Cairns Tropical Writers' Festival

31/12/2024

Hello friends of

It is with a very heavy heart I must advise that the 2025 Cairns Tropical Writers Festival has been postponed.

Sadly, and despite the vigorous and dedicated efforts of my volunteer committee, adequate funding required to successfully deliver the 2025 event was not secured.
We are equally devastated and frustrated.

Our sincere thanks go to the Cairns Regional Council and Cairns RSL Club for their financial support.
Steadfast in our belief in the importance of storytelling, we are committed to delivering the next Festival, tentatively scheduled for March 2026.

Please stay tuned to our channels for further updates on .

Cheers, Jules Steer
President & Festival Director

19/10/2024

📚 SUNDAY FUNDAY 📚

Post a pic of the book you're currently reading. Then scroll through the comments and LOVE ❤️ the books you’ve already read, and LIKE 👍 the books you want to read.

To promote inclusivity, please accompany your photo 📸 with the author and title in the comments.

15/10/2024

Hey, local storytellers!
Want to be part of the lineup?

PITCH IT TO US!

Email [email protected] with your presentation or workshop ideas.

30/05/2024

Thank you to everyone who attended the Stratford Library to watch the Sydney Writers Festival with like minded book lovers! 📖 We had some great feedback from the attendees . “We could have live-streamed at home but it’s good having discussions with other people after the session" 📖📚📕

29/05/2024

25/05/2024

A great one to bring your daughters too. Lets support Women in sport!
Cheer on the athletes kicking goals for women’s sport. Olympic rugby gold medalist Chloe Dalton (Girls Don’t Play Sport), Australia’s most decorated cycling Olympian Anna Meares, and world champion pro-athlete Jana Pittman (Enough) chat with host Tracey Holmes.

25/05/2024

A wonderful turnout to see Trent Dalton today. Would love you to come down to Stratford library this afternoon or tomorrow to see Sydney Writers Festival live!

25/05/2024

Story Tellers Leigh Sales & Lisa Miller TODAY 25th May 2pm
LIVE Stream or watch at Stratford library
https://www.cairns.qld.gov.au/.../sydney-writers-festival

ABC legends Leigh Sales (Storytellers) and Lisa Millar (Muster Dogs) unpack the craft of turning real life events into narrative, drawing from their recent books and a combined 65 years in journalism.

25/05/2024

Trent Dalton TODAY 25th May 12pm
LIVE Stream or watch at Stratford library
https://www.cairns.qld.gov.au/.../sydney-writers-festival

Trent Dalton, award-winning author of Boy Swallows Universe (now a hit Netflix series) returns with Lola in the Mirror, a big, beautiful novel about grappling with our past, present and possible futures. In conversation with Cassie McCullagh.

24/05/2024

Celeste NG TODAY 25th May 10am
LIVE Stream or watch at Stratford library
https://www.cairns.qld.gov.au/library/whats-on/library-events/adults-all-ages/sydney-writers-festival

Banning books, waving flags and persecuting racial minorities. Sound familiar?

After New York Times–bestselling novel Little Fires Everywhere – which was adapted into a popular miniseries starring Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon – comes a similarly moving tale about the unbreakable bond between a mother and son.

Celeste Ng’s third novel, Our Missing Hearts, is set in a marginally more dystopian version of Trump’s America and follows Bird, a young boy searching for his politically dissident mother, and Margaret, a poet striving to change the world for her son.

Sit down with Celeste and host Claire Nichols to discuss hope in the face of isolation and cynicism, the redemptive power of storytelling, and the capacity for art to create meaningful change.

24/05/2024

Story Tellers Leigh Sales & Lisa Miller 25th May 2pm
LIVE Stream or watch at Stratford library
https://www.cairns.qld.gov.au/.../sydney-writers-festival

ABC legends Leigh Sales (Storytellers) and Lisa Millar (Muster Dogs) unpack the craft of turning real life events into narrative, drawing from their recent books and a combined 65 years in journalism.