Talks for festivals, libraries and rooms that smell of old paper.
Every session is shaped around the room, with time afterwards for questions about the actual writing, not just the story. Four topics, three formats.
Place and Memory
A conversation about writing landscape as more than scenery — the towns, coastlines and rooms that hold a story’s memory for it. Works well alongside other novelists on the same panel.
Writing the Coast
A hands-on session for writers working with place: how to let weather, tide and geography carry as much of the story as the people do.
On Staying
A shorter session built around the question at the centre of her novels: what it costs to be the one who doesn’t leave. Works as a solo slot or a shared stage.
Questions from the Room
An open session for book clubs and library reading groups — as much about the writing process as the finished novels.
Festival panel, recorded live
A short clip from a recent panel on place and memory, recorded at a festival session. The full recording is available on request for programme committees.
45–60 minutes
Festival main stage or library event space, alongside other guests or solo. Time for audience questions built in.
Half day
Writing the Coast — a small-group session on landscape, weather and place as narrative device, for festival programmes and writers’ centres.
30–45 minutes
A livestreamed conversation for book clubs, library networks and festivals reaching readers who can’t attend in person.
The Aldermoor Review — festival panel(fictional)Kestrel FM Arts — recorded conversation(fictional)Brightwater Readers’ Festival — headline panel(fictional)The Quill & Lamp Weekly — profile and reading(fictional)Halvard Speakers Forum — writers’ panel(fictional)Northgate Book Hour — in conversation(fictional)
“She read the festival programme before writing a word of her introduction — nothing about the session felt generic.”
Festival programmer (fictional)
“Easiest guest we booked all year — turned up early, stayed for every question, and signed until the room was empty.”
Library events coordinator (fictional)
Booking, briefly
Fees by festival and library budget, with occasional pro-bono sessions for schools and community libraries. Travel from Tasmania’s east coast.