Storyfest Festival Guide 2020

AUTHORS

Stephen Michael King STEPHEN MICHAEL KING

Will Kostakis WILL KOSTAKIS

Session 123 Wednesday 18 at 10.15am Session 211 Thursday 19 at 9.15am Session 233 Thursday 19 at 11.15am Session 331 Friday 20 at 11.15am

Session 135 Wednesday 18 at 11.15am Session 155 Wednesday 18 at 1.45pm Session 236 Thursday 19 at 11.15am Session 324 Friday 20 at 10.15am Session 342 Friday 20 at 12.45pm

Personally, Will Kostakis is ready to catch a ball two seconds after its hit him in the face. Professionally, he’s thankful he’s chosen a career that requires little (if any) coordination. After dabbling in celebrity journalism and reality TV, he now writes for young adults. His first novel, Loathing Lola, was released when he was just nineteen, and his second, The First Third , won the 2014 Gold Inky Award. It was also shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year and Prime Minister’s Literary awards.

Stephen Michael King is an internationally renowned, award-winning author and illustrator whose career has spanned over thirty years, producing more that one hundred titles. Books that Stephen Michael King has written and illustrated include: Three; Mutt Dog!; Leaf; and Milli, Jack and the Dancing Cat. His books have been translated into over twenty languages, and he is frequently honoured in children’s book award categories – including winning the CBCA Book of the year, and the Prime Ministers Literary Award.

www.willkostakis.com

www.stephenmichaelking.com

Remy Lai REMY LAI Session 112 Wednesday 18 at 9.15am Session 212 Thursday 19 at 9.15am Session 233 Thursday 19 at 11.15am Young Writers’ Dinner Thursday 19 at 5.30pm Session 322 Friday 20 at 10.15am

Sally MacKinnon SALLY MACKINNON

Life Lessons from the Ocean Saturday 14 at 8.30am

Remy Lai studied fine arts, with a major in painting and drawing. She was born in Indonesia, grew up in Singapore, and currently lives in Brisbane, Australia where she writes and draws stories for kids, with her two dogs by her side. Pie in the Sky is her debut middle-grade novel.

Sally MacKinnon was a long-time professional environmental educator and volunteer community organiser with a PhD in Adult Education before becoming a fitness, yoga and surf instructor in 2013 at the age of 50. Sally lives at Binna Burra in the mountains behind the Gold Coast and often wakes at 3.30am in order to write and meditate before surfing at dawn. She has published three books, two independently - Expanding Green Strategies: Creating change through negotiation (2009) , The dharma of surfing: wisdom from the water for life (2016) and Surfing as a dance: how one woman found grace in and out of the water (2018). www.thedharmaofsurfing.com

www.remylai.com

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