Brisbane Writers Festival

Editorial

When: 7-11 September 2011
Where: Various
Bookings: Qtix  136 246

Do we have the empress of impeccably researched fiction? Yes. Kate Grenville. Check. Will we greet the King Curmudgeon of the eloquently irritable? Yes. Jonathan Franzen. Check. A South Korean celeb? Shin Kyung-sook is here.

This year, the BWF does not lack in bright star wattage. Let’s bring it on home with the creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, bioethicist and wit Alexander McCall Smith.

As ever, Brisbane’s local over-flowering word-garden will be in full bloom with discussion events like What Now? After the Flood..

This year sees an expansion of master-classes. Writers will have the opportunity to meet published authors who will critique their work one-on-one with 20 pages in 20 minutes. Personally, I have my eye on the Writing Romance That Sells workshop!

Helen Razer, Citysearch