Matthew Condon is an award-winning journalist and the author of more than 15 works of both fiction and non-fiction. He is currently a senior writer and podcaster for The Australian.
SESSIONS:
Title: True Crime (5)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 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
Charlotte Wood AM is the author of ten books. Her new novel Stone Yard Devotional was preceded by The Luminous Solution.
SESSIONS:
Title: Stone Yard Devotional (35)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Venue: Acacia Marquee
Title: For Life (63)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Mindy Woods is a woman of the Widjabul Wiabul and Nyangbal clans of the Bundjalung, and owner of native ingredient-driven restaurant Karkalla Byron Bay. She is the author of Karkalla at Home.
SESSIONS:
Title: Karkalla at Home
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Venue: Coolamon tent
Nadine J Cohen is a Sydney-based writer and refugee advocate with bylines in The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and ABC. Her debut novel is Everyone and Everything.
SESSIONS:
Title: Home to Biloela (24)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Title: Sisters (33)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly marquee
Stephen Wyatt lives in Byron Bay on ten acres of regenerated rainforest with his partner Colleen Ryan. A journalist with the Australian Financial Review and FT, he is the author of Rainforest Warriors.
SESSIONS:
Title: Rainforest Warriors
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Venue: Coolamon tent
Ali Cobby Eckermann is a Yankunytjatjara poet residing on Ngadjuri country. Her latest collection, She is the Earth, won Book of the Year at the 2024 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
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: For The Earth (41)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Venue: Hakea marquee
Title: Woven (51)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 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: Better Off Said (F)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Dr David Roland is a psychologist, writer, researcher and forest bathing guide drawing on lived experience as well as his professional training. He has a BSc (Hons) in psychology and a PhD in clinical psychology.
SESSIONS:
Title: Animals, Us and Them
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 9:15 AM – 10:15 AM
Venue: Hakea marquee
Title: Grace
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Venue: Acacia marquee
Suzie Miller is an Australian contemporary, international playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Prima Facie is her first novel.
SESSIONS:
Title: Prima Facie
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Venue: Hakea marquee
Title: Writing for Performance
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Alan Close works across the written word as a writer, editor, mentor and teacher. His memoir is Before You Met Me: A Memoir Of One Man’s Troubled Search For Love.
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
Lucy Clark is features editor of Guardian Australia. She is a journalist of 40 years experience, and author of Beautiful Failures: How the Quest for Success is Harming our Kids.
SESSIONS:
Title: Future of the Liberal Party
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Venue: A&I Hall
Karen Wyld is an author living on the coast south of Adelaide. They co-edited The Rocks Remain: Blak Poetry and Story.
SESSIONS:
Title: The Visitors (17)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
Venue: Melaleuca 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: Politica (58)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Greenroom call: 1:00 PM
Session Time: 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly marquee
Kate Ceberano AM is a creative powerhouse and the voice of a generation. Her book, Unsung, is an illustrated memoir featuring her song lyrics, stories, paintings, quilts and other artworks.
SESSIONS:
Title: The Power of Creativity (77)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Venue: Melaleuca marquee
Title: Unsung (90)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: Melaleuca marquee
Imogen Carn is the co-creator of the popular podcast Good Mourning and co-author of Good Mourning: Honest conversations about grief and loss.
SESSIONS:
Title: On Grief (67)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 4:30 PM – 5:15 PM
Venue: Melaleuca marquee
Title: Good Mourning podcast (101)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Venue: Coolamon tent
Peter Carnavas creates books for children. He has made many picture books and well-awarded novels. His latest book is Leo and Ralph.
SESSIONS:
Title: Kids Big Day Out (73)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Title: Kids Big Day Out (107)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Venue: Coolamon Tent
Jennifer Byrne is a celebrated Australian journalist, editor, Logie-winning presenter, former book publisher and host of ABC’s The Book Club.
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: 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 Drowning (57)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: Melaleuca marquee
Nick Bryant, a former BBC Washington correspondent, is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. His new book is The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict With Itself.
SESSIONS:
Title: The Mega Election Year (62)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM
Venue: Melaleuca marquee
Title: America at War with Itself (72)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
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
Daniel Browning is a Bundjalung and Kullilli writer and broadcaster. His first book, Close to the Subject: Selected Works, won the 2024 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing.
SESSIONS:
Title: Always Will Be (12)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
Title: Close to the Subject (85)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
Bryan Brown is known as an actor, having appeared in over eighty film and television shows. The Drowning is his second book.
SESSIONS:
Title: The Drowning (57)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: Melaleuca Marquee
Title: North Coast Noir (86)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
Bob Brown’s list of book titles is as long as his list of arrests for environmental action. His most recent book, Thera, is his first work of fiction.
SESSIONS:
Title: For The Earth (41)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Venue: Hakea Marquee
Title: Bob Brown in Conversation (F)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Title: Kids Big Day Out (73)
Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Session Time: 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Venue: Lilly Pilly Marquee
James Bradley is an award-winning novelist and essayist. His novels and stories have won or been shortlisted for a range of literary awards. His latest book is Deep Water: The World in the Ocean.
SESSIONS:
Title: Planet Ocean (26)
Date: Friday 9 August 2024
Session Time: 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Venue: Hakea marquee
Title: Animals, Us and Them (36)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 9:15 AM – 10:15 AM
Venue: Hakea marquee
Title: Thea Astley Address (49)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM
Venue: A&I Hall
Title: Psychedelic Medicines (55)
Date: Saturday 10 August 2024
Session Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: Acacia marquee
