New for Festival audiences in 2017 is a live literature experience, bringing to life Alexis Wright’s seminal novel Carpentaria through a large-scale interpretive artwork by Gordon Hookey. Audiences will be immersed in the world of Carpentaria through a program of performance, storytelling and talks exploring Indigenous art, history and culture.

From 6-10 September this year, BWF will be exploring how writers curate the fictional and real worlds we enter through the voices and stories of 16 international guest authors, 49 Australian writers and a large contingent of Queensland authors.

So join the Brisbane Writers Festival, as they celebrate 55 years of reading, writing and ideas!

Brisbane Writers Festival 2017
6-10 September 2017
State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
www.facebook.com/briswritersfest

QPF aims to inspire, entertain, challenge, and embrace the wide possibility of poetic expression in all of its forms – page poetry, readings, slam, spoken word, performance, music, ekphrastic poetry, collaborations, installations, cross-platform creations, film, and more – to a wide audience. QPF is the flagship poetry and spoken word festival in the country, and an important part of Australia’s annual literary calendar, with an established reputation for excellence and innovation amongst audience, artists and industry worldwide.

With an annual four-day festival plus satellite events held in the last week in August, QPF also curates and administers the following signature projects: Arts Queensland Poetry Awards, Arts Queensland Poet in Residence Program, Indigenous Poet in Residence, Brisbane Poetry Map, SlammED! Schools program, Queensland Heats & Final of the Australian Poetry Slam, and regional tours & events.

QPF partners with various organisations and individuals throughout the year to host a year-long program of launches, workshops, and other events, including the Riverbend Poetry Series and Couplet at Brisbane Square Library which is held on the first Friday every month.

Queensland Poetry Festival 2017
24-27 August 2017
Various locations around Brisbane
www.queenslandpoetryfestival.com