Storyfest Festival Guide 2022

Somerset Storyfest acknowledges the

3 Welcome

Traditional Custodians of the Yugambeh Language Region and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People of the Gold Coast. We pay our respect to all Elders past, present and emerging as they hold the memories, traditions, culture and hopes of our Indigenous people.

5 Festival Information

6 Meet the Authors

14 Programme - Authors’ Sessions Tuesday 15 to Thursday 17 March

17 Festival Map

18 Student Workshops

20 Extended Programme

21 Parents’ and Friends’ Prologue Party

22 Literary Lunch with Lech

Blaine supported by Dr Harald Puhalla (General Surgeon)

festival highlights

23 Literary Long Table Dinner with Pip Williams

24 Adult Sessions

AUTHOR SESSIONS Tuesday 15 to Thursday 17 March 2022 WORKSHOPS AND PANELS Interactive writing workshops and panel discussions for children and adults SPECIAL EVENTS Prologue Party, Literary Lunch and the Long Table Dinner EXTENDED PROGRAMME Free community events throughout the Gold Coast

25 Art Exhibit - Lucia Masciullo

26 Corporate Events

27 Storyfest Out West

contents. 28 Outback Pioneers 30 Annual Giving Day 33 Sponsors and Supporters

AUTHOR BOOK SIGNINGS In the Festival Bookshop