Readings chair to run new festival, Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival program launched

A new Carlton-based writers’ festival and the 2024 Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival will both take place this November.

Readings chair Mark Rubbo is launching a new literary festival, to be called A Day in Carlton, reports the Age.

The inaugural festival, which will run on 15 and 16 November, will feature among its guests Julia Busuttil Nishimura, David Marr and Thomas Mayo.

‘Carlton has always been an important crucible in the Australian publishing industry, so we see [the festival] as an opportunity to pay homage to that wonderful history,’ said Rubbo.

The Age reported that tickets to the festival would be made available in the coming days.

Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival program launched

The Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival has released its full 2024 program, with the event to take place on 1–3 November.

Under the theme ‘big skies, open minds’, the 2024 program will feature a total of 56 events and 14 workshops, with more than 80 speakers attending. Among the guests are Markus Zusak, Noni Hazlehurst, Liane Moriarty, Karl Kruszelnicki, Gina Chick, Yumi Stynes, Pip Williams, Tony Birch, Shankari Chandran, Chris Hammer, Nardi Simpson, Sara M Saleh, Alexis Wright and Benjamin Stevenson.

Special events will include Gina Chick’s Mick Dark Talk for the Future (with the theme ‘we are the stars’), a ‘bedtime stories’ salon series and ‘beer and books’ conversations at a local brewery, as well as a day of events for young people on 2 November.

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