2024

Please enjoy this abridged lineup.

May 12 – 15 2024

Bulaan Buruugaa Ngali, We Weave Together.
In conjunction with Arts Northern Rivers.

Who Are We? Discovering the Creative Industries in the Northern Rivers
Featuring: Jane Fuller of Arts Northern Rivers and Tandi Palmer Williams of Patternmakers

Kyogle Together Presents: Weaving the Voices of the Rivers and the Night Sky
Featuring: Duane Hamacher and Corey Tutt

Bookmaking With Sarah Daley
Featuring: Sarah Daley

Basics of Self-publishing
Featuring: Kylie Chan

Writing the Diaspora
Featuring: Yen-Rong Wong, Siang Lu and chair Mirandi Riwoe.

Gardening by the Book
Featuring: Maria Hitchcock OAm, Linda Woodrow, Phil Dudman, and chair Kevin Markwell.

Writing While Black
Featuring: Mykaela Saunders, Gary Lonesborough, Ellen van Neerven and chair Grace Lucas-Pennington.

Performance Poetry
Featuring: Sarah Temporal

Zines with Benjo
Featuring: Benjo Kazue

Writer In Residence
Featuring: Charlotte O’Neill, In Conversation With Jessie Cole, Michael Burge

Song of the Snake Man
Featuring: Kevin Markwell, Richard Wells, Kate McGain, and chair Nancy Cushing.

The Crossing Project. Tinnie Heroes.
Featuring: Locals

Melissa Lucashenko in Conversation with Julianne Schultz
Featuring: Melissa Lucashenko, Daniel Browning

Making It Good Enough to Publish
Featuring: Melaina Faranda

Ellen Van Neerven’s Personal Score
Featuring: Ellen Van Neerven, Grace Lucas-pennington

Developmental
Featuring: Dave Heilpern, Sue Higginson, Ella Jeffery, and chair Nancy Cushing

Local Books with Andy Spencer
Featuring: Andy Spencer, Dimitri Tishler, Judith Light And Jayne Miller

Costa Georgiadis in Conversation with Angela Catterns

Mirandi Riwoe’s Sunbirds
Featuring: Mirandi Riwoe, Naima Brown

Change Your Mind?
Featuring: Dave Heilpern, Tim Baker, Sally Breen

Page & Stage Poetry
Featuring: Alasdair Carter, Sarah Temporal, Rosemary Nissen-wade. Presented by Vincent Stead.

Community Event: Literary Trivia with Odette
Featuring: Odette Nettleton