Brigitta Olubas is the author of Shirley Hazzard: A writing life. She has recently co-edited with Susan Wyndham the letters of Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower.
SESSIONS:
Title: Hazzard and Harrower (37)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
Title: Cultural Touchstones (70)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Naomi Moran is a Nyangbal, Arakwal and Dunghutti woman from New South Wales, and is the General Manager of Australia’s only independent Indigenous newspaper, the Koori Mail.
SESSIONS:
Title: Aboriginal Sporting Legends (66)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Chigozie Obioma was born in Nigeria. His novels, The Fishermen and An Orchestra of Minorities were shortlisted for The Booker Prize. His latest book is The Road to the Country.
SESSIONS:
Title: Keynote Gala: From the Ground Up (F)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 8:00 PM – 9:15 PM
Venue: Byron Theatre
Title: The Road to the Country (50)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Title: War & Brotherhood (75)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist whose practice is centred around poetics. Mark the Dawn is their second collection.
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: Electric Poetics (F)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Title: Woven (51)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Mick O’Regan is a journalist and broadcaster with more than two decades experience with the ABC and Seven Network.
SESSIONS:
Title: Jodi Rodgers in conversation (S)
Date: Thursday 8 August 2024
Session Time: 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: Ewingsdale Hall
Title: Writing Byron (100)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Venue: Coolamon Tent
Jim Moginie is best known as founding member, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player of Midnight Oil. He has also worked as a producer and composer. His memoir is The Silver River.
SESSIONS:
Title: Better Off Said (F)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Title: The Silver River (84)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Title: Voices of Regional Australia (96)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Title: Shire Choir (97)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 4:15 PM – 4:45 PM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
Kerry O’Brien is one of Australia’s most respected journalists with six Walkley Awards. Kerry co-wrote the ABIA Book of the Year, The Voice to Parliament Handbook, with Thomas Mayo.
SESSIONS:
Title: Our ABC (45)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Title: War & Brotherhood (75)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Rosemarie Milsom is the founding director of Newcastle Writers Festival, which is in its 12th year. She is a former award winning print journalist with Fairfax Media and broadcaster with the ABC.
SESSIONS:
Title: Kin & Community (9)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Venue: A&I Hall
Title: Ethics in Crime Writing (18)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Lynette Noni is the #1 bestselling and award-winning author of The Prison Healer series, The Medoran Chronicles, and the Whisper duology.
SESSIONS:
Title: Fantasy Worlds (11)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Title: The Prison Healer (76)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Louise Milligan is a multi-award-winning investigative journalist and the author of two best-selling non-fiction books. Pheasants Nest is her first novel.
SESSIONS:
Title: Elite Privilege (29)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Title: Keynote Gala: From the Ground Up (F)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 8:00 PM – 9:15 PM
Venue: Byron Theatre
Title: Pheasants Nest (79)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Title: The Mungo Panel: Press Freedom (89)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Mandy Nolan is a stand-up comedian, feminist, activist, mother of five, author and Greens candidate in Richmond. She wants to change the world by changing minds – one joke at a time.
SESSIONS:
Title: Electric Poetics (F)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Title: The Power of Creativity (77)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
Title: Unique (92)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Courtney Miller has a varied career across politics, art and fashion and currently heads up a philanthropic foundation focused on the next generation.
SESSIONS:
Title: Planet Ocean (26)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Title: Art & Power (71)
Date: Sunday 11 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
John Lyons is a four-time Walkley winner and the ABC Global Affairs Editor. He has worked at The Australian, SMH, Nine Network and ABC. His latest book is Balcony Over Jerusalem, re-issued in 2024.
SESSIONS:
Title: Democracy Under Threat (31)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Title: Rainforest Warriors (62)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Venue: Coolamon Tent
Title: The Mega Election Year (81)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
Title: Balcony over Jerusalem (104)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
Amy McQuire is a Darumbal and South Sea Islander journalist, writer, academic and podcaster. Her new book is Black Witness.
SESSIONS:
Title: Keynote Gala: From the Ground Up (F)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 8:00 PM – 9:15 PM
Venue: Byron Theatre
Title: First Nations Justice Change title to: Media & Justice (48)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Title: The Mungo Panel: Press Freedom (89)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Melissa Lucashenko is a multi-award winning Goorie novelist from Brisbane. Her latest novel is Edenglassie.
SESSIONS:
Title: ABC North Coast live broadcast (3)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 9:10 AM – 9:20 AM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
Title: Feminist Literatures (15)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Title: Re-writing Colonials Myths (28)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 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
Dinuka McKenzie is the author of the Detective Kate Miles crime series, The Torrent, Taken and her latest release, Tipping Point.
SESSIONS:
Title: The Art of Writing Crime (40)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Title: North Coast Noir (86)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Grace Lucas-Pennington is a Bundjalung/ European mentor, editor and writer. She grew up mostly between northern NSW and the greater Logan/Brisbane area.
SESSIONS:
Title: Women & Children (1)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Title: Imperial Harvest (30)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Laura Jean McKay is the author of The Animals in That Country, winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award and The Victorian Prize for Literature. Laura’s latest collection is Gunflower.
SESSIONS:
Title: Exploring Narrative Voice (W)
Date: Thursday 8 August 2024
Session Time: 12:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Venue: Byron Community Centre
Title: Powerful Short Stories (23)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Title: Animals, Us and Them (36)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 9:15 AM – 10:15 AM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Amy Lovat is the author of Mistakes and Other Lovers and the current program manager of the Newcastle Writers Festival.
SESSIONS:
Title: Coming of Age Stories (22)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
Title: Fat Girl Dancing (78)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Venue: A&I Hall
William McInnes is one of Australia’s most popular writers and actors. His books include the bestselling memoirs A Man’s Got to Have a Hobby and That’d Be Right. His latest is Yeah, Nah!
SESSIONS:
Title: ABC North Coast live broadcast (3)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 8:50 AM – 9:10 AM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
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: Yeah, Nah! (61)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Title: Better Off Said (F)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
