Brian in Byron (say that 5 times really fast).

June 7th, 2010

Byron bay Writer's festivalThe program for the 2010 Byron Bay Writer’s Festival has just been released. It’s such a great program this year (and not just because I’m in it!). Amongst those literary luminaries appearing at this year’s festival (as well as poets, historians, journalists, novelists, playwrights, bloggers, song writers and biographers) are Fatima Bhutto (granddaughter of former Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and niece of Benazir Bhutto), Bret Easton Ellis (author of cult classic American Psycho), Kathy Lette (of Puberty Blues fame), John Doyle (of Roy and H.G. fame), Tony Martin (of The D-Generation and The Late Show fame), Alex Miller (with just a couple of The Miles Franklin Literary Awards to his name), Reg Mombassa (artist and mental as anything – that’s the band he was in not his mental state), Matthew Reilly (of making bucketloads of money by writing about hovercars fame), Mark Skaife (of driving noisy cars fame) and Adam Ramanauskas (um, he played for Essendon the poor thing).

I’ll be doing a bunch of panels and a ‘travel writing workshop’. The full schedule of events (the festival runs from August 2-8) is available here. I’m very excited about the festival because not only is it such a great festival, but it also means that I get out of Melbourne in the middle of winter!

Here are my events (full details on my events page here)

Travel writing workshop
Wednesday 4th August
Something to declare
$55/$45 (Concession)

On the road again: Tall travel tales
Saturday 7th August
Sam Cutler, AJ Mackinnon, Brian Thacker, Kim Trail
Chair: Irina Dunn

Book Reading
Sunday 8th August
Mohezin Tejani, Brian Thacker

You can’t pick ‘em, but you can pick ‘em clean: Families as fodder
Sunday 8th August
Tony Martin, Susan Maushart, Justin Kennedy, Brian Thacker
Chair: Irina Dunn

The muso, the cook, the couch surfer and the priestess: wide windows on the world
Sunday 8th August
Sam Cutler, Luke Nguyen, Brian Thacker, Maria van Daalen
Chair: Shamini Flint

So, hope to see you at the festival – and if you are already going, then I look forward to seeing you at ALL my sessions!

3 Responses to “Brian in Byron (say that 5 times really fast).”

  • On June 7th, 2010 Epiphanie said:

    That sounds great!

    Is the ‘Something to declare’ title inspired by the Oscar Wilde witticism?

    At the moment it looks like I’m going to extend my trip to Europe until late August, but if that falls through I’ll do everything I can to make it! :)

  • On June 25th, 2010 Adrian Carrick said:

    Hi brian

    I think I might come down (from BrisVegas) now i see that you’re ‘performing’ in byron.

    And I’m more tha willing to catch up for a beer after one of your gigs.

    Look forward to it!

    cheers
    Adrian C

  • On June 25th, 2010 Brian Thacker said:

    Hi Epiphanie

    I wouldn’t mind a trip to Europe with or without and extension!

    It wasn’t inspired by Mr Wilde, but I do like his quote ‘I have nothing to declare except my genius’, but not as much as I like his quote ‘Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.’

    See you there Adrian. I’m always up for any excuse for a beer! :)

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