BATHURST’S book-lovers will get the best of both worlds when the Sydney Writers’ Festival is held next month.
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Not only will they be able to see many of the top festival events, and participate in the sessions by submitting questions, they won’t have to leave Bathurst to do it.
That’s because the Sydney Writers’ Festival Live and Local program will be returning to Bathurst in 2017 from Friday, May 26 to Sunday, May 28.
As part of the Bathurst Writers’ and Readers’ Festival, many of the top festival events will be live-streamed and available for viewing in the Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre throughout the weekend.
Audiences will be able to submit questions to the guest authors in Sydney via a live feed.
This year’s festival is tied together by the theme of “refuge”.
With Bathurst as one of 30 community partners on board to deliver highlights from the 2017 program, the Sydney Writers’ Festival says it is proud to be able to reach audiences from every state and territory across Australia.
Some of the festival events that will be live-streamed to Bathurst over the three days will include ABC personalities Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales talking about their reading year and best-selling children’s author Andy Griffiths talking about his work.
Griffiths has written more than 30 books, including The Day My Bum Went Psycho, The Bad Book and the Treehouse series (which has a new instalment due later this year).
Another session that is sure to draw interest will be writer and feminist Clementine Ford in conversation with Jane Caro.
Ford’s Fight Like A Girl, which was released in 2016, was a national bestseller and has prompted plenty of discussion and debate about the state of modern feminism.
The festival’s artistic director, Michaela McGuire, a journalist, author, programmer and curator, joined the festival in December 2016.
Prior to taking up the appointment, she was director and co-CEO of Melbourne’s Emerging Writers’ Festival, and in 2016 delivered the organisation’s largest and most successful festival to date.
She is the author of Last Bets: A true story of gambling, morality and the law, A Story of Grief and Apply Within: Stories of career sabotage.
She has worked as a regular columnist for Q Weekend, The Saturday Age and The Monthly, where she wrote a weekly blog on politics and current affairs throughout 2013 and 2014, and regularly reviews books for Fairfax.
The Bathurst Writers' and Readers' Festival will include a poetry slam, writing workshops and The Great Festival Read - Bathurst's own Big Book Club.