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Brisbane Writers Festival
2016 Highlights

Presented by The University of The Sunshine Coast

THE RE[a]D BOX: Sunday

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BWF’s beloved reading series is back! Immerse yourself in the work of some truly remarkable writers as they share their writing in this beautiful and intimate riverside space. 

Seating in The Red Box is limited, unreserved, and first in best dressed – so get in early on the day to see your favourite Festival artists. 

10:00am Donate Life  

11:15am Kirsty Eagar  

12:45pm Chris Cleave  

1:30pm Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff  

2:15pm Luke Williams  

3:00pm Justine Larbalestier  

3:45pm Jeet Thayill  

4:30pm Natasha Lester


Sunday 11 September 2016

Duration 7 hours

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Stanley Pl, South Brisbane QLD 4101, Australia

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Natasha Lester

Natasha Lester

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Natasha Lester worked as a marketing executive for ten years, including stints at cosmetic company L’Oreal, managing the Maybelline brand, before returning to university to study creative writing. She completed a Master of Creative Arts as well as her first novel, What Is Left Over, After, which won the T.A.G. Hungerford Award for Fiction. Her second novel, If I Should Lose You, was published by Fremantle Press. The Age newspaper described Natasha as “a remarkable Australian talent”, and her work has appeared in The Review of Australian Fiction and Overland, and the anthologies Australian Love Stories, The Kid on the Karaoke Stage and Purple Prose.

Luke Williams

Luke Williams

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Luke Williams is an Australian journalist. He has previously worked as a reporter and broadcaster at ABC radio. In 2013 he was nominated for a Human Rights Media Award for a long-form investigative piece in The Global Mail, and in 2014 his article on ice addiction, Life as a Crystal Meth Addict, was a finalist in the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism. His first book is The Ice Age: My Journey into Crystal Meth Addiction, and is published by Scribe. 

    

Chris Cleave

Chris Cleave

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Chris Cleave is the author of the international bestsellers Incendiary, The Other Hand, and Gold. The Other Hand sat in the New York Times Top Ten for over a year under the US title, Little Bee, and his books have been shortlisted twice for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Chris is a regular newspaper and broadcast contributor to the cultural debate on parenting, literature and human rights. He lives in Kingston-upon-Thames with his wife and three children.

Kirsty Eagar

Kirsty Eagar

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Kirsty Eagar was raised on a farm near Rockhampton. After studying economics at the University of Queensland, she worked for central banks in Sydney and London before changing direction. Her Young Adult novels have won and been shortlisted for numerous literary awards and her latest, Summer Skin, is a modern romance set in the hook-up culture of campus life, described by Clementine Ford as ‘the feminist love story girls have been waiting for’. She lives on Sydney’s northern beaches with her family.

Jeet Thayill

Jeet Thayill

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Jeet Thayil is the 2016 Arts Queensland Poet in Residence. Born in Mamalasserie, Kerala, and educated in Bombay, Hong Kong and New York, he is the author of four poetry collections including English and These Errors Are Correct, which won the 2013 Sahitya Akademi Award for poetry. His novel Narcopolis won the 2012 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and was shortlisted for five other prizes, including the Man Booker prize, the Man Asian Literature Prize and the Commonwealth Prize.

Jay Kristoff

Jay Kristoff

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Jay Kristoff is The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Lotus War, The Illuminae Files and The Neverknight Chronicle. He is the winner of two Aurealis Awards, an ABIA, nominee for the David Gemmell Morningstar and Legend awards. He has been named multiple times in the Kirkus and Amazon Best Teen Books list and published in more than 25 countries, most of which he has never visited. He is as surprised about all of this as you are. He abides in Melbourne with his secret agent kung-fu assassin wife, and the world’s laziest Jack Russell.

Amie Kaufman

Amie Kaufman

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Amie Kaufman is an internationally bestselling young adult author, whose multiple award-winning books have been published in 25 countries. She is the co-author of Illuminae with Jay Kristoff and These Broken Stars with Meagan Spooner. Both series are in development for film and TV. Amie has degrees in history, literature, law and conflict resolution, and lives in Melbourne with her husband, their rescue dog, and an extremely large personal library.

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