Margaret River
Readers & Writers Festival

An Interview with Tiffany Hastie – Winner of the South West Prize in the 2018 Margaret River Short Story Competition Your story ‘The Chopping Block’ won the South West Prize in the MR Short Story competition. How did you approach the story from conception through to completion? Were there certain challenges in its execution? A […]

Join celebrated international writers Geraldine Brooks and Assaf Gavron, together with Avner Gvaryahu, Executive Director of Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence – as they provide a deeper understanding of the conflict in a special Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival event.

Entry to the Visual Stories Art Competition Exhibition is now open. This year’s festival theme is ‘Stories that shape us’ and artists are asked to respond to the theme with a 3D artwork in the form of a ‘Story Pole’. Entries will be exhibited at the festival hub in Voyager Estate’s Gardens from 21 May to 3 June. Entries close 10 May.

Join former Greens Leader Christine Milne as she talks about her book An Activist Life A Readers & Writers Festival Fundraiser In this fascinating memoir, Christine Milne reveals what it means to be a woman in Australian politics, chronicles the fight to save the planet and offers an empowering vision for the future. “A woman, […]