Acknowledgement

We respectfully acknowledge that Byron Writers Festival takes place on the traditional lands of the Arakwal Bumberbin Peoples of the Bundjalung Nation. We pay respects to Elders past and present, and acknowledge them as the original storytellers of the lands and waterways of this Country.

Writer

Chris Munnery

Chris Munnery has worked in the Australian publishing Industry for over 25 years including senior positions with publishers MacMillan and Lonely Planet. Currently the Senior Key Account Manager at IngramSpark Australia, Chris is based in Melbourne’s Southeast at the Australian print-on-demand headquarters, where the state-of-the-art facility services the Australian book industry for both wholesale orders to booksellers and libraries in Australia-New Zealand, and publisher direct orders to authors and publishers.


IngramSpark is the Print on Demand self-publishing arm of the Ingram Content Group, and the IngramSpark platform gives your titles access to Ingram’s 45,000+ global book distribution network,  for online sales and reach into bricks and mortar bookstores and libraries.

The vision for IngramSpark’s future is simple: to make indie publishing more powerful, more connected, and more rewarding for authors, for readers, and for the global indie book community we all share.

Byron Writers Festival '25

Join us from 8—10 August at Bangalow Showground on Bundjalung Country

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