Enthusiastic Brisbane Writers Festival-goers meet their favourite authors. As you go in the main entrance to SLQ and walk down the Knowledge Walk to the Plaza under the atrium, you will find the book signing tables set up to your right. (Photo courtesy of the Brisbane Writers Festival)
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Welcome to the Poor Woman's Guide to the Brisbane Writers Festival
The festival runs from Wednesday, 3 September 2014 to Sunday, 7 September 2014
Watching our Stories Unfold: reading, writing and challenging ideas in the sub-tropical City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
FREE EVENTS
To
BOOK ONLINE and check out the 2014 program, go to http://www.bwf.org.au, and to read a MINI PROFILE ON BWF WRITERS go to the biography and session
page at http://bwf.org.au/2014-writers.
Check out
the UPDATE PAGE on the BWF website at http://bwf.org.au/2014-program/updates to ensure that these sessions have not already been
filled (many sessions have been), and to find out about any updates and changes to the program. The BWF BOX OFFICE will operate daily during the festival from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. at the State Library of Queensland on Level 1 (the ground floor Plaza on the
main entrance level), near the BWF Information Desk.
All sessions on this page are FREE
FRIDAY, 5 SEPTEMBER 2014
612 ABC BRISBANE BROADCAST LIVE: CONVERSATIONS WITH RICHARD FIDLER. COST: Free (no bookings required). WHO: Richard Fidler, Bradley L. Garret. WHERE: Auditorium 1, Level 2, SLQ. WHEN: 11.00 a.m. to 12.00
noon. WHAT: Richard Fidler talks to geographer Bradley L. Garrett about his work in buried urban histories and the thrill of exploring forbidden spaces as a ‘place hacker’.
612 ABC BRISBANE BROADCAST LIVE: AFTERNOONS WITH KELLY HIGGINS-DEVINE FROM 1.00 P.M., INCLUDING: I’m Your Fan. COST: Free (no bookings
required). WHO: Kelly Higgins-Devine, Geoff Woolcock, Lee McGowan. WHERE: Auditorium 1, Level 2, SLQ. WHEN: 2.00 p.m. to 3.00 p.m. WHAT: Kelly Higgins-Devine talks with Geoff Woolcock, Lee McGowan and the writers of Match Day Burger about sports
fans who write their love of the game.
CULTURAL SOLUTIONS FORUM. COST: Free (but bookings
essential). WHO: Julianne Schultz, Wesley Enoch, Paul Bishop, Cathy Hunt, Kaylah Tyson, Ben Eltham, WHERE: Maiwar Green, SLQ. WHEN: 2.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. WHAT: Griffith REVIEW asks what are the cultural solutions to intractable social problems? Julianne
Schultz hosts a conversation forum with artists, economists and policy makers to explore what’s next for Australia’s cultural policy.
MARGARET OLLEY. COST: Free (but bookings essential). WHO: Susi Muddiman, Philip Bacon. WHERE: The Studio, SLQ. WHEN: 3.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. WHAT: Susi and Phillip reflect on the life and work of Australia’s
most cherished painter of still life, MARGARET OLLEY, who celebrated humanity and the extraordinary in the everyday.
612
ABC BRISBANE BROADCAST LIVE: DRIVE WITH TIM COX FROM 3.00 P.M., INCLUDING: Reasons to be Optimistic. COST: Free (no bookings required). WHO: Rebecca Levingston, Hugh Possingham. WHERE: Auditorium 1, Level 2, SLQ. WHEN: 5.00
p.m. to 6.00 p.m. WHAT: Rebecca Levingston talks with Hugh Possingham and leading UQ researchers about new discoveries changing our lives for the better. Life might be getting more complex but our futures are still bright.
SATURDAY, 6 SEPTEMBER 2014
THE RE[A]D BOX READING SERIES. COST: Free (no bookings required). WHO: David Malouf. WHERE: Now Auditorium 1, Level 2, SLQ. WHEN: 1.00 p.m. to 2.00 p.m. WHAT: Let literary icon David Malouf carry
you through still moments with a series of exquisite readings.
JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF MYSELF. COST: Free (no bookings
required). WHO: Kristy Chambers, Claire Dunn, Cathy Van Extel. WHERE: Maiwar Green, SLQ. WHEN: 1.00 p.m. to 2.00 p.m. WHAT: Kristy Chambers travelled the world searching for equilibrium; Claire Dunn walked away from her city life and went back to the very
basics. They discuss with ABC RN’s Cathy Van Extel how far we’re willing to travel to find ourselves.
ABC RN WEEKEND ARTS.
COST: Free (no bookings required). WHO: Samuel Wagan Watson, Buddy Wakefield, Melanie Tait. WHERE: Maiwar Green, SLQ. WHEN: 3.30 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. WHAT: They are poets and they know it. Samuel and Buddy join Melanie Tait on ABC RN Weekend Arts, performing
new works on Radio National’s live broadcast from the Festival Club at BWF.
VISION WRITERS OPEN SESSION. COST:
Free (no bookings required). WHO: Members of Vision Writers. WHERE: Auditorium 2, Level 2, SLQ. WHEN: 4.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. WHAT: If you’ve ever wondered what happens in a writer’s group, whether you should join one, or how to offer peer critique,
join the members of Vision Writers to witness their open writers group.
THE NED KELLY AWARDS AND THE GREAT DEBATE: THE FEMALE OF
THE SPECIES IS DEADLIER THAN THE MALE. COST: Free (no bookings required). WHO: Michael Robotham, P.M. Newton, Lenny Bartulin, Julie Sarkozi, John Birmingham, Matthew Condon. WHERE: Maiwar Green, SLQ. WHEN: 6.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. WHAT:
Raise a glass in celebration of the 2014 Ned Kelly Awards. A murder of crime writers will debate whether the female of the species is deadlier than the male in a reprehensible session chaired by Matt Condon. Oh, the awards will be given out at this event as
well. SEE ALSO the entry... for a full and unfair discussion of this suspicious occasion.
FESTIVAL CLUB: JUKEBOX CONFESSION.
COST: Free (no bookings required). WHO: Kim Wilkins, Frances Whiting, Richard Nash, Sian Prior, David Stavanger, Omar Musa, Sean Williams, Ben Salter. WHERE: Maiwar Green, SLQ. WHEN: 8.30 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. WHAT: Almost everyone has a song that changed their
life. Join our authors up-late at the Festival Club to hear them make their jukebox confessions in this live storytelling event. No scripts, just words and music.
SUNDAY, 7 SEPTEMBER 2014
THE RE[A]D
BOX READING SERIES. Free (no bookings required). WHO: Lenny Bartulin, Willy Vlautin. WHERE: The Red Box, between Levels 2 and 3 facing the Brisbane River, SLQ. WHEN: 11.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon. WHAT: Lenny Bartulin and Willy Vlautin bring the
fractured characters and broken towns of their latest novels to life.
THE RE[A]D BOX READING SERIES. Free (no bookings
required). WHO: Mark Mulholland. WHERE: The Red Box, between Levels 2 and 3 facing the Brisbane River, SLQ. WHEN: 12.15 p.m. to 12.45 p.m. WHAT: Irish writer Mark Mulholland reads from his novel A Mad and Wonderful Thing.
THE RE[A]D BOX READING SERIES. Free (no bookings required). WHO: David Stavanger. WHERE: The Red Box, between Levels 2 and 3 facing the Brisbane River, SLQ.
WHEN: 2.15 p.m. to 2.45 p.m. WHAT: Award-winning poet David Stavanger (AKA 'Ghostboy') reads from The Special.
THE FREE.
Free (no bookings required). WHO: Willy Vlautin, Noel Mengel. WHERE: Maiwar Green, SLQ. WHEN: 2.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. WHAT: Acclaimed author and musician Willy Vlautin opens up to Noel Mengel about his exquisite novel, The Free.
THE RE[A]D BOX READING SERIES. Free (no bookings required). WHO: Maxine Beneba Clarke. WHERE: The Red Box, between Levels 2 and 3 facing
the Brisbane River, SLQ. WHEN: 3.00 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. WHAT: Author and poet Maxine Beneba Clarke reads from her award-winning collection Foreign Soil.
TELL ME WHAT TO READ. Free (no bookings required). WHO: Brooke Davis, Kate Eltham, Jennifer Byrne. WHERE: Maiwar Green, SLQ. WHEN: 4.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. WHAT: Brooke Davis, Kate Eltham and Jennifer Byrne take the guesswork
out of choosing your next read.
GLITTER AND DUST – THE GRAND FINALE. Free (no bookings required). WHO: David ‘Ghostboy’ Stavanger and a host of festival artists. WHERE: Maiwar Green, SLQ. WHEN: 5.30 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. WHAT: As the sun sinks in the golden west and the BWF draws to a close, it’s back
by popular demand – the best open mic in Australia – if they do say so themselves.
Celebrate the closing
of BWF 2014 with an electrifying set of readings by a parade of festival artists before we snuff out the festival in a cloud of glitter and dust. The passing parade will be hosted by our own, our very own, David ‘Ghostboy’ Stavanger.
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