By Tilly Kidd
The South Coast Writers Festival Launch on June 30 at Wollongong Art Gallery was an exciting night for book lovers and storytellers. More than 120 people gathered to hear about the amazing line-up of authors coming to the 2023 festival.
From August 18-20, the festival will cover everything from crime writing to horror, politics to poetry, podcasting to literary fiction.
We are thrilled to welcome author John Birmingham, whose novels span a range of genres from military history to space opera, all peppered with a rollicking humour and an interest in the politics of resistance and survival.
Broadcaster Indira Naidoo will talk about ritual, nature and grace. Stage and screen actor Heather Mitchell will appear with journalist Caroline Baum to discuss her candid memoir, Everything and Nothing.
Alan Baxter, award-winning author of horror thrillers and dark fantasy, and Mykaela Saunders, editor of This All Come Back Now, the Aurealis award-winning, world-first collection of First Nations speculative fiction, will speak about haunted familiar worlds and unrecognisable futures.
Climate change writer, scientist, explorer and conservationist Professor Tim Flannery and scientist Emma Flannery will appear in conversation with Claire O’Rourke to discuss their new book, Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived.
With 27 sessions plus satellite events across August, there’s much more on the program.
Check it out at southcoastwriters.org
