Authors and Guests

Paula Bevan

Writer

Paula J Beavan grew up in the Hunter Valley, where her love of reading and a good yarn inspired a desire to write. On discovering a family connection to one of the Hunter Valley first settlers, she turned her hand to historical fiction.

Paula won the Australian Romance Reader's Association 2021 Favourite Debut Romance Author, for her book, Daughter of the Hunter Valley.

Her second novel, Among The Grey Gums, is set to be published in 2024

 

You'll have a chance to chat with Paula in person about her book and her career at the Picnic in the Park as part of the 2023 Scone Literary Festival

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Our Guests

Chanel Contos

Founder of the ‘Teach us Consent’ movement, and winner of the Human Rights Awards Young People’s Medal, Chanel Contos is an activist achieving BIG changes. 

Richard Anderson

Richard is the author of two rural-crime novels, Retribution and Boxed. His latest book is Small Mercies, and all three are published by Scribe.

Scott Bevan

'Return To The Hunter', Scott's latest book has him paddling through the Upper Hunter and thinking about those who live and work here, and the area's rich history.

Lauren Forner

Lauren Forner is the fiction, poetry and experimental forms editor at Mona Magazine, a magazine founded in 2020 that explores the female experience in rural Australia

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