We Come with This Place. Debra Dank’s award-winning memoir is a powerful tribute to her beloved Gudanji Country and its people. It reaches deep into the living...

Rising to the Challenge. Stina Contantine shared her harrowing story of facing threats of deportation from a community in which she was deeply connected and re...

Summer reading with Mum’s the Word. Our Mums the Word panel discussed themes of love, loss, beauty and grief, centred around family secrets. An insightful conv...

WAM Poetry Slam at Hyphen. This year’s poets were slam-ready at our cross-border Poetry slam, hosted by slam poet Megan J Riedl. Her free pre-slam ‘Wordshop’ h...

Interesting and thought provoking. Our workshops gave attendees the opportunity to learn, be inspired and refine their craft. The Deep Immersion workshop wi...

An honouring of cultural importance and powerful. In a standout session and audience highlight, Debra Dank delved into her multi-award-winning book, We Come Wi...

Find your Creative Flow. This year’s festival saw Living Breathing Poetry with Joel McKerrow. Whether writing poetry, prose, lyrics or letters, Joel’s workshop...

Heroines vs hurdles. Creative Writing and Performative workshop. Through the power of story, Milly cooper invites the women and gender fluid people to offer u...