Storyfest Festival Guide 2020

AUTHORS

Georgia Norton Lodge GEORGIA NORTON LODGE

Robert Newton ROBERT NEWTON Session 125 Wednesday 18 at 10.15am Session 224 Thursday 19 at 10.15am

Session 121 Wednesday 18 at 10.15am Session 152 Wednesday 18 at 1.45pm Workshop Thursday 19 at 9.30am Session 244 Thursday 19 at 12.45pm Young Writers’ Dinner Thursday 19 at 5.30pm Session 341 Friday 20 at 12.45pm

Session 325 Friday 20 at 10.15am Session 353 Friday 20 at 1.45pm

Robert Newton works as a firefighter with the Metropolitan Fire Brigade. His first novel, My Name is Will Thompson , was published in 2001. Since then he has written seven other novels for young people, including Runner, The Black Dog Gang (shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards) and When We Were Two (winner of a Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction). He lives on the Mornington Peninsula with his wife and three daughters. His latest novel for young adults is Promise Me Happy .

By day, Georgia Norton Lodge leads her branding team at a Sydney-based design agency. By night, she moonlights as an illustrator with her side project Georgia Draws a House, where she delights people with deliveries of their hand- drawn homes. She’s also Zoë’s younger sister. The Elizabella series is their second book project together.

www.penguin.com.au/authors/robert-newton

www.georgiadrawsahouse.com

Session 122 Wednesday 18 at 10.15am Session 141 Wednesday 18 at 12.45pm Session 241 Thursday 19 at 12.45pm Young Writers’ Dinner Thursday 19 at 5.30pm Session 311 Friday 20 at 9.15am TC Shelley TC SHELLEY

Elliot Perlman ELLIOT PERLMAN

Session 336 Friday 20 at 11.45am Literary Dinner Friday 20 at 6.00pm

T.C. Shelley studied Creative Writing and Literature at university. She has been teaching English for over twenty years and her first school was classified as the most remote in Australia. She loves an audience and long before she took up teaching was writing and performing her poetry and short stories. She began writing novels to entertain her daughter, who wisely suggested that she try to get them published. The Monster Who Wasn’t is her first published novel. Her next book, The Werewolves Who Weren’t , will publish in August. Shelley lives with her husband, her daughter and two dogs in Perth.

Elliot Perlman has been described as one of the ‘50 most important writers in the world’, Lire (France), a ‘literary sensation’ (Deutschlandradio), with ‘traces of Dickens’s range and of George Elliot’s generous humanist spirit’ (New York Times). He is the author of The Street Sweeper, Seven Types of Ambiguity, The Reasons I Won’t Be Coming, Three Dollars , and a novel for children, The Adventures of Catvinkle . Maybe The Horse Will Talk is his latest novel.

www.penguin.com.au/authors/elliot-perlman

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