Southern Highlands Writers' Festival 2024

FRIDAY 26 JULY
1. Writers’ Boot Camp with Posie Graeme-Evans
  Posie Graeme-Evans will lead our inaugural Writers’ Boot Camp focusing on character development, story arc and writer’s block. Posie is one of Australia’s most respected television and film producers, as well as an editor, screenwriter, director and author. She is best known as the creator and showrunner of McLeod's Daughters and the co-creator and co-producer of Hi-5. Her books include The Dressmaker, Wildwood and The Anne Trilogy.
  
  Posie Graeme-Evans will lead our inaugural Writers’ Boot Camp focusing on character development, story arc and writer’s block. Posie is one of Australia’s most respected television and film producers, as well as an editor, screenwriter, director and author. She is best known as the creator and showrunner of McLeod's Daughters and the co-creator and co-producer of Hi-5. Her books include The Dressmaker, Wildwood and The Anne Trilogy.
  
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2. Catherine McKinnon in Conversation
  Catherine McKinnon is an author and Associate Professor at Wollongong University’s School of the Arts, English and Media. Her novel Storyland was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Barbara Jefferis Award and the Voss Literary Prize. Merrigong Theatre has commissioned an adaptation of Storyland, to be co-written by Catherine and Aunty Barb Nicholson. Catherine’s latest book, To Sing of War is a rich and thrilling novel of love, war and friendship.
  
  Catherine McKinnon is an author and Associate Professor at Wollongong University’s School of the Arts, English and Media. Her novel Storyland was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Barbara Jefferis Award and the Voss Literary Prize. Merrigong Theatre has commissioned an adaptation of Storyland, to be co-written by Catherine and Aunty Barb Nicholson. Catherine’s latest book, To Sing of War is a rich and thrilling novel of love, war and friendship.
  
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3. Caroline Overington in Conversation
  Caroline Overington is one of Australia's most successful writers and journalists and is currently the Literary Editor at The Weekend Australian. Caroline has written fourteen books, including the top-ten bestseller The One Who Got Away, and Last Woman Hanged, which won the Davitt Award for True Crime Writing in 2015.
  
  Caroline Overington is one of Australia's most successful writers and journalists and is currently the Literary Editor at The Weekend Australian. Caroline has written fourteen books, including the top-ten bestseller The One Who Got Away, and Last Woman Hanged, which won the Davitt Award for True Crime Writing in 2015.
  
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4. STELLA - The Miles Franklin Story
  Don’t miss Stella’s executive director, Fiona Sweet and ambassador Paula McLean, joined by musician and composer Monique diMattina to discuss the Stella Prize and the importance of championing Australian women writers. Then enjoy an exclusive live preview performance of STELLA: The Miles Franklin Story, a new Australian musical telling the extraordinary life story of Australia author Stella Miles Franklin.
  
  Don’t miss Stella’s executive director, Fiona Sweet and ambassador Paula McLean, joined by musician and composer Monique diMattina to discuss the Stella Prize and the importance of championing Australian women writers. Then enjoy an exclusive live preview performance of STELLA: The Miles Franklin Story, a new Australian musical telling the extraordinary life story of Australia author Stella Miles Franklin.
  
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SATURDAY 27 JULY
1. Glen Humphries in Conversation
  Glen Humphries is an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury with more than two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. His latest book, Aussie Rock Anthems, tells the stories of some of Australia's best-known pop and rock songs; chances are, each song is not what you had assumed.
  
  Glen Humphries is an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury with more than two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. His latest book, Aussie Rock Anthems, tells the stories of some of Australia's best-known pop and rock songs; chances are, each song is not what you had assumed.
  
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2. Nicola Moriarty in Conversation
  Nicola Moriarty’s books have sold more than a quarter of a million copies worldwide. Her highly successful and award-winning novels include The Fifth Letter, Those Other Women, The Ex and You Need To Know, gracing bestseller lists in Australia, the US and the UK, often with multiple producers chasing the film rights! Her latest gripping new thriller, Every Last Suspect, is unputdownable and arguably her best yet.
  
  Nicola Moriarty’s books have sold more than a quarter of a million copies worldwide. Her highly successful and award-winning novels include The Fifth Letter, Those Other Women, The Ex and You Need To Know, gracing bestseller lists in Australia, the US and the UK, often with multiple producers chasing the film rights! Her latest gripping new thriller, Every Last Suspect, is unputdownable and arguably her best yet.
  
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3. Liz Hayes in Conversation
  Journalist Liz Hayes has graced Australian television screens for more than four decades. In her highly anticipated, inspirational and candid bestselling new memoir, I’m Liz Hayes, she describes how after a lifetime of reporting on others, when tragedy struck her own family, sometimes the hardest story to tell is your own.
  
  Journalist Liz Hayes has graced Australian television screens for more than four decades. In her highly anticipated, inspirational and candid bestselling new memoir, I’m Liz Hayes, she describes how after a lifetime of reporting on others, when tragedy struck her own family, sometimes the hardest story to tell is your own.
  
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SUNDAY 28 JULY
1. Andrew Ford in Conversation
  Andrew Ford OAM is a composer, writer, and presenter of The Music Show on ABC Radio National. Andrew has written eleven books and his most recent, The Shortest History of Music, is an authoritative tour through several thousand years of music that sets out to understand what exactly music is – and why humans are irresistibly drawn to making it.
  
  Andrew Ford OAM is a composer, writer, and presenter of The Music Show on ABC Radio National. Andrew has written eleven books and his most recent, The Shortest History of Music, is an authoritative tour through several thousand years of music that sets out to understand what exactly music is – and why humans are irresistibly drawn to making it.
  
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2. Mark Dapin in Conversation
  True crime is one of Australia’s fast-growing genres, and Mark Dapin’s latest work, Carnage, has been dubbed a true crime cult classic in the making. Mark is an acclaimed journalist, author, screenwriter and historian and holds a doctorate in military history. He has worked as consultant producer on Network Seven TV show Armed and Dangerous, and as screenwriter on Stan’s Wolf Creek 2.
  
  True crime is one of Australia’s fast-growing genres, and Mark Dapin’s latest work, Carnage, has been dubbed a true crime cult classic in the making. Mark is an acclaimed journalist, author, screenwriter and historian and holds a doctorate in military history. He has worked as consultant producer on Network Seven TV show Armed and Dangerous, and as screenwriter on Stan’s Wolf Creek 2.
  
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3. David Marr in Conversation
  David Marr is a journalist, a political and social commentator and one of the country's most accomplished non-fiction writers. His latest book, Killing for Country: A Family Story, is a richly detailed saga of politics and power in the colonial world.
  
  David Marr is a journalist, a political and social commentator and one of the country's most accomplished non-fiction writers. His latest book, Killing for Country: A Family Story, is a richly detailed saga of politics and power in the colonial world.
  
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