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Perth Writers' Festival program previewThe general program for the Perth Arts Festival has been released, with the Perth Writers' Festival component to follow on January 28.Published 12 November, 2008 
The general program for the Perth Arts Festival has been released, with the Perth Writers' Festival component to follow on January 28. The writers' festival will run from 27 February to 2 March, featuring over 100 events on the University of Western Australia campus. 2008 Man Booker nominated author Sebastian Barry (The Secret Scripture, Faber) will be in attendance, as will fiction writers from India, UK, Vietnam, USA, New Zealand, Bosnia/Germany and Scotland including Sana Stanisic, Emily Perkins, Jenny Pattrick, Andrew Nicoll, James McBride, Richard Mason, Rana Dasgupta and thriller writer Stella Rimington. Other international guests will include authors who approach the environment and world issues from different angles such as Alan Weisman (The World Without Us, Virgin Books), Peter Singer (The Life You Can Save, Text), Mark Kurlansky (The Last Fish Tale, Random House), and Stephan Faris (Forecast, Scribe). Pakistan is related in memoir by Imran Ahmad (Unimagined, Pier 9) and in literary fiction by Nadeem Aslam (The Wasted Vigil, Faber). Expect to see more environmental, social, political and human rights issues discussed by local writers of both fiction and nonfiction such as John Carroll, Jane Caro, Mark Davis, Monica Dux, Clive Hamilton, Roy Williams, Arnold Zable and James Woodford. Also look forward to intimate memoirists, thriller writers, historians, comedians, poets, and literary novelists, including Kate Grenville, Ian Townsend, Robert Drewe, Tracy Ryan, Alice Pung, David Hill, Louis Nowra, Susan Duncan, James Phelan, Julia Leigh, Sonya Hartnett, Barry Maitland, Joan London, John Kinsella, Robert Dessaix, Mark Dapin, Sophie Cunningham, Graeme Blundell, David Brooks and more.A unique children's program is part of the festival, expanded this year due to its popularity. ‘Family Day' runs alongside the adult program on Sunday, and includes Tristan Bancks, Mem Fox, Felice Arena, Libby Gleeson, Leigh Hobbs, Sally Morgan, and Carole Wilkinson, among others. Festival program manager Katherine Dorrington says the hands-on workshops, artistic games, live stories, competitions and activities ‘will dazzle your senses and fire up your imagination!'The full program will be released on 28 January. Register for updates at the Perth Arts Festival website, or by emailing writersfestival@perthfestival.com.au. Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2008/11/10082/ This article from Thorpe Bowker's Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-BowkerMore from Book News Archive
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Byron Bay Writers' Festival date and location change
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