
Byron Writers Festival '25
Join us from 8—10 August at Bangalow Showground on Bundjalung Country
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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.
Mark Smith is the author of six novels: Where Truth Ends, Three Boys Gone, The Road To Winter, Wilder Country, Land Of Fences and If Not Us. Wilder Country won the 2018 Australian Indie Book Award for YA and The Road To Winter is a popular text on school lists around the country. He is also an award-winning writer of short fiction, whose work has appeared in Best Australian Stories, Review of Australian Fiction, The Big Issue, Island, The Victorian Writer and The Australian. He is the co-curator of Minds Went Walking: Paul Kelly’s Songs Reimagined and Into Your Arms: Nick Cave’s Songs Reimagined.

Join us from 8—10 August at Bangalow Showground on Bundjalung Country
Stay in the know with the latest updates on Byron Writers Festival, year-round events, workshops, competitions and news.
