1. I’m invited to appear at the Port Fairy Literary Weekend in September – alongside the great Judy Horacek. Her cartoons have been making us laugh and think for many years – so I’m honoured! https://portfairyliteraryweekend.com.au/events/subversion-and-satire/
2. The Island Readers and Writers Festival in Hobart at the end of June, a lovely few days. I was part of a debate ‘Only Literature Can Save Us’ which is recorded here https://margaretmerrilees.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/irwf-debate-2026-edited-36.50.mp3
3. An old friend, told me that a line from my ‘Sighting Rottnest’ is immortalised on a boardwalk on Rottnest/Wadjemup. Thank you Ted Lefroy! https://margaretmerrilees.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/rottnest-quote-1.jpg
I’ll be in a couple of sessions at this festival in lovely Nipaluna/Hobart
‘Writing with our hearts on our sleeves’ https://islandfest.theatreroyal.com.au/EventAvailability?EventId=6801
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‘The Great Debate – only literature can save us’ https://islandfest.theatreroyal.com.au/EventAvailability?EventId=9801
Lovely words by Heather Taylor-Johnson in InReview: https://www.indailysa.com.au/inreview/books-poetry/2026/03/26/book-review-scared-angry-laughing-or-how-to-fix-the-world?
Sorry if you keep getting the same post over and over!! I’m having a tussle with WordPress – and it won’t let me answer comments. Software that is smarter then I am (or so it thinks!).
A free Pink Shorts panel at Constellations (Not-Writers-Week) Adelaide 2nd March.
Register at https://events.humanitix.com/constellations-at-the-exchange
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