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LIGHTHOUSE

LITERARY FESTFriday 20 - Sunday 22 April 2012

Julian Burnside AO QC

Michael CathcartDavid Corlett

Peter Curtin

Robert Gott

Rodney Hall

Cate Kennedy

Hilary McPhee AO

Roslyn OadesPaddy OReilly

Favel Parrett

Ailsa Piper

Hannie Rayson

Louise Siversen

Amanda Smith

Carrie TiffanyChris Womersley

Charlotte Wood

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Peter CurtinPeter Curtin frst met Hannie Rayson working at Malthouse Theatre on Hotel

Sorrento or the Melbourne and later the Sydney seasons. Also with

Malthouse/Playbox, he played Macbeth in Tadashi Susuki's Chronicle of

Macbeth. in Australia and Tokyo. Peter played Roo in Lawler's The Doll Trilogy

1976 -78. He has strong sentimental attachments to Aireys Inlet having

learned to swim here, in creek and ocean, aged 7, he still has some cowrie

shells rom Moggs Creek holidays.

Robert GottRobert Gott was born in the small Queensland town o Maryborough. He asks

you to take this into account at all times. He has published more than 80

mostly non-fction books or children, and is also the creator o the newspa-

per cartoon The Adventures o Naked Man. Robert is author o the William

Power series o crime novels; the latest, Amongst the Dead, was shortlisted or

the Ned Kelly Award. Argument 7, the beginning o a new crime series, will be

published in 2012.

Rodney HallTwice winner o the Miles Franklin Award, Rodney Hall is an author with an

international reputation. His books are published in the USA, UK, Australia,

Canada, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Portugul and Korea. His

many radio and TV scripts have been broadcast by the ABC and the BBC. His

thirty-six books include eleven collections o poems, thirteen novels, two

biographies and books o social commentary. His play, A Return to the Brink

was commissioned or the Melbourne International Festival. The New York

Times praised him as, A thrillingly smart and juicy writer. The Saturday Review

(USA) said, He immediately establishes his place among the best writers ohis time. His new collection o short fction, Silence, was published in November 2011.

Cate KennedyCate Kennedy is the author o the short story collection Dark Roots, novel The

World Beneath, three poetry collections, and Sing and Don't Cry; a Mexican

journal. The World Beneath was the winner o the People's Choice Award in the

2010 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, and was shortlisted or the Australian

Literature Society Gold Medal and The Age Booko the Year. Her poetry collec-

tion, The Taste of River Water (which had its coastal launch at Great Escape

Books!) won the Victorian Premiers Literary Award and she ound hersel

reading poems about Australian lie in France, the US, Mexico and Canada.

Cate has a second collection o short stories coming out beore Christmas this

year, provisionally titled Like a House on Fire, and a new novel in the works too. She is a popular tutor

o writing workshops, especially in the short story orm, and while she lives in north east Victoria,

she LOVES Aireys Inlet, and always jumps at the chance to come down to discuss all things literary.

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Hilary McPhee AOHilary McPhee, AO, co-ounded McPhee Gribble Publishers. She was a Chair o

the Australia Council or the Arts, the inaugural Vice Chancellors Fellow at the

University o Melbourne, and a ounding director o newmatilda.com. In

recent years she has been living in the Middle East and Italy writing a book

and articles about the regions. Her selection o new Australian writing,

Wordlines, was published last year. She has recently annotated the Tim

Burstall diaries rom the early 1950s, published as Memoirs o Young Bastard

by MUP in February. She is working on a sequel to her book Other Peoples

Words.

Roslyn OadesRoslyn is a theatre maker, perormer and voice artist. She created and directed

Fast Cars & Tractor Engines and Stories o Love & Hate, which was remounted at

the Sydney Theatre Company as part o their 2011 Education season. Her

latest play, Im Your Man, premiered at Belvoir Theatre as part o the 2012

Sydney Festival. As a perormer/collaborator she has worked with Not Yet Its Difcult,

Blackhole Theatre and the Non-Fiction Theatre Company in London. As a voice artist

she has perormed major character roles on the animated TV series: Tracey McBean,Dogstar, Bananas in Pyjamas, Zigby,Toybox, Bambaloo and Sea Princesses.

Paddy O'ReillyPaddy O'Reilly is the author o two novels, a collection o award-winning short

stories, and a novella. Her most recent novel is The Fine Colour o Rust, released

in 2012. Her stories have been widely published, anthologised and broadcast

in Australia and overseas. Paddy spent several years working as a copywriter

and translator in Japan. She also lived in France or a short time and in country

towns in Australia. She now resides in her home town, Melbourne.

Favel ParrettFavel Parrett is a Victorian writer. She was a recipient o an Australian Society

o Authors Mentorship in 2009 and has had a number o short stories

published in journals including Island, Grifths Review and Wet Ink. Her rst

novel Past the Shallows is available now through Hachette Australia. Favel has

been awarded a Book 2 grant by The Australia Council or her second novel,

which she is currently working on.

Ailsa PiperAilsa Piper has worked as a writer, director, actor, teacher and speaker. Her rst

love was theatre, which took her rom WA, where she grew up on a sheep

station in the Gascoyne, to Sydney and nally to Melbourne. Ailsa was

co-winner o the Patrick White Playwrights Award or Small Mercies, which

was written while studying or her MA and perorming as a resident oNeigh-

bours Ramsay Street. In July, John Bell will direct an adaptation oThe Duchess

o Mal, co-adapted by Ailsa. Her passion or distance walking illuminates her

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Hannie RaysonHannie Rayson is the author o thirteen plays including Hotel Sorrento, Falling

From Grace, Lie Ater George, Inheritance, Two Brothers, and The Swimming

Club. She has an established reputation or topical, complex dramas, one o

which was described warmly by columnist, Andrew Bolt as a smug vomit o

hate. She is also quite unny. She has been perormed throughout Australia

while internationally her plays have been staged in Londons West End, and

many theatres in Europe, Japan, Montreal, UK and New Zealand. She has been

awarded two Australian Writers Guild Awards, our Helpmann Awards, two

NSW Premiers Literary Awards and many more. She is the only playwright to be short-listed or The

Miles Franklin Award or a play. She is currently working on a commission or a new play or the

Manhattan Theatre Club in New York. She lives in Melbourne with her husband, historian and broad-

caster, Michael Cathcart.

Louise SiversenLouise Siversen has worked extensively in flm, TV and theatre and most

recently with MTC again in Robert Reids The Joy o Text, a ftting ode to this

weekend she eels. Her most recent flm is the Fred Schepsi adaptation o the

Patrick White novel The Eye o the Storm. Louise is best known or her TV work

including PrisonerandJanus or which she was nominated or a Logie. Louise

co-hosted 4 years oBackbernerthe hit political satire. She is also a voice over

artist recording many books. Louise lectures at the VCA Film and Drama

schools.

Amanda SmithAmanda Smith is the presenter oThe Body Sphere on ABC Radio National. She

trained as a ballet dancer, but realised she was more suited to being a proes-sional talker than a proessional airy. At the ABC, Amanda produced various

arts programs or Radio National and Radio Australia beore initiating The

Sports Factor on RN. She presented The Sports Factor rom its inception in

1995 until 2002. In 2003, she produced and presented the Great Lovers and

RN's daily arts show, The Deep Endand the weekly programArtworks.

Carrie TifanyCarrie Tiany spent her early twenties working as a park ranger in the Red

Centre. She now lives in Melbourne, and works as an agricultural journalistand the editor o the Victorian Landcare Magazine. Her frst novel, Everyman's

Rules or Scientifc Living, was shortlisted or numerous awards including the

Orange Prize, the Miles Franklin Award, The Guardian First Book Award and

the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and won the Dobbie Award or Best First

Book (2006) and the 2006 Western Australian Premier's Award or Fiction.

Mateship with Birds is her second novel.

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Charlotte WoodCharlotte Wood has been described as one o the most intelligent and

compassionate novelists in Australia (The Age), and one o our fnest and most

chameleonic writers (The Australian). Her ourth novel, Animal People, was

released in 2011 to critical acclaim. Her bestselling novel, The Children, and

earlier books were shortlisted or various prizes, including the Miles Franklin

Award and regional Commonwealth Writers Prize or The Submerged Cathe-

dral. Her book o contemplative essays on cooking, Love & Hunger: Thoughts on

the Git o Food, is out in May.

Chris WomersleyChris Womersleys fction and reviews have appeared in Granta and in the Best

Australian Stories 2006, 2010 and 2011, The Grifth Review, Meanjin and The

Age. His frst novel The Low Road won the Ned Kelly Award or crime fction.

His second novel Beret was shortlisted or the Miles Franklin Award, the

Australian Society o Literature Gold Medal and won the Indie Award or Best

Fiction.


Ailsa Pipers workshop will ocus on writing

in the frst person. It was the biggest

challenge she aced in writing Sinning

Across Spain, but was just as pressing when

she wrote the characters in her award-winning play Small Mercies.

How to locate that authentic voice, and not

censor it? How to fnd the I o a character,

even when the character isI? Whether as

writer, director, workshop-leader or actor,

Ailsa has spent a lietime dealing with the

twin challenges o authenticity and

sel-criticism. And she has many practical

techniques at her fngertips to help others

fnd a pain-ree way through the woods o

locating character and writing reely rom

it. Come and explore.Pens, paper, sot clothing and sense o

humour are all vital.

Ailsa Piper

World's most connected Luddite!

Workshop: Max 15 participants

Cost: $45.00 per person

Venue: Lightkeepers Inn Conference Room

WORKSHOPS

Friday April 20, 9.30am - 11.30amI, I, I, Me, Me, Me Oh, enough about me. What do YOU think of me?

Presented by Ailsa Piper


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Do you look at a character youve created

and think, shes really the same person as

the protagonist in my last story? In act

shes really my mother in another dress.

Using photographs o aces, Hannie will

introduce you to techniques to inhabit

diferent people, to see the world through

eyes other than your own, and lead you

through the thicket o contradictions that

make up a ully-eshed character.

But we are not our own sole creations. We

exist in relationship to others.Once you have located your character,

Hannie will then lead you through the

process o pitting him/her against another

character, both o whom are determined to

get what they want. Hopeully your

characters will surprise. Hopeully they will

be nothing like your mothers! Or like you!

Please bring a pen and paper.

Be prepared to write dialogue in this

session. Even characters in prose have to

speak eventually.


Cost: $45.00 per personVenue: Lightkeepers Inn Conference Room

WORKSHOPSFriday April 20, 12.00pm - 2.00pm

Writing with Empathy Presented by Hannie Rayson

Rodney Hall, twice winner o the Miles

Franklin Award, is ofering a practical

workshop on The New Fiction - an escape

rom storytelling, The New Fictionembraces the uture. The New Fiction is

shorter than short stories and tailor-made

or delivery on e-platorms as well as in

print. This workshop aims to explore

strategies or avoiding old stereotypes

while discovering ways o nding a new

basis or structure through practical

exercises. No experience necessary. All youneed are writing materials and an open mind.




Friday April 20, 2.30pm - 5.30pm

The New Fiction Presented by Rodney Hall

Come along to a un and stimulating

two-hour session on Saturday morning

with Cate Kennedy, whose special mission

in lie is reinspiring writers to see the

wondrous potential in their own stories

and own abilities. I you're eeling stuck on

a piece o writing, or need a quick reresher

on how to make character, plot and

structure all work in synchronicity in your

ction, this workshop has got your name

on it. Writers at all levels o experience are

welcome. Bring a pen and paper.




Saturday April 21, 9.30am - 11.30am

Keeping your hands on the wheel: recognising the essential elements

of your story. Presented by Cate Kennedy


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Hannie Rayson asks Rodney Hall, Hilary

McPhee, Chris Womersley, Charlotte Wood,Amanda Smith and Bob Gott about their

avourite characters.

Miss Havisham? Humbert Humbert? Mr

Darcy? Jay Gatsby? David Meredith? Harry

Potter? Sam Spade? Jimmie Blacksmith?

The Lambs and the Pickles?

What is it about these

imaginary people thatmake them so real? What

makes a great character?

And how do our panellists

go about creating their

own fctional men and

women? Actors Peter

Curtin, Ailsa Piper and Louise Siversen will

perorm selected readings.

SATURDAY FESTIVAL PROGRAM

12.30pm - 2.00pm

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Four brand new novels have leapt onto the

shelves since this time last year. Meet

writers Favel Parrett (Past The Shallows),

Carrie Tiany (Mateship With Birds),

Paddy OReilly (The Fine

Colour of Rust), and

Charlotte Wood (Animal

People), who will leap onto

the stage with Cate Kennedy

(The Taste of River Water).

2.15pm - 3.30pm

Ladies who Launch

Wresting the spotlight back onto men, and

specifcally their genitals, is detective novel-

ist and creator o The Ages Naked Man,

Robert Gott who poses the question,

'Just how long can one dick joke run?'

Robert talks about the unoreseen conse-

quences o starting a caption contest that

was supposed to run or six weeks.

Fourteen years and more than 700

drawings later, he presents a son et lumiere

o highlights, and a glimpse into an unusual

hobby.

* Launch of the Lighthouse Captioning

Competition. Prizes to be won.

3.45pm - 4.15pm

And thus I clothe my naked villainy

Two legends o Australian literature,

Rodney Hall, twice winner o the Miles

Franklin and author o 13 novels, and Hilary

McPhee AO, author, editor and co-ounder

o McPhee Gribble Publishing, talk to ABC

RNs Michael Cathcart about their work and

whether Australianness, in the world o

books, is an aiction or a privilege.

4.30pm - 5.30pmWriting Australia


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SATURDAY FESTIVAL PROGRAM

Saturday Night Keynote: 8.00pm10.00pm

Silence is the rock where I shall stand

A specially curated event inspired by Rodney Halls new

collection o short fction, Silence.

Julian Burnside QC is delivering the keynote address,

ollowed by readings, statements and reections rom

David Corlett, Hilary McPhee, Michael Cathcart, Cate

Kennedy, Paddy OReilly and our actors.

In this country, who is silenced and who is allowed to

speak? Are we dea to certain voices? What can we

learn rom silence? And what is to become o our once

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In the tradition of medieval believers who

paid others to carry their sins to holy places

and so buy forgiveness, Ailsa Pipers friends

and colleagues donated a sin in order to

fund her pilgrimage from Granada to

Finisterre in Spain.

Hannie Rayson was one

such sin-donor. She talks to

Ailsa Piper about her 1300

km walk and the extraordi-

nary book she wrote to

prove she did it: Sinning

Across Spain.

SUNDAY FESTIVAL PROGRAM

10.00am - 10.45am

I Will Walk Of Your Sins.

Pilgrim seeks sinners or mutually benecial arrangement.

Seven Deadlies a specialty.

Rural Characters: Favel Parrett,

Chris Womersley, Carrie Tifany,

Paddy OReilly

Charlotte Wood talks to four urban writers

about the attraction of pulling on a sturdy

pair of boots and striding

into the Australian landscape

to tell their stories. What is it

about this brutal, melan-

choly, elusive and wild

country of ours, that makes

our stories so unique?

11.00am - 12 noonWriting Country

Lunch 12.00 - 1.00pm

Or is the pen mightier than lying down in

front of a bulldozer?

And what of e-activism and e-petitions?

Is this slacktivism?

ABC Radio Nationals Amanda Smith talks

to Julian Burnside and David Corlett about

the power of language to speak truth to

power and change hearts and minds.

1.00pm - 2.00pm

Typing is not activism

Theatre maker and voice artist, Roslyn

Oades, is fascinated by the voice and

individual speech patterns. She believes

there is as much information embedded in

the way we speak as what we are actually

saying. In this session Ros will talk about her

work and give us a wee taste in perform-

ance. Her latest play, I Am Your Man was a

sell-out hit of this years Sydney Festival.

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SUNDAY FESTIVAL PROGRAM

Chris Womersley, Charlotte Wood, Bob Gott

with participating chair, Cate Kennedy.Scoundrels are so much more interesting

than good olk. So why do we presume

reading literature is improving?

Four awully nice and well-adjusted writers

tell us about why they love selfsh, greedy,pompous, miserly, lust-uelled losers.

2.45pm - 3.45pm

Unlovely Characters

Winners of the Naked

Man Captioning

Competition

announced.

Artist, Susan Romyn

presents the painting

of Aireys Lighthouse

to the highest bidderin the silent auction.

3.45pm - 4.00pm

And to wrap up...


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THE LIGHTHOUSE LITERARY FESTFriday 20 - Sunday 22 April 2012@ Aireys Inlet Pub, Great Ocean Road, Aireys Inlet

Weekend Festival Passes:

Full Weekend Program $110.00(Concession for Seniors/Students $95.00)

Saturday Day & Keynote Address Pass: $85.00.(No concession)

Sunday Day Pass: $65.00. (No concession) Festival Workshops: $45.00-$65.00.See website for further information.

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