Lighthouse Literary Fest

Illuminating books and ideas at beautiful
Aireys Inlet on Victoria’s Surf Coast


2014 Coast

Introducing our participating writers for 2014

Aajinta (Michelle John and Jason Day, musicians)
Ailsa Piper – writer, director, actor: theatre, TV
Amanda Smith – broadcaster: ABC Radio National
Andrea Hull, OA – professor emeritus, policy-maker
Andrew Knight – writer, producer
Ben Winspear – actor: theatre, film, TV
Bruce Pascoe – novelist, short-story writer, writer
Caroline Baum – memoirist, journalist, broadcaster, producer
Craig Sherborne – novelist memoirist
David Carlin – writer
David Roach – screenwriter, producer, director
David Tournier – Wathaurong Cultural Heritage Officer
Elizabeth Gomm – writer
Favel Parrett – novelist, short-story writer
Francesca Rendle-Short – novelist, memoirist, essayist
Graeme Simsion – novelist, writer
Hannie Rayson – playwright, screenwriter, memoirist
James Button – writer, journalist, editor: The Age
Jane Gilmour – biographer
John Clarke – writer, performer
John Lewis Clark – poet and writer
Karen Hitchcock – novelist, short-story writer, essayist, doctor
Karen Hitchcock – novelist, short-story writer, essayist, doctor
Lachlan Errey – actor
Lenore Manderson – writer, medical anthropologist, adjunct professor
Maria Takolander – poet, critic
Marta Dusseldorp – actor: theatre, film, TV
Martin Flanagan – journalist, writer
Michael Cathcart – historian, writer, broadcaster: ABC Radio National
Michael Williams – broadcaster, director Wheeler Centre
Najaf Mazari – writer story-teller
Nan McNab – writer
Nice Work (Josh Burton and Rob Clifford, musicians)
Peter Curtin – actor: theatre, TV
Rob Moodie – writer, professor, doctor
Robert Drewe – novelist, short-story writer
Robert Hillman – novelist, biographer, writer, journalist
Sandra Fairthorne – playwright, assistant director
Sian Prior – writer, broadcaster, musician
Steve Bisley – actor, memoirist
Suzanne McCourt – novelist
Tess Guthrie – musician

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