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Archive of Previous Festivals Sessions

Year
Session
Presenter 1Presenter 2Presenter 3
2025Keynote AddressCaroline OveringtonCaroline Overington
2025Author Talk: Looking for EdenCaroline Overington
2025Book launch: Winton 150John Elliott
2025Author Talk: Writer motivationJohn Elliott
2025CPRA and Writing Fiction for Young AdultsProf Kim WilkinsKim-wilkins
2025Book launch: Tales from Winton’s PastJeff CloseGreg North
2025Writers Friday for ChildrenMichael Lloyd
2025Book launch: Forgotten Heroes and Hell Raisers by Jack DrakeStella DrakeGreg NorthJeff Close
2024Book Launch
Aleesah Darlison

2024Poetry readings, including The Horse-drawn Hearse by Jack DrakeGreg NorthJack Drake
2024Author Talk: The Stringybark FoxJack Drake
2024Writing Childrens StoriesClaire Saxby
2024Panel discussion: writing childrens storiesClaire SaxbyAleesah DarlisonIan McIntosh
2024Queensland Writers Centre resources and supportCody Hargreaves
2024Writing about real life experience (e.g., writing stories and case studies, memoir, and auto-fiction)Dr Judy Gregory
2024Workshop: Writing MemoirDr Judy Gregory
2024Author Talk: A Spot of BotherGrace Elliott
2024Author Talk: Bush BabyJane Knowles
2024Readings from the Longreach Leader (articles by Eleanor East dec’d)Jeff CloseGreg North
2024Author Talk: The Magical Mystery of WordsLyndell Hill
2024Author Talk: Crows NestNikki Mottram
2024Author Talk: With My Little EyeSandra Hogan
2024Author Talk: Picking Up the Pieces – Remembering FordSarah Guthrie
2024Author Talk: New Years EveSarah Todman
2024Workshop: Poetry and Prose, Tim Borthwick Memorial SessionSarah Todman
2024KeynoteStephen M Irwin
2024Author Talk: The Longest DriveTom GuthrieAleesah Darlison
2024Book launch: A History of the Waltzing Matilda CentreW Benjamin Lindner


2023Book launch: The Life and Rhymes of Banjo PatersonGreg North
2023Book launch: Poems of Bronze Swagman Award Winner, Donald Crane TIM BORTHWICK MEMORIAL SESSION
Donald Crane
Greg North

2023WORKSHOP: Things writers would benefit from knowing about editing and editors.
Ian Mathieson

2023Book launch: Barcaldine Downs. 
Ian Waples


2023AGM + Guest Speaker on being part of a writers club.
John Griffiths


2023Book launch: The Shed- Growing up in Barcaldine
Kerry Yates


2023Book launch: The Call of the KimberleysR Jocelyn Doran


2023Book launch: More Winton, Working and Wags Rainie Gillies


2022Book launch: Birds of Western Queensland – Winton and surrounds
Ann Alcock
Julie Ramsey


2022How to Market and Sell Your Book
Dan Kelly


2022How to Publish Your Book
Dan Kelly


2022Microsoft Word Typesetting 
Dan Kelly


2022Keynote Address: Australia’s Military Intelligence – The Early Years 
David Hoy


2022Editing Tips
Ian Mathieson

2022Military Fictional Character Definition
Jill Staunton


2022Writing War Books for Children
Vicki Bennett

2022Writing Children’s Books
Vicki Bennett


2021Winton in 1895Greg North

2021Bush Poets – Are they a dying breed? 
Jack Drake
Greg North

2021Queensland Frontier Wars
Jack Drake
Dr Ray Kerkhove


2021Writing Bush Poetry
Jack Drake


2021The Book Market 2019/20Dan Kelly


2021Writing Memoirs and Biographies
Dan Kelly


2021Keynote Address First Nations People – Work, Play, Fight
Dr Ray Kerkhove

2021How to research for a book
Dr Ray Kerkhove

2021Writing property histories
Ian Waples


2019The Route to Getting Published 
Authors and Publisher Panel


2019The Book Market 2018/19Dan Kelly


2019Master Class: Writing Memoirs and Biographies
Dan Kelly


2019Love in the Outback 
Fiona McArthur
Janette Paul

2019Babies, the Outback & Aussie Midwives 
Fiona McArthur


2019Master Class: Writing Fiction
Fiona McArthur
Janette Paul


2019Crime Writing
Jaye Ford

2019Book launch: Waltzing Matilda – Australia’s Accidental Anthem
W. Benjamin Lindner


2019Keynote Address
W. Benjamin Lindner

2018How to Setup Your Book in Microsoft Word
Dan Kelly


2018The Art and Science of Publishing
Dan Kelly


2018Keynote address 
Emeritus Assoc Professor Noel Loos


2018In conversation 
Kim Mahood


2018Creative Non-Fiction Writing
Kim Mahood


2018The road to self publishing 
Scott Whitaker


2018From the Outback Writers’ Festival to Publishing with Harper Collins.
Tim Borthwick


2017Fiction Panel on Rural Romance
Annie Seaton
Kelsey Neilson
Pamela Cook
2017Fiction Writing Workshop 
Annie Seaton


2017Publishing, marketing and selling books
Dan Kelly


2017Children’s Panel 
Debra O’Halloran
Rose Siva


2017Non Fiction Experiences Panel 
Ivan Rudolph
Lori Patrick
Anne Alloway
2017Writing Memoirs and Biographies with Ivan Rudolph
Ivan Rudolph

2017Writing and Publishing Seminar
Pamela Cook
Dan Kelly


2016The challenges of copyright, parallel importing, reducing book shops & other publishing trends.
Dan Kelly
Sue Williams
Helene Young
2016Literary Lunch: How to encourage the next generations to read and write more.
Dan Kelly


2016Master Class: The Art and Science of Book Publishing
Dan Kelly


2016Master Class: Writing Fiction – presented by Penguin author, Helene Young
Helene Young


2016Artist and author, John Morrison will talk about his new children’s book.
John Morrison


2016Children’s Books – The Growth Market Award 
Norah Kersh


2016Poet’s Breakfast
Ron Pearce

2016Unravelling the History: how research structured their work
Ross Davies
John Morrison
Kaye Kuhn
2016Outback Lives – the journey to publishing and outback characters both real and fictional
Sue Williams
Don Douglas
Helene Young

2016Master Class: Writing Memoirs and Biographies
Sue Williams

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