11.45am – 12.45pm
IN CONVERSATION
Dead Lucky
Lincoln Hall with Howard Whelan

1.00pm – 2.00pm
LUNCH TIME SESSION
Festival frequent fliers: life on
the festival circus
Bryan Dawe, Anita Heiss, Michael
Robotham, Kathryn Heyman
Chair: Irina Dunn
Sponsored by Zentveld’s

2.15pm – 3.15pm
IN CONVERSATION
Forgetting and remembering
Gail Jones with Susan Wyndham

4.00pm – 5.00pm
DISCOURSE
On beauty
Robert Dessaix discusses the
necessity of inviting beauty and
enchantment into the everyday
Sponsored by Cape Gallery

FRIDAY EVENING

8.00pm
IN CONVERSATION
Jonestown
Chris Masters with Fran Kelly
Sponsored by Michael Malloy

10.00am – 11.00am
IN CONVERSATION
The Unknown Terrorist
Richard Flanagan with Ramona Koval

11.15am – 12.15pm
Our foreign policy: where to
from here?
Barry Jones, Mungo MacCallum,
Michael Gawenda
Chair: Mark Bowling

12.30pm – 1.30pm
IN CONVERSATION
Freely speaking
David Marr with David Leser

2.00pm – 3.00pm
IN CONVERSATION
The media’s making me sick: how
poor reporting endangers health
Bill Bowtell with Ray Moynihan

3.15pm – 4.30pm
Keeping faith with humanity:
writing that honours the human
Robert Larkins, Dr Frank Brennan, Kali Wendorf
Chair: Janet de Neefe
Sponsored by byron-bay.com

SATURDAY EVENING

8.00pm
COMMUNITY CENTRE STUDIO
POETRY EVENING AND
COMPETITION
Cate Kennedy
Rhyll McMaster
Miles Merrill
Ketut Yuliarsa
Laksmi Pamuntjak
Yong Shu Hoong
Winners of the Byron Bay Writers
Festival Poetry Prize
MC: Dangerously Poetic
Pass or Single Session