Byron Bay Writers Festival
August 15, 2018
What an incredible brain holiday to spend three days at the Byron Writers Festival soaking up the wit and wisdom of poets, activists, fiction writers and the combined passion and smarts of so many thinkers and wordsmiths.
Highlights included:
- the fierce poetry of Courtney Sina Meredith
- Charles Massy (Call of the Reed Warbler)
- Dervla McTiernan (The Ruin)
- Trent Dalton (Boy Swallows Universe)
- Jane Harper (The Dry)
- Liane Moriarty (Big Little Lies)
- Peter Greste
- Jacqui Lambie
- Christine Milne
- Sarah Wilson (First, We Make the Beast Beautiful)
Recommend to any writer and reader to put the Byron Writers Festival on your bucket list!
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