This year’s festival features some of the buzziest young authors, including Bri Lee, author of Eggshell Skull with a new novel called The Work. Lee will appear alongside zeitgeisty author Jessie Tu with The Honeyeater, a wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing.
YA fiction superstars include Lynette Noni, the #1 bestselling author of the Prison Healer trilogy, and the Medoran Chronicles, and Lili Wilkinson, the award-winning author of eighteen books with a new “romantasy” novel Deep is The Fen. Catch up-and-coming First Nations YA writers Graham Akhurst and Steph Tisdell speaking on coming-of-age stories, and see international guest Tayi Tibble, the young Maori poet described as a literary “It Girl” by the New York Times.
Youth Pass for under 25s
This year Byron Writers Festival has introduced a Youth Pass for anyone aged 25 years or under to help younger audiences experience all the magic of the iconic writers festival. Youth Passes are available for any single-day ticket, and will open up over 130 sessions featuring 160 writers. With a similar set-up to a music festival, pass holders can wander between six venues and choose what they want to listen to on the day. Sit down and hear from leading thinkers and changemakers from around the world.
Tickets and full program at www.byronwritersfestival.com.
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