The program for this year’s Byron Writers Festival, to be held August 11 till 13, has been revealed. It features celebrated authors and thinkers as well as powerful new voices.
With the theme Wild Imagination, organisers say more than 120 writers and thinkers will converge at the Bangalow Showgrounds in a ‘celebration of storytelling, literature and ideas’.
CEO and artistic director, Zoë Pollock, says of the Wild Imagination theme: ‘As humans, our imagination is our superpower. It has set us apart, enabled us to create and transform the world.
‘As the climate crisis is teaching us, we must harness it more than ever. We must imagine a new world – one where the wild is free’.
International guests include Booker Prize longlisted debut novelist, Gabriel Krauze (UK), investigative journalist Anke Richter (NZ), Dr Robert Waldinger (USA), and Kevin Jared Hosein (Trinidad). They join survivor-advocate Grace Tame, musician Bertie Blackman, Myf Warhurst, Tracey Spicer, and historian Henry Reynolds. Exploring the future of journalism in the annual Mungo McCallum Panel will be Monica Attard, Paddy Manning, Osman Faruqi and Amy Remeikis. For more info visit www.byronwritersfestival.com/festival.
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