Queenscliffe Literary Festival

Next event date: Friday, 17 October 2025 | 04:00 PM to Sunday, 26 October 2025 | 09:00 PM

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QLF's 2025 lineup includes Craig Silvey, Marcia Langton, Peter Greste, Bob Brown, Virginia Trioli, Alice Zaslavsky, Brian Nankervis and Melissa Leong, as well as 2025 Miles Franklin-winner Siang Lu and two previous Stella Prize-winners, poet Evelyn Araluen and novelist Heather Rose.

Sports sessions include Geelong Cats champion Zach Tuohy and ABC broadcaster Catherine Murphy discussing their book 'The Way of the Irish', and ten-time World Title-winning Muay Thai fighter and boxer John Wayne Parr talking about his brutal, brilliant career and his memoir.

This year we’ll also hold our first-ever family event, with bestselling Runt author Craig Silvey; mark Jane Austen's 250th birthday with a delightful panel discussion, afternoon tea and sparkling wine, and a Regency dancing lesson; host a play-reading of a new work about Germaine Greer; offer budding writers a half-day workshop with award-winning romance writer Marion Lennox; celebrate life and stories with a special Better Off Said event created by Marieke Hardy and Emilie Zoey Baker and featuring Antoinette Lattouf, Hannie Rayson, Brian Nankervis and Shokoofeh Azar; and feature discussions on Indigenous art, memoir, gardening, food, politics, crime fiction, True Crime podcasts, the state of America, journalism, the wellness movement and more!