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

Phil Brown

Phil Brown is a journalist and poet and the author of a number of self-indulgent memoirs including Travels with My Angst, Any Guru Will Do and The Kowloon Kid. For some reason he has done it again in his latest self-indulgent memoir, Confessions of a Minor Poet.

Image credit: Jade Ferguson

Byron Writers Festival '25

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

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