feature events

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opening night: cocktail launch

• official opening featuring welcome music by sweet chilli + performance of little women by students of queensland college of dance excellence

reading by bruce dawe

• australia's most celebrated bard reads from his extensive & influential body of work, connecting with & commenting on australian society

music & poetry fundraiser

• guitarist michael knopf, cellist anne bowyer + noted poets and presenters speak out through words and music to fundraise for darfur

literary debate & byo picnic

• debate the book is dead featuring christina slade, susan hayes, steven lang, gary crew, libby gleeson, judith rodriguez

songs & stories

• singer/songwriter kavisha mazella joins forces with novelist andrew lindsay

reading by paul durcan

• wise and wonderful words from this internationally renowned irish poet

film evening in conjunction with maleny film society

• screening of romulus my father plus post-film discussion with los angeles based screenwriter rebecca belfield-kennedy
• pre-film meals available

forums & panel sessions

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• speculative fiction
• writing trends for young people
• soi3 poets
• hot of the press: new work
• ancient voices modern tongues
• poetry in the internet age
• uqp poets
• cutting edge
• postpressed poets

• something old something new
• writing with pictures
• pop fiction / literature
• non fiction avenues
• from novel writing to print
• creative non-fiction
• the business of writing
• australian fiction recent years
• plotting for the ya audience
• writing vs editing
• music, story, song