PROGRAM
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THURSDAY 14TH MARCH
6.00 for 6.30–8.30pm
SPECIAL EVENT
An evening with Thomas Keneally AO
Tom Keneally AO
With Hamish Macdonald
Music by West Phil
FRIDAY 15TH MARCH
7.30-9.00am
Meet the local authors involved with the Festival
10.00-11.00am
Julia Baird
With Helen Vatsikopoulos
11.30am-12.30pm
Why do women still need to roar?
Catherine Fox AM
With Michael West
1.00-2.00pm
Sara Dowse, Sally Freedman, Maggie Kirkman, Emily Eklund Power, Jill Valentine
With Catherine Fox AM
Workshop: how to be a travel writer
Rachel Lees
1.15pm-2.15pm
Jim Moginie
With Liz Deep-Jones
2.30-3.30pm
Dr Sarah McKay
With Michaela Kalowski
Emeritus Professor John Maynard
With Sienna Brown
Everyone has at least one book in them, don’t they?
Ingrid Adams, Amy Hutton, Lucy Lever, Julia Levitina, Jill Valentine
With Michele Seminara
4.00-5.00pm
Professor Kim Cornish AM
With Michaela Kalowski
Craig Foster AM, Antony Loewenstein, Sara M. Saleh
With Helen Vatsikopoulos
Lou Johnson
With Tim Ayliffe
6.30–9.00pm
SPECIAL EVENT
Manly Literary Salon
Book launch:
High Heels and Low Blows by Jill Valentine
Poetry salon:
Cocoa Deep-Amek, Luke Fischer, Zeina Issa, Michele Seminara
MC: Michael Cain
Music by Jazz with Kate
SATURDAY 16TH MARCH
9.00–10.00am
‘Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness’
Ben Groundwater, Helen Hayes, Rachel Lees
With Amanda Austen
Sally Freedman, Lisa Gallate
With Bonita Mersiades
Miranda Darling, Genevieve Gannon
With Tracey Kirkland
10.30am-11.30am
Tracy Hall, Summer Land, Jeanne Ryckmans
With Lia Harris
Fiona Crawford, Greg Downes, Hunter Fujak
Andrew Howe
With Amanda Shalala
The lure of the past: historical fiction
Mirandi Riwoe, James Vella-Bardon
With Victoria Haskins
12 noon-1.00pm
Emily Eklund Power, Shirley Singh
With Lia Harris
Sport as a microcosm of society
Lucas Gillard, Jason Goldsmith, John Maynard, Patrick Skene
With Sienna Brown
Ingrid J. Adams, Amy Hutton, Lucy Lever
With Liz Deep-Jones
Sam Vincent
With Summer Land
1.30–2.30pm
Olympic boycotts, death threats, doping, and a Cold War
Michelle Ford-Eriksson MBE, Craig Lord
With Julian Linden
Michael Gawenda
With Michael Brissenden
Robert Gott
With Tracey Kirkland
3.00–4.00pm
Michael Gawenda, Tracey Kirkland, Gavin Fang, Walter Marsh
With Michael West
Cognitive dissonance in the American Bible belt
Constantine Campbell
With Summer Land
Kirsty Jagger, Sara M. Saleh
With Amanda Austen
4.30–5.30pm
Nick McKenzie
With Sarah Dingle
Professor Kim Cornish AM, Dr Maggie Kirkman, Dr Sarah McKay
With Michaela Kalowski
You couldn’t make it up, could you?
Tim Ayliffe
With Michael Brissenden
6.00-7.30pm
CLOSING EVENT
Geopolitical dynamics
Allan Behm, Edward Cavanough, Professor Mark Edele
Antony Loewenstein, Dr Lachlan Strahan
With Michael Brissenden