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

Jennifer Mills

Jennifer Mills is an author, editor and critic based on Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide). The Airways (2021) was longlisted for the Miles Franklin award and shortlisted for an Aurealis Award for Horror. Dyschronia (2018) was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin, Aurealis (for Science Fiction), and Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. Mills is a widely published essayist, an advocate for the rights of writers and artists, a MEAA freelance delegate, a Director of the Australian Society of Authors, and a current SA Literary Fellow. Her latest novel, Salvage, is published by Picador Australia.

Byron Writers Festival '25

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

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