Narratives has just returned from a fantastic weekend in beautiful Bellingen which was brimming over with authors and readers at their annual Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival.

I will posting some of the many great reads and interviews here over the next few weeks .

Here are just some of the authors coming up:

Jessie Cole -Staying  ;    Catherine McKinnon – Storyland

Fiona McArthur– Mothers Day ;  Kate Cole-Adams– Anaesthesia

J.D Donellan – Killing Adonis ; Tim Cadman– The Changes

Stuart Coupe – Roadies ; Amal Awad – Beyond the Veiled Cliche

Kim Hodges – Girl Over the Edge ; Claire Aman – Bird Country

Alicia Tuckerman – If I Tell You ; Sulari Gentill – Crossing the Lines

Lisa Milner – Swimming Against the  Tide ;

Annie Seaton – Whitsunday Dawn

PLUS: We catch up with Jenevieve Chang – author of ‘The Good Girl of Chinatown’ to learn how things have progressed since we spoke to her last year at the Sydney writers Festival and we have a special interview with the 2018  Artistic Director of the Melbourne writers Festival Marieke Hardy, where she reveals her taste in winter sheets and what special changes she will be bringing to the Melbourne festival this year!

Jessie Cole will also be appearing at the Byron writers Festival in August , so here is Jessie reading from and talking about her latest book ‘Staying’

    

‘Staying’  read by author Jessie Cole

 

Jessie Cole talks about writing ‘Staying’

 

Lots more authors reads and interviews plus the return of our beautifully produced podcasts coming up in the next few weeks.

And we will be at the Byron writers Festival so stay tuned!

And on a lighter note- here is Megan Jennaway reading from her short story ‘The Real Indian Hospitality’, one of the  stories in ‘Crazy Sh.t in Asia. edited by Matt Towner.

  

Megan Jennaway -‘The Real Indian Hospitality’

 

Megan Jennaway Interview

 

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