St Albans Writer’s Festival 2016

Attention Book lovers! The second St Albans Writer’s Festival is taking place in September!

The tiny 300-person village of St Albans, on the MacDonald River, will become a literary hub for a weekend of lectures, talks and readings.

It is a literary festival that celebrates authors, books and the love of words. It provides the unique opportunity to meet the writers, discuss books and debate ideas.

The festival  is on for 3 days at 5 venues with a line-up of 60 Australian writers, for example Jane Caro, John Blay, David Dyer, Sarah Ferguson, Nick Earls, Kate Forsyth and Trevor Jamieson.

Festival highlights include Indigenous journalist Stan Grant’s Talking To My Country, an event at which he’ll discuss his memoir on racism ¬– both explicit and implicit – in Australia, and how it has shaped his own identity and life as a Wiradjuri man. For Replacing Prime Ministers, journalists Aaron Patrick and Sarah Ferguson will investigate our national pastime of political musical chairs. Richard Glover will discuss the processes of writing his latest book, the revealing family memoir Flesh Wounds, with editor-in-chief of Seizure magazine Alice Grundy.

St Albans Writers’ Festival was born when residents belonging to three different bookclubs in the village decided to organize a book day. This Book Feast was a great success and two years later in 2015, the first full Festival took place. 2016 is the second festival and the focus remains to bring Australian writers and writing to this tiny village, for residents and visitors to enjoy an intimate weekend of words.

Festival tickets are limited, so bookings are essential.

What: St Albans Writer’s Festival

When: 16 to 18 September 2016

Where: St Alban: St Albans Church and two marquees in the gardens of the Settlers Arms Inn

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