This is a landing page for all ticket sales for 6 Saturday events and 3 Sunday events, plus the launch on Friday 29 June

Saturday Program

Millhouse, 88-90 Burke St, Maryborough

9.15 Self-publishing and marketing featuring novelists and memoirists Heather Whitford Roche, Helena Kidd, Maria Lacey, Val Dwyer = free

10.30 Play at the Maryborough Toy Library = free

10.30 Reds under the bed: Ideology isn’t everything; love, blood and stoushesfeaturing Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo, Andrew Scott and Tom O’Callaghan = $20

11.45 Cooking with saffron: a guide to growing and harvesting and demonstration and tasting at the Millhouse with grower and cook Rosie Pamic + Lunchbox = $20

1.30 Grown-ups are giving up books: should we pay them to read? Robyn Annear, Martine Murray and Maree Stephenson in conversation with Heather Roche = free

2.45 Songlines and Memory with Lynne Kelly = $20

4.00 Poetry Spectacular Poetry performances with music, Colin Clark, Leni Shelton, Bonny Cassidy, Ross Gillett = $20 Railway Cafe and Bar

A la carte Dinner at the Railway Cafe and bar. Bookings: 03 5461 1362

Sunday Program

Maryborough Highland Society

9.45 Best marginalia: a hilarious look at what people scribble in the margins of library books. Maree Stephenson and Bec Clark from the Central Goldfields Shire library will entertain.

10.30 Torn Apart: small communities, big crimes Charlie Bezzina, Phil Cleary and Carmel Bird = $30 or $55 with Maryborough Highland Society famous roast lunch

12.00 Maryborough Highland Society famous roast lunch Is going to church better than winning the Grand Final? + $30 includes lunch