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SAT 29 & SUN 30 APRIL 2017

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SATURDAY 29 APRIL 2017 WRITE AROUND ARMADALE – YOUNG ADULT PANEL 4 Armadale Library | 1 – 2pm

KIDS’ WORKSHOP 4 Armadale District Hall | 1.30 – 3pm

POETRY SLAM 5 Bean Thru Café | 2.30 – 4pm

BROOKE DAVIS – AUTHOR TALK 5 Armadale District Hall | 5 – 7pm

SUNDAY 30 APRIL 2017 WRITE AROUND ARMADALE – WRITERS’ GROUPS 6 Armadale District Hall | 10 – 11.30am

LITERARY LUNCH 6 Avocados | Noon – 2.30pm

AUTHOR PROFILES AUTHORS 7

ARMADALE YOUNG WRITERS’ AWARD FINALISTS 2016 10

WRITERS’ GROUPS 10

TICKET INFORMATION AND VENUE LOCATIONS TICKET INFORMATION 10

VENUE INFORMATION 11

THANK YOUS 12

CONTENTS

WELCOME TO THE INAUGURAL ARMADALE WRITERS’ FESTIVAL, WHICH RUNS PARALLEL TO THE 2017 ARMADALE ARTS FESTIVAL.

The City is very proud to be hosting this two day community festival which celebrates writing and literature in its many forms, and provides a platform to inspire readers and create a place where writers can connect with the community.

Whether it’s contemporary fiction, poetry, short stories, children’s literature, or nonfiction, the importance and power of reading and writing can never be underestimated.

The program has a good mix of established and emerging voices, featuring author talks, a poetry slam, kids’ workshop, discussion panel, and for those that enjoy a good debate, the chance to talk with a variety of celebrated authors.

Our vision is for the Armadale Writers’ Festival to establish a reputation as a great literary event, that we can build on year after year and engage more readers, and writers in the region.

We invite you to take the time to attend as many events as you can and hope that you find inspiration from our West Australian authors, who will provoke, inspire and offer their unique take and perspectives on the world of literature.

I hope you enjoy the engaging program of activities throughout the Armadale Writers’ Festival – a celebration of the vitality of thought and creativity.

THE MAYOR’S WELCOME

MAYOR HENRY ZELONES OAM, JP

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WRITE AROUND ARMADALE – YOUNG ADULT PANEL

KIDS’ WORKSHOP

Join us at our Writers’ Festival session for youth, featuring local teenagers. We will be hosting a panel with a number of 2016 Armadale Young Writers’ Awards finalists, as well as authors Glyn Parry and Marie Rubzen. Find out what motivates young authors, their writing process, and a bit about the young adult genre.

This is going to be a workshop full of fun! Join some of Perth’s amazing children’s authors and illustrators; James Foley, Kylie Howarth and Sean Avery as they share a little bit about what they do, before hosting a hands on interactive session. Kids will get the chance to work on creating their own stories. This session is suitable for children aged between six to 10 years.

SATURDAY29 APRIL

ARMADALEDISTRICT HALL

FREE(bookings essential)

1.30 – 3PM

SATURDAY 29 APRIL

ARMADALELIBRARY

FREE(bookings essential)

1 – 2PM29

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POETRY SLAM

BROOKE DAVIS – AUTHOR TALK

To celebrate the artistry and creativity of poetry, we are using the winning artworks from the 2016 Minnawarra Art Awards as our inspiration.This event will feature both writing and performance of poetry. Perth poet Rose van Son will be on hand to guide participants through the writing process.

Visit www.armadale.wa.gov.au/award-winners to see the winning artworks for the 2016 Minnawarra Art Awards, and get your imagination flowing.

The official launch of the Armadale Writers’ Festival will be celebrated with an author talk by Brooke Davis. Brooke’s debut novel Lost and Found won the West Australian Emerging Writers’ Award through the 2016 WA Premier’s Book Awards. The evening’s festivities and formalities will be accompanied with refreshments.

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SATURDAY 29 APRIL

BEAN THRU CAFÉ

FREE(bookings essential)

2.30 – 4PM29

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ARMADALE DISTRICT HALL

$20 PER PERSON$15 CONCESSIONS5 – 7PM29

Tickets to free events can be secured online through Eventbrite via the Armadale Library Events Page: www.eventbrite.com.au/o/city-of-armadale-libraries-6901964909

Events which list a ticket charge must be booked via the Armadale Visitors Centre (see Page 10 for more details).

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WRITE AROUND ARMADALE – WRITERS’ GROUPS

LITERARY LUNCH

If you’ve ever wanted to pursue writing then this is the event for you. Did you know that there are local writers’ groups that meet regularly where you can develop your writing skills? Come along and meet some of the friendly faces from the Armadale Writers’ Group, Come Write In (Kelmscott), and the Gosnells Writers’ Circle.

This literary lunch hosted by Dr Tony Buti will feature a variety of authors from different backgrounds. Join authors William Yeoman (Literary Editor at The West Australian), Loretta Hill, Brendan Ritchie, Renae Kaye, Amanda Kendle, and Sioban Timmer as they discuss and debate the world of literature over lunch.

Sean Avery is a teacher, writer-illustrator, sculptor and designer born in South Africa; living in Perth, Western Australia. Locally, he’s best known as the writer-illustrator of well-loved children’s picture books; All Monkeys Love Bananas and Harold and Grace published by Fremantle Press. Internationally, he’s best known as a sculptor who uses CD’s and DVD’s to create breath-taking works of art that reside in galleries and private collections all around the world.

Brooke Davis is the author of the bestselling novel Lost & Found. She grew up in Bellbrae, Victoria, though she currently resides in Perth, Western Australia.

Brooke has worked as a travel writer, editor and bookseller. She graduated with an Honours degree from the University of Canberra in 2004, and completed her PhD at Curtin University in 2013. Her debut novel, Lost & Found (2014), tells the story of three characters living on the south west coast of Western Australia. Brooke was inspired to write the story after the sudden death of her mother in 2007.

Dr Tony Buti MLA, has represented the seat of Armadale since 2010. Tony has studied at a number of universities across Australia to complete several degrees including a Bachelor of Law and a PhD. He is the author of several books including Brothers: justice, corruption and the Mickelbergs.

James Foley is a children’s author and illustrator. His books include Brobot (2016), My Dead Bunny (2015), In The Lion (2012), The Amity Kids Adventures (2013), The Last Viking (2011) and The Last Viking Returns (2014).

James is the Regional Advisor for SCBWI Australia West. He is also an ambassador for Books in Homes, Room To Read, and a judge for the Shaun Tan Award for Young Artists. His interests include comics, film, psychology, science, history (anything nerdy really), as well as yoga and social justice.

TONY BUTI

JAMES FOLEY

BROOKE DAVIS

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AUTHOR PROFILES

SUNDAY 30 APRIL

ARMADALEDISTRICT HALL

FREE(bookings essential)

10 – 11.30AM30

SUNDAY30 APRIL

AVOCADOS $30 PER PERSON$25 CONCESSIONS30

NOON – 2.30PM

SEAN AVERY

Tickets to free events can be secured online through Eventbrite via the Armadale Library Events Page: www.eventbrite.com.au/o/city-of-armadale-libraries-6901964909

Events which list a ticket charge must be booked via the Armadale Visitors Centre (see Page 10 for more details).

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Kylie Howarth is an award-winning graphic designer and artist from Perth, Western Australia. She was raised on an emu farm alongside her brother, a dog, sheep, several orphaned kangaroos and one very cheeky echidna. Kylie’s obsession with animals also extends underwater and she has braved lion fish in Egypt, piranhas and pink dolphins in the Amazon, marine iguanas and hammerhead sharks in the Galapagos Islands, and swum with whale sharks and manta rays at Ningaloo, Western Australia.

Kylie’s first picture book for children, Fish Jam, was published in 2015 and shortlisted for the CBCA Crichton Award. Her other books include Chip (2016) and 1, 2, Pirate Stew due for release in 2017.

Amanda Kendle is a travel blogger and social media trainer who has been blogging about why everyone should travel at NotABallerina.com since 2005. She launched The Thoughtful Travel Podcast in 2016. Amanda is a regular presenter in the UWA Extension program, teaching courses in blogging, social media and travel writing, as well as running training and workshops for small business owners across Perth through her blogging and social media consultancy.

Renae Kaye is a lover and hoarder of books. She consumed her first adult romance book at the tender age of thirteen and hasn’t stopped since. After years – and thousands of stories! – of not having book characters do what she wants, she decided she would write her own novel and found the characters still didn’t do what she wanted.

Renae lives in Perth, Western Australia. She is a survivor of being the youngest in a large family and believes that laughter (and a good book) can cure anything.

KYLIE HOWARTH

RENAE KAYE

AMANDA KENDLE

Loretta Hill was born in Perth, Western Australia, the eldest of four girls. She enjoyed writing from a very early age, spinning stories almost as soon as she could read them.

Her first mainstream women’s fiction novel, The Girl in Steel Capped Boots, was published by Random House Australia in January 2012 and released in Australia and New Zealand. The novel was a national bestseller along with its sequels, The Girl in the Hard Hat and The Girl in the Yellow Vest.

In 2014, Loretta started a new series set in the Margaret River Wine Region, a pocket of Western Australia close to her heart. Her novel, The Maxwell Sisters met with national success, as did The Grass is Greener which came out early 2016.

LORETTA HILL

SIOBAN TIMMER

Brendan Ritchie is a writer and film maker from Fremantle, Western Australia.

In 2015 he published his debut novel Carousel and was awarded a PhD in Creative Writing. Carousel has been critically acclaimed and was long-listed for the 2016 Gold Inky Awards. The sequel, Beyond Carousel, was released in October 2016.

In addition to writing, Brendan spends his time lecturing across a range of creative disciplines.

Glyn Parry is a former Kelmscott Senior High School student who went on to write a dozen best-selling books for children and young adults.

His publishers include Random House, Allen & Unwin, Hodder, Omnibus, Penguin and Fremantle Press. He has won numerous awards including a number of Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards.

GLYN PARRY

Marie Lois Rubzen is an author, neuroscience nerd, and musician. She started writing Neath Crescent Light: To the Oracle when she was 12 and completed it at 14. Her dream was to publish her first book before her 16th birthday. True enough, the 432-page novel was published in 2007 when she was 15 years old. She is currently in post-production for both the second novel of Neath Crescent Light and her debut album, Segue on the Beach.

Sioban Timmer is a Western Australian writer who grew up in Perth’s southern suburbs. Sioban produces stories and poetry for adults and children on a wide range of themes. Her first children’s book Toughen Up Princess was published in 2014 and provides a humorous and uniquely Australian flavour to some traditional fairy tales. Sioban is the publicity officer for the Gosnells Writers’ Circle as well as coordinator of the Children’s Corner Competition in Showcase Magazine.

Rose van Son’s poetry and prose has appeared in various anthologies and journals including Westerly, Cordite, Rabbit, Indigo, and Australian Poetry. In 2015, she was a Perth Poetry Festival poet and also a Corrugated Lines Festival poet, Broome. Her collections include works in Sandfire, Three in the Campagna: Revisiting the North and South of Italy and Three Owls and a Crescent Moon (haiku). She has an Honours Degree in Creative Writing and Literature from Curtin University.

ROSE VAN SON

William Yeoman is the Literary Editor and Arts Writer for The West Australian newspaper. A keen amateur musician, he is also a regular contributor to classical music magazines Limelight and Gramophone. In addition to his writing activities William enjoys public speaking. He has not only been a chair at many international and Australian writers’ festivals, but gives pre-concert talks for the WA Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, he established the New Norcia Writers’ Festival.

WILLIAM YEOMAN

MARIE RUBZEN

BRENDAN RITCHIE

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TICKET INFORMATION

Laura Prince, Caleb Poppe, Claire Hart, and Rania Arif were all finalists in the 2016 Armadale Young Writers’ Awards.

Young people from Year 3 through to Year 12 who lived or went to school in the City of Armadale were eligible for the awards.

Armadale Writers’ Group meets at Armadale Library every Wednesday from 9.30 to 11.30am.

Come Write In meets at Kelmscott Library on the second and fourth Friday of each month from 9.30 to 11.30am.

Gosnells Writers’ Circle meets at the Knowledge Centre on the first and third Friday of each month from 11.30am to 2.30pm.

WRITERS’ GROUPS

Tickets to the Brooke Davis Author Talk and Literary Lunch must be purchased from the Armadale Visitors Centre which is located at 40 Jull Street, Armadale. To contact the Armadale Visitors Centre phone 9394 5410 or visit www.visitarmadale.com.au/events.

Opening hours are between 9am and 4pm on weekdays and between 11am and 4pm on weekends and public holidays.

Note: A valid concession card must be shown at the time of purchase and on entry to the event if purchasing a concession ticket.

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VENUE INFORMATION

ARMADALE YOUNG WRITERS’ AWARDS FINALISTS (2016)

ARMADALE DISTRICT HALLCorner of Jull Street and Church Avenue,Armadale

BEAN THRU CAFÉ89B Jull Street,Armadale

AVOCADOS 2 Mount StreetKelmscott

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THE CITY OF ARMADALE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE AND ORGANISATIONS THAT HAVE HELPED TO CREATE THE 2017 ARMADALE WRITERS’ FESTIVAL:

THANK YOU

Rania ArifArmadale Writers’ GroupSean AveryAvocadosBean Thru CaféDr Tony Buti, MLACome Write InBrooke DavisJames FoleyGosnells Writers’ CircleHainault VineyardClaire HartJonah Highman

Loretta HillKylie HowarthRenae KayeAmanda KendleGlyn ParryJan PedroliCaleb PoppeLaura PrinceBrendan RitchieMarie RubzenSioban TimmerRose van SonWilliam Yeoman

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