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

LOLA Breakfast

Meet the local authors involved with the Festival

10.00-11.00am

Amazing grace

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

A better way

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

Lost and found

Jim Moginie
With Liz Deep-Jones

2.30-3.30pm

All in the brain

Dr Sarah McKay
With Michaela Kalowski

The accidental historian

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

The pandemic generation

Professor Kim Cornish AM
With Michaela Kalowski

Writing as a form of activism

Craig Foster AM, Antony Loewenstein, Sara M. Saleh
With Helen Vatsikopoulos

Call my agent

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

Memoir as truth-telling

Sally Freedman, Lisa Gallate
With Bonita Mersiades

This Life

Miranda Darling, Genevieve Gannon
With Tracey Kirkland

10.30am-11.30am

How did it come to this?

Tracy Hall, Summer Land, Jeanne Ryckmans
With Lia Harris

Australia’s Matildas: their 50-year ‘overnight’ success and what it means for the Australian sporting landscape

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

An unimaginable nightmare

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

A fine romance

Ingrid J. Adams, Amy Hutton, Lucy Lever
With Liz Deep-Jones

The accidental farmer

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

Jewish Life

Michael Gawenda
With Michael Brissenden

What could possibly go wrong?

Robert Gott
With Tracey Kirkland

3.00–4.00pm

The state of our media

Michael Gawenda, Tracey Kirkland, Gavin Fang, Walter Marsh
With Michael West

Cognitive dissonance in the American Bible belt

Constantine Campbell
With Summer Land

Life as Literature

Kirsty Jagger, Sara M. Saleh
With Amanda Austen

4.30–5.30pm

From hero to zero

Nick McKenzie
With Sarah Dingle

Women through the ages

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