Zanni Louise is an internationally published author of over 40 kid’s books. Her latest release is Cora Seen and Heard.
SESSIONS:
Title: Kids Big Day Out – Main stage presentations
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Caitlin Marshall is co-founder of MakeShift, providing trauma-informed creativity and mental health programs. She is a social worker and trainer in vicarious trauma management and gendered violence.
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
Julian Louis is a theatre-maker and is the Artistic Director of NORPA (Northern Rivers Performing Arts), based in Lismore.
SESSIONS:
Title: Writing for Performance (54)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Title: My Cousin Frank
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: Coolamon Tent
Walter Marsh is an award-winning journalist, critic and the author of Young Rupert: the making of the Murdoch empire.
SESSIONS:
Title: Becoming Murdoch (4)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 8:45 AM – 9:45 AM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Title: History: Facts & Fictions (14)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Title: Re-writing Colonials Myths (28)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Professor David Lindenmayer AO is a world-leading expert on forest conservation. He is the author of 49 books on forests, including The Great Forest and Forest Wars.
SESSIONS:
Title: ABC North Coast live broadcast (3)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 8:30 AM – 8:50 AM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
Title: Holding Power to Account (7)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Title: For The Earth (41)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
David Marr is a journalist, commentator and biographer whose latest book is Killing for Country, a personal reckoning with Australia’s frontier wars.
SESSIONS:
Title: History: Facts & Fictions (14)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 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: Future of the Liberal Party (44)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Venue: A&I Hall
Title: Killing for Country (53)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Luka Lesson is a poet, rapper and artist of Greek heritage, born in Brisbane. His work crosses between the history of his family homeland, the fiercely political and the vulnerably self-reflective.
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
Bri Lee is the multi-award-winning author of Eggshell Skull, Beauty and Who Gets to Be Smart. The Work is Bri’s debut novel.
SESSIONS:
Title: Generational Inequality (59)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Title: Art & Power (71)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 9:15 AM – 10:15 AM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Title: The Alternatives (80)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Kay Kerr is an autistic author and journalist whose work explores the wide range of autistic experiences. Her latest book is Love & Autism.
SESSIONS:
Title: How We Love (68)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: Coolamon Tent
Title: Love, Sex & Autism (105)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Cheryl Leavy is from the Kooma and Nguri Nations in western and central Queensland. A poet, Cheryl was the winner of the 2022 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize. Her latest book is Yanga Mother.
SESSIONS:
Title: Kids Big Day Out – Storytime (91)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Venue: Coolamon Tent
Title: Mothers (107)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Meg Keneally is the author of many books, and co-author with Tom Keneally of The Soldier’s Curse and three other books in the Monsarrat series. Free is her latest novel.
SESSIONS:
Title: Women Make History (2)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 9:15 AM – 10:15 AM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Title: Cultural Touchstones (70)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Nam Le is the author of The Boat, On David Malouf and 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem. He has received major awards in Australia, America and Europe.
SESSIONS:
Title: Electric Poetics (F)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Title: 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem (56)
Date: Saturday 10 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
Delta Kay is an Arakwal Bumberbin Bundjalung woman, proud mother and grandmother passionate about sharing culture and protecting Country.
SESSIONS:
Title: Wisdom of the Elders (98)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Venue: Coolamon tent
Royce Kurmelovs is a journalist and author. His books include The Death of Holden, Rogue Nation, Boom and Bust and Just Money. His fifth book is Slick: Australia’s Toxic Relationship with Big Oil.
SESSIONS:
Title: Coffee & Papers (39)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 8:45 AM – 9:45 AM
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
Title: Deadlock: Ending Fossil Fuels (74)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Venue: A&I Hall
Yumna Kassab is the inaugural Parramatta Laureate in Literature and author of The House of Youssef, Australiana and The Lovers. Her latest book is Politica.
SESSIONS:
Title: Powerful Short Stories (23)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
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: Politica (58)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly marquee
Haruko Koga is an emerging writer from Japan. She has been a translator, a writer specialising in TV drama novelisations and is now working on her first novel.
SESSIONS:
Title: Status Anxiety
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Kon Karapanagiotidis is the CEO and Founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. His latest book, co-authored with his mum, is A Seat at My Table: Philoxenia.
SESSIONS:
Title: Kin & Community
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Venue: A&I Hall
Title: A Seat at My Table: Philoxenia
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Kris Kneen is the award-winning author of fiction, poetry and non-fiction including Fat Girl Dancing which was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.
SESSIONS:
Title: Weaving Memoir (W)
Date: Thursday 8 August 2024
Session Time: 12:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Venue: Byron Community Centre
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: Love, Sex & Autism (68)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Title: Fat Girl Dancing (78)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Venue: A&I Hall
Meena Kandasamy is a poet and writer based in India. Her extensive corpus includes two poetry collections and three novels. Her latest book is Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You.
SESSIONS:
Title: Politics and Desire (6)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Title: Feminist Literatures (15)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Title: Electric Poetics (F)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Title: The Mega Election Year (62)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
Mitch King is a Yaegl Bundjalung man from the Far North Coast region of NSW. He is a creative producer specialising in hip hop music and dance.
SESSIONS:
Title: Electric Poetics (F)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
