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Attica chef Ben Shewry: be kinder to all things rather than toxic

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Melbourne’s culinary icon and award-winning restaurateur Ben Shewry – of Attica fame – takes centre stage at the 2025 Byron Writers Festival. Ben will...
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Byron Writers Festival in conversation with writer and artist, Kirli Saunders

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Proud Gunai Woman Kirli Saunders (OAM) is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, author of nine books, poet and singer-songwriter who will bring her bold, boundary-pushing voice to the Byron Writers Festival.
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Poetry, comics and dinner parties of a different kind

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From a hands-on comic and zine workshop, to the heart-thumping, exhilarating Australian Poetry Slam, there are events and workshops as part of the Byron Writers Festival for all kinds of storytelling.
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Literary heavyweights coming to Byron Writers Festival

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This year’s writers festival boasts one of the most impressive lineups in years, featuring big names in Australian and international literature.
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Interview with Esther Freud, international headliner at Byron Writers Festival

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Byron Writers Festival talked to British novelist Esther Freud in the lead-up to this year's festival.
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Interview with Terraglossia author Debra Dank

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Debra Dank is passionate about the environment, especially as her Country, on the Beetaloo Basin, is under threat of being fracked. Her latest book is Terraglossia
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Byron Writers Festival: cake creator Nadine Ingram

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With a career spanning Michelin-starred kitchens, to her own artisan bakery, beloved Sydney baker and Flour and Stone founder Nadine Ingram joins Byron Writers...
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The best new release books at Byron Writers Festival

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From practical non-fiction on how to ditch fossil fuels in the home, to the best new crime, sci-fi, and spellbinding fiction from international guests, there is something for everyone at this year’s Byron Writers Festival.
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Writers Festival Kids Program – family festival fun!

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If you know a budding bookworm, the Byron Writers Festival Kids Program is the perfect place to nurture their love of storytelling while having an absolute blast!
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Q&A with TV star and kids author Tony Armstrong

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Tony Armstrong found national acclaim as an AFL player turned TV personality. Now he’s a successful children’s book author and will share his latest book Maggie the Dragon at Byron Writers Festival’s Kids Program.
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Passion for politics at Byron Writers Festival

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Planning your big weekend at Byron Writers Festival? We take a look at the hot button topics at Australia’s largest regional writers festival this August.
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Sit down with performer Ziggy Ramo

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Ziggy Ramo is an award-winning artist whose work spans music, literature, film, and performance. This year, Ramo brings his powerful voice and vision to Byron Writers Festival.
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Big names and big issues explored at writers festival

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This year’s Byron Writers Festival is a star-studded celebration of national icons and local legends gathered under the festival theme Passion & Purpose.
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Cheer up, slow down, chill out at Byron Writers Festival

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With just one week until Byron Writers Festival 2024, take in the good vibes coming to Bangalow Showground.
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Getting into Deep Water with James Bradley

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James Bradley’s magnificent book Deep Water is a hymn to the beauty, mystery and wonder of the ocean. Byron Writers Festival spoke with him about the world beneath.
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Kids Big Day Out – festival fun for all the family!

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On Sunday 11 August at Byron Writers Festival the Lilly Pilly marquee transforms into a giant immersive storytelling arena where authors and illustrators will entertain, inspire and delight.
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Inspiring the next gen of readers

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A stellar line-up of authors and performers will entertain the younger generation of readers and authors, with the return of the Byron Writers Festival’s Kids Big Day Out.
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Hot button issues explored at Byron Writers Festival

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This year’s festival features the authors of topical new books on politics in America, India, and the Middle East, as well as feminism, land rights, inequality, law and media.
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A Seat at My Table: Philoxenia, by Kon & Sia Karapanagiotidis

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This is a beautiful cookbook rich in colour, flavours, history, culture and heart. Who better to document Greek recipes than Greek-Australian Kon Karapanagiotidis, someone...
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Byron Writers Festival: interview with Irish novelist Caoilinn Hughes

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Byron Writers Festival caught up with Irish storyteller Caoilinn Hughes about her latest novel, The Alternatives.
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Young readers well catered for with contemporary books and rising stars

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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.
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Experience books in a whole new way at Byron Writers Festival

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“Living eulogies”, launches and poetic performances – Australia’s largest regional writers festival embraces the theatrical with a series of evening feature events.
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Treating trauma with MDMA – Q&A with Rebecca Huntley

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Sociologist Rebecca Huntley will launch her new book Sassafras at Byron Writers Festival. We speak with her about her experience of new drug treatments.
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Byron Writers Festival 2024: Bruce Pascoe Q&A

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Byron Writers Festival guests Bruce Pascoe and Lyn Harwood’s book Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra is a personal and beautiful reflection on life, Country and the consequences of Dark Emu through six seasons on their farm. Here Bruce Pascoe answers some questions about the experience.
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Dive head first into some 2024’s biggest books at the Byron Writers Festival

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With the festival just over a month away, here’s a taste of some of the biggest and most compelling books in the Byron Writers Festival 2024 program.
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Karkalla at Home: 110 recipes using native foods

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Karkalla at Home is a vibrant cookbook that brings Australia’s wonderful bounty of unique native foods into the home kitchen with more than 110...
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2024 Writers Festival brings big names to the Bangalow Showground

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In one of the biggest lineups in years, Byron Writers Festival 2024 is presenting over 160 authors, storytellers and experts to the Bangalow Showground from 9–11 August.
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Byron Writers Festival ticket guide

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There are plenty of ways to enjoy Australia’s largest regional writers festival, from single day visits to a full literary weekend, as well as options for families and Under 25s.
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One week to go until festival time! Let’s have some fun…

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Play Zone perfectly encapsulates the spirit of the festival’s theme, ‘Wild Imagination’. Your time in this joyful venue will leave you feeling uplifted, inspired, reminiscing on the good times life has thrown your way, and excited for the good times to come.
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Defeating the algorithm: An interview with Tracey Spicer

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Where is AI taking the world, and how is it embedded with long-held, damaging bias and prejudice? These questions are among those posed by Tracey Spicer in her new book, Man-Made, ahead of her appearance at Byron Writers Festival 2023.
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From little things, big things grow

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Byron Writers Festival’s Ideas Salon will feature leading experts and thinkers on the topics that matter, with ideas and solutions to inspire us all. Join us to get across the latest thinking and walk away with the resolve to get out there and make your own mark on the world; be it a delicate ripple or a roaring tidal wave.
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Get ready to party at the Voices in the Wild feature event

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If anyone knows how to throw a literary party, it’s the slam poets! Get ready for Byron Writers Festival’s Saturday night feature event, Voices In the Wild, a cabaret of spoken word that will bring the house down.
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Byron Writers Festival introduces $35 pass for under 35s

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Byron Writers Festival 2023 invites audiences aged 35 and under to soak up the festival experience with a Saturday PM Under 35s Pass. This new pass gives access to twelve sessions taking place at the festival site from 2pm, Saturday 12 August for just $35.
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Dive head first into some of the year’s biggest books featured at the 2023 Byron Writers Festival

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The Deep Dives marquee will be a place for reflective one-on-one conversations; where you can dive head first into a world of extraordinary and emotive topics that leave you yearning to discover more. If you love hearing from the authors of this year’s biggest and most compelling books and better still, meeting them in person afterwards, read on for a taste of what to expect.
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Heather Rose Q&A – 2023 Byron Writers Festival

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Heather Rose is the Australian author of eight novels, including the Stella Prize-winning The Museum of Modern Love. In this insightful Q&A, Heather discusses her memoir, Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here.
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Byron Writers Festival ticket guide 2023

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At Byron Writers Festival 2023, there’s an option for everyone to enjoy the stories, discussion and debate that make up the program. Wondering which ticket to choose? Here’s a quick ticket guide.
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2023 festival looks to the future with wild imagination

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Byron Writers Festival 2023 is looking to the future with its inspiring new program themed ‘Wild Imagination’, bringing more than 120 writers and big thinkers together at Bangalow Showground this 11–13 August.
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Full Writers Fest lineup on offer  

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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.
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Writers Fest offers discounted locals pass

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Discounted locals passes are on sale from today for the Byron Writers Festival and is for entry to the festival on Sunday 13 August.
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Wild Imagination – time to get your early bird tickets to the Byron Writers Festival

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This year’s festival will showcase the theme ‘Wild Imagination’ and feature 2021 Australian of the Year Grace Tame; beloved broadcaster and author Richard Fidler; writer, commentator and actor Nakkiah Lui; and author Pip Williams.
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Bundjalung stories on Country

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As first peoples we have an inherited birthright and a deep responsibility to try, as much as possible, to tread lightly on Country and read Country.
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Unmissable sessions at Byron Writers Festival

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Not sure which sessions to see? We’ve saved the best ’til last and highlighted some of the must-see panels and conversations from the 2022 program to help you decide. Hurry, Day Passes are selling fast!
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Flood gauges installed in Ballina and Wardell 

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Residents in Ballina and Wardell will have more more localised flood warnings, giving them time to prepare before floodwaters arrives, thanks to new flood forecast services along the Richmond River.
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Byron High brings you SAAM – full of humour and chaos

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In the vein of a speculative sci-fi, this comedy misadventure is simultaneously relatable, playful, hilarious, and unnerving. SAAM will be performed for three nights by Byron Bay High’s Year 11 Drama troupe on 23, 25 and 26 June from 6.30pm.
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More comes out on Byron and Mullum pools saga

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The problem with Byron Shire councillors making decisions in confidential sessions ‘behind closed doors’ is that no-one knows what really happened apart from those in the room.
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Riparian restoration works sees improvements over four catchments

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Creeks and riverbanks damaged by the 2022 floods are being restored, thanks to the work of landowners and the NSW government Caring for Catchments program.
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