3 April, 2025
THIRD AUTHOR REVEAL!
🤩 Four more thought-provoking guests to inspire 🤩
Guests 2025
It’s almost early bird time! In honour of our full program release at 4 pm on Thursday 10 April, we’re offering a 20% Early Bird Ticket Discount from 10 to 30 April.
This opportunity is not to be missed – with such a stellar lineup, sessions are sure to sell out fast.
James Bradley
James Bradley is a writer and critic, reviewing for publications such as Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian and Australian Book Review.
His latest novel, Landfall, is a thriller exploring the detrimental effects of climate change and his 2024 non-fiction Deep Water: The World in the Ocean is a hymn to the beauty, mystery and wonder of the ocean.
James is also the author of the novels Wrack, The Deep Field, The Resurrectionist, Clade and Ghost Species, and a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus.
Charlotte McConaghy
Charlotte McConaghy is the author of the New York Times, USA Today and Indie Bestseller Wild Dark Shore, as well as the New York Times Bestseller Once There Were Wolves, winner of the Indie Book Award for Fiction 2022 and the Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Novel 2022.
An international bestseller, Charlotte’s book Migrations was TIME Magazine’s Best Book of the Year and Amazon’s Best Fiction Book of the Year for 2020. It has been translated into more than 25 languages and is being adapted for film,
Jock Serong
Jock Serong is the author of seven award-winning novels, spanning Australian history, crime and thriller genres – novels that probe at deep ideas about who we are as Australians. Jock is also a screenwriter, the founding editor of Great Ocean Quarterly, and a features writer in media including Surfing World, The Guardian and The Monthly.
His most recent work is Cherrywood, a braiding of two stories about love and reinvention, set in Scotland and Melbourne.
Nardi Simpson
Nardi Simpson is a Yuwaalaraay storyteller from the NSW northwest freshwater plains and is a musician, composer, performer and novelist.
Nardi was a winner of the 2018 Black & Write! Fellowship and her first novel, Song of the Crocodile was published in 2020 with Hachette Australia. This went on to win the 2021 ASAL Gold Medal and be long listed for the 2021 Stella Prize and Miles Franklin Awards. Nardi’s second novel, the belburd, is a lyrical and masterfully woven novel about women, creation, belonging and the precious fragility of a life.
