in-depth interviews with the best authors from around the world.
SESSIONS:
Title: Politics and Desire (6)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Title: The Road to the Country (50)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Bruce Pascoe is a Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian man who lives on Country. A prolific writer, Bruce is the author of over 20 books, including bestseller Dark Emu. His latest is Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra.
SESSIONS:
Title: Imperial Harvest (30)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Title: Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra (60)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Title: Cultural Touchstones (70)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Priya Nadesalingam is a wife, mother, former Tamil asylum seeker, and co-author of the book Home to Biloela.
SESSIONS:
Title: Home to Biloela (24)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
