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Byron Writers Festival is Australia's favourite regional meeting place of storytelling and ideas. We present world-class gatherings that enrich and transform the lives of our audiences and community. Our annual festival takes place in August on Bundjalung Country.We showcase writers from around the world, representing all aspects of contemporary literature, especially First Nations writing and ways of knowing, environment, politics, philosophy, art, history and society.Established in 1995, the festival and our year-round programs attract tens of thousands of audiences annually to develop and promote literature from and in the region.
Unknown Host hosts Byron Writers Festival, a arts show with 166 episodes published.
Our 2025 Festival podcast series continues with the session Cherrywood. Join multi-award-winning author Jock Serong for a discussion of his new novel Cherrywood, an imaginative, darkly playful and deeply meaningful delig
Our 2025 Festival podcast series returns with a special preview of NORPA's Dinner Party at the End of the World. Join NORPA’s Artistic Director Julian Louis and Artistic Associate Heather Fairbairn for a special preview
Our 2025 Festival podcast series continues with the session Water: Our Life. From oceans to rivers, in flood and drought, for drinking, agriculture and industry, water is essential to life. Join Debra Dank (Terraglossia)
Our Festival 2025 podcast series continues with another feature event: Guardian Australia's Are You Game Show. Play along with Guardian Australia’s signature game show as two teams of writers – led by Guardian Australia’
Our 2025 Festival podcasts series returns with the session Political Fictions. Join multi-award-winning authors Shankari Chandran (Unfinished Business) and Malcolm Knox (The First Friend) for an exploration of their thri
Our Festival 2025 series returns with the session We Are The Stars with Gina Chick and Mel Bampton. Get to know the real Gina Chick, inaugural winner of Alone Australia, and the story of her extraordinary, indomitable li
Our Festival 2025 podcast series returns with one of our Feature Events: Beyond the Lines. Featuring powerhouse performer Ziggy Ramo, writer and singer Nardi Simpson, poetic provocateur David Stavanger, acclaimed Indian
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#BWF2024Podcast Our ABC? Head back to the 2024 Byron Writers Festival with Kim Williams in conversation with Kerry O’Brien. In January 2024, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced media executive Kim Williams as the n
#BWF2024Podcast Prima Facie. Head back to the 2024 Byron Writers Festival with Suzie Miller in conversation with Steph Harmon. Drawn from the internationally acclaimed play, Prima Facie is a propulsive, raw look at the p
#BWF2024Podcast My Story. Head back to the 2024 Byron Writers Festival with Nicky Winmar in conversation with Gideon Haigh. Thirty years after creating one of the most memorable moments in sporting history, Indigenous AF
#BWF2024Podcast Question 7. Head back to the 2024 Byron Writers Festival with Richard Flanagan in conversation with Jill Eddington. Beginning at a love hotel by Japan’s Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Quest
#BWF2024Podcast Slick: Australia’s Toxic Relationship with Big Oil. Head back to the 2024 Byron Writers Festival with Royce Kurmelovs in conversation with Isabelle Reinecke. Investigative journalist Royce Kurmelovs’ Slic
Stone Yard Devotional. Head back to the 2024 Byron Writers Festival with Charlotte Wood in conversation with Jill Eddington. Join Charlotte Wood to discuss her latest novel Stone Yard Devotional – longlisted for the 2024
#BWF2024Podcast Unique. Head back to the 2024 Byron Writers Festival with Jodi Rodgers in conversation with Mandy Nolan. In Unique, beloved star of ABC TV’s award-winning Love on the Spectrum and disability rights advoca
Head back to the 2024 Byron Writers Festival with William McInnes in conversation with Mareike Hardy. Have you ever behaved like a drongo? Added mayo to a story? Lost your Reg Grundies? Join bestselling author and acclai
#BWF2024Podcast For The Earth. Head back to the 2024 Byron Writers Festival with Ali Cobby Eckerman, Richard Flanagan, Sue Higginson and David Lindenmayer, chaired by Bob Brown. In this festival highlight, join award-win
#BWF2024Podcast Media & Justice. Head back to the 2024 Byron Writers Festival with Wayne Bergmann, Amy McQuire, Rob Waters, chaired by Merinda Dutton. The media’s treatment of Indigenous issues, including Black deaths in
#BWF2024Podcast It's Not Just Cricket. Head back to the 2024 Byron Writers Festival with Gideon Haigh in conversation with Chris Hanley. Join journalist, author and polymath Gideon Haigh for an intimate discussion of his
#BWF2024Podcast Lola In The Mirror. Head back to the 2024 Byron Writers Festival with Trent Dalton in conversation with Julia Baird. Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new nove
Suzie Miller
playwright
2 appearances on this show
Chris Hammer
The River
1 appearance on this show
Erik Jensen
Predictive ROI
1 appearance on this show
Thomas Mayo
1 appearance on this show
Tigest Girma
#1 NYT Bestselling Author of IMMORTAL DARK
1 appearance on this show
Robbie Arnott
1 appearance on this show
Gina Chick
author, rewilding facilitator, adventurer, dancer, speaker
1 appearance on this show
Dr Kim Williams
VP and General Manager of Canadian Operations · Cloudbreak Wellness
1 appearance on this show
Charlotte Wood
1 appearance on this show
Royce Kurmelovs
journalist and author
1 appearance on this show
Julia Baird
broadcaster, journalist, and bestselling author · Toronto Tech Week
1 appearance on this show
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