Friday 4 to Sunday 6 April 2025
My second Newcastle Writers Festival as program manager!
Saturday 5 April 1pm
First Time Lucky? Overcoming Second Book Syndrome, with Hayley Scrivenor, Courtney Collins and Jessie Tu, hosted by Amy Lovat
Sunday 6 April 1pm
Rapture: In conversation with Emily Maguire, hosted by Amy Lovat
Amy Lovat is a freelance writer, editor and academic based in Australia. She has a PhD in English (Creative Writing) and her first novel, Halfway to Nowhere, was shortlisted for the Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Prize in 2017. She is the creator of the random act of kindness project Secret Book Stuff, and founder of the Newcastle-based blog Cool People Doing Cool Things.
