UQP authors at Brisbane Writers Festival 2023

Join UQP authors and poets Allison Rushby, Mirandi Riwoe, Samuel Watson, Shastra Deo, Nova Weetman, Samantha Wheeler, Ellen van Neerven, Sally Piper, Siang Lu, Matthew Condon, Rebecca Sparrow, Jackie Huggins, Rae White, Rhiannon Wilde, Janaka Malwatta, Nikki Mottram, James Kirby, Katharena Vermette, Kathryn Apel, Sarah Malik, Margaret Cook, Andrew Stafford, Alexis Wright are in this year's line up for the Brisbane Writers Festival.

Our authors will appear at the following events:

Wednesday 10 May

Alison Rushby - A story is like a jigsaw puzzle (Prep-Year 3) 1-2PM

Mirandi Riwoe - Irvine Welsh on The Long Knives 6-7PM

Samuel Watson- Lionel Fogarty on Harvest Lingo 6-7PM

Shastra Deo -Nuclear Fallout 7:30-8:30PM

Thursday 11 May

Nova Weetman - Teacher Professional Development Seminar 10-11AM

Samantha Wheeler - Teacher Professional Development Seminar 10-11AM

Shastra Deo - Dissident Voices: Poetry and Prose Salon 11:30AM-12:30PM | Admissions: Voices with Mental Health 2:30-3:30PM

Ellen van Neerven- Dissident Voices: Poetry and Prose Salon 11:30AM-12:30PM

Sally Piper - Secrets and Grief 2:30-3:30PM

Siang Lu - Funny About That 4-5PM | Literary Death Match 8:30-9:30PM

Samuel Watson - When the Cilentos met the Noonuccals 4-5PM

Friday 12 May

Nova Weetman - Storytelling from Television to Books (Years 7-8) 10-11AM | (Years 9-12) 1-2PM

Matthew Condon - The Best Kind of Beautiful Brisbane 10-11AM | Love and other Brisbane Catastrophes 1-2PM

Rebecca Sparrow - Emma Grey on the Last Love Note 2:30-3:30PM | Kylie Ladd: I'll Leave You With This 7-8PM

Iam Kemish - Australia's Place in the World 7-8PM

Mirandi Riwoe - Queensland Crime 7-8PM

Saturday 13 May

Rebecca Sparrow - Kate Morton on Homecoming 10-11AM | Meg Bignell: The Angry Women's Choir 2:30-3:30PM

Sally Piper - Sally Piper: Landscape Writing 10-11AM

Jackie Huggins - Brenda Matthews on the Last Daughter 1-2PM

Matthew Condon - DNA Disaster: The Judge and the Journalist 2:30-3:30PM | Whiskey Au Go Go 5:30-6:30PM

Rae White - Sexuality and Gender 2:30-3:30PM

Ellen van Neerven - Sexuality and Gender 2:30-3:30PM

Rhiannon Wilde - Writing Loss and Family 2-3PM

Nova Weetman - Writing Loss and Family 2-3PM

Samuel Watson - Greatest Hits and Other Bits: Literary Salon 4-5PM | Blakpoetry 5:30-6:30PM

Janaka Malwatta - Colonial Cringe 4-5PM

Nikki Mottram - Thrills and Chills 4-5PM

James Kirby - The Meaning of Life 5:30-6:30PM

Nick Earls - Of Things Past 7-8PM

Sunday 14 May

Janaka Malwatta - All I Have is a Voice Poetry Salon 10-11AM

Katharena Vermette - All I Have is a Voice Poetry Salon 10-11AM | Katharena Vermette on The Strangers 2:30-3:30PM

Kathryn Apel - Renee Tremi & Kat Apel: Let's Get Mooooving 10-11AM

Sarah Malik - Belonging and Race 11:30AM-12:30PM | Wherever You Go, There You Are 4-5PM

Rae White- Cut & Paste: Zines an Self-Publishing as an Artform 1-2PM

Margaret Cook - Brisbane Goes Wild 2:30-3:30PM

Andrew Stafford - Tony Wellington on Freak Out and Vinyl Dreams 4-5PM

Alexis Wright - Closing address by Alexis Wright 5:30-7PM