17-26 October 2025

QLF 2025 PROGRAM LAUNCH WITH HANNAH KENT


Join us at Queenscliff Town Hall on Thurs 11 September for our 2025 program launch featuring award-winning Australian author Hannah Kent in conversation with Hannie Rayson.

This outstanding literary event will be your first chance to get your hands on a 2025 program and book to see the stellar lineup of authors at QLF's eleventh annual festival (17–26 October 2025).

Hailed by Geraldine Brooks for her 'deep and lovely grasp of language and story', Hannah Kent is the bestselling author of Burial Rites, which was translated into 30 languages, and the acclaimed novels The Good People and Devotion

Her latest book is a memoir, Always Home, Always Homesick, about her relationship with Iceland: that land of ethereal beauty where Kent discovered the story that would form the basis of Burial Rites — and, in doing so, change her life and capture the hearts of readers right across the globe.

QLF is thrilled to have Hannah Kent join us at our program launch, where she will be in conversation about her writing life and remarkable career with multi-award-winning playwright Hannie Rayson.

Get your tickets here.

The QLF cashless bar will be open from 5.30pm. 
Come join us from 5.30, grab a program, buy a drink, and have a catch-up before the 6.30pm start.


QLF is looking for a Secretary

We're on the lookout for a Secretary to join our hardworking, highly effective and very fun QLF Committee.

If you're a good communicator who likes teamwork and has strong administrative and organisational skills, we'd love to hear from you!

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The Queenscliffe Literary Festival is held in the last two weekends of October. It is a celebration of Australian writers, books and ideas featuring some of our finest authors and thinkers in a program of events designed to stimulate and entertain.

Our leisurely paced schedule has been carefully curated to give you the space and time to think as you enjoy this beautiful part of the world. We look forward to seeing you in October.

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