Please be aware that tickets are now available at the Queenscliff Tourist Information Centre.
Queenscliff Gallery Workshop
In collaboration with the Queenscliffe Literary Festival, the Queenscliff Gallery Workshop is showcasing The Australian Literary Print Exchange. A display of selected artist’s visual interpretations of the work of Australian authors, playwrights and poets,through printmaking. Special guest John Bell AO (Bell Shakespeare Company).
Limited numbers.
Queenscliff Town Hall
Opening Weekend Keynote Address and Q&A with John Bell AO and OBE, and Living National Treasure and Bell Shakespeare founder: My Life in Shakespeare.
Point Lonsdale Bowling Club
Opening Weekend Keynote Address with acclaimed author Robert Dessaix: A Writer’s Walk Around the World.
Point Lonsdale Board Riders
QLF / Deakin VCE Writing Prize, announcement by YA Author Mark Smith.
St Aloysius Catholic Primary School
Point Lonsdale Primary School
Queenscliff Neighbourhood House
Josephine Wilson (Extinctions), winner of the Miles Franklin 2017, an exploration of writing from beginning to end. This tour is presented in association with Writers Victoria through the Touring Victoria program which is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
Limited numbers.
Queenscliff Town Hall
Barabaig: Life, Love and Death on Tanzania’s Hanang Plains with author Charles Lane.
Queenscliff Town Hall
The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders. An exploration of libraries, a celebration of books and hallowed spaces past and present, with author Stuart Kells and Geelong Library CEO Patti Manolis.
Queenscliff Town Hall
Pompey Elliott at War: In His Own Words, explored in his letters by award-winning historian and biographer, Ross McMullin.
Queenscliff Town Hall
Miles Franklin award-winners Josephine Wilson (Extinctions, 2017) and Sofie Laguna (The Eye of the Sheep, 2015) in conversation with Associate Professor Maria Takolander. This tour is presented in association with Writers Victoria through the Touring Victoria program which is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
Tussock Upstairs Gallery, Point Lonsdale
Andrew Ford, composer and broadcaster, discusses his memoir with Professor David McCooey of Deakin University, and local musician Andrea Robertson.
New Hall, Point Lonsdale
Local artist, writer, and poet Sally Lewry launches her debut poetry collection Able in the presence of rocks, explores death, grief, birth, and life.
Queenscliff Uniting Church
Author and Professor of Strategic Studies at ANU, Hugh White, discusses his recent Quarterly Essay Without America: Australia in the New Asia.
Salt Contemporary Art Gallery, Queenscliff
Come to dinner and join a conversation about life, not death, between authors Ailsa Piper and Dr Leah Kaminsky, and acclaimed journalist Caroline Baum.
Limited numbers.
Queenscliff Neighbourhood House
Author Ailsa Piper uses the local Queenscliff environment for writing inspiration.
Limited numbers.
Queenscliff Primary School
Board Riders, Point Lonsdale
Ian Duckworth (The Rip), Greg Jones (Walk A Crooked Mile), and Col Moyle (Indebted), facilitated by local author Dorothy Johnston.
Queenscliff Town Hall
Crime writing with renowned journalist Michael Brissenden (The List) and author Sarah Bailey (The Dark Lake), in conversation with Angela Savage, Director of Writers Victoria.
Queenscliff Neighbourhood House
Gold Inky Book Award 2017 winner, author Cath Crowley (Words in Deep Blue) and editor Alison Arnold.
Limited numbers.
Queenscliff Uniting Church
The Queenscliff Scooter Race, with author / historian Clare Wright, in collaboration with Queenscliff Historical Museum.
Queenscliff Town Hall
Letters arising from an unlikely friendship with author Ailsa Piper and Monsignor Tony Doherty.
Queenscliff Town Hall
Acclaimed journalists Michael Brissenden and Hugh Riminton, in conversation with Damien Kingsbury, Professor of International Politics, Deakin University.
Queenscliff Town Hall
Two Steps Forward with authors Graeme Simsion (The Rosie Project) and Anne Buist (Medea’s Curse).
Point Lonsdale Bowling Club
Learn, taste, and indulge in chocolate with Miek Paulus of Ketbaker.
Limited numbers.
Queenscliff Library
Tell your story. The Queenscliff Library and the Borough of Queenscliffe invite people of all ages to write a short story on ‘Exploration’. Please submit stories to the Queenscliff Library between Tuesday 1 May and Saturday 19 May. A number of writers will be invited to read their stories in the library.
Queenscliff Town Hall
Native: Art and Design with Australian Plants with Kate Herd and Jela Ivankovic-Waters.
Queenscliff Town Hall
Book designer and illustrator Michelle Mackintosh and author / DJ Steve Wide discuss their pocket precinct guides of Kyoto and Tokyo.
Queenscliff Town Hall
Francophiles and writers Alexandra Carroll (Paris: An inspired wander through the City of Lights) and Jayne Tuttle share their passion for Paris.
Queenscliff Town Hall
Authors Alexandra Carroll (New York: an inspired wander through the Manhattan and Brooklyn boroughs) and 2017 Stella Prize winner Heather Rose (The Museum of Modern Love) explore New York City.
Queenscliff Town Hall
Finale – community, art, books, and the Archibald. Geelong Art Gallery Director Jason Smith announces the winner of the Borough of Queenscliffe primary school Portrait Prize.
Queenscliff Neighbourhood House
The Queenscliff Neighbourhood House presents an introduction to Creative Writing.
John Bell is one of the nation’s most illustrious theatre personalities. Award-winning actor, acclaimed director, risk-taking impresario, torch-bearing educationalist, and speaker on leadership.
One of Australia’s best-loved writers, Robert Dessaix is a former Russian scholar and presenter of a national book program on ABC radio.