Mount Beauty Writers Festival

12/10/2024

And that’s a wrap on this years festival for 2024! A huge thanks to all those who supported the event by purchasing a ticket, you help the event floirish into the future 🥳🙌🤩🌱. To all the amazing authors who committed and presented, and to our fabulous committee who volunteer throughout the year to bring this event together, without your passion and creativity this event wouldn’t exist. To our sponsors, thanks for showing your belief and commitment each year. We are a not for profit event and the contribution and support from our proud local businesses is exceptional, thank you so much! We look forward to returning in 2025, let the story continue…

12/10/2024

It’s all smiles here at the Mount Beauty Writers Festival, happening now, Saturday 12 October!
Satyajit Das is on until 11.45am. Come and enjoy the afternoon with Naomi Crisante, Sulari Gentill, Professor Ian Lowe, Liz Foster and Lee Christine still to come. Tickets available at door @ Mountain Monk Brewery

10/10/2024

Online ticket sales close at midnight tonight! Tickets available for purchase on the day until sold out!
Don't miss an incredible lineup of award winning authors featuring at West Peak Hotel (Mountain Monk) tomorrow Saturday 12 October. Engage with other book lovers, enjoy new story's and meet your favourite authors. www.mountbeautywritersfestival.com

28/09/2024

A recipient of the prestigious USA RITA® award and the Australian RuBY award, Fiona's books are set in small country towns and feature real people facing tough choices and explore how family ties impact on their decisions. Discover more at www.mountbeautywritersfestival.com

27/09/2024

Don't miss this years incredible lineup! Meet your favourite authors and be introduced to new ones! Buy your tickets today www.mountbeautywitersfestival,com

25/09/2024

Lee Christine is a crime novelist, known for her best selling snowy Mountain series Charlotte Pass, Crackenback and Dead Horse Gap and returns to the valley to discuss her latest crime novel Glenrock, which is set in Lee’s hometown of Newcastle. Buy your ticket today www.mountbeautywritersfestival.com

22/09/2024

A great write up in last week’s Observer, don’t miss a great day of author talks on Saturday 12 October www.mountbeautywritersfestival.com

22/09/2024

Get up close and personal to award winning authors including Satyajit Das, Sulari Gentill, Lee Christine and many more, Saturday 12th October! www.mountbeautywritersfestival.com

14/09/2024

A fantastic write up in 'This Week' newsletter! Support a great event whilst enjoying a great day of intriguing conversations and story's amongst friends, for event details and ticket information head to www.mountbeautywritersfestival.com

07/09/2024

Liz Foster is passionate about smart and heartfelt book club fiction – creating character driven, page-turning, uplifting stories in quirky Australian settings, with big themes that resonate.

The Good Woman's Guide to Making Better Choices is a warm, funny and outrageously unfair novel about deception, financial fraud and goat's cheese, and the possibility of starting your life all over again when everything goes south of the border. https://www.mountbeautywritersfestival.com/line-up

04/09/2024

Professor Ian Lowe has long been recognised as a leading climate change scientist.
He’s President of the Australian Conservation Foundation, emeritus professor of science, technology and society at Griffith University, an adjunct professor at Flinders and Sunshine Coast Universities, and the author or co-author over 20 books. Discover more on Ian and the other amazing authors attending the Mount Beauty Writers Festival on October 12 https://www.mountbeautywritersfestival.com/line-up

31/08/2024

With the bush in her bones and business in her head, Jade Miles is a poly-jobist right down to her toes (which are probably barefoot and muddy). She’s been a local food advocate and educator right across the country for the last 15 years and founded the Beechworth food coop and North East local food strategy.Her first book, Futuresteading, is a practical and inspirational guide to living in a way that values tomorrow: a slower, simpler, steadier existence that is healthier for you, your home, and the environment. Don't miss Jade and a host of other amazing authors feating at this years Writers Festival event on October 12 https://www.mountbeautywritersfestival.com/line-up

29/08/2024

Our Youth Writing competition closes tomorrow!! Don’t miss your chance to enter and win some fantastic prizes

inspirational and creative stories that ignite the imagination, or perhaps detail the wonderful journey of others or an event in time, the choice is yours!

25/08/2024

Naomi’s life has always revolved around food – selecting it, cooking it and celebrating with it. As an award-winning food educator, television presenter, stylist and food writer with more than 40 years’ experience in Australia’s food industry she has the wonderful job of creating something every day.
​Tasteful won 'Best in the World' for Food Styling in 2023, at the only international competition for food culture content, the Gourmand World Cookbook Award. https://www.mountbeautywritersfestival.com/line-up

18/08/2024

Meet Sulari Gentill, she's an award winning author who set out to study astrophysics, graduated in law, and then abandoned her legal career to write books instead of contracts. She's the author of the award-winning and best-selling Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, the Greek mythology adventure series 'The Hero Trilogy'. Discover more about Sulari and the other amazing authors via our website https://www.mountbeautywritersfestival.com/line-up

10/08/2024

Meet Satyajit Das, a former banker and recognised as one of the world’s leading financial thinkers.

He is the author of numerous books, including Traders, Guns & Money, Extreme Money, Banquet of Consequences and Fortune’s Fool. To discover more on Das and the other amazing authors attending our 2024 event in October, via the website https://www.mountbeautywritersfestival.com/line-up

10/08/2024

Do you have a story to tell? We're on the scout for young writers, seeking inspirational and creative stories that ignite the imagination! Great prizes to be won including $350 for 1st place entries. Open to all student residents of the Upper Kiewa Valley. If you are, or know of any young creative talents who might like to explore their writing skills and interests head to our website for all the details on how to enter https://www.mountbeautywritersfestival.com/short-story-t-c-s