Byron Bay Writers Festival : Saturday Program

TIME SLOT	SCU MARQUEE	East MARQUEE	Macquarie MARQUEE	Petrac MARQUEE	LAKEHOUSE Sponsored by Becton
9.00am >>	9.00am – 10.15am It’s unAustralian: writers speak about national identity Barry Jones, Alice Pung, Khoa Do, Emma Hardman Participating Chair: Anita Heiss	9.00am – 9.30am READINGS Morning readings in the East Marquee Sophie Lee, Laksmi Pamuntjak 9.45am – 10.45am IN CONVERSATION It’s A Big Life! Jenny Kee with Moya Sayer-Jones Sponsored by Penguin	9.15am – 10.15am Say it out loud: expressing unpopular truths Piers Akerman, Paul Sheehan, Marieke Hardy, Simon Illingworth Chair: Fran Kelly	KIDS SESSIONS 9.30am – 10.00am 6 years and up MEET Bruce Whatley 10.00am – 10.30am MEET Kim Toft 10.45am – 11.45am 8 years and up MEET Martin Chatterton 11.15am – 11.45am MEET Miles Merrill 12.00pm– 12.45pm 10 years and up MEET Byron Kids 12.45pm– 1.30pm MEET Alexandra Adornetto 1.45pm– 2.45pm 12 years and up MEET Debra Oswald	10.00am - 11.15am LAUNCH Vahini Panda Indian Delicacies Invitation or Pass
10.30am >>	10.30am – 11.30am The secrets of the slush pile: the books that failed to make the cut Shelley Kenigsberg, Annette Barlow, Ivor Indyk Chair: Margaret Gee 11.45am – 1.00pm Great big people: creating character for performance Bryan Dawe, Andrew Knight, Alice Bell, Stephen Sewell Chair: Belinda Chayko Sponsored by Screenworks	11.00am – 12.15pm Adult themes: being an adult in today’s society Kate Crawford, Elizabeth Farrelly Chair: Kali Wendorf Sponsored by Kindred Magazine	10.30am – 11.30am Home and away: what succeeds in a global market Nury Vittachi, Garry Disher, Laksmi Pamuntjak Chair: Deepika Shetty Sponsored by the Australian Indonesian Institute 11.45pm – 12.15pm READINGS Solo reading with celebrated actress and author Barbara Ewing		11.30am - 11.45am PERFORMANCE Downtown Jeffrey Hatcher A sharp witty insight into a writer’s ego Free
12.00pm >>	1.15pm – 2.15pm IN CONVERSATION On Books and Writing Ramona Koval and Robert Dessaix discuss talking about books on radio	12.30pm – 1.45pm Crossing genres: writers discuss why they make the change Rhyll McMaster, Cate Kennedy, Gideon Haigh, Colin Bowles Chair: Irina Dunn	12.30pm – 1.30 pm My protagonist kicks butt: writing characters larger than life Michael Robotham, Gabrielle Lord Participating Chair: James Phelan 1.45pm – 2.45 pm Prize writers: what does winning prizes mean to writers Sarah Armstrong, Eva Sallis, Garry Disher Chair: Marele Day		12.00pm – 1.00pm PANEL Not Like Beckett With playwright Michael Watts, actor Darren Gilshenan and director Julian Louis Sponsored by NORPA Free 1.15pm - 2.45pm LAUNCH Sangeeta Mehta The Karma of Beauty Invitation or Pass
2.00pm >>	2.30pm – 3.30pm Going too far: journalists reveal where and why they draw the line Deborah Thomas, Piers Akerman, Antony Loewenstein Chair: Fiona Martin	2.00pm – 3.15pm Memoir: how revealing the past impacts on the present Jenny Kee, Alice Pung, Catherine Dyson, Diana Georgeff Chair: Melissa Lucashenko	3.00pm – 4.00pm Fresh and feisty: new young female voices Alexandra Adornetto, Sophie Lee, Alice Bell Chair: Susan Bradley Smith Sponsored by Dymocks
3.30pm >>	3.45pm – 4.45pm IN CONVERSATION Forgetting and remembering Gail Jones with Susan Wyndham	3.30pm – 5.00pm Dumbing down Australia: is the media to blame? Mungo MacCallum, Ross Gittins, Jennifer Byrne, Kate Crawford Chair: Nic Pullen Sponsored by Holding Redlich	4.15pm – 5.30pm Laugh out loud: the serious business of being silly Nury Vittachi, Shalini Akhil, Charles Firth Chair: Moya Sayer-Jones	3.00pm – 4.00pm Rhythm rules: contemporary poets rap about language Miles Merrill, Laksmi Pamuntjak, Yong Shu Hoong, John Bennett Chair: Lyn Gallacher 4.15pm – 5.15pm Islam and the rights of women: a conversation across cultures Mehrun Siraj, Paul Sheehan, Zahra Ghahramani Chair: Professor Bee Chen Goh Sponsored by Byron Shire Echo	3.30pm - 5.00pm LAUNCH Emma Hardman Nine Parts Water Published by University of Queensland Press Launched by Melissa Lucashenko Invitation or pass DINING ROOM 3.00pm - 4.00pm Tea at Three: tea versus coffee Helen Greenwood and Simon Marnie
5.00pm >>	5.00pm – 5.30pm THEA ASTLEY LECTURE Is there landscape in Australia? Nicolas Rothwell	5.15pm – 6.00pm IN CONVERSATION Acting on Conscience Dr Frank Brennan and Bill Bowtell with Julianne Schultz Followed by Griffith Review Launch Sponsored by Griffith Review