Marina Kamenev is the former deputy arts editor of the Moscow Times and has been published in the Atlantic, Time, Sunday Life, The Monthly and Marie Claire. Kin is her new book.
SESSIONS:
Title: Kin & Community (9)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Venue: A&I Hall
Title: Coffee & Papers (39)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 8:45 AM – 9:45 AM
Venue: A&I Hall
Misha is Editor and Executive Director of The Conversation Australia and New Zealand. He has been a journalist for more than 25 years. He was founding editor of The Big Issue Australia.
SESSIONS:
Title: The Mega Election Year (62)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
Title: Living Hot (88)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Annika Johansson is a freelance writer living in the rainforests on Bundjalung land (the Northern Rivers of NSW). Downstream is her debut novel.
SESSIONS:
Title: Writing Byron (100)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Venue: Coolamon Tent
Born in Aotearoa, Nicolla Hemi-Morehouse performs as Miss Nicky Says, an award-winning children’s artist with a YouTube channel celebrating over 1 million views.
SESSIONS:
Title: Kids Big Day Out – Storytime
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Venue: Coolamon Tent
Zacharey Jane is the author of The Lifeboat, Tobias Blow, Frank Diamond and Amelia Will Go. In 2023 she was an Australian Poetry Slam grand-finalist. Zacharey is also a teacher and artist.
SESSIONS:
Title: Family Ties (38)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 8:45 AM – 9:45 AM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Title: Exiles (82)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Associate Professor David Heilpern has authored four published books and many journal articles on legal issues. He is Dean of Law at Southern Cross University and a prize-winning writer, columnist and poet.
SESSIONS:
Title: Holding Power to Account (7)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Rebecca Huntley is a social researcher and author. Her latest book Sassafras: on love, loss and MDMA is a memoir.
SESSIONS:
Title: Sassafras (34)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
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
Title: Psychedelic Medicines (55)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
K.J. Hayward is a young slam poet, home schooler and Traveller. She is the APS Youth Champion and advocates for feminism, education and youth.
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: Poets Out Loud Youth Slam (S)
Date: Thursday 8 August 2024
Session Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Venue: The Citadel
Caoilinn Hughes is the award-winning author of The Wild Laughter and Orchid & the Wasp. Her latest novel is The Alternatives.
SESSIONS:
Title: Feminist Literatures (15)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Title: Sisters (33)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
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: The Alternatives (80)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Ashley Hay is an award-winning novelist and essayist. A former editor of Griffith Review, she also works as a journalist, mentor and facilitator.
SESSIONS:
Title: Feminist Literatures (15)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Title: Thea Astley Address (49)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Title: Writing Pain (52)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Venue: Melaleuca 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
Rebekah Holt is a journalist and writer, who regularly gained access to and wrote about Australia’s onshore detention centres.
SESSIONS:
Title: Home to Biloela (24)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Lyn has worked as a teacher, dancer, editor, publisher and artist. She is a director at Black Duck Foods, promoting Indigenous food agriculture. Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra is her new book with Bruce Pascoe.
SESSIONS:
Title: Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra (60)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Lex Hirst is Publishing Director at fast growing independent Australian book publisher, Pantera Press – a publisher of socially driven, culturally vital books.
SESSIONS:
Title: Publishing: An Insider’s View (99)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Venue: Coolamon Tent
Title: Meet the Publisher (W)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 9:15 AM – 12:30 PM
Venue: Greenroom Tent
Jane Harrison’s (Muruwari) award-winning plays are Stolen, Rainbow’s End and The Visitors. Her novels are Becoming Kirrali Lewis and The Visitors. She is the Director of Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival.
SESSIONS:
Title: Wisdom of the Elders (17)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Venue: Coolamon Tent
Title: The Visitors (54)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
Title: Writing for Performance (98)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Sue Higginson is an environmental justice warrior. Now, as Greens MP she is working to get action on the climate and extinction crises in the NSW Parliament.
SESSIONS:
Title: For The Earth (41)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Associate Professor Daniel Harrison from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Southern Cross University holds a Masters in Engineering (Oceanography) and PhD (Biological Oceanography).
SESSIONS:
Title: Planet Ocean (26)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Annabelle Hickson is a writer and photographer, who started her career as a news reporter for The Australian in Sydney and Brisbane. She is the editor of Galah.
SESSIONS:
Title: Karkalla at Home (96)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Venue: Coolamon Tent
Title: Voices of Regional Australia (103)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Jane Harper is the internationally best-selling author of Australian mysteries including The Dry and most recently, Exiles.
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: Exiles (82)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Steph Harmon is the culture editor of Guardian Australia. She was the founding editor of youth pop culture site Junkee.com, and the editor of the Brag.
SESSIONS:
Title: Prima Facie (16)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Title: Sassafras (34)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Kate Fullagar FAHA is Professor of History at Australian Catholic University. Her most recent book is Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled.
SESSIONS:
Title: ABC North Coast live broadcast (3)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 9:45 AM – 9:55 AM
Venue: Melaleuca 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
