Don't miss the opportunity to meet Text authors Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist at the 2016 Burdekin Readers and Writers Festival.
The Festival is the first event of its kind in Burdekin and is celebrating its second year after a successful inaugral event in 2015. Taking place over three days, festival goers will get the chance to attend a range of workshops and author talks led by a diverse range of writers.
Graeme Simsion was born in Auckland and is a Melbourne-based writer of novels, short stories, plays, screenplays and two non-fiction books.
The Rosie Project began life as a screenplay, winning the Australian Writers Guild/Inscription Award for Best Romantic Comedy before being adapted into a novel. It went on to win the 2012 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript and has since been sold around the world to over forty countries.
Sony Pictures have optioned the film rights with Graeme contracted to write the script. The Rosie Project won the 2014 ABIA for Best General Fiction Book, and was ultimately awarded Australian Book of the Year for 2014. The sequel, The Rosie Effect, was released in 2014 to great acclaim and also became a bestseller.
His new book is The Best of Adam Sharp.
Anne Buist is the Chair of Women’s Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and has over 25 years clinical and research experience in perinatal psychiatry. She works with Protective Services and the legal system in cases of abuse, kidnapping, infanticide and murder. Medea’s Curse will be followed by her second psychological thriller, Dangerous to Know, in 2016.
