Friday 2nd May
10.00 - 12.00
Join ABC Radio National presenters Ramona Koval (The Book Show) and Michael MacKenzie (Bush Telegraph) for a special 'warm up to the weekend' broadcast on Friday 2 May before our BookTown event.
There'll be lively discussion with special guests and Clunes' locals. Ramona and Michael will broadcastfrom the Clunes Library from 10am to midday on Friday and you're welcome to come and join in the fun. If you're waiting to visit for BookTown, tune in to ABC Radio National for the live broadcast. Find your local frequency at http://abc.net.au/rn.

The Clunes Bowling Club, Ligar Street (View Map) which is a 5 min stroll from the centre of town through Queens Park. Writers' books will be for sale and there will be opportunies for book signings and for meeting the authors.

Saturday 3rd May
10.30 - 12.00
Spotlight on John Marsden and Melissa Lucashenko. Chair Nigel Krauth

12.30 - 13.30
Size Ain’t Everything: Small Publishers Shake their Booties – Clunes Bowling Club
Panel discussion with Dr Phillip Edmonds of Wetink; Kalinda Ashton, Overland; Zoe Dattner Sleepers Publishing House

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2.00-3.30
Readings from John Marsden, Melissa Lucashenko, Anthony Lawrence and Alexis Wright. Chair Nigel Krauth.

Sunday 4th May
10-30-12.00
Spotlight on Anthony Lawrence and Alexis Wright. Chair Nigel Krauth

1.30-3.00
In Conversation
Anthony Lawrence, Melissa Lucashenko, John Marsden, Alexis Wright with participating Chair Nigel Krauth

Anthony Lawrence
One of Australia foremost nature poets, Anthony has received a number of Literature Board Grants and has won numerous awards for his poetry, including Josephine Ulrick National Poetry Prize, (2001), the inaugural Judith Wright Calanthe Award  (Queensland Premier's Poetry Prize 1999), the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, (1997). He won the Claudio Alcorso Award, 2003 -- a residency enabling research and writing in Italy.

Melissa Lucashenko
Melissa is a renown Australian youth novelists of mixed European and Murri heritage. Her first novel of urban Aboriginal Australia, Steam Pigs, (1997) won the Dobbie Prize for Australian women’s fiction, was shortlisted in the NSW Premier’s Awards, and was shortlisted for the regional Commonwealth Writer’s Prize. Hard Yards, (2001) concerns the aftermath of a death in custody was shortlisted for the Courier-Mail Book of the Year in 2001, as well as the NSW Premier’s Award.
http://www.melissalucashenko.com/

John Marsden
John Marsden is arguably one of the best known Australian writers for children and young adults. His 30 books have won numerous awards, and with over three million sales he is one of the most important teenage fiction writers in the country and overseas. In 2000, the Swedish Government paid to have one of his books distributed to every child of appropriate age in the country.
In 2006 John's work as an author, teacher and mentor was acknowledged through the Lloyd O'Neil Award for Service to the Australian Book industry.
http://www.johnmarsden.com.au/

Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright is a multi-award winning Indigenous Australian novelist from the Waanji people from the highlands of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. Her first novel Plains of Promise (1997) was shortlisted in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, The Age Book of the Year, and the NSW Premier's Awards. The novel has been translated into French.
In 2007  her latest novel Carpentaria won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Best Fiction Book, and the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA), Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year.

The writers will be in conversation with Nigel Krauth
Nigel Krauth is a multi-award winning novelist. He has won the Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the New South Wales State Literary Award for Fiction (The Christina Stead Prize), and was shortlisted for The Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (twice) and the Age Book of the Year Award.
http://www.nigelkrauth.com

For further information email:booktown@clunes.org
last update 15/04/2008