Briohny Doyle is the author of Echolalia, Adult Fantasy and The Island Will Sink. She is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Sydney. Her new novel Why We Are Here is about love grief and dog training and is out in late June through Penguin.
Appearing In
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Monday 19 June, 10am-4pm
Masterclass: Genre Fiction
Join this group of remarkable writers for a day of everything genre fiction.
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Wednesday 21 June, 6:30pm
Writers’ Night School: Writing TV
Allow writer, comedian, thought leader, disabled ingenue and sometimes blonde Alastair Baldwin, to break down what it means to create meaningful, unforgettable Television.
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Tuesday 20 June, 6pm AEST
On Collectivity
Leah Jing McIntosh and Hannah Wu will discuss the process of developing work for publication in LIMINAL’s two anthologies, Collisions and Against Disappearance.
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Saturday 24 June, 8pm
Closing Night: Celestial Bodies
See the festival off with us in true extravagance, gala-style, and witness a dreamy line-up of well-loved writers, artists and inter-galactic DJS.
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Wednesday 14 June – Saturday 24 June
Wayward Trance
Six artists use illustration to zoom in on details, both remembered and imagined, marking geologies, mysticisms, repetitions and fragility.
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