Sunshine Coast Hinterland Writers Festival

Through the Lens - Intimate glimpses of art, identity and creative risk

Location: Maleny and Hinterland Real Estate Marquee

Time: 10:30 - 11:30 am

See Emily Lighezzolo (Life Drawing) in conversation with Claire Thomas, Karen Farrell and Victoria Hall about novels that explore how art impacts our identities and self expression.

About Life Drawing

Maisie and Charlie meet at a life-drawing session as undergraduates: she’s the model, he’s an artist. Their immediate connection carries them across two decades as they navigate the slippery dynamics of friendship, estrangement and family.

Maisie’s story is every woman’s, and Emily Lighezzolo’s bold debut interrogates the collision of art and gaze, desire and consent, muse and meaning. This is a love story. At its core: a woman’s body – seen, touched, loved, hated, commodified and reclaimed. Life Drawing is an award-winning and unflinching novel for our times.

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Out of the Shadows - tales of conflict, courage and consequences

Location: Maleny and Hinterland Real Estate Marquee

Time: 12:30 - 1:30 pm

See Ian Kemish (Two Islands) in conversation with Grantlee Kieza, Camille Booker and Claire Booth about stories that emerge from times of conflict.

About Two Islands

When a desperate young man arrives on an isolated Scottish isle, the locals view him with suspicion. But Niko is there for a reason – he’s running for his life, pursued by those who want him silenced for what he has seen in the Balkan War. His neighbour is a recluse known to the villagers as ‘Slow Fergus’. As the two men circle each other, Australian war crimes investigator Anita Costello races against sinister forces to locate her key witness.

Against this rugged landscape, where the tight-knit island community holds painful memories close, Niko must weigh his loyalties to his family, his country and himself.

Written with compassion and insight, Two Islands explores how the ripples of distant conflicts can wash up on the most remote shores.

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Kid - a Small Goat on a Big Adventure

Location: Story Stars Shed

Time: 12:30 - 2:00 pm

Join Peter Carnavas to celebrate the launch of Kid, a novel about a small goat’s journey up a mountain to find his family. In this workshop you will draw farm animals, learn some weird and wonderful facts about goats, and best of all, have the opportunity to pat some real animals in the petting zoo. Suitable for children, families, anyone!

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