Byron Writers Festival full 2023 program announced
Byron Writers Festival (BWF) has announced the full line-up for its 2023 event, which runs 11–13 August.
The festival program includes more than 120 writers exploring the theme of ‘wild imagination’ at a new site on Bundjalung Country in the hinterland town of Bangalow, 15 minutes from Byron Bay.
International guests include UK novelist Gabriel Krauze, US psychiatry professor Robert Waldinger, Trinidanian novelist Kevin Jared Hosein, US journalist Jeff Goodell, UK writer and broadcaster Hayley Campbell, and Albanian politics professor Lea Ypi.
Local authors to appear at the festival include novelists Pip Williams, Kate Morton, Peggy Frew, Gail Jones, Holly Ringland, Robbie Arnott and Anna Funder, as well as Briohny Doyle, Ellen van Neerven, Zena Cumpston, Debra Dank, Heather Rose, Marele Day and Grace Tame.
The annual Thea Astley Address will be delivered by historian Henry Reynolds, who will reflect on his six decades of writing Australian history. The program also includes writers’ workshops, a children’s program and satellite events in venues across the Northern Rivers region.
BWF artistic director Zoe Pollock said she is ‘thrilled to be bringing this incredible line up of leading authors and thinkers and more to our beautiful new site in Bangalow on Bundjalung Country’.
‘This year we have embraced our popular day-pass model and designed the festival experience around five themed venues that encourage audiences to be guided by their mood and interests when exploring the program,’ said Pollock.
‘We have four outdoor marquees; Deep Dives, a place for reflective one-on-one conversations, Ideas Salon will bring the most topical debate and ideas to the fore, Mind Spa will be a space to restore and revive the mind and Play Zone will create a series of joyful experiences for young and old. Finally, the charming heritage A&I Hall will take on a new life as the Imaginarium—where the wild creativity of our best literary authors will be celebrated and a green future imagined for all.’
For more information or tickets, see the BWF website.
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