Byron Writers Festival

In this session, recorded live at the 2018 Byron Writers Festival, crime writer Candice Fox, non-fiction writer Sarah Krasnostein and journalist Kate Wild speak with Bernard Zuel about writing in the wake of traumatic events.

In this poignant session, recorded live at the 2018 Byron Writers Festival, Jessie Cole, Walter Mikac and Hannah Richell talk to Jesse Blackadder about their experiences of writing through grief. They have each lived through devastating experiences, and here, they bravely share their stories.

Anne Aly, Ellen Broad and Matthew Condon discuss with Jennifer Rayner our changing perceptions of privacy in the modern world of social media, data collection and information sharing.

Eddie Ayres, Brigid Delaney and Kari Gislason regale us with travels tales tall and small in this hilarious, insightful session on the joys and challenges of travel and why we, as Australians, love a good travel story. Chaired by Michael Williams.

In this 2018 Byron Writers Festival podcast, local children’s and teen’s author Tristan Bancks talks to musician and avid reader Tim Rogers, N.Z. poet Selina Tusitala Marsh and author Ben Hobson about how to get boys into books. With warmth and humour, they discuss the joys of reading and of reading to others, as well as their own reading habits and those of their children.

Kon Karapanagiotidis founded the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre at age 28. He shares his powerful story of love, hope and passion with Melissa Lucashenko.

In this 2018 Byron Writers Festival podcast, twice Miles Franklin Award winner Michele de Kretser and novelist Ceridwen Dovey discuss their latest books with Caroline Baum. Both authors explore the weight of things left unspoken. De Kretser's award-winning work, 'The Life to Come', is a mesmerising novel about the stories we tell and don't tell ourselves as individuals, as societies and as nations...

Sarah Sentilles is a writer, teacher, critical theorist, scholar of religion, and author of many books, including 'Breaking Up with God: A Love Story', and most recently, 'Draw Your Weapons'. In this podcast, Sarah Sentilles speaks with Margaret Throsby about God and war, her decision to leave the church, and about how violence is waged, witnessed and resisted.

Andrew Ford, Sebastian Smee and Peter Thompson in conversation with Geordie Williamson.

Tim Flannery, David Haskell and Nicolas Rothwell discuss the nature of all living things with Steven Lang

What do you get when you put a Muslim, a Monsignor and Buddhist on a writers’ panel? A ‘Hunger for Spirituality’ with Susan Carland, Tony Doherty and Meshel Laurie, chaired by the always-charming Ailsa Piper.

David Free and Michael Robotham share their darkest secrets with Matthew Condon

Barry Jones in conversation with Kerry O'Brien by Byron Writers Festival

Charles Massey and Bruce Pascoe discuss regenerative agriculture with Peter Harrison.

Explore contemporary Indian literature and art with ‘Midnight’s Children’: Kunal Basu, Roanna Gonsalves, Vayu Naidu and Vankat Shyam in conversation with Wendy Were.

Barry Jones, Tracey Spicer and Susan Wyndham wax lyrical on the books that changed their lives with Adam Suckling.

Join Clementine Ford, Bri Lee, Michael Sala and Mandy Nolan in this hilariously assertive session on all things gender.

In this touching session we listen to the stories of two vastly different friendships and reflect on what ties us together. With Deng Adut, Ben Mckelvey, Ailsa Piper, Tony Doherty and chaired by Rosemarie Milsom.

Adam Spencer gets his geek on and gives us the low-down on why mathematicians will rule the world!

Delta Kay, Bruce Pascoe and Kim Scott open our eyes, ears and hearts to the richness that lies within Indigenous Storytelling. Chaired by Adam Shoemaker.

Roger Cohen in conversation with David Leser by Byron Writers Festival

When Baird set out to write Victoria, she wanted to examine how the queen wielded power during her reign and how far – or little it seems – our acceptance of powerful women has come. The book chronicles Victoria’s life, but unlike other histories of the queen it charts her role as an “incredibly powerful working mother”, and explores how she managed her nine pregnancies and raising children while...

On Festival Friday Roger Cohen, Mei Fong, Christina Lamb, and Kerry O'Brien discuss the state of the world to a packed tent with Ben Knight.

Sarah Amrstrong chats with Nikki Gemmell, Heather Taylor Johnson and Charlie Veron about all forms of grief: the loss of a loved one, the grief of chronic illness and the grief that comes with the devastation of the natural world.

Kate Cole-Adams, Nikki Gemmell and Kate Grenville chat with Ashley Hay about 'The Extreme Boundaries of the Sayable'