Last weekend’s Readers and Writers Festival was a rich feast. Featured keynote speakers as well as local authors brought us sober, lucid reflections on the complexities of issues such as climate change, racism, and refugee displacement as well as the joys and challenges of the writing life and simply being human.
The ongoing theme for this attendee was hope – that education and engagement are the pathways forward and that here and now our choices matter.
Many, many thanks to all the organizers, committee members, volunteers and billeteers who made it all happen.
Graeme Isbister
