Saturday 9th October 2021

At Hadley’s Orient Hotel

NOTE: Sessions take place in three different venues at Hadley’s, therefore running times may overlap. Sessions are generally 1hr long. Follow the links for full details.

9.30 am A Picture Saves a Thousand Words (John Webb Room)

9.30 am Island of Curiosities – Environmental Children’s Literature (George Cartwright Room)

10.30 am Emerging Tasmanian Aboriginal Writer Award (Leadlight Room)

11.00 am Good Indian Daughter, Ruhi Lee (John Webb Room)

11.00 am Postcards from an Island Dweller (George Cartwright Room)

12.00 pm Robbie Arnott and Amanda Lohrey in conversation (Leadlight Room)

12.30 pm Danielle Binks, author of The Monster of Her Age (John Webb Room)

12.30 pm The Good Life with Hannah Moloney (George Cartwright Room)

1.30 pm Mythical and Magical … writing extraordinary fictional worlds (Leadlight Room)

2.00 pm Embracing the Biome: The More-Than-Human Poetry Project (John Webb Room)

2.00 pm Grace Williams – Arts for social change and transformation (George Cartwright Room)

3.00 pm Writing out Adversity: bushfires, tree pulling and the pandemic (Leadlight Room)

3.30 pm Parting The Veil book launch (John Webb Room)

3.30 pm Children’s Book Creators’ networking event (George Cartwight Room)

4.30 pm A Soldier’s Quartet book launch (Leadlight Room)

On Parliament Lawns, Salamanca

Free Children’s Events

Indi Writers Fringe Fest

Sunday 10th October 2021

At the Maritime Museum of Tasmania

9.30 am The Way of the Weedy Seadragon

12.00 pm LUME, with Danielle Wood and Kate Gordon

2.00 pm Dear Mama, The diary of a German POW in Hobart, Bruny Island and NSW, 1914-1915 – Book Launch

At Hadley’s Orient Hotel

NOTE: Sessions take place in three different venues at Hadley’s, therefore running times may overlap. Sessions are generally 1hr long. Follow the links for full details.

9.30 am Karen Brooks and Danielle Wood (George Cartwright Room)

10.00 am Writing the Remote (John Webb Room)

10.30 am Rebellious Facts and Comforting Fictions (Leadlight Room)

11.00 am Making the Book (George Cartwright Room)

11.30 am Ursula Dubosarsky, Children’s Laureate (John Webb Room)

12.00 pm Short Story – writing on an island theme (Leadlight Room)

12.30 pm Tongerlongeter, a conversation (George Cartwright Room)

12.30 pm Music in literature (John Webb Room)

1.30 pm The Van Diemen History Prize – reflections on the Tasmanian landscape (Leadlight Room)

2.00 pm Writing, health and advocacy (John Webb Room)

2.30 pm History, Nature and Hermits (George Cartwright Room)

3.00 pm Diversity in Publishing (Leadlight Room)

3.30 pm Writing Residencies (George Cartwright Room)

3.30 pm Writing for Young People (John Webb Room)

4.30 pm Writing for a World on Edge (Leadlight Room)

On Parliament Lawns, Salamanca

Free Children’s Events

Indi Writers Fringe Fest