Festival Saturday was huge! LOVE YA at the Brisbane Square Library converged into an apolcalyptic survival session (and Young Adult fiction love-in); Tom Keneally joked about luring his daughter Meg into the tormenting self-doubt of life as a writer by plotting on long family bushwalks; Luke Williams revealed the funny and heartbreaking aspects of psychosis as…
Brisbane Writers Festival is in full swing at the State Library Of Queensland, with over 300 events running concurrently over five days. We engage in a city-wide conversation about ideas, imagination and identity. This year, the curatorial theme explores connection and belonging through a variety of lenses. American author Lionel Shriver was invited to…
Festival Friday is our day of transition — we wrapped up our fabulous Word Play program, took some headlining BWF artists to UQ for the day and ramped up our Main Festival content. Rosella, our delightful roving student reporter, joined in the Word Play fun today and declared it “the funnest time yet”! Here is her wrap up: The first two…
The Festival train has left the station! The Word Play fun continued today at the State Library of Queensland. Hundreds of junior bookworms met their literary heroes and received writing tips from the very best in the biz. International superstars David Levithan and Meg Rosoff inspired long-time fans (some of whom may or may not be artists appearing later this week!) David Astle encouraged his…
We’ve arrived! Huzzah! Hundreds of excited little readers descended on the State Library Of Queensland by the busload today for Word Play, marking the official start of the 2016 Brisbane Writers Festival! Picture book author and illustrator Katherine Battersby took her audience flapping and squawking on adventures real and imagined. Bec Sparrow and Meg Rosoff dispensed some life…
