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Calling early birds: First tickets to South Coast Readers and Writers Festival on sale

The South Coast Readers & Writers Festival returns to Thirroul Community Centre over the weekend of 5–6 July with a vibrant line-up of literary talent, from rising stars to international bestsellers.

With headlining authors Charlotte McConaghy (Wild Dark Shore), Isobelle Carmody (Comes the Night), Pip Williams (The Bookbinder of Jericho), Kate Forsyth (Psykhe), Nikki Gemmell (Wing), Nardi Simpson (the belburd), Omar Sakr (The Nightmare Sequence), Jessie Tu (The Honeyeater), and Amy Remeikis (What’s the Big Idea?), plus more guests to be announced.

Charlotte McConaghy, author of Wild Dark Shore

Join us for gripping conversations on cautionary tales from the past and speculative futures, the reclamation of lost histories and endangered languages, climate grief and current affairs, new mythologies, explorations of womanhood, and the business of publishing itself.

Super early bird tickets on sale now: southcoastwriters.org/festival