23-26 June 2026
See you at the Waltzing Matilda Centre!
Book Launches: Gregory North “Rhyming Verse”, Jeff Close “Tales from Winton’s Past”, Fae le Friz “Four Dee Love of Bread”, Maura Luxford “One White Post at a Time”, Simone Skinner-Smith “Passenger Princess”, Kerry Yates “Barcy Galah -Comin’ Home. When the Min Min Lights Dance”
Panels: Q&A with contributors, Discussion with Narelle Fernance, Sophie Elliott, Barbara Hannay “writing and Reading in Remote Locations”
Sessions: Vanessa Alexander “Writer Motivation”, Elliot Hannay “The Gulf Country Murders” + Barbara Hannay “The Grazier’s Wife”
Book Talks: Narelle Fernance “To Those That Wait”, Jenny Kroonstuiver “Last Couch to Quartz Hill”
Christmas in the Outback
Winners Announced!
Who did our judges select as the winners of our 150 word Christmas in the Outback competition?
We are a non-profit incorporated association founded in 2015
Registered organisation IA55482 | ABN 50 829 174 375
The objectives of the Festival are to:
Engage & Encourage
Tell Stories of the Outback
Promote Winton & the Outback
- To hold the festival annually in Winton
- To engage writers and readers who will continue to enjoy and advocate for more Australian stories
- To encourage the children of isolated and rural families and indigenous children to engage in more reading and writing of stories that they can associate with
- To promote the Outback as an important tourism destination for Australian and overseas visitors
- To tell the stories of the Outback as an iconic Australian cultural art form
- To tell the history of the Australian Outback, the indigenous people and their culture and the generations of settlers that opened this frontier as well as those who live in it today
