Four weeks ago I posted on another session from the Yarra Valley Writers Festival's New Release Sundays, the one with Robert Dessaix talking about his book about growing older, The time of our lives. In that post, I mentioned that Dessaix had presented a couple of radio programs on ABC RN, including Books and writing. … Continue reading Yarra Valley Writers Festival 2020 (Online): New Release Sundays: Ramona Koval
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Yarra Valley Writers Festival 2020 (Online): New Release Sundays: Robert Dessaix
Back in May, I attended several sessions of the Yarra Valley Writers Festival (YVWF), a COVID-19 bonus, as most of you know. The Festival also runs two regular events, a weekly New Release Sundays and a monthly Bookclub. I haven't managed to attend any, until today, which involved Festival Ambassador Michael Veitch speaking with Australian … Continue reading Yarra Valley Writers Festival 2020 (Online): New Release Sundays: Robert Dessaix
Yarra Valley Writers Festival 2020 (Online): Place, Family and the Weekend
I have now written three posts on last weekend's Yarra Valley Writers Festival (which you can find on this linked tag). Lisa (ANZLitLovers) also wrote up several sessions. Given Lisa has also covered the last three sessions I have yet to cover, I will, as I did in my last post, try to focus on a … Continue reading Yarra Valley Writers Festival 2020 (Online): Place, Family and the Weekend
Yarra Valley Writers Festival 2020 (Online): Fire, Climate and the Natural World
What I hate about writers festivals is that I end up wanting to read every book discussed. But this is impossible, so my next best option is to give the writers a little heads up, at least. I have written posts on two sessions from last weekend's Yarra Valley Writers Festival (see this linked tag). Lisa … Continue reading Yarra Valley Writers Festival 2020 (Online): Fire, Climate and the Natural World
Yarra Valley Writers Festival 2020 (online): If I tell you I’m going to have to kill you (Crime panel)
This is my second report of the sessions I attended of the first Yarra Valley Literary Festival. I hope to write up more, but you can also check Lisa's blog for her posts. She did not, however, attend Christos Tsiolkas - see my post - nor this crime panel. Like Lisa, I really read crime, but … Continue reading Yarra Valley Writers Festival 2020 (online): If I tell you I’m going to have to kill you (Crime panel)
Yarra Valley Writers Festival 2020 (online): Road to Damascus (Christos Tsiolkas with Angela Savage)
Today I attended several sessions of the first Yarra Valley Literary Festival, which the organisers turned around and converted to an online event with the arrival in our lives of COVID-19. I plan to write up a couple more sessions over the next week, when time permits, but you can also check Lisa's blog for her … Continue reading Yarra Valley Writers Festival 2020 (online): Road to Damascus (Christos Tsiolkas with Angela Savage)
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