Wednesday 23 August, 2006

Melbourne Writer's Festival

I will be a guest of the Melbourne Writer's Festival for the following three sessions:

Seven journeys in Tibet

Saturday 26 Aug at 3.30pm, Beckett Theatre

Some go to Tibet seeking inspiration, others for adventure. Claire Scobie found both when she went to the Himalayas in search of a rare, red lily. Her first book, Last Seen in Lhasa, tells of her seven journeys to Tibet and her growing and inspirational friendship with Ani, a Buddhist nun. In conversation with Sophie Cunningham.

Creative nation

Thursday 31 August at  5pm, Merlyn Theatre

As everyone knows, creative writing courses are a boon to low paid writers who can teach by day, write by night and pay the bills. But how useful are they to the young and aspiring? Martyn Bedford, Edmundo Paz Soldan, and Marion M Campbell discuss whether writing can be taught, or should be. Sophie Cunningham to chair.  

Passages of India

Friday 1 Sept at 1.30pm, Merlyn Theatre

Capturing the mystique, the variety, the sheer terrifying mass of humanity that is India has tested Christopher Kremmer powers of description and understanding since he first went there as a young reporter in the early nineties. In this session he speaks to Sophie Cunningham about his latest pilgrimage, described in Inhaling the Mahatma.

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