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.