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

Javier Encalada

Journalist and writer Javier Encalada was born in Chile at the beginning of the Pinochet dictatorship. He moved to Australia in 2000 and after living in Sydney and Perth, moved to Byron Bay in 2010. He wrote for the Byron Shire News, Ballina Advocate and Northern Star.

Byron Writers Festival '25

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

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