A passionate weekend dedication to the written word will be observed by the less quiet 9th August, 2013. Drawing together names of reverence, influence and consequence from the hallowed fields of songwriting, poetry, fiction and fact, to screen writing and culinary review, the fest also doffs its hat to the exulted few from the world of politics and its dedicated wordsmiths.
Opening with the irrepressible Hon Malcolm Fraser and James Button; the fest will congregate around the shared ideas of writers and thinkers including novelists Andrea Goldsmith, Shane Maloney, Alice Pung, Monica Dux and Stephen Carroll; songwriters David Bridie and Shane Howard, and food and wine peddlers Richard Cornish and Max Allen.
Writers will discuss things real and imagined toying with topics:
· The real me: are we more honest when we write?
· Believe it or not – what we can’t explain but try to; and
· Was Yeats right when he wrote the worst are full of passionate intensity, while the best lack all conviction?
Graeme Simsion and Jo Case discuss the fearsome brain. Christopher Lee, Gus Howard and Tony Wilson, the transformers of TV and screen, will tell us how their words work. And Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre will bring along comedian and writer Denise Scott. More writers and artists will be confirmed in the coming weeks.
To find out more about the Bendigo Writers Festival, click here.
