Jill Eddington

Jill Eddington, as Director of Literature at the Australia Council for the Arts, is currently responsible for providing leadership of the Australia Council’s Literature program and managing delivery of Australia Council grants and initiatives for the Literature sector.  Previously Jill worked widely in the arts education and sectors.
Jill has been a consultant with clients in both government and not for profit organizations; Executive Manager of exhibitions and event in Public Programs at the State Library of Queensland; relieving CEO at Arts Northern Rivers and between 1999 until 2007 Jill was the Director of the Byron Bay Writers' Festival and the Northern Rivers Writers’ Centre. Jill was also co-director of two national forums ‘The need for a cultural plan in Australia’ and the inaugural curator of the ASA national writers summit to be held this year.
Prior to these roles, as Events Manager of Banks Events Jill assisted in event management for the major events including Sydney Writers Festival and City of Sydney New Year’s Eve and Australia Day Celebrations and arts organisations including the Biennale and Bangarra Dance Co.
Jill has also taught Visual Arts in secondary schools and Arts Industry Studies at Southern Cross University in the School of Arts and Social Sciences as well as Events Management in the School of Business and Tourism.

Appearing:

Saturday 3rd of August 9:00 - 10:00 am SCU MARQUEE

Saturday 3rd of August 3:00 - 4:00pm SCU MARQUEE

Jacqueline Elaine

Jacqueline Elaine is Executive Director of the Australian Writers’ Guild. She also sits on the Boards of the Australian Writers’ Foundation and Australian Writers’ Guild Authorship Collecting Society, and is Vice Chair of the Board of the Australian Copyright Council.
Jacqueline has held senior executive positions in Australia and overseas with the European Network on Debt and Development, the World Development Movement, CARE Australia and the Whitlam Institute.
Jacqueline's non-executive roles have included Chair of the Boards of Jubilee Australia and the Jubilee Research Institute, which undertake research and lobbying to challenge the policies and practices that perpetuate economic injustice and poverty; Chair of the Board of TREEAID, a sustainable development and livelihoods charity; founding member of CIDESC, an International Centre on Social Cultural and Economic Rights; member of the Board of the National Foundation for Australian Women; and the Board of the YWCA U.K.
As Executive Director of the Australian Writers’ Guild, Jacqueline Elaine heads the peak national organisation for performance writers. The AWG has been championing Australian scripts for 50 years, working tirelessly to support playwrights, screenwriters, narrative game and radio writers and to promote the Australian cultural voice in all its diversity.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 12:00 - 1:15 pm FEROS MARQUEE

Russell Eldridge

Russell Eldridge is a retired newspaper editor. He now writes fiction and freelance articles, trains journalists and conducts corporate media training. Russell has worked in the industry for more than 40 years.
He began his career in South Africa, working on the Natal Witness, the South African Press Association and the Johannesburg Star. He emigrated to Australia in 1979 to work for the Sydney Morning Herald. He made a lifestyle change and moved to the NSW North Coast. After two glorious years of hippiedom, he was sucked back into mainstream journalism and worked for the Northern Star, based in Lismore. He retired as Editor in 2008.
Russell has won several media awards, including a Walkley Award Commendation, Northern NSW Journalist of the Year, Sir Harry Budd award for Country Journalism and a Special Merit Award for South African Sports Writing.
He edited and co-wrote a history of South African Tennis and is currently working on short stories and a novel.
He is a founding member of the Byron Bay Writers' Festival committee and regularly chairs sessions at the Festival. He also has a connection with the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, where he has chaired for the past two years.
Russell is trained in theatre and has appeared in many productions, as well as reviewing theatre for newspapers.
He and partner Brenda Shero have five children between them and live at North Ocean Shores when they’re not backpacking around the world.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 1:00 - 2:15 pm MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Gyan Evans

Enigmatic, world renowned, Byron Bay based singer/songwriter/author, Gyan, is currently launching her first poetry book Bear In Mind a collection of tiny poems not yet sung, with a tour of book signings and performances around the country.
With an ARIA award and platinum sales for her self-titled debut album in 1990, Gyan moved to the UK, then the USA where she signed to Universal working with Ricky Martin, Leanne Rimes and producer Desmond Child. She won a Sydney Theatre Award in 2008 for her sell-out Sydney Opera House shows with Michael Leunig and her book How WEIRD Is That... with artist M S Dawson was CBCA short-listed in 2009.
In 2010, National reviewers were blown away with the beautiful, genre-defying album Superfragilistically, runner-up Sydney Morning Herald, Best “Adult” Album of the year. "the sound of grown-ups singing about grown-ups doing grown-up things ... songwriting of the highest quality." Bernard Zuel. Sydney Morning Herald
“….this slow- moving and sometimes staggeringly beautiful record feels like an overlooked classic from the vaults when singer-songwriters ruled the roost, circa 71. ****”  Noel Mengel Brisbane Courier Mail.
Last year Gyan performed the Sydney Opera house, Melbourne Recital Centre and was the voice of hope and redemption in director, PJ Hogan's Mental.

Appearing:

Thursday 1st of August 8:00pm BYRON COMMUNITY THEATRE

Friday 2th of August 9:00 - 10:00 am SCU MARQUEE

Friday 2th of August 11:45 - 1:00 pm NEW PHILOSOPHER MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 4:00 - 5:00 pm MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Colin Falconer

Born in north London, Colin worked for many years in TV and radio and freelanced for many of Australia's leading newspapers and magazines. He has been a novelist for the last twenty years, with his work published widely in the UK, US and Europe. He has published twenty-two novels, with translations sold in twenty languages.
“Falconer’s grasp of the period and places is almost flawless; his pace is good, the dialogue convincing and descriptions effective. He’s my kind of writer.” Peter Corris, The Australian  
His quest for authenticity led him to run with the bulls in Pamplona, chase tornadoes across Texas and Oklahoma, go cage shark diving in South Africa, and get tear gassed in La Paz. He has also chased black witches in Mexico and went into the Amazon to undergo ayahuasca ceremonies with Peruvian shamans.   He has appeared on television frequently in Australia and even in places like Romania and Mexico.   He lived for many years near Margaret River in WA, helped raise two beautiful daughters with his late wife, Helen. While writing, he also worked for many years in the volunteer ambulance service. "I'd be at my desk typing, then thirty minutes later I'd be crawling into an overturned car."
After personal tragedy, Colin stopped writing for five years. He returned in 2011 with Silk Road, published in the UK by Atlantic, followed by Stigmata in 2012.
An Australian critic once introduced him to an audience this way: “Colin Falconer's novels are based on dedicated research and a profound knowledge of his subject, stories of passion and human frailty drawn on a vast canvas, about the perennial nature of love and the human spirit.”
He currently lives in Spain.

Appearing:

Saturday 3rd of August 12:00 - 1:15 pm FEROS MARQUEE

Saturday 3rd of August 4:00 - 5:00 pm NEW PHILOSOPHER MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 1:15 - 2:15 pm MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Lily Yulianti Farid

Lily Yulianti Farid is the founder and the director of Makassar International Writers Festival, the first international literary event in Eastern Indonesia.
She is a short-story writer and a journalist, born and raised in Makassar.South Sulawesi. Her books, including Makkunrai (2008), Maiasaura (2008) and Your Father is Moon, You are the Sun (2012). Her stories collection Family Room published in English by Lontar Foundation in 2010, as a part of Modern Library of Indonesia, an initiative to promote and introduce Indonesian literature to the World.
She is the recepient of Australian Leadership Award Scholarship in 2010 and now she is studying for her PhD in gender studies, at the University of Melbourne.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 9:00 - 10:00 am SCU MARQUEE

Friday 2th of August 4:00 - 5:00 pm NEW PHILOSOPHER MARQUEE

Saturday 3rd of August 9:15 - 10:15 am MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Elizabeth Farrelly

Dr Elizabeth Farrelly trained in architecture and philosophy. She holds a BArch (hons) and a PhD in urbanism and for two decades has written criticism and opinion for the popular and professional press in Sydney, London and New York. A controversial and multi-award-winning columnist and critic, she has won the Adrian Ashton Award, the Pascall Prize for criticism, the Marion Mahony Griffin Award and the Paris-based CICA Award in Criticism (for her guest-edited 1986 New Spirit issue of the London Architectural Review).
A former Sydney City Councilor, member of the central Sydney Plannign Committee and inaugural Chair of the Australia Award for Urban Design, she has taught design and theory in three Sydney universities, delivered public lectures across Australia and the UK and written three books: Glenn Murcutt Three Houses (1993), Blubberland; the dangers of happiness (New South & MIT Press 2007) and Potential Difference (Blurb, 2011). And countless book chapters, including an essay in best Australian Essays 2011.
She is a frequent contributor to ABC RN programs including By Design, Life Matters and Late Night Live.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 3:45 - 5:00 pm MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Saturday 3rd of August 4:15 - 5:15 pm MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 4:00 - 5:00 pm SCU MARQUEE

Peter FitzSimons

Peter FitzSimons is a journalist with The Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald. He is also a regular  TV commentator, a former radio presenter and is a former national representative rugby union player.
Peter is the author of over 20 books – including Tobruk, Kokoda, Batavia and the bestselling Mawson. He is Australia’s biggest-selling nonfiction author of the last ten years.
In 2011, Peter was named a Member of the Order of Australia for service to literature as a biographer, sports journalist and commentator, and to the community through contributions to conservation, disability care, social welfare and sporting organisations.
He lives with his wife, Lisa Wilkinson, and their three children in Sydney.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 10:15 - 11:15 am SCU MARQUEE

Friday 2th of August 1:00 - 2:15 pm MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Friday 2th of August 4:00 - 5:15 pm FEROS MARQUEE

Susanna Freymark

Susanna Freymark works full time as a journalist. Previously, she was a teacher in a remote Aboriginal community in South Australia and a bookshop owner in London. She recently completed a Master of Arts in creative writing and her short stories have been published in the UTS Anthology and numerous other publications. A mother-of-three, Susanna is married and lives in Sydney. Losing February is her first fiction book, set in the Byron Bay hinterland where she lived for ten years.
More information at www.susannafreymark.com

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 12:45 - 1:45 pm SCU MARQUEE

Saturday 3rd of August 4:15 - 5:15 pm BLUE MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 12:30 - 1:15 pm BLUE MARQUEE

Ahmad Fuadi

Ahmad Fuadi was born in West Sumatra in 1972. A Fulbright scholar, Fuadi parlayed his formative years at an Islamic boarding school into his celebrated first novel, Negeri 5 Menara, which sold more than 100,000 copies in the first year of its release. Translated into English, The Land of Five Towers, the novel has been adapted into a succesful feature film.
Upon graduating from Padjadjaran University, Fuadi became a journalist for Tempo magazine. He received a Fulbright scholarship to take his master’s degree at the George Washington University and won the Chevening Award to study documentary films at Royal Holloway, University of London. Negeri 5 Menara has won several awards, including the 2010 Khatulistiwa Literary Award (Long List) and the 2010 Favorite Fiction Writer and Book from the Indonesian Readers Awards.
He was invited by the Rockefeller Foundation to Bellagio Center, Italy to be a resident writer in 2012. He was featured at international book events such as Frankfurt Book Fair, Ubud Writers Festival, Singapore Writers Festival, Salihara Literary Biennale, and Makassar Writers Festival. He is currently busy writing, speaking at home and abroad. He is the founder of Komunitas Menara, a not-for profit organization helping poor children to get a free access to education.
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Twitter @fuadi1

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 4:00 - 5:00 pm NEW PHILOSOPHER MARQUEE

Saturday 3rd of August 4:15 - 5:15 pm BLUE MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 10:45 - 11:15 am BLUE MARQUEE

Lucio Galletto

Lucio Galletto OAM established Lucio’s Restaurant in Paddington in 1983. This family restaurant enjoys a remarkable reputation for exceptional Italian food and magnificent Australian Art and thrives on the splendid tradition of exceptional hospitality.
"Food and art for me is like the air that I breathe," says Galletto. "I grew up in the family restaurant in Italy where we had an art gallery. The combination of great food, great service and great art on the walls is, in my view, one of the best dining experiences you can imagine." 
Lucio also shares his passion for food in his writings.
His books include The Art of Food at Lucio’s (2007), Soffritto. A Delicious Ligurian Memoir lived by Lucio Galletto, written by David Dale (2008), Lucio’s Ligurian Kitchen by Lucio Galletto & David Dale (2011) The Art of Pasta, Lucio Galletto & David Dale.
Lucio is currently working on a new recipe book for 2014.
CIRA Lucio is a founding member and past President of CIRA- Council of Italian Restaurants in Australia- a non-profit association whose main aims are to safeguard Italian culinary cultures and increase public knowledge of both traditional and evolving values in Italian food.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 10:30 - 11:30 am MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 12:00 - 3:00 pm BYRON AT BYRON

Richard Gill

Richard Gill is an internationally respected music educator and conductor. Throughout his fifty years of working as a professional musician, he has always made time to teach, an activity he believes is at the very heart of his professional life. He has worked as a music educator in Austria, Italy, Canada, The United States of America, The United Kingdom, Singapore, Taipei and Thailand. He will teach this year in Shanghai and Beijing, working with music students and music teachers.
He was Founding Dean of the West Australian Conservatorium of Music, has been Director of Chorus and conductor for Opera Australia, has been Artistic Director of OzOpera, Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra and the Adviser for the Musica Viva in Schools program. He has conducted all the Symphony Australia Network Orchestras and was the Founding Music Director of Victorian Opera. He is currently Conductor Emeritus of Victorian Opera, Artistic Director of the Sydney Symphony Education Program, a position he has held for over twenty years, and Artistic Director of the Sydney Symphony Sinfonia, a special mentoring orchestra he co-founded in 1996.
He has been awarded two Honorary Doctorates and an OAM for services to music. Also, for services to Australian music, he received the Bernard Heinze award in 19999 and in 2006 the Australia Council Don Banks Award.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 11:45 - 1:00 pm NEW PHILOSOPHER MARQUEE

Saturday 3rd of August 1:45 - 2:45 pm BLUE MARQUEE

Saturday 3rd of August 4:15 - 5:15 pm MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Libby Gleeson

Libby Gleeson is a highly acclaimed writer for children and young people. She is a graduate of The University of  Sydney and she has taught in secondary schools, universities and tertiary colleges here, in Italy and London.
In 1984 Libby’s first book: Eleanor, Elizabeth, won the Angus and Robertson New Writers for the Young Fellowship and was Highly Commended in the Australian Children’s Book Council Book of the Year Awards.
Since then, Libby has written forty more titles for children and young people. She has been shortlisted or has won every major literary award available to this kind of writing in the country and she is widely published overseas.  Her junior novel: Hannah Plus One won the Book of the Year in 1997, An Ordinary Day, illustrated by Armin Greder won Picture Book of the Year in 2002 and Amy and Louis, illustrated by Freya Blackwood, won the Early Childhood Book of the Year in 2007.
In 2000, The Great Bear, illustrated by Armin Greder, won the Bologna Ragazzi, the most prestigious award in the world for a children’s picture book. This is the only time this award has been won by an Australian title. In 1997 Libby received the Lady Cutler Award for services to children’s literature. From 1999 to 2001 she was chair of the Australian Society of Authors. She has been the Chair of the NSW Government, Ministry for the Arts, Literature and History Committee.
She is currently Chair of the Advisory Board for the establishment of a Children’s and Youth Literature Centre in Western Sydney: WestWords. In 2005 Libby received the NSW Minister for Education Medal for Meritorious Service to Public Education. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney. Libby has been awarded an AM: a Medal in the Order of Australia for her services to literature and literacy learning. Libby’s most recent novel, Red, was published by Allen & Unwin, in 2008.  In September, a new picture book, Banjo and Ruby Red illustrated by Freya Blackwood, will be published. Libby is married to a scientist Dr Euan Tovey and they have three daughters.
A complete list of titles is available on Libby’s website www.libbygleeson.com.au

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 12-30 - 1:30 pm BLUE MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 9:30 - 10:00 am NEW PHILOSOPHER MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 1:15 - 2:15 pm MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Andrea Goldsmith

Andrea Goldsmith is the author of seven novels most recently The Memory Trap (4th Estate 2013).
She originally trained as a speech pathologist and was a pioneer in the development of communication aids for people unable to speak. Her earlier novels include Gracious Living (1989), Modern Interiors, Facing the Music, Under the Knife, Reunion (2009) and The Prosperous Thief which was shortlisted for the 2003 Miles Franklin Award. 
Her literary essays have been widely published and she has taught creative writing throughout Australia and mentored several new writers.
Andrea lives in inner Melbourne. Photo by Celia Dann.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 9:15 - 10:15 am MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Saturday 3rd of August 9:30 - 10:30 am NEW PHILOSOPHER MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 10:15 - 11:15 am FEROS MARQUEE

Dave Graney

Dave Graney has been described as a “cryptic rock voyager” . In other truth he is a storyteller, songwriter and singer without peer in the Australian music scene. To some a tooled up clown, to others, a freewheeling champ. People talk about his clothes for fear of approaching his 25 album career of authentic hardboiled greatness. He’s carved out his own country there.
A former king of pop. Also self proclaimed “king of the dudes”. A formidable guitarist. A master songwriter. A reckless performer. A broadcaster – co-hosting a weekly show on Triple R fm in Melbourne- Australias biggest and best community station. A monthly columnist for the Melbourne Review.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 11:45 - 1:00 pm NEW PHILOSOPHER MARQUEE

Friday 2th of August 6:00 pm THE PASS CAFE

Saturday 3rd of August 1:15 - 2:15 pm MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 4:00 - 5:00pm BLUE MARQUEE

Kerry Greenwood

Kerry Greenwood's novels include the Corinna Chapman series and the Phryne Fisher mysteries, recently made into a TV series for ABC1. This October, Kerry will be celebrating the publication of the 20th Phryne Fisher, Murder & Mendelssohn. She is also the author of several books for young adults and the Delphic Women series.
When she is not writing she is an advocate in Magistrates' Court for the Legal Aid Commission. She is not married, has no children and lives with a registered Wizard. photo by Harjono Djoyobisono

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 9:30 - 10:30 am FEROS MARQUEE

Friday 2th of August 2.00 - 3.00 pm LAUNCHPAD

Saturday 3rd of August 12:00 - 1:15 pm FEROS MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 10:30 - 11:30 am MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Phillip Gwynne

Phillip Gwynne’s novels have received both high critical acclaim and popularity amongst readers. Deadly Unna? won the Children’s Book of the Year in 1998 and sold over 200,000 copies. It was made into the feature film Australian Rules, for which Phillip's screenplay won an AFI award in 2002. His young adult novel Swerve was shortlisted for many awards including the 2010 Prime Minister's Award. Phillip has also written Nukkin’ Ya, Jetty Rats, the detective-thriller The Build Up and the picture book Ruby Learns to Swim, illustrated by Tamsin Ainslie.
The Debt is Phillip’s first series for upper primary school readers and combines both his substantial literary skills and his ability to tell an amazing story.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 12:30 - 1:30 pm BLUE MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 3:30 - 4:00 pm NEW PHILOSOPHER MARQUEE

Chris Hanley

Chris Hanley is the founder and Chair of the Byron Bay Writers' Festival. He is a business coach and speaker and a writer across a range of genres from short stories to business articles.
Chris is the Principal of Byron Bays leading real estate company, Byron Bay First National.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 10:30 - 11:30 am MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Friday 2th of August 2:30 - 3:30 pm MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Saturday 3rd of August 10:00 - 11:00 am BLUE MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 9:15 - 10:15 am MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 10:30 - 11:45 pm SCU MARQUEE

Benedict Hardie

Benedict Hardie is a playwright, director, actor, and Associate Artist with acclaimed independent theatre company The Hayloft Project. His plays include Delectable Shelter, The Seizure, and Yuri Wells. He has co-written By Their Own Hands and The Nest, and was responsible for one third of the multi-director Chekhov project 3xSisters. He trained as an actor at the Victorian College of the Arts, has performed for the Melbourne Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare, and has made numerous film and TV appearances. His writing for TV includes The Nurses (Network Ten) and Staying (MTV award winner). Apologies: I'm not published.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 12:00 - 1:15 pm FEROS MARQUEE

Belinda Hawkins

Belinda Hawkins has reported on national and international events for ABC TV and SBS TV for almost 30 years, filing from countries as diverse as Nigeria, Eritrea, Cuba, Germany and Russia. For the past twelve years she has been a senior journalist with ABC TV’s Australian Story program. Her documentary work has been recognised with a raft of awards. Among them are seven Quill awards including the Gold Quill, four New York Festival Medals and four United Nations Media Peace Awards. She has also has a Walkley award and nine times been the bridesmaid as a finalist. Belinda has a Master of Arts in English Literature from the University of Melbourne. She started her working life as high school teacher in country Victoria.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 3:30 - 5:00 pm SCU MARQUEE

Saturday 3rd of August 3:00 - 4:00 pm BLUE MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 2:30 - 3:45 pm MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Janet Hawley

Janet Hawley began her career in journalism at the Daily Telegraph, moved to The Australian, then The Age, and from 1987-2012, worked as a senior feature writer on Good Weekend Magazine, published in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. She won numerous awards, including two Walkley Awards, and a Gold Walkley.
She’s known for her interviewing skills, gaining the subject’s trust, and for high quality, sensitive, revealing portraits of a wide range of people. She has a particular interest in creative people, and had profiled numerous artists, also writers, actors, and film makers. She’s written features on a wide range of complex topics, locally and overseas, varying from Indonesian politics and society, the Arab-Israeli conflict, Aboriginal culture, Chinese contemporary art, environmental issues, medical issues and Olympic athletes.
Janet co-authored a book with architect partner Philip Cox, A Place On The Coast, published in 1997 by Five Mile Press.  A collection of her artists’ profiles, Encounters With Australian Artists, was published in 1993 by University of Queensland Press.
Her new collection of artists’ profiles, Artists in Conversation, was published in 2012 by Slattery Media.
Janet has three adult children and lives in Sydney.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 10:30 - 11:30 am MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Friday 2th of August 1:30 - 2:30 pm FEROS MARQUEE

Saturday 3rd of August 4:15 - 5:15 pm MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Justin Heazlewood

Justin Heazlewood has the heart of a musician, the brain of a comedian and the face of a hot female character actor. He’s been described as "the Gen-Y commentator it's okay to like." As The Bedroom Philosopher, he has released three albums including the multi award-winning Songs From The 86 Tram. As Gina G he has released nothing. He has appeared on numerous television shows including John Safran’s Race Relations in which he played a young John Safran. He has written for Frankie, The Big Issue and Zoo Weekly (Melbourne Zoo’s bi-annual gazette).  Last year he published his first book The Bedroom Philosopher Diaries through Affirm which was praised by Neil Gaiman and Tony Martin.
As a wordsmith, Justin has a reputation for mixing witty humour with touching pathos. As senior writer for Frankie, his columns handled issues both heavy and light with grace and good humour. His live performances are mad-cap, spontaneous affairs where a love for improvisation shines. As one reviewer said Justin is ‘obviously uncomfortable with himself, although very comfortable with the audience.’ In 2013 he is set to release his second book about being an artist in Australia. What a guy. He lives in Melbourne.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 12:00 - 1:15 pm FEROS MARQUEE

Saturday 3rd of August 1:15 - 2:15 pm MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Saturday 3rd of August 8:00 pm BYRON BAY COMMUNITY CENTRE

Sunday 4th of August 4:00 - 5:00 pm BLUE MARQUEE

Anita Heiss

Dr Anita Heiss is the author of non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women's fiction, poetry, social commentary and travel articles. She is the bestselling author of Not Meeting Mr Right and Avoiding Mr Right, both published by Bantam Australia.
Anita has won four Deadly Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Literature, for her novels including Manhattan Dreaming and Paris Dreaming and for the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature.
She is a regular guest at writers' festivals and travels internationally performing her work and lecturing on Indigenous literature. Anita is an Indigenous Literacy Day Ambassador and a proud member of the Wiradjuri nation of central New South Wales.
Anita is Patron of the Alliance of Girls' Schools of Australia and an Adjunct Professor at Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, UTS. She is a an Advocate for the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence and divides her time between writing, public speaking, MCing, and as a workshop facilitator. Anita's most recently released book is Am I Black Enough for You? She is currently working on a chat-show for television. Anita’s showreel:  http://vimeo.com/43581118

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 10:45 - 11:45am FEROS MARQUEE

Saturday 3rd of August 4:00 - 5:00 pm NEW PHILOSOPHER MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 10:30 - 11:30 am MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 4:00 - 5:00 pm FEROS MARQUEE

Kelly-lee Hickey

Kelly-lee Hickey explores the intersections between identity, location and history through stark poetics, startling performance and creative community projects The national winner of the 2010 Australian Poetry Slam, her acclaimed performances have toured across Australia and Asia, including Ubud Readers and Writers Festival, Woodford Folk Festival, Sydney Writers Festival and Bookworm Festival (China).
Her poetry has been published in Australia, China and New Zealand, and after winning the 2011 Presspress Manuscript Award, her debut poetry collection Thicker than Water was launched at Wordstorm 2012.
She collaborates extensively with other artists and communities, most recently producing the Stitch in Time textile storytelling project in Central Australia and the Love Letters to Inanimate Objects project in collaboration with textile artist Nick Shonkala. Her current work exploring memory, intimacy and human connection will see her working with communities in Suluwesi and Kangaroo island in 2013, producing interactive installations to document and share memories between communities.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 2:00 - 3:15 pm SCU MARQUEE

Friday 2th of August 4:00 - 5:00 pm NEW PHILOSOPHER MARQUEE

Saturday 3rd of August 9:15 - 10:15 am MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Saturday 3rd of August 5:00 pm BYRON BAY LIBRARY

Sunday 4th of August 2:00 pm RAILWAY FRIENDLY BAR

Leigh Hobbs

Leigh Hobbs is an artist and author working across a wide range of media including film, painting, sculpture and ceramics. Leigh created a ceramic Flinders street station teapot which is in the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection, and Larry and Lizzy Luna, the four metre high caricature sculptures he created while working at Sydney’s Luna park are now in Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum. However, Leigh Hobbs is perhaps best known here and in Europe and the UK for the children’s books he writes and illustrates featuring his characters Old Tom, Horrible Harriet, Fiona the Pig, Mr Badger and Mr Chicken.
Old Tom has been adapted into a popular French / Australian animated TV production broadcast here on ABC TV. Last year Mr Chicken Goes To Paris was adapted for the stage by NIDA. This book was also shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Prize in 2011.
Leigh Hobbs is published in the UK by Bloomsbury. It is their edition of the book Mr Chicken Goes To Paris which is a popular title in The Louvre, Palace Of Versailles and Gare D’Orsay Museum Bookshops in Paris.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 12:30 - 1:30 pm BLUE MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 10:15 - 10:45 am NEW PHILOSOPHER MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 4:00 - 5:00 pm MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Judy Horacek

Judy Horacek is a freelance cartoonist, illustrator and writer. Her work has appeared in The Australian, The Canberra Times and The Age, and can be seen on fridges and toilet doors all over the world. She is currently published weekly in The Age, and she is resident cartoonist for a number of small magazines. Seven collections of her cartoons have been published.  Judy also creates children’s picture books - both on her own, such as These are my Hands/These are my Feet, and in collaboration with Mem Fox. Together Mem and Judy created the instant children’s classic, Where is the Green Sheep? which was the 2005 Children’s Book Council Book of the Year - Early Childhood. Their second book together, Good Night Sleep Tight, has just been published by Scholastic.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 12:30 - 1:30 pm BLUE MARQUEE

Friday 2th of August 2:00 - 3:15 pm SCU MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 11:00 - 11:30 am NEW PHILOSOPHER MARQUEE

Katherine Howell

Katherine Howell worked as a paramedic for fifteen years while completing two degrees in creative writing. Her first novel, Frantic, was published in 2007 and set a paramedic alongside Sydney police detective Ella Marconi in ‘an adrenaline rush of a thriller’ (Sydney Morning Herald). It won the 2008 Davitt award for best crime fiction.   Her second book, The Darkest Hour, continued the pattern with Ella and another paramedic in ‘a finely paced and engrossing novel’ (Guardian UK). The third in the series, Cold Justice, was described by NYT bestselling author Tess Gerritsen as ‘one of my favourite books of the year’. It also won the 2011 Davitt award for best crime fiction, making Katherine the only author to have won twice. Her fourth book, Violent Exposure, was described by Bookseller & Publisher as ‘arguably her best yet’, while the fifth, Silent Fear, was chosen as a ‘Guaranteed Book You Can’t Put Down’ by the national Get Reading! programme.   Her sixth, Web Of Deceit, was released in February this year. The books are published in multiple countries, languages, and formats. Katherine teaches workshops in writing, editing, and suspense, a subject on which she wrote her Masters thesis.

Appearing:

Tuesday 30 July 10am - 4pm WORKSHOP - SCU room

MJ Hyland

MJ Hyland is an ex-lawyer and the author of three multi-award-winning novels: How the Light Gets In (2004), Carry Me Down (2006) and This is How (2009). Carry Me Down (2006) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize & won both the Hawthornden Prize & The Encore Prize. M.J Hyland has twice been longlisted for the Orange Prize (2004 & 2009), the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (2004 & 2007) & This is How (2009) was also longlisted for the Dublin International IMPAC prize. MJ Hyland is a lecturer in Creative Writing in The Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester where she runs fiction workshops, alongside Martin Amis (2007-2010), Colm Tóibín (2010-2011) & Jeanette Winterson (2013 - ).
MJ Hyland also runs regular Fiction Masterclasses in The Guardian Masterclass Programme, and has twice been shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Prize (2011 & 2012). She also publishes in The Guardian 'How to Write' series, and has written nonfiction for The Financial Times, the LRB, Granta & elsewhere. M.J Hyland is also co-founder of The Hyland & Byrne Editing Firm (see - www.editingfirm.com & www.mjhyland.com). Photo by Rory Carnegie.

Appearing:

Thursday 1st of August 1:30 - 4:30pm BYRON BAY LIBRARY - WORKSHOP

Saturday 3rd of August 10:00 - 11:00 am BLUE MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 1:15 - 2:30 pm SCU MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 4:00 - 5:00 pm SCU MARQUEE

Lisa Jacobson

Lisa Jacobson is an award-winning poet and fiction writer. Her verse novel The Sunlit Zone was published by Five Islands Press in 2012. This book has been shortlisted for the 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and the inaugural Stella Prize, the 2012 Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize and, as a manuscript, for the 2009 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. An earlier poetry collection Hair & Skin & Teeth was published by Five Islands Press in 1995 and shortlisted for the National Book Council Awards. She has won the 2011 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize, the HQ/Harper Collins Short Story Prize and a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship. Lisa Jacobson’s poetry and fiction have been published in Australia, New York, London and Indonesia. Her work is represented in Heinemann’s Best Short Stories (UK), The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse, The Best Australian Poems 2010 (Black Inc.) and Australian Love Poems 2013 (Inkerman & Blunt).
She has just completed a new poetry collection with the assistance of an Australia Council grant. She shares a bush block in Melbourne with her partner and daughter. See www.fiveislandspress.com for further information.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 4:15 - 5:15 pm BLUE MARQUEE

Saturday 3rd of August 9:15 - 10:15 am MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Zacharey Jane

Zacharey Jane has been a painter, singer, hansom cab driver, waitress, airbrush artist, babysitter, production manager, graphic artist, bar attendant, body double, horse rider, prop maker, fashionista, producer, advertising executive, nanny, scenic artist, teacher, travel consultant, stylist, barista, swimming pool attendant, set dresser, prop master, location scout, window cleaner, housemaid, illustrator, go-go dancer and world traveller.
Now she is a writer and a painter, and lives with her family by the sea. Her hobbies are reading and sleeping.

Appearing:

Saturday 3rd of August 4:15 - 5:15 pm BLUE MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 11:45 - 1:00 pm MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Fiona Johnson

In 2001, aged 25, with the world at her feet, Fiona Johnson was diagnosed with an aggressive form of Leukaemia. Chances of survival were not great. After 6 months of intensive chemo therapy she was in remission but still with an uncertain future. Despite this, Fiona was determined to live her dreams. Today, she is doing just that. Fiona is a qualified horse Riding instructor, a horse trainer and an active competitor on the National Rodeo Associations’ rodeo circuit. She is also a published author of her life story My Wild Ride. She now lives in Northern New South Wales, Australia, with her husband Matt and two children, Mahli and Beau. 
Through her experiences ~ beating cancer, training horses and teaching people of all ages to communicate with horses ~ she has learnt a lot about what it takes to succeed, in any circumstance or situation. Her incredible experiences are the basis for keynote presentations and training clinics that demonstrate how faith, true grit and a few crafty horse training tricks, can turn dreams into reality.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 9:15 - 10:15 am NEW PHILOSOPHER MARQUEE

Saturday 3rd of August 2:45 - 4:00 pm FEROS MARQUEE

Melanie Joosten

Melanie Joosten is a writer who lives in Melbourne. Her first novel, Berlin Syndrome (2011) saw her named as a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist and awarded the Kathleen Mitchell Award for Young Writers. Berlin Syndrome is currently being turned into a film with a screenplay by Shaun Grant, to be directed by Cate Shortland.
Melanie holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours), a Master of Arts (Editing) and a Master of Social Work. She has had work published in Meanjin, Going Down Swinging and Sleepers and is a recipient of grants from Australia Council and Arts Victoria, a Places residency from Writing Australia, and a Varuna fellowship.
Currently writing her second novel, Gravity Well, Melanie also works as a research assistant at the National Ageing Research Institute and is writing a collection of essays on ageing and older people in Australia.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 1:15 - 2:15 pm NEW PHILOSOPHER MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 11:30 - 1:00 pm FEROS MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 1:30 - 2:30 pm BLUE MARQUEE

Kooshyar Karimi

Kooshyar Karimi was born in December 1968 in the slums of Tehran, Iran, to a family living in abject poverty. His mother, Homa, was an orphaned Jew who married out of desperation to Khalil, his Moslim father, a bus driver with three wives and six other children to feed. At the age of six, Kooshyar was compelled to work in order to contribute to the paltry income of his family. He was only eleven years old when the Iranian Islamic Revolution ended the oldest lasting monarchy in the world.

Amidst this post‐revolutionary chaos, and the bloodshed of the Iran‐Iraq war, Kooshyar pursued his education through to medical school with the determination to avoid war, stay alive, and support his mother. It is from here that he went on to become a published author, award‐winning translator, doctor, husband and father by the age of twenty six. After over two years of military service, Kooshyar began to successfully practice medicine and began the research for his book, A History of Iranian Jews. It is due partly to this dangerous project that Kooshyar, walking down the paved footpath to his home, was kidnapped by the Islamic Intelligence Service in the winter of 1998. Tortured, burnt, and whipped over 62 days, Kooshyar found himself faced with an unimaginable decision ... to spy for MOIS against his own people or to be tortured slowly to death. His forced cooperation was a significant factor in the arrest of thirteen Iranian Jews in March 1999, a case that caused an international outcry.

Later, knowing that his value to the intelligence service had expired, Kooshyar realised that if he did not escape, he would soon be executed. Using the survival instincts he had acquired in childhood, and a fateful connection from the past, Kooshyar manages to make his escape from Iran. Finally, after 13 long months of dread and secrecy hiding with his wife and children in a tiny basement deep below an apartment block in Istanbul, he and his family were granted a political refugee visa to Australia by the UNHCR. He is now an Australian citizen, fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, a member of the Australian Society of Cosmetic Medicine, and member of the Skin Cancer Society of Australia and New Zealand. He practises medicine full‐time in New South Wales, and writes in his spare time.

In his latest book, I Confess he is telling us his story in details.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 3:30 -5:00 pm SCU MARQUEE

Saturday 3rd of August 2:45 - 4:00 pm FEROS MARQUEE

Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly has long been recognised as one of the most significant singer-songwriters in Australia. As well as a large body of work with his own bands (some eighteen studio albums, plus multiple live and compilation albums), he has written songs and produced recordings for many other top performers. He has also written music for film, acted in various film and stage productions, and is the recipient of multiple awards. In 1997 he was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. Paul Kelly was born in Adelaide and now lives in St Kilda.

Appearing:

Friday 2 August 2:45 - 3:45pm FEROS MARQUEE

Shelley Kenigsberg

Shelley Kenigsberg is a prominent freelance editor, writer and trainer who works with writers, publishing houses and organisations.
Shelley’s worked in publishing for 23 years—as proprietor of S K Publishing, in Sydney — a freelance editing and publishing business. Shelley works as editing and writing mentor, and project manager  for a diverse and fascinating list of books and written projects. Lately, Shelley has been a co-writer/ghostwriter on memoir projects. Before going freelance, she worked in-house with Harcourt Brace, John Wiley, Harper Collins and Macquarie University. She has been Head of Macleay College’s Editing Diploma for the past 21 years and led long and short courses for editors, writers, language institutes, private corporations and literary festivals in Australia, Indonesia, Japan and South Africa.
She’s presented at literary festivals and writers’ centres in Australia and in Indonesia, Singapore, Japan and South Africa. She has been an active member of state and national editing societies (president, NSW society 2000–‘03; vice president ‘03–‘06) and a founding member of Professional Editors Association (NSW) Inc.

Appearing:

Tuesday 30 July 10am - 4pm WORKSHOP - BB Library

Cate Kennedy

Cate Kennedy is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath, which won the People’s Choice Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards in 2010. She is an award-winning short-story writer whose work has been published widely. Her first collection, Dark Roots, was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards and for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. She is also the author of a travel memoir, Sing, and Don’t Cry, and the poetry collections Joyflight, Signs of Other Fires and The Taste of River Water, which won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2011.
She lives on a secluded bend of the Broken River in north-east Victoria.

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 1:15 - 2:15 pm NEW PHILOSOPHER MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 10:30 - 11:45 pm SCU MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 1:15 - 2:15 pm FEROS MARQUEE

Hannah Kent

Hannah Kent won the 2011 Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award for her manuscript Burial Rites, and was mentored by Geraldine Brooks.
She is the co-founder and deputy editor of Australian literary journal Kill Your Darlings, and teaches Creative Writing and English at Flinders University, where she is also completing her PhD. In 2011 she was a judge of Melbourne University/The Australian Centre’s Peter Blazey Fellowship for Life Writing.
Her creative and critical writing has appeared in The Big Issue, Australian Book Review, The Wheeler Centre, Kill Your Darlings and Voiceworks, amongst others.
Photo by Nicholas Purcell

Appearing:

Friday 2th of August 10:30 - 11:30 am NEW PHILOSOPHER MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 1:30 - 2:30 pm BLUE MARQUEE

Fenella Kernebone

Fenella Kernebone is the host of By Design on Radio National and Triple J’s The Sound Lab every Sunday night. Fenella has spent many moons working in television as a presenter and producer, the most recent as the host of Art Nation on ABC TV. In demand as an MC and facilitator, Fenella this year hosted three sold out sessions at the MCA On The Rocks series at the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, the Australian Interior Design Awards and joined the jury of the NSW Architecture Awards 2013 in the Residential category.

Appearing:

Saturday 3rd of August 4.15 - 5.15 pm MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 4.00 - 5.00 pm SCU MARQUEE

Ramona Koval

Ramona Koval is a writer, journalist, editor and broadcaster. Her latest book is By the Book: A Reader's Guide to Life. Her collection of literary interviews is Speaking Volumes: Conversations with Remarkable Writers. She edited The Best Australian Essays 2011 and 2012. She presents The Monthly Book  at themonthly.com.au and she blogs at ramonakoval.com

Appearing:

Sunday 4th of August 9:15 - 10:15 am MACQUARIE MARQUEE

Sunday 4th of August 2:45 - 3:45 pm BLUE MARQUEE