Queenscliffe Literary Festival books an amazing start

TICKET sales for the Queenscliffe Literary Festival are off to an amazing start, with more than 200 sold following its launch last week.

A special event with Jane Caro talking about her new book Accidental Feminists was held at Point Lonsdale Bowling Club on March 4, and the event had been sold out for weeks.

The Queenscliffe Literary Festival’s exciting program for 2019 will run over three weekends in May, with events in Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale.

The program includes many highlights including Kerry O’Brien in conversation with Maxine McKew about his long-awaited memoir on May 11.

On the second weekend, Michael Veitch will perform his acclaimed one-man show, Hell Ship, and on Sunday May 26, Helen Garner and Richard Fidler will be in conversation with the Wheeler Centre’s Michael Williams.

Organisers are also delighted to welcome Sarah Ferguson, Michael Robotham, Toni Jordan, William McInnes, Heather Morris, Robyn Williams, Rosalie Ham, David Astle, Jamila Rizvi, George Megalogenis, Meshel Laurie and many more remarkable writers and thinkers.

With panels and conversations on literature, art, sport, crime fiction, parenthood, history, and seafaring cats, professional workshops and a special dinner celebrating the lives of Mirka and Georges Mora, audiences will find plenty to stimulate, inform and entertain them at the 2019 QLF.

The free program for Borough of Queenscliffe children features in-school sessions with Children’s Laureate Leigh Hobbs, author/illustrator Nicki Greenberg and local artist Liz McGrath.

The festival will once again award the Deakin Secondary School Writing Prize.

The QLF Committee is proud to stage the popular festival and to provide locals and visitors with the opportunity to hear and meet so many amazing writers and thinkers.

For more information, visit queenscliffeliteraryfestival.com.au.