Festival 2018

The inaugural Rose Scott Women Writers’ Festival will feature five authors “in conversation” including:

31 AUGUST 2018 - WORKSHOP

14.00 - 17.00

Fiction Writing Workshop: Bringing your words to life

With Kathryn Heyman

Whether you're working on fiction or non-fiction, this workshop will help you find tools to breathe life into your writing. You'll learn new ways of creating detail and making the reader feel that they are in your world, and discover the tools for creating the structure to hold the book together. At the end of the morning, you'll know what you need to do to make your book sing.

Limited to 14 participants

Workshop kindly sponsored by:

31 AUGUST 2018

17.30 - 19.30

Opening Event - SOLD OUT

Toy Choir

Festival Opening: The Hon Justice Virginia Bell AC

Anna Funder

In conversation Susan Lever

Event kindly sponsored by:

1 SEPTEMBER 2018

09.30 - 10.30

Difficult Choices

Manal al-Sharif and Kathryn Heyman with Catherine du Peloux Menage

10.30 - 10.50

Morning Tea

10.50 - 11.50

Moral Hazards

Elizabeth Tynan and Fiona Harari with Margot Saville

11.50 - 12.45

Sofie Laguna

In conversation with Kate Evans

This session will be recorded by Radio National.

12.45 - 13.45

Lunch

13.45 - 14.45

Crossing Over: Fiction, Poetry, Creative Non-fiction

Jennifer Maiden, Fiona Wright and Rozanna Lilley with Kate Evans

This session will be recorded by Radio National.

14.45 - 15.40

Drusilla Modjeska

In conversation with Nicole Abadee

15.40 - 16.00

Afternoon Tea

16.00 - 17.00

The Local is the Only Universal: Writing about Place

Kim Mahood, Vanessa Berry, Noelle Janaczewska with Ashley Hay

17.00 - 19.00

Closing Drinks

Saturday's program kindly sponsored by:

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Writers 2018

Facilitators 2018

TALKS BY WOMEN WRITERS

Gallery 2018