Arnold Zable, Tony Birch and Alice Pung will be in Queenscliff for Writers in Reflection 2, an event presented by Rural Australians for Refugees.
Below the surface: stories of the SS TimeIf you cast your eyes out from Ocean View Lookout in Queenscliff in 1949 you’d have witnessed a ship coming to grief as it tried to navigate the Rip.
The Bookshop at Queenscliff is hosting a children’s author event on Thursday January 12 at 4pm.
First fiction for Merry WatsonTorquay author Merry Watson’s first fiction, Antonio’s Seed is being officially launched next week at Book Cellars Torquay.
Rhyming slam down in G. TownThe poetic airs and breezes of the Surf Coast and Bellarine Peninsula produce many a moment of inspiration.
Fruitful meeting in garden shedAll those thumbs out there without the knowledge to satisfy their green craving need worry no more: a bookgrove event in Wallington will help.
The queen of crime writing, Lynda La Plante, will be speaking in Geelong as part of this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival.
Australian poet Geoff Goodfellow will read some of his punchy verse from his new book, Waltzing with Jack Dancer.
Bookings are now open for the fast approaching Aireys Festival of Words, so get your hands on one of these hot little tickets.
When Walkley Award winning journalist Malcolm Knox took up surfing, it was only a matter of time before he turned his eye towards his new obsession.
Literary dinners with Geelong writer Angela Di Sciascio are being prepared for the plate.
Queenscliff’s Sea of Words festival continues this week with more activities to take part in or attend.
Coast provides languageA local author who divides her time between her Melbourne studio and Torquay ‘shack’ has been shortlisted for an independent booksellers award.
Head to Apollo Bay’s Uniting Church Hall (Nelson Street) this Saturday, where there will be a treasure trove of secondhand books.
Triumph over adversityPortarlington resident Pamela Delmo may have had a hard childhood by today’s standards, but it’s not an upbringing she wants to forget.
Fantasy in Apollo Bay and AireysIsobelle Carmody is in Australia promoting a new book in her famed fantasy series, as well as a book of wicked short stories.
Attention all wannabe novelists and journalists – the Anglesea and District Community House (ADCH) is about to launch a course for you.
A lifelong struggleNinety-three year old Anglesea author Jean Yule is proud to announce the release of her latest book, Women in the Church: A Memoir.
Bookshops not bereft of hope or magicLiterature will line the coast on August 20 when two award winning authors visit Ocean Grove.
Festival fun starts this FridayLiterary lovers are counting the days before theAireys Festival of Words, which turns its first page on Friday and runs until Sunday.
Fans of Matthew Evan’s previous cookbook will be delighted he has torn himself away from his woodfire stove long enough to write another volume.
Time is running out for aspiring bush poets to submit their original poems to be considered for the Australian Unity Bryan Kelleher Literary Award.
Henning Mankell’s latest best-seller about his popular Swedish detective, Kurt Wallander, is a cracker.
Reading the people’s proseHumble acclaimed author Cate Kennedy returns to the Surf Coast this weekend to launch her latest literary effort, The Taste of River Water.
