{"id":545,"date":"2013-03-09T21:23:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T10:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/?p=545"},"modified":"2013-03-10T00:48:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T13:48:34","slug":"newcastle-writers-festival-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/2013\/03\/09\/newcastle-writers-festival-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle Writers Festival program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The full program for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcastlewritersfestival.org.au\/\">Newcastle Writers Festival<\/a>, to be held here in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newcastle,_New_South_Wales\">Newcastle, NSW<\/a>, from 5 to 7 April, has now been published in <em>The Newcastle Herald<\/em>. It will be available online on Monday, so I&#8217;ll link to it then.<\/p>\n<p>There is a wide range of writing represented, so just what you consider a highlight will depend on your interests. However, the key events from my viewpoint are:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nightmare Australia: Writing horror&#8221; &#8211; Kirstyn McDermott and Jason Nahrung, hosted by <strong>Jenny Blackford<\/strong>. Saturday 6 April, 3.15-4.15 pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dreaming Australia: A celebration of home-grown speculative fiction&#8221; &#8211; Jack Dann, Janeen Webb, and Margo Lanagan, hosted by <strong>Russell Blackford<\/strong>, Sunday 7 April, 1.30-2.30 pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Great Divide: A discussion about church and state&#8221; &#8211; <strong>Russell Blackford<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jane_Caro\">Jane Caro<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Marr_(journalist)\">David Marr<\/a>, hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/profiles\/content\/s2461366.htm?site=newcastle\">Jill Emberson<\/a>, Sunday 7 April, 2.45-3.45 pm. <em>(This is probably the session of most interest to readers of this blog.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Looks like I&#8217;ll be busy that Sunday afternoon, but I&#8217;m looking forward to this very much. Many popular and\/or important and\/or distinguished (let&#8217;s throw around adjectives!)\u00a0Australian writers will be there &#8211; quite a few of them either resident in Newcastle or with strong local connections. Just to mention a few other authors\u00a0who&#8217;ll be appearing at the festival: Margo Lanagan, James Bradley, Robert Drewe, Barry Maitland, Stuart Littlemore, Kerri Sackville&#8230; well, and many, many others. The Newcastle Writers Festival\u00a0should be a fantastic event. I don&#8217;t know how many Novocastrians\u00a0follow this blog, but would any who do please spread the word. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The full program for the Newcastle Writers Festival, to be held here in Newcastle, NSW, from 5 to 7 April, has now been published in The Newcastle Herald. It will be available online on Monday, so I&#8217;ll link to it then. There is a wide range of writing represented, so just what you consider a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,30,6],"tags":[159,185],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements-2","category-culture","category-personal","tag-newcastle-writers-festival","tag-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}