Nigel Brennan and Nicole Bonney, two authors of The Price of Life delivered an inspiring keynote address on Friday 9 September at 6pm. Nigel is a photojournalist who spent 462 days as a hostage in Somalia. His sister Nicole was the family's next of kin negotiator who helped to secure Nigel's release.
Festival Reading List for 2011
- "Book of the Festival" Violin Lessons Arnold Zable
- The Happiest Refugee
Anh Do
- The Price of Life Nigel Brennan, Nicole Bonney and Kellie Brennan
- The Entire Beast Chris Badenoch
- Puzzled David Astle
- Two Greeks John Charalambous
- Family Tree Time Megan Gibson
- Paris Dreaming Anita Heiss
- The Wreckage Michael Robotham
- The Danger Game Kalinda Ashton
- Things We Didn’t See Coming Steven Amsterdam
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About Us: Write around the Murray Festival
The Write around the Murray Festival is held in the vibrant regional city of Albury on the Murray River. There is no other exclusively literary based festival that operates in the region. Write around the Murray has grown considerably since its beginning in 2007.With its heart in regional Australia, the festival is an annual testament to the motivation of writers and artists in the area. It is also a chance for them to share, develop and create with their metropolitan counterparts.
The festival is above all a celebration of writing, illustrating and storytelling. Accessible to all, it is an opportunity for writers, readers, artists and storytellers of all genres to develop their skills. The range of activities includes a festival dinner, literary lunch, workshops, panel sessions and presentations, short story competitions and a wood fire oven event.
When is it? Festival organisers will announce the dates of Write around the Murray 2012 soon.
It's a wrap! Write around the Murray Festival is over for another year...
The Write around the Murray Festival has wrapped up after a wonderful 5 days celebrating writing, illustrating and storytelling. About 50 events took place over the festival and 3000 attendees participated. There were many highlights from the literary lunch with crossword guru David Astle, to the wood-fire oven and being served “the entire beast” by Masterchef finalist Chris Badenoch and the festival dinner with author, actor and comedian Anh Doh....
For more information and photos from the 2011 Write around the Murray Festival, head to the
events page of this website.
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For all the first-hand information on the Write around the Murray Festival, make sure you sign up to the e-newsletter on the left hand side of this page.
Prior to the festival you will receive regular newsletters about events. You will also be the first to know if we have any special events on offer - such as the chance we provided in 2011 to apply for the Creative Writing Masterclass with Arnold Zable, or to meet for a one-on-one Moment with a Mentor session with esteemed Literary Agent Jenny Darling, which both proved immensely popular.
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Write around the Murray Festival program 2011 (2011 KB)
