Byron Bay Writers' Festival 2012

The program of the 2012 Byron Bay Writers' Festival has been released. The festival runs from 3-5 August.

I will be appearing with Kirsten Tranter and Amanda Webster in 'We Are Family: Uncomfortable Truths' (1:45-2:45 on Sat 4 August) and with Venero Armanno and Carrie Tiffany in 'Stories That Take Us Home: Ideas of Place and Family in Sicily, Iceland, and Rural Australia' (2:45-3:45 Sun 5 August).

Full program details are available here.

Fljótsdal, East Iceland (2005)

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(Postscript) Great Writing 2012

Earlier I posted about a paper I had planned to give in London on June 16-17 at Great Writing 2012, an international creative writing conference held at Imperial College London. Unfortunately, I had to withdraw from the conference, but I have posted my paper, "Memoirs of Perception", here.

Chiltern Street, London (2005)

Writing Bar Review

Andrea Baldwin's review of The Promise of Iceland has appeared in Writing Bar, the blog of the Sydney Writers' Centre. Andrea writes:

What stands out for me about this book is the narrative voice. It’s honest, conscientious and, almost to the end, somewhat bewildered. It creates a saga-like feel: the hero is on a difficult quest with which onlookers, however sympathetic, cannot help because he has to do it himself. You feel like cheering when he succeeds.

The review is available in full here.

(Pictures by Kári Bergsson)