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Byron Writers Festival

Road Trip, 27 – 31 July 2019
DATES & LOCATIONS

27 – 31 July

Ballina, 27 July
Mullumbimby, 27 July
Lismore, 28 July
Kingscliff, 28 July
Lennox Head, 29 July
Nimbin, 30 July
Casino, 31 July

WRITERS ON THE ROAD 2019

The Art of Crime


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Our Writers on the Road are doing their time for crime! On the run in the StoryBoard bus are renowned crime writers Michael Robotham and Jock Serong. Adding to the larceny is award-winning author Kristina Olsson and spoken-word artist Omar Sakr. Catch the gang for a night of entertainment as they divulge their darkest literary secrets.

All events are free and open to the public. Join us if you dare.

Date and Venue details

Ballina, Saturday 27 July

Venue: Northern Rivers Community Gallery (NRCG)
Address: 44 Cherry St, Ballina
Time:
2.30pm – 3.30pm

Mullumbimby, Saturday 27 July

Venue: Byron School of Art
Address: 112 Dalley Street, Mullumbimby
Time: 5.30pm – 7.00pm

Lismore, Sunday 28 July

Venue: Lismore Regional Gallery
Address: 11 Rural St, Lismore
Time: 11.00am – 12.00pm

Kingscliff, Sunday 28 July

Venue: Kingscliff Community Centre
Address: 81 Marine Parade, Kingscliff
Time: 3.00pm – 4.00pm

Lennox Head, Monday 29 July

Venue: Lennox Head Library
Address: Cnr Park Lane & Mackney Lane
Time: 5.00pm – 6.30pm

Nimbin, Tuesday 30 July

Venue: Nimbin School of the Arts
Address: 47 Cullen St, Nimbin
Time: 6.30pm – 8.00pm

Casino, Wednesday 31 July

Venue: Casino Community & Cultural Centre
Address: 35 Walker St, Casino
Time: 6.00pm – 7.30pm


Artist Bios

Meet the team


  • Michael Robotham
Michael Robotham

Michael Robotham is a former investigative journalist and ghostwriter whose psychological thrillers have been translated into 25 languages and sold more than six million copies worldwide. He has won numerous prizes including the UK Crime Writer’s Gold Dagger the ABIA Fiction Prize and two Ned Kelly Awards.

As a senior feature writer for the UK’s Mail on Sunday he was among the first people to view the letters and diaries of Czar Nicholas II and his wife Empress Alexandra, unearthed in the Moscow State Archives in 1991. He also gained access to Stalin’s Hitler files, which had been missing for nearly fifty years until a cleaner stumbled upon a cardboard box that had been misplaced and misfiled. As a ghostwriter he collaborated with politicians, pop stars, psychologists, adventurers and showbusiness personalities to help pen their autobiographies. Twelve of these non-fiction titles were Sunday Times bestsellers in the UK.

Michael lives on Sydney’s northern beaches, where he thinks dark thoughts in his  ‘cabana of cruelty’.

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  • Kristina Olsson
Kristina Olsson

Kristina Olsson is an award-winning writer of fiction, non-fiction and journalism. Her 2013 memoir, Boy, Lost, garnered multiple national awards. Her new novel, Shell, set in Sydney against the backdrop of the building of Sydney Opera House and Australia’s entry into the Vietnam War, was published last October by the legendary Scribner and launched its Scribner Australia literary imprint.

Kristina’s previous work includes the novel The China Garden and the biography Kilroy Was Here. She also works as a journalist, mentor and teacher of creative writing, and is currently working on a new work of narrative non-fiction. She lives in Brisbane.

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  • Jock Serong
Jock Serong

Jock Serong is a novelist and freelance writer currently based in Port Fairy, Victoria. He is the author of Quota, winner of the 2015 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction; The Rules of Backyard Cricket, shortlisted for the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Award for Fiction, finalist of the 2017 MWA Edgar Awards for Best Paperback Original, and finalist of the 2017 INDIES Adult Mystery Book of the Year; and On the Java Ridge, shortlisted for the 2018 Indie Awards.

His latest novel, Preservation, was published in 2018 and has been shortlisted for the 2019 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.

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  • Omar Sakr
Omar Sakr

Omar Sakr is a bisexual Arab-Australian poet, who has performed his work nationally and internationally and been published in English, Arabic, and Spanish. He lives in Sydney.

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