Authors and Guests

Julie Janson

Uncategorized, Writer

Julie is a Burruberongal woman of Darug nation, living on Yuin Country. Her Janson convict ancestors lived in Aberdeen NSW from 1842. Julie is a novelist, playwright and poet. Novels: “Compassion” Magabala March 2024; “Madukka the River Serpent” UWAP 2022, longlisted for Miles Franklin Award and Davitt 2023. “Benevolence” Magabala 2020 and Harper Collins USA, UK 2022. Shortlisted Barbara Jefferis Award 2022, NIB Award 2020 and Voss Award 2020. Poetry: Winner of Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize 2016 and Judith Wright Poetry Prize 2019. Shortlisted for the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize 2025. Plays: “Black Mary” Belvoir St Theatre and SOCOG Festival of the Dreaming 1997. “Gunjies” Belvoir St Theatre, “Eyes of Marege” Sydney Opera House; “The Crocodile Hotel” play shortlisted for the Patrick White Award and Griffin Award.

 

Julie will be joining Suzanne Leal Nardi Simpson, and Jen Cowley in a panel, Wild Country, Safe Places discussing words and language at our 20025 Festival

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Richard Glover

Richard Glover presents Thank God It’s Friday on ABC Radio. His books include The Land Before Avocado, a book about Australia in the 1960s and 1970s, and the memoir Flesh Wounds.

Kat Vella

Kat Vella is the non fiction editor of Mona Magazine, a magazine founded in 2020 that explores the female experience in rural Australia.

Paula Stevenson

Paula Stevenson will be delivering the Early Readers' Program to young children in the Upper Hunter as part of the Scone Literary Festival 2023

Jonathan Biggins

Jonathan Biggins is an award-winning writer, director and performer, perhaps best known as one of the creators and performers for Sydney Theatre Company’s long-running and much loved annual political satire, The Wharf Revue,

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