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Queenscliffe Literary Festival
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25.01.2022 I am normally a chaotic good, with aspirations for true neutral. I mean, I do own bookmarks, but theyre never where I need them. Im not sure how the lawful evils could even manage it--surely something would have to give.
25.01.2022 It was so sad we could not welcome Favel Parrett and Charlotte Wood to Queenscliffe for our 2020 QLF, but you can still listen to them in the Melbourne Writers Festival Digital program instead! See the program for details. http://ow.ly/iNSV50AIyfF
24.01.2022 Have a look at the Geelong Regional LIbrarys offerings. Excellent events!
24.01.2022 A little sneak peak into the 'Heavily Meditated' session with the wonderful Caitlin Cady, Sun 22 Nov, in conversation with Bolinda audio's Rebecca Herrmann. http://www.wordforwordfestival.com.au/se/heavily-meditated/ #W4W2020 #LifeChanging Hardie Grant Books
24.01.2022 Oooooh! I am following the Trace podcast on ABC Listen. Its a very interesting story and I will definitely be registering for this one.
23.01.2022 Hello from Festival HQ - looking forward to hearing all our incredible presenters today. You can still get tickets for today's sessions: www.wordforwordfestival....com.au/program/ All of yesterday's sessions are now up and available on-demand - you'll be able to watch them anytime from now until 31 Dec 2020. Just log in to your Festival account to access the recording. #w4w2020 #LifeChanging Geelong Regional Libraries Deakin University - Arts and Education City of Greater Geelong
21.01.2022 Week 20 of the QLF Book Club. Each week one of the books from the Truth or Dare program is reviewed by a committee member. This week is STORYTIME by Jane Sullivan Melbourne based author and literary critic takes us on an intimate walk down memory lane in Storytime, Growing up with Books. ... In this engaging set of essays Sullivan takes us from Wonderland to Narnia; Winnie-the-Pooh to the Magic Pudding. She is amazed at Enid Blyton and frightened by the Tales of Terror. There was only one book she truly hated Little Women. Why had she despised Jo March, a seemingly perfect role model for a young, aspiring writer? Interwoven with experiences from prominent Australian writers, including Melina Marchetta and Trent Dalton, about their favourite childhood stories, Storytime is a biblio-memoir that explores how the enchantment of books we read as children can shape the people we are today. In an interview for Better Reading Jane Sullivan says that Storytime was a journey of discovery for her and that despite all the pleasures of nostalgia, it also woke her to the fact that her childhood reading wasnt quite as she remembered, and she wasnt quite the girl she thought she was. She also discovered that for all the intellect and analysis that goes into books she reads today, the primary response is a deeply emotional one which goes back to the way she reacted to books as a child. That intense feeling is still there when she revisits those early reading experiences. If, like so many avid readers you measure the years through the books you read and sometimes long to disappear into a story the way you did when you were a child then you are going to love Storytime. ~ A QLF Committee member What do you think? Ventura Press #QLF2020 #QLFBookClub #BookClub
21.01.2022 Do you have little children at your place?
20.01.2022 The Ned Kelly Awards shortlist was released last week; you know what to do. Get yourself off to your local bookshop (or library) and see what the fuss is all about. https://www.austcrimewriters.com/shortlists-2020 The Bookshop at Queenscliff Geelong Regional Libraries
20.01.2022 The Canberra Writers Festival starts today. So many online options.
20.01.2022 Week 21 and the last week of the QLF Book Club. Each week a QLF committee member has given their review of one of the books from the 2020 Truth or Dare program. We couldnt present the program, but at least we can still discuss the books. We hope you were inspired by the reviews to read the book yourself. Remember to come back and share your thoughts. This week is Donna Wards SHE I DARE NOT NAME. The idea that to be single, and not by choice, is a failure is the query... at the heart of She I Dare Not Name. What if you always imagined that you would one day form a relationship, maybe have children, maybe not, and then grow old together? But then it doesnt pan out that way. Donna Ward grapples with her own expectations as well as those of the people around her. This is not a brittle sad exploration of her singleness, for Ward weaves in nuggets of earthly knowledge of the land of Australia, its formation and how that land shaped her family when they arrived in Western Australia. She tells us that this book is a meditation on the life that came of choosing the best happiness on offer which she grasps whenever she notices it coming her way. Aloneness, loneliness, or is it solitude? Family, friends, neighbours; can they be called upon when one is in need if one doesnt have a partner? Can a grown woman who is not partnered nor is a parent be socially visible? These themes swim through the text like the Swan River that Ward returns to again and again. Wards meditation asks us to consider whether solitude, once learnt, inoculates against the body ache of loneliness, endows an intimacy of one and a romance with the world. Her musings soar poetically and then dive into the fossil beds of the earth as her thoughts drift from the expectations of her girlhood to the reality of her life as an older unmarried childless woman. ~ A QLF Committee Member What do you think? Allen & Unwin Books #QLFBookClub #QLF2020
19.01.2022 Congratulations to the people at Word for Word National Non-Fiction Festival for pulling off an incredible online event. Well done.
18.01.2022 Do you love a bit of crime? The Sydney Crime Writers Festival is on 10-13 September with an online event at 10am and 6pm each day. Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival #LitFest
18.01.2022 Tomorrow we announce the #2020BookerPrize longlist. Who do you think will make the list? #FinestFiction #longlist
18.01.2022 This looks exciting!!! Tune in tomorrow on YouTube. "Our 45 minute celebratory event will go live on Youtube at 12.30pm. This fast-paced, highly visual celebration is designed to engage the nation in the value of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples first languages." Click the link for details http://ow.ly/enbF50BefVP @IndigenousLiteracyFoundation
17.01.2022 Psssst. Our friends at Basils Farm have a special discount price and free delivery.
16.01.2022 A masterful and deeply troubling expose, 'Witness' is the culmination of almost five years' work for award-winning investigative journalist Louise Milligan. Cha...rting the experiences of those who have the courage to come forward and face their abusers in high-profile child abuse and sexual assault cases, Milligan was profoundly shocked by what she found. Hear more about 'Witness' from Louise Milligan here. Milligan will be appearing in 'The Pell Toll' panel, alongside Melissa Davey, in conversation with Paul Kennedy this Sunday: http://ow.ly/tthv50CjxFn Hachette Books #W4W2020 #LifeChanging
16.01.2022 Do you know what can be fun? Being a tourist in your own area. Sometimes, we need to make some time to explore our local area. If it's too much of a stretch to pretend you're a tourist, try imagining where you'll take your post-covid visitors, and go there! https://www.visitvictoria.com/reg/geelong-and-the-bellarine... . . . . . . . #queenscliff #bellarinepeninsula #geelongtourism #pointlonsdale #LitFest See more
13.01.2022 " It would have been the week of our 2020 Brisbane Writers Festival, but things are a little different this year. From August 31 to September 6, we are bringing you our Room to Dream online series - a celebration of the Arts, led by literature. This is a week to celebrate the reasons why the Arts are so vitally important to our existence. It is a week to reflect, connect, and dream. The series highlights 14 incredible Australian artists from different disciplines in a celebr...ation of story, connection and collaboration. Artists spanning disciplines from dance to poetry and illustration to writing will interpret and respond to the Room to Dream themes of awe, wonder, love, reverence for nature, resilience and connection. In seven online events over seven days, two different artists will engage in a call and response collaboration, which will be presented on the BWF website. You can see the whole program line-up at the link below." Congratulations to the Brisbane Writers Festival for creating an online series in lieu of their IRL (in real life) festival.
13.01.2022 What do you think? Who have you read?
13.01.2022 " In the Festivals opening address, in podcast form, The Outset: Do Not Believe Too Quickly, acclaimed author Kate Grenville (A Room Made of Leaves) considers truth, fiction, and the stories that urgently need our attention. Online Saturday 8 August, from 8am AEST. "
12.01.2022 26 August at 7.30pm online. Word for Word National Non-Fiction Festivals preview event. Check the link for registration details.
12.01.2022 Wow. New look Whats On from the Geelong Regional Libraries.
11.01.2022 Week 19 of the QLF Book Club. Each Monday a committee member reviews one of the titles from our 2020 Truth or Dare program. Join the conversation in the comments. This week, Meg Mundells THE TRESPASSERS Meg Mundells The Trespassers covers several genres; it is a dystopian story following a near future pandemic, a murder mystery with serious political implications and a refugee voyage of intrigue and trepidation. It is narrated by three different characters on board the... large sailing ship (fuel is in very short supply) which leaves pandemic-afflicted Britain for a new life in Australia - a small deaf Irish boy, a Scottish nurse and an English teacher. Their varied perspectives and histories bring interest and suspense to the overall intriguing story. Having read this just before COVID19 hit the world it is now even more fascinating to think of Mundells prescience and insights into a world that has changed so rapidly in the last six months.She writes fluidly and grippingly in a whodunit style but also makes us aware of the wider political impacts that lurk in all our lives. Meg Mundells The Trespassers crosses genres - a dystopian near future after a pendemic in the UK, a murder mystery and a pacy story of a voyage of refugees. Three different characters - a deaf Irish child, a Scottish nurse and British school teacher - narrate the story from their varied perspectives. ~ A QLF Committee member What do you think? Meg Mundell - Writer University of Queensland Press #QLF2020 #QLFBookClub #TruthOrDare
11.01.2022 Another great innovation! The Melbourne Writers Festival writing workshops are running online during their digital festival. See the website for more details about how to book your tickets. http://ow.ly/XHHU50AIy0b
10.01.2022 How exciting is this? Geelongs very own Word for Word National Non-fiction Festival has show their new look for 2020. We cant wait to see who they have in store for us this year in their online program. http://ow.ly/6fZ250AONla
10.01.2022 The Word for Word National Non-Fiction Festival leaves no topic unturned
10.01.2022 Supporting your local The Bookshop at Queenscliff as they support our festival. Be there for them, buy their books, wave hello through the window as you go for your daily walk. <3
10.01.2022 Do you know whats bananas? Getting onto Google Maps or Google Earth and looking at your own neighbourhood. Its a lost opportunity! One of my kids has started a game where we open Google Earth, swizzle the curser around all over the world and then click somewhere random and start zooming in. Its amazing what we find. Right now, thanks to the pandemic, we have the opportunity to attend any Literary (Writers, Book...) Festival in Australia, no, IN THE WORLD, from the comfo...rt of our computer screens, and usually at no or very little cost. With nowhere else to go, what a wonderful way to make a date. The Edinburgh International Book Festival is running 15-31 August with 900+ events. Check out their website http://ow.ly/HM6F50AWY4b Then tell us in the comments who youre going to see. I happened to notice that Geelong author, Shokoofeh Azar will be appearing. I know, I know. The Melbourne Writers Festival also continues this week and so does the Canberra Writers Festival; tis the season. Were completely spoiled for choice. Enjoy. #QLF #LitFest
09.01.2022 Ooooooooh. Have you seen the Queensciffe Hub?
09.01.2022 The Wollongong Writers Festival has put together a program, themed "Writing the Body". This is going to be a good one! http://ow.ly/uZam50C5ISW . . .... . . . . . . #QLF2021 #LitFest See more
08.01.2022 We're off and running, with live streamed conversations and presenters dialling in from the US and around Australia, the sessions so far have been surprising, i...nspiring and thought provoking. You can still sign up for sessions later today: Becoming Older, 1.45pm Moonlite, 3pm US and Them: Australia's Relationship with America, 4.15pm Climate Crisis, 5.30pm Sir Peter Cosgrove in conversation, 7.30pm All tickets here: www.wordforwordfestival.com.au/program/ #w4w2020 #lifechanging Geelong Regional Libraries
07.01.2022 From our friends at Word for Word National Non-Fiction Festival This, and so much more, on the Word for Word program this weekend. We'll be sharing their program all week. Make sure you get in and make a booking. https://www.facebook.com/WordforWordFestival/posts/3527251994031144
07.01.2022 I noticed this article because the image is just. so. appealing. Have you benefitted from the interlibrary loan system? Was it from far away?
07.01.2022 Word for Word National Non-Fiction Festival is on later this month. Read all about it.
07.01.2022 Help is available for those who would like to borrow an audio book from the Geelong Library, but are not sure how.
07.01.2022 The Word for Word National Non-Fiction Festival is almost here! If you have any questions, check the comprehensive FAQs; for instance, did you know if you miss ...the live session you have until the end of the year to watch via On-Demand viewing? http://ow.ly/nhEx50Cnsl7 If you don’t have your ticket yet, jump onto wordforwordfestival.com.au and get one for just $10 today you can sign up for a live session on the day. See more
06.01.2022 With sights and colours like these, why wouldn't visitors want to come to the Borough of Queenscliffe? Beautiful walks and bike rides, every water activity you can think of, cafes, brewery, gateway to the Mornington Peninsula ... We look forward to welcoming everyone back. . . . .... . . . . . . . . But, not all at once, okay? ;) . . . #QLF #Queenscliff #PointLonsdale See more
06.01.2022 Who'd like to win a Festival Pass to this year's Word for Word National Non-Fiction Festival?
05.01.2022 Have you been following the Geelong Regional Libraries Whats On page? http://ow.ly/PkNu50B6RK5 They have so many brilliant events, online and free of charge.
05.01.2022 Lots of brilliance at the Melbourne Writers Festival. Digital!!
04.01.2022 But we already knew this, right?
03.01.2022 And now, for some good news. The Bookshop at Queenscliff If you are in Queenscliff, wed love to hear if you got "The Cheer Up Weekly". How big was the smile it brought to your face?
02.01.2022 The Trauma Cleaner author Sarah Krasnostein launches Jock Serongs latest novel The Burning Island, in next weeks very special online in-conversation event.... Set in colonial Australia, The Burning Island is an epic historical adventure, starring a reclusive, secretive man and his determined adult daughter, and the voyage of the Moonbird which becomes their mission. Irresistible prose, unforgettable characters and magnificent, epic storytelling: The Burning Island delivers! Register for your free ticket now: http://ow.ly/47GY50BbmjW Text Publishing
02.01.2022 More events that we can attend, without leaving our homes. http://ow.ly/pCcs50B6TE2
02.01.2022 Ordinarily, we would have been gathering with you next week in beautiful Byron Bay for three days of storytelling, conversation and ideas. But of course this ye...ars event has regrettably been postponed until next year. As a not-for-profit organisation, our ticketing income is essential to the success of future Festivals. If you were planning to come to Byron Writers Festival this year, we invite you to consider making a donation instead. Your gift will help us create a stand-out Festival in 2021, as well as supporting Australian writers and the arts in regional Australia. Please donate today via https://www.givenow.com.au/byronwritersfestival All donations over $2 are tax deductible.
01.01.2022 From our friends at @WordforWordFestival This, and so much more, on the Word for Word program this weekend. We'll be sharing their program all week. Make sure you get in and make a booking.
01.01.2022 Congratulations to Angela. A great friend to QLF.
