GenreCon returns as GenreCon 2024: Brave. Bold. Genre.

Join us for the 9th GenreCon, the largest conference in the southern hemisphere dedicated to genre writers.

GenreCon 2024: Brave. Bold. Genre. is headlined by multi-award winning author Patrick Ness.

This year's conference features many of your favourite genre authors, publishers and agents across a fantastic weekend of panels, workshops, and special events. 2024 is the year to make brave and bold movements inside the world of genre.

View the Program and more information at www.genrecon.com.au.

Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness is the multi-award-winning author of books for adults, young adults and children. A Monster Calls, inspired by an idea by the late Siobhan Dowd and which Patrick also adapted for the screen (2016, starring Sigourney Weaver, Liam Neeson and Felicity Jones), is published in forty languages. An adaptation of the first in his Chaos Walking trilogy - starring Tom Holland (Spiderman) and Daisy Ridley (Star Wars) - was released in 2021. Patrick has won every major prize in children’s fiction, including the Carnegie Medal twice. He created and wrote the 8-part BBC Doctor Who spinoff Class and as a screenwriter has written for Fox, Lionsgate, Apple, Warner Brothers and Entertainment One. His short novel, Different for Boys, is published by Walker.

About GenreCon

GenreCon is the leading conference for genre writers, featuring an impressive line-up of leading names in Australian and international genre fiction every year across a spectacular weekend of panels, workshops and special events. Plus, don’t miss out on your chance to pitch your work to leading publishers and agents. Join us and find your tribe!

GenreCon is delivered as an initiative of Queensland Writers Centre.

Format

GenreCon 2024 will be held in-person at State Library of Queensland. A Virtual Program is also available and will be viewable via Zoom.

For more information about Queensland Writers Centre’s Program of Events and answers to FAQs, please visit: www.queenslandwriters.org.au/program-info