Byron Writers Festival's regional touring program, Writers on the Road, hits the road at the end of March 2020, for a series of free community events.
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Writers on the Road, the free Byron Writers Festival touring program, is taking the road less travelled this year with a crew of literary renegades.
Acclaimed authors and artists on-board include Indigenous illustrator Dub Leffler, writer and recovering teacher Gabbie Stroud, bestselling author Kayte Nunn and Jewish, queer, non-binary writer Nevo Zisin. They are not scared to ask the dangerous questions, or to answer them, for that matter.
This year the tour bus will stop in Bellingen, Harwood, Evans Head and Bonalbo before heading back to Byron Bay.
"Writers on the Road began in 2014 and so many of the conversations started then are as important today," tour manager Zacharey Jane said.
"And so much of that comes from the people we meet on the road: we love getting out into the region and hearing what readers have to say."
Writers on the Road takes award-winning Australian authors, illustrators and poets to regional towns in northern NSW for free school workshops and community events. It boasts alumni of renowned writers, including Kristina Olsson, Michael Robotham, Jock Serong and Omar Sakr, among many others.
"We are so grateful to Create NSW for continuing to fund this unique community program," Byron Writers Festival Director Edwina Johnson said.
"Over the years it has created valuable connections between our touring writers and communities all over the Northern Rivers."
So come and share your ideas about the world with some of our most creative thinkers.
Details are at https://byronwritersfestival.com/wotr/.
It's fine to turn up on the night, but best to call the venues to book:
Monday 30 March: Bellingen Library, Hyde Street, Bellingen, 5.30pm, phone 6655 1744.
