Byron Writers Festival

May 05 2024 138 ep. 49 mins 16
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Byron Writers Festival is a not-for-profit, member-based organisation offering a year-round program of workshops, seminars and events for writers and readers. Our annual festival, held in August, is the largest regional Writers Festival in Australia.

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Checking Out

May 05 2024 60 mins  
Silent quitting, climate quitting, goblin mode, human sustainability, leaning out. What are all these terms and what age are we living in? How is language evolving to describe how we live now and what do all those catch-phrases mean? Ellen van Neerven, Alison Pennington, Kristine Ziwica and Paul Barclay.

Green Imaginings

May 05 2024 56 mins  
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The Family Spark

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What If Everything We Imagine Comes True

May 05 2024 60 mins  
Speculating about the future, interrogating the past and understanding through storytelling unite three writers. A historian and two novelists describe how their approaches to writing allow them to imagine – and reimagine – past, present and future. Michelle Arrow, Grace Chan, Shankari Chandran with Phillipa McGuinness.

All The Living And The Dead

Mar 31 2024 60 mins  
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Cult Trip

Mar 31 2024 61 mins  
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Black Joy

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Mar 04 2024 60 mins  
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