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

Erik Jensen

Erik Jensen is an award-winning journalist, biographer, screenwriter and poet. He is the founding editor of The Saturday Paper and editor-in-chief of Schwartz Media. His journalism has won the UNAA Media Peace Award, the Walkley Award for Young Print Journalist of the Year and the Keith Dunstan Quill for Commentary. His first book, Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen, won the Nib Prize for Literature and was adapted into an acclaimed feature film. He is also the author of On Kate Jennings, I Said the Sea Was Folded and Angry at Breakfast. His second collection of poetry will be published later this year.

Byron Writers Festival '25

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

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