Mildura Writers Festival 2010 14-18 July

Arts Mildura - Australia

http://www.mwaf.com.au/
2010 Mildura Writers Festival
14-18 July

The Mildura Writers Festival is once again pleased to welcome a varied and stellar group of writers to this, our sixteenth annual gathering. As in years past, the friendly warmth of Mildura itself provides the backdrop for what is always a memorable weekend of literary performance and lively talk.

Confirmed guest include:
Stephen Sartarelli, Kate Jennings, Robert Gray, Don Watson, Morag Fraser and Les Murray along with Maggie Beer cooking Saturday dinner with Stefano de Pieri plus many more great Australian authors and events

The Guardian Hay Festival

http://www.hayfestival.com/wales/gallery.aspx?skinid=2&localesetting=en-GB&resetfilters=true

Hay Festival is a gathering in the staggering beauty of the Brecon Beacons National Park.

Writers, comedians and musicians that have the capacity to change our lives, to share new visions of the world, and to do that incredibly sexy thing – to renew our sense of wonder.

An event to check out even at this distance.

what the papers say

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• “Hay hoovers up the best writers published in the world. This has over the years, created a self-reinforcing phenomenon: they get the best, and so the best want to come.”
  The Guardian
• “The small market town of Hay is an unlikely setting for one of the world’s biggest book festivals... a literary extravaganza that is now firmly established as the biggest book event in Britain... In fact it is the unlikeliness of the location that makes the festival so glorious”
  Los Angeles Times
• “The programme of events has become a smorgasbord of heterogeneity, a mixumgatherum of creativity and gravitas... an excellent festival.”
  The Independent
• “Hay platforms a genuine and earnest literary appreciation, offers real news, and opens its doors to real people. Writers were conversant, talks intimate, and readers and authors alike felt part of a vast, vocal and increasingly powerful literary community. Words in this border town pushed boundaries and opened up a dialogue that will keep us talking for years.”
  The National, UAE
• “Since 1988 the event has become an essential feature of the cultural calendar... unmissable for authors, publishers, and other assorted literary types.”
  The Independent