Friday 13th September 2019

Festival Opening

7.30 – 9.00 pm  |  Find out more …Get tickets.

Saturday 14th September 2019

Writing and Illustrating with Coral Tulloch

10.00 – 10.55 am  |  Find out more…  | Get tickets.

The Pakana Voice: Tales of a War Correspondent 1814-1856.

Ian Broinowski in conversation with Henry Reynolds.

10.00 – 10.55 am  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

Short story writing on an island theme

Katherine Johnson, Greg Burgess, Lynley Joyce, Anna Murchison, Jane Naqvi, brought to you by Forty South Publishing.

11.15 am – 12.10 pm  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

Sympathy in writing

Ruth Quibell and Damon Young

11.15 am – 12.10 pm  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

Swords and Spaceships: when genres collide

Tansy Rayner Roberts

12.30 – 1.25 pm  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

History Writing: The Van Diemen History Prize

Dr Krystyn Harman with Nick Brodie, Dr Imogen Wegman, Paige Gleeson, Tony Fenton, Terry Mulhern, brought to you by Forty South Publishing.

12.30 – 1.25 pm  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

Writing for performance

Young Dawkins, Sarah Hamilton, Sue Hayes, Andi Stewart and Leigh Swinburne

1.45 – 2.40 pm  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

The Unknown Valley:

The white female response to the local landscape; Elizabeth Fenton in the 1830s and her great-great-granddaughter Ann Page in the 1930s.

Margaretta Pos and Henry Reynolds.

1.45 – 2.40 pm  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

Making a living from writing

David Owen, Tansy Rayner Roberts and Rohan Wilson.

3.00 – 3.55 pm  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

Dissident voices in the wilderness (Poetry as a form of activism)

Sarah Day, Pete Hay, Cameron Hindrum, Ruth Langford and Gina Mercer.

3.00 – 3.55 pm  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

How to get published

Kylie Dunn, Rachel Edwards and Lucinda Sharp.

4.15 – 5.10 pm  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

Raising Humanity

Erfan Daliri in conversation with Ruth Langford.

4.15 – 5.10 pm  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

Women of the Island: Stories from Tasmania

Takani Clark and Ninna Millikan.

5.30 – 6.25 pm  |  Find out more … | Get tickets.

Meet the Writers

Networking event with local entertainment.

7.30 – 9.30 pm  |  Find out more … | Get tickets.

Sunday 15th September 2019

How we bring stories (sometimes true stories) to life through fiction

Katherine Johnson, Katherine Scholes and Karen Viggers.

10.00 – 10.55 am  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

From conception to delivery:

The full creative process in a Tasmanian landscape

Hera Direen, Frances Butler and Tansy Rayner Roberts.

10.00 – 10.55 am  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

Science and creativity in fiction writing: oil and water?

Carol Patterson, Coral Tulloch, Karen Viggers and Pam Wood.

11.15 am – 12.10 pm  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

The Broad Arrow: women’s lives in the colony

Amanda Lohrey and Jenna Mead.

11.15 am – 12.10 pm  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

Writing for Children

Christina Booth, Fiona Levings, Mark Macleod, Lian Tanner and Coral Tulloch.

12.30 – 1.25 pm  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

Setting a place: Food as a signifier of culture and landscape.

Matthew Evans in conversation with Dr. LJ Owen.

12.30 – 1.25 pm  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

Writing for teens and young adults

Kate Gordon, Mark Macleod and Andi Stewart.

1.45 – 2.40 pm  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

Small cities are the new black

Steven Burgess, Alan Whykes, Lord Mayor of Hobart Councillor Anna Reynolds.

1.45 – 2.40 pm  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

Rohan Wilson in conversation with Heather Rose.

Rohan Wilson and Heather Rose.

3.00 – 3.55 pm  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

What makes a good environmental children’s book?

SCBWI* panel including Nicole Gill, Christina Booth, Coral Tulloch, Anne Morgan and others.

Announcement of the Wilderness Society’s Environment Award for Children’s Literature.

3.00 – 4.25 pm  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

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Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) networking event

SCBWI event ticketed separately.

4.50 – 5.45 pm  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

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Diving into the Derwent

Music and poetry: Gina Mercer and Rubato Express

4.15 – 5.10 pm  |  Find out more… | Get tickets.

Festival Closing Event

At the Long House (6 Evans Street, Hobart)

With performances by Kartanya Maynard, Allara Briggs-Pattison and Erfan Daliri.

6.15 – 7.45 pm  |  Find out more … | Get tickets.