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Signed books
When I went to the Brisbane Writers Festival at the beginning of September, I was only expecting to get my copy of Daughter of Smoke and Bone signed by the author, Laini Taylor. I was pretty excited, since I’d never had a book that had been signed specifically for me.
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EVENT: Street Reads (Saturday, 13 September 2014)
EVENT: Street Reads (Saturday, 13 September 2014)
From 3-16 September 2014, Brisbane City Council hosted the second annual Street Reads event. Street Reads is an interactive walking and reading experience inspired by Brisbane City.
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Express yourselfie!
This year, the Brisbane Writers Festival was running an Instagram competition to find the most creative Festival selfie. To enter, all you had to do was use the hashtag #bwf14selfie.
I remembered the competition on the Saturday of BWF and got to work. My theme was ‘gotta catch ‘em all’ so I was posing for selfies with authors and an old toy Pokéball.
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EVENT: Brisbane Writers Festival (Sunday, 7 September 2014)
EVENT: Brisbane Writers Festival (Sunday, 7 September 2014)
The last day of the Brisbane Writers Festival loomed and, bleary-eyed from being up at 4.30am to watch Doctor Who, I staggered along to my busiest day.
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EVENT: Brisbane Writers Festival (Saturday, 6 September 2014)
EVENT: Brisbane Writers Festival (Saturday, 6 September 2014)
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EVENT: Brisbane Writers Festival (Friday, 5 September 2014)
EVENT: Brisbane Writers Festival (Friday, 5 September 2014)
Last week, I was off to my first ever writers festival. Despite having its benefits spruiked to me at uni, I had never been able to attend before because of work commitments. This year, having graduated to a permanent part-time job and freelance work, I was free to do whatever I wanted. I looked at the program and, lo and behold, it was filled with some intriguing and exciting events featuring…
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"I went to a private school and I don't have good manners." Dr Andrew Phillips disputes that private schools 'just produce drug dealers with better manners.'
20 Questions at Brisbane Writers Festival 2014
If you had to choose, would you prefer non-fiction or fiction? Would you rather outlive your partner or be outlived? And which is worse: war or famine? Drowning at sea or indefinite detention?
Vote in our referendum of 20 divisive social questions, and then join Jennifer Byrne, Matthew Condon, Caroline Overington, Nick Earls and host Rebecca Levingston for an old-fashioned election party to analyse the results and celebrate democracy in action.
The analysis and party unfold from 7-9pm tonight at The Edge, SLQ. It's booked out, but – pro tip! – you can sneak in via the live video stream. (Or follow @BrisWritersFest on Twitter!)
Now ... vote!
Presented in partnership with The Wheeler Centre and McCullough Robertson
