Join the audience or sign up to perform. Featuring 2022 Australian Poetry Slam champion Jo Yang, with emcee Miles Merrill.
Saturday 12 August
4pm – 5.30pm
Bangalow Uniting Church
Free, no bookings
More info: australianpoetryslam.com
Join David Hallett for this fresh take on Writers at the Rails. Local and visiting poets will take to the stage to recite their work. Featuring Jo Yang and host David Hallett. Join the audience or sign up to perform.
Sunday 13 August
2pm – 3pm
Bangalow Bowling Club
Free, no bookings
Join Gail Jones in this free conversation about her beautiful new novel Salonika Burning.
Presented by Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre
Sunday 13 August
10am – 11am
Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre
Free, bookings essential
Gail Jones is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. Her work has been translated into several languages and received numerous literary awards. Her latest novel is Salonika Burning.
A showcase of fresh new voices from Poets Out Loud. Preselected teams and individuals aged 12-18 represent their schools in this thrilling spoken-word competition. Hosted by Sarah Temporal and featuring the 2022 Australian Poetry Slam champion.
Friday 11 August
6.30pm – 8.30pm
The Regent, Murwillimbah
$5, bookings essential
Join Susan Johnson in a discussion about her latest novel, Aphrodite’s Breath, with Susan Wyndham.
Presented by Friends of Libraries, Byron Shire
Thursday 10 August
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Marvell Hall, Byron Bay
$25, inc. afternoon tea by Bangalow CWA. Bookings essential
Novelist Susan Johnson has turned to memoir with Aphrodite’s Breath, which exposes the struggles and joys of moving to a Greek island with her 85-year-old mother, Barbara, without a word of Greek.
