Margaret River
Readers & Writers Festival

Arts Margaret River is pleased to announce it has signed a three-year agreement with Country Arts WA to help strengthen its annual Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival. Country Arts WA will provide $25,000 per year, for three years to assist the annual Readers & Writers Festival from 2018-2020. This will be used to help […]

Rusty Young, author of the international bestselling book Marching Powder, is set to visit Margaret River to talk about his latest book Colombiano as an out-of-season fundraising event for the Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival, to be held at the Cultural Centre on Wednesday 9 August at 6.30pm. When law-graduate Rusty Young was backpacking […]

The 2017 Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival has wrapped up after an overwhelmingly popular response to its inspiring program aimed at bringing stories to life. The 9th annual festival started spectacularly with writer and social commentator Jane Caro as MC for an evening of entertainment on Friday night. Headline international author Michael Palin drew […]

As Margaret River gears up for its 9th annual Readers and Writers Festival local school students are being entertained and inspired by six authors as part of the Margaret River Young Readers & Writers Festival being held from 22 May – 02 June 2017. Over 3,500 school children are expected to participate in author talks […]