True to our mission of bringing quality writers to a regional area, we are delighted to share that CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS will be coming
to Mildura in July for our twenty-fifth festival.
Most recently awarded the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction for his novel Damascus, Christos continues to shine as a literary risk-taker and sublime story-teller with novels that include Loaded, The Slap, Dead Europe, Barracuda and a body of cultural and political non-fiction that has provided an often unsettling, yet insightful portrait of Australian society.
His latest novel is an ambitious immersion in the events surrounding the birth and establishment of the Christian church. Based around the gospels and letters of St Paul, and focusing on characters one and two generations after the death of Christ, as well as Paul himself, Damascus asks the contemporary and urgent questions that have always obsessed this writer about class, love, family, exile and sacrifice.
We can’t wait to hear more from Christos who Peter Craven describes as a ‘serious literary writer who is also unputdownable,
a mesmerising master of how to tell a story. He has this ability more than any other writer in the country.’
Join us from 16 - 19 July this year for the Mildura Writers Festival in our Mallee town by the Murray river, where the sun shines brightly and the skies are nearly always blue. Early bird packages available in May.
to Mildura in July for our twenty-fifth festival.
Most recently awarded the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction for his novel Damascus, Christos continues to shine as a literary risk-taker and sublime story-teller with novels that include Loaded, The Slap, Dead Europe, Barracuda and a body of cultural and political non-fiction that has provided an often unsettling, yet insightful portrait of Australian society.
His latest novel is an ambitious immersion in the events surrounding the birth and establishment of the Christian church. Based around the gospels and letters of St Paul, and focusing on characters one and two generations after the death of Christ, as well as Paul himself, Damascus asks the contemporary and urgent questions that have always obsessed this writer about class, love, family, exile and sacrifice.
We can’t wait to hear more from Christos who Peter Craven describes as a ‘serious literary writer who is also unputdownable,
a mesmerising master of how to tell a story. He has this ability more than any other writer in the country.’
Join us from 16 - 19 July this year for the Mildura Writers Festival in our Mallee town by the Murray river, where the sun shines brightly and the skies are nearly always blue. Early bird packages available in May.
Full list of 2020 writers to be announced soon.
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Helen Garner
Helen Garner was born in Geelong in 1942. She worked as a high school teacher and freelance journalist, then published her first novel, Monkey Grip, in 1977. She has published novels and short story collections including The Children’s Bach, Postcards from Surfers, and The Spare Room. In recent years her interest in courts and the law has inspired the non-fiction books Joe Cinque’s Consolation and This House of Grief. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 an international Windham Campbell Award for her body of non-fiction work. |
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Barry Hill
Barry Hill has won Premier’s Awards for poetry, non-fiction and the essay. His most recent book is the Reason and Lovelessness; Essays, Encounters, Reviews 1980–2017, which derives from his major works, including Broken Song (his biography of the anthropologist TGH Strehlow), and Peacemongers (about the history of bombing and the peace-making life of Rabindranath Tagore). His poetic works include major studies of William Buckley, ’the wild white man’, and the celebrated English painter, Lucian Freud, which was shortlisted for the UK’s Forward Prize. His short fiction has been widely anthologised. His selected poems, Eagerly We Burn, has recently been released by Shearsman Books in the UK. He lives in Queenscliff with his wife, the singer-songwriter. 
Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar is a writer and journalist. He was born in Ara, India and grew up in the nearby town of Patna, famous for its corruption, crushing poverty, and delicious mangoes. Kumar is the author of several books of nonfiction and two novels. His prize-winning book A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb (2010) was described by The New York Times as a “perceptive and soulful meditation on the global war on terror and its cultural and human repercussions.” His latest book, Immigrant, Montana: A Novel (2018) was named one of the books of the year by The New Yorker and included in the list of notable books of the year by The New York Times. Kumar lives in Poughkeepsie, in upstate New York, where he is Helen D. Lockwood Professor of English at Vassar College. Professor Kumar has been honoured with residencies at Yaddo, the Norman Mailer Center, and Bellagio; he has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a Ford Fellowship in Literature from United States Artists. |
Paul Kane
Paul Kane is a poet, critic, and scholar. He has published seven collections of poems and a dozen other books, most recently Welcome Light (2016) Renga: 100 Poems (with John Kinsella, 2017), and A Passing Bell: Ghazals for Tina (2018). His work appears in the US, Australia, and the UK, and has been translated into French, Italian and Chinese. He has received several awards, including a Fulbright, Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships, as well as an honorary doctorate from La Trobe University. He is poetry editor for Antipodes, artistic director for the Mildura Writers Festival, and general editor of The Braziller Series of Australian Poets. He teaches at Vassar College, and divides his time between homes in Warwick, NY, and rural Victoria. 
Bella Li
Bella Li is the author of Argosy (Vagabond Press, 2017), which won the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry and the 2018 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Poetry. Her second book, Lost Lake (Vagabond Press, 2018) was shortlisted for the 2018 QLD Literary Award for Poetry. Her writing and artwork has been published in various journals and anthologies, including Best Australian Poems, ABR, Overland, Meanjin, Rabbit, NGV Magazine, The Kenyon Review, Archives of American Art Journal, and Western Humanities Review. (Image credit: Leah Jing McIntosh) |
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A selection of guest writers since 1994
Robert Adamson Louise Allen Chris Andrews Emilie Zoey Baker Benjamin Barney, USA Judith Beveridge Tony Birch Carmel Bird Pamela Bone Judith Brett Michelle Cahill Paul Carter Gary Catalano Eileen Chong Inga Clendinnen JM Coetzee (Noble Prize & Man Booker) Alfredo Conde Kerry Conway Alison Croggon Sophie Cunningham Robyn Davidson Luke Davies Bruce Dawe Sarah Day Richard Denniss Robert Dessaix Joe Dolce Will Eaves Stephen Edgar Bob Ellis Tracy Farr Morag Fraser Alan Frost Raimond Gaita Helen Garner Andrea Goldsmith Anna Goldsworthy Kerryn Goldsworthy Peter Goldsworthy |
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