Shelley Piper from Cassilis has won the 2022 Farmers’ Short Story (FSS) writing competition with a poignant tale about the 2017 Sir Ivan bushfire that wiped out their beef cattle property.
From bush poetry to steamy sex scenes, crime writing and conversations with living legends, this year’s Scone Literary Festival has it all. With the theme of “ The Magic and Power of Literature, the festival will take place over the weekend of November 10 and 11 and will feature celebrated authors such as David Marr…
The Scone Literary Festival committee President Jan Sinclair recently launched their 5th annual Scone Literary Festival program. The only writer’s festival in the Upper Hunter has grown from strength to strength from what initially was the idea of a few like-minded bookworms, writers and bush poets who felt there was a need to host an…
by Paula Stevenson. My small country town, Scone, last weekend, welcomed a bevy of great writers and producers to celebrate the life of books and the love of literature. The Scone Literary Festival is in its infancy but growing so fast that this year we were bursting at the seams. It is a unique festival,…
The Committee of the Scone Literary Festival today announced the names of the winners of their first ever writing competition, which was judged by well-known author Rosalie Ham. Rosalie wrote the highly acclaimed book The Dressmaker and she will be appearing at the Scone Literary Festival on 11-12 November. The winners were: 1st Prize of…
The 31st October marks the 100th anniversary of the Australian Light Horse and the iconic battle, the Charge of Beersheba, during WW1. There are close local connections to this battle as members of the Haydon family from Bloomfield, Blandford, were enlisted as Light Horseman and Guy Haydon famously rode his horse Midnight at the Charge.…
‘COME ON UP’ is the catch cry of the Upper Hunter Valley and the rural town of Scone wants you to ‘come on up’, not just to experience great country hospitality and marvel at the glorious landscape, but to be stimulated and refreshed by making new connections at the annual Scone Literary Festival. Now in…
To mark national Book Week Scone’s flourishing writer’s festival has released details of their program dedicated to our young readers and budding writers. In this fast paced digital age the Scone Literary Festival committee is passionate about encouraging their younger audience to ‘maintain the page’ so will once again be hosting a pre-school program at…