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Friday 10, Saturday 11, Sunday 12 September
Parklands Resort & Conference Centre, Cassilis Road, Mudgee
Tom Keneally, Di Morrissey, Caroline Jones, Malla Nunn and many more
The Mudgee Readers’ Festival has been established to promote the joy of reading. We are a readers’ festival not a writer’s festival so you won’t find writing workshops or learn how to improve your writing skills. What you will find are some great authors with equally great stories.
The Mudgee Readers’ Festival will be held on 10 - 12 September 2010 and will feature a range of adult and children’s authors from all genres. Something for everyone.
The 2010 Festival will include literary lunches and dinners as well as concurrent presentations from authors. We are also planning a massive second hand book fair so you can give your book shelves a good Spring clean (and then restock of course!!). New books from featured authors will be available for sale on the day and authors will be signing their books after their presentations.
Great coffee, tea, drinks and homemade delicacies will be available at the venue so you don’t need to miss a minute of the Festival!
A full programme is outlined below.
Please note: September in Mudgee is also Wine Festival time and we encourage you to sample the local wines while enjoying a good book. There are plenty of exciting wine-related activities on in the region!
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This is the inaugural Mudgee Readers’ Festival and we have endeavoured to put together a programme that has ‘something for everyone’. Click here to download the full programme.
Friday:
630pm: Meet the Authors and Launch of Inaugural Mudgee Readers’ Festival. Enjoy finger food and a social drink with Di Morrissey, Caroline Jones, Wendy & Rebecca James, Charlotte Smith, Sherman Young and Tristan Bancks. The night will include a trivia contest with a fun literary twist.
Saturday:
All Day – Open to The Public – FREE events:
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Author book signings and sales in Parklands Resort Foyer. Book sales by Books in Mudgee and Mudgee Bookcase: Words and Music.
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2nd Hand Book Fair – come along and peruse the tables or clean out your shelves and book your own table to sell the lot! Tables only $10.00, everyone welcome.
Concurrent Sessions:
0930: Caroline Jones or Wendy James
1100: Panel – Is Page Turning A Thing of the Past or Malla Nunn or Charlotte Smith
1230: Literary Lunch with Di Morrissey
200pm: Tristan Bancks or Sherman Young or Charlotte Smith
330pm: Rebecca & Wendy James or Panel – My ‘Must Reads’
630pm: Dinner with Tom Keneally
Sunday: Books in the Park – Lawson Park – Free Event
1000: Public readings – come along and share your poetry or a book you have written (bookings required).
1130: Launch of The Book Trail
1145: Blessing of the Book and announcement of the winner of the Book Cover competition.
Click here to download the full programme.
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Tristan Bancks:
Tristan Bancks tells stories for the page and screen. He has a background as an actor and television presenter in Australia and the UK. His short films have won a number of awards and have screened widely in festivals and on TV. Tristan has written several books for kids and teens, including the explosive Mac Slater, Coolhunter series released in Australia and the US, and his illustrated series, Nit Boy, about everybody's favourite mini-beasts. Nit Boy is currently being developed for television. Tristan's Young Adult novel, It's Your Life was co-written via email between Byron Bay and L.A. with actress/author, Tempany Deckert. Tristan's drive is to tell inspiring, fast-moving stories for young people.
Tristan shares ideas on getting your kids fired up about reading. Tristan is excited about the possibilities for kids and reading in the digital age and sees a strong place for reading in the mix of web, video, games and social networking.
Sessions:
1100 – Panel: $10.00pp
200pm – Author Talk: $10.00pp
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Rebecca James:
Rebecca was born in Sydney in 1970. She spent her early twenties working as a waitress, her late twenties teaching English in Indonesia and Japan, and most of her thirties having babies and working as a kitchen designer. She has started several university degrees but has yet to place any letters after her name.
Despite her highly developed procrastination skills she has somehow managed to finish writing a book or two - and plans to spend her forties, fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties finishing several more.
She lives in Armidale with her partner and their four sons.
Rebecca James’ story has set the world on fire, with media coverage of the extraordinary rights sales for Beautiful Malice appearing in the Wall Street Journal and UK broadsheets as well as the Sydney Morning Herald (front page story), The Age and A Current Affair.
Sessions:
1100 – Panel: $10.00pp
330pm – Author Talk with Wendy James : $10.00pp
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Wendy James:
Wendy James is an author of novels and short stories. Her first novel, Out of the Silence won the Ned Kelly Award for first crime fiction and was shortlisted for the Nita May Dobbie Award for women’s writing. Her second novel was The Steele Diaries and she has published a successful collection of short stories - Why She Loves Him. Wendy grew up in western NSW and on the northern beaches of Sydney. She now lives with her husband and children in Armidale, NSW.
Wendy James’s third novel, Where Have You Been?, is an intriguing suburban suspense story, with a question of identity at its core.
Sessions:
0930 – Author Talk: $10.00pp
330pm – Author Talk with Rebecca James: $10.00pp
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Caroline Jones:
Caroline Jones is a writer and broadcaster who has worked at the ABC for more than 40 years. She was the first woman reporter on 'This Day Tonight' and the first woman to anchor 'Four Corners' (1972 – 1981) concurrently with broadcasting on Sydney morning radio.
For eight years, on ABC Radio National, Caroline presented 'The Search For Meaning' programs, in which hundreds of Australian men and women told of their lives. Four books were published by ABC books from transcripts of those programs and tapes of the conversations were widely distributed around Australia. Caroline’s fifth book became one of the 10 best-sellers of 1998. 'An Authentic Life – Finding Meaning And Spirituality In Everyday Life'.
In 2009 ABC Books published 'Thru A Glass Darkly, A Journey Of Love and Grief With My Father', (also on CD). The book was selected in the Books Alive campaign 2009 as ‘One of the 50 books you can’t put down’. All Caroline's books have been used as resources in secondary and tertiary education.
Sessions:
0930 – Author Talk: $10.00pp
330pm –Panel: $10.00pp
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Tom Keneally:
Thomas Keneally won the Booker Prize in 1982 with Schindler’s Ark, later made into the Academy Award-winning film Schindler’s List by Steven Spielberg. He has written ten works of non-fiction, including his recent memoir Searching for Schindler, and the histories The Commonwealth of Thieves, The Great Shame and American Scoundrel, and 28 works of fiction, including The Widow and Her Hero (shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award), An Angel in Australia and Bettany’s Book. His novels The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, Gossip From The Forest, and Confederates were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize, while Bring Larks and Heroes and Three Cheers For Paracletet won the Miles Franklin Award. The People’s Train was long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia division.
Sessions:
1100 – Panel: $10.00pp
630pm – Dinner: $55.00pp
With special thanks to Wilpinjong Coal Mine and Peabody for their support of Mudgee Readers’ Festival.
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Di Morrissey:
Di Morrissey is one of the most successful writers Australia has ever produced and with sixteen consecutive bestsellers to her name she shows no sign of slowing down. Her books have touched the hearts and emotions of readers around the world. She writes of landscape, relationships and the
influence of each on the environment. Di is known for her impeccable research and for imprinting a fictional narrative upon a factual background.
Di trained as a journalist with Australian Consolidated Press and became Women's Editor for The Daily Mail Group in London and worked as a creative copywriter for Ogilvy and Mather Advertising. She had her own television program in the United States on CBS and was a regular presenter on
Network 10 Australia. In addition to radio broadcasting, she has written for TV, film and theatre.
Di’s first novel, Heart of the Dreaming, was published in 1991. Di divides her time between Byron Bay and the Manning Valley in NSW.
Sessions:
1230 – Lunch: $45.00pp
330pm – Panel: $10.00pp
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Malla Nunn:
Malla graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in English and History – her twin passions. Next came a Master of Arts in Theatre Studies from Villanova University in Philadelphia. Two years of full-time writing and performing led Malla to New York City where she worked on film sets, wrote her first screenplay, nannied the children of the uber-rich
and met her American husband-to-be.
She returned to Australia and began writing and directing short films and corporate videos. Her films “Fade to White”, “Sweetbreeze” and “Servant of the Ancestors” have won numerous awards and have shown at international festivals
from Zanzibar to New York City.
Malla wrote her first novel A Beautiful Place to Die to explore the crippling social and political atmosphere that forced her parents to flee South Africa. A novel gave her time to get under the skin of a small South African town and expose the secrets that bind the characters together despite legally enforced race boundaries. Her main character, Detective Emmanuel Cooper, moves freely
across all race groups and in doing so introduces readers to a rich, complex and multi-racial South Africa.
Malla currently lives in Sydney with her husband and their two children. Her latest book is called Let The Dead Lie.
Sessions:
1100 – Author Session: $10.00pp
330pm – Panel: $10.00pp
With special thanks to Get Reading for enabling Malla to be part of the Mudgee Readers’ Festival.
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Charlotte Smith:
Charlotte Smith is the curator of the Darnell Collection, Australia′s largest private collection of vintage clothing and accessories, which she inherited from her American godmother, Doris Darnell. The boxes started arriving, with more than 3 000 treasures dating from 1790 to 1995, from originals by Dior, Chanel and Balenciaga to a pioneer woman's daintily mended best dress. But when Charlotte unearthed her godmother Doris's book of stories about the dresses and the women who wore them, the true value of what she had been bequeathed hit home.
Born in Hong Kong and raised in the United States, Charlotte has lived and worked in America, England and France but now lives in the Blue Mountains, Australia. She has a degree in Art History and lectures on the history of fashion.
Sessions:
1100 – Author Talk: $10.00pp
200pm – Author Talk: $10.00pp
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Sherman Young:
As well as Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Arts, Sherman Young is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, where he teaches new media theory and production. His research focus is on the cultural impact of the new media technologies. He is the author of The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book. In addition to chronicling the death of the (printed) book, his current projects include two forthcoming books: one on Media Convergence with Palgrave in the UK, and another on the Future of Music with Equinox, also in the UK.
Sherman will be bringing along samples of all the latest e-book technology – a show-and-tell session with a difference!
Sessions:
1100 – Panel: $10.00pp
200pm – Author Talk: $10.00pp
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Tickets
Prices:
Meet the Authors: $35.00pp Friday 10 September. Ticket includes finger food and first drink. Bookings close – Mon 6 September.
Di Morrissey Lunch: $45.00pp Saturday 11 September. Ticket includes main course and tea/coffee. Bookings close – Mon 6 September.
Tom Keneally Dinner: $55.00pp Saturday 11 September. Ticket includes 2-course dinner. Bookings close – Mon 6 September.
Author Sessions: $10.00. Each session approx. 1 hour duration. Available until sold out.
Panel Sessions: $10.00. Each session approx. 1 hour duration. Available until sold out.
Availability:
Phone: 02 6372 1020, 1800 816 304
In Person: Mudgee Visitor Centre, 84 Market Street, Mudgee
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