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[caption id="attachment_1441" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Tom Keneally at the Sydney Writers' Festival 2010"][/caption] Last night I sat next to Tom Keneally at our writers’ festival dinner. He’ll be appearing at a session at 6.00 pm tonight. I’ve been fortunate enough to tour with Tom almost every year for the past six or seven. It’s lucky he’s such a prolific writer, otherwise...
On Tuesday night there was the opening party of the festival. It was a wonderful event with a chance to meet new authors and catch up with colleagues in the publishing industry. I met one of the authors I’m looking after, Josh Neufeld on Tuesday night at the party. [caption id="attachment_1436" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Here’s a photo of Josh with me next to him and Alysha Farry on...
[caption id="attachment_1433" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Reza Aslan at the Sydney Writer's Festival"][/caption] The festival officially started yesterday evening with the opening address given by Reza Aslan, one of our authors who is discussing his latest book, No God But God. In it, Reza Aslan lays out a definition of the movement behind...
It’s the beginning of the Sydney Writers’ Festival and although it doesn’t officially open until tonight, we’re still incredibly busy. This year we have 20 or so authors appearing at the festival and there are only six publicists in the department to look after them. This may seem like a lot but in the past we’ve had up to 36 authors, so 20 is quite manageable!...
