Authors and Guests

Mandy Bishop

Writer

Mandy grew up on beautiful land between Merriwa and Scone, Geawegal land before Brittish settlement. She is honoured to be here and Scone was always where she came as a child to go to the “big" shops!

Mandy is currently performing the tour of The Wharf Revue: Looking For Albanese (and they found him! He saw the show in Sydney in December, huge excitement for the audience.)

Receiving a Bachelor of Music from UNE Armidale, she then trained at WAAPA, Perth. Mandy has been living and working in Sydney and New York, as an actor, producer, singer and writer. Recent credits include many years of the Wharf Revue for Sydney Theatre Company, where she learnt to portray Julia Gillard. She has also toured Australia with Bell Shakespeare and appeared in TV shows such as Drop Dead Weird, A Zoom With A View, Law & Order SVU, Maximum Choppage, Wednesday Night Fever, Q&A, and Rake. Co-writing and co-creator credits include cabarets: Music & Mandy & Scott, Bite My Chilli, ABC's At Home With Julia, Short Message Service for Q Theatre and various special events.

 

Mandy will be joining the 2023 Scone Literary Festival, in Conversations with Creatives, discussing life, career and everything in between with Jonathan Biggins.

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Toby Roberts

Toby’s memoir ‘Two Mums and a Dad’ covers his teenage years, growing up with a lesbian mum

Michael Burge

Michael Burge is an Australian journalist, author and artist who lives at Deepwater on Ngarabal Country in the New England region of NSW. His debut novel Tank Water is a coming-of-age crime thriller set in the bush.

Kell Woods

Kell has studied English literature, creative writing, and history, and writes about made-up (and not so made-up) places, people and things you might remember from the fairy tales you read as a child. Her books, however, are most definitely not for children.

Suzanne Leal

SUZANNE LEAL is the author of novels The Watchful Wife, The Teacher’s Secret and The Deceptions, winner of the Nib People’s Choice Prize.

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