Williamstown Literary Festival

2013 Festival

The 2013 festival will celebrate our tenth anniversary. After a few days of rest and recouperation we will beginning planning for our big year! Stay subscribed for updates.

Ada Cambridge Anthology

Please see the list of Ada Cambridge Award winners below.

The Ada Cambridge Anthology is available for sale from Hobsons Bay Libraries for $10 each, or 5 for $45.

Make a donation

The Williamstown Literary Festival is a community event and relies on self generated income to keep the festival viable.

To help support us, and keep ticket prices low, please consider a tax deductible donation.

Willy Lit Fest is listed on the Register of Cultural Organisations.

If you wish to support your festival click here to make a donation. Thank you.

Thank you

The WillyLitFest would like to thank all those committee members, staff, suppporters, volunteers, authors and audiences who made our ninth festival such a success!

Ada Cambridge Awards Winners

Congratulations to all award winners!

Ada Cambridge Biographical Prose Prize 2012

Winner

Davy by Helen Bradwell

Highly Commended

Afterbirth by Helen Cerne; In too deep by Craig Henderson; Kerfuffle by Margaret Reid

Shortlisted

Me by Kristy Godfrey; The defendant by Jonathan Griffiths; The things that you remember by Ross Kinnish; Of summers long gone by Denise Ogilvie; The chook shed challenge by Vivien Owens; The Designer by Mark Simonato

Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize 2012

Winner

The summer they were fragile by Rafael S.W

Runner/s Up

My dad by Hugh Deacon; Waiting death by Kris Weber

Highly Commended

Lay you down by Emilie Collyer; Don't be gone by Kristen Roberts

Commended

Eden by Varia Karipoff

Shortlisted

Shoes of Iron by Helen Bradwell; The Patron by Patsy Rea; Words by Kristen Roberts; The market man by Carol Trusler

Festival is go!

We launch the festival tomorrow morning at 10am with the Ada Cambridge Prizes, and the official launch with Ms Lynne Kosky, former Arts Minister. Please feel free to come along - the Supper Room at the Williamstown Town Hall is accessible through the Town Hall, and thence out the back. Volunteers will show you the way, if you don't know it.

Then we hit the ground running with the very popular Great Bogan Literary Debate, and don't stop till Chaucer 101 (start time 2.15pm) closes us off on Sunday at 4.30pm.

There is a festival hub outside the Town Hall with coffee, cakes and goodies to eat, so you can sit between sessions. The Met Office promises sun. It really does.

Tickets are available on site for most events (though be prepared for queueing for the most popular ones if you haven't already got your tickets).

And there'll be an online survey next week so you can give us your feedback.

Chocks away!

Sex and Murder

We're loving the divine Miss Fisher, and were engrossed in The Society Murders, and now is our chance to meet the women behind the books behind the films.

Hilary Bonney and Kerry Greenwood talk to Chris Flynn about how their books fared, when made into films.

Details about the session here.

White Line Fever

Last night's footy panel session at the Williamstown Football club was a great success! It was a full house, and the audience had a great time, wanting the panel to continue on after the session ended. Great stuff.

Gideon Haigh, Vin Maskell and John Harms.

Gideon Haigh's session The Office, the book, is on Saturday 5 May at 5.00pm. Details are here. Just a few tickets left for one of WillyLitFest's favourite guests.

Industrial Landscapes

Lowen Clarke's Industrial Landscapes workshop comes complete with a YouTube clip. Check it out. Intrigued? Then find out more information about his session here.