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Byron Writers Festival presents Brooke Boney, journalist and proud Gamilaroi woman, to share stories from her life and career in All of It, a collection of witty and heartfelt essays about love, loss and ambition. Brooke will be joined in conversation with award-winning Bundjalung and Kullilli writer, journalist and broadcaster Daniel Browning (Close to the Subject).

Brooke Boney has been in the public eye for well over a decade, first as a recognisable voice on triple j, and then as a recognisable face on The Today Show. All of It draws us into her world, as she writes with honesty, humour and empathy about everything from the downsides of having a public profile to the joys of owning dogs, from the various forms of love that make up a life – romantic, familial, platonic – to how that love has been sustained through generations of colonisation and violence, and from the concerns that are a part of your early thirties – fertility, ageing, career progression – to discovering what’s actually worth fighting for. As a journalist, Brooke knows how to write a story, and these are her most personal stories yet.

Brooke Boney, proud Gamilaroi woman, is a journalist who has worked in radio, print and television, most recently on Nine’s Today show. An extremely talented and versatile communicator, she also works as an MC, moderator, panellist and keynote speaker, with a huge passion for igniting discussion around Indigenous Affairs. Brooke is currently studying a Masters of Public Policy at the University of Oxford. All of It is her first book.

Daniel Browning is an award-winning Bundjalung and Kullilli writer, journalist and radio broadcaster. Currently the ABC’s Editor Indigenous Radio, he also presents The Art Show and Arts in 30 podcasts. Hailed as “an outstanding contribution to arts journalism”, his first book, Close to the Subject: Selected Works won the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction and the Indigenous Writing Prize at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.