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#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
How can one read well? Hear tips from three seasoned readers on how they choose what to read next.and what they consider vital reading.
#Artists
Phil Brown
Phil Brown is editor of InReview, Qld, an independent arts outlet. He is the author of two books of poetry — Plastic Parables (Metro Community Press 1991) and An Accident in the Evening (Interactive Press 2001). His most recent book is The Kowloon Kid: A Hong Kong Childhood published by Transit Lounge in 2019. He has been covering the arts in Australia in the mainstream media for nearly four decades and was for some years Arts Editor for The Courier-Mail in Brisbane.
Jeann Campillo
Jeann Wong is a YA fantasy book blogger, booktoker and reader with a social media presence of 20,000 bookworms. Having been part of the Aussie YA community for many years, she's hosted a fantasy and sci-fi book club, was a former YA panellist on ABC radio and has hosted conversations with many favourite authors. When she's not reading or blogging, she can be found spending time with her family and golden retriever.
Megan Daley
Megan Daley is the author of the bestselling book Raising Readers (UQP, 2019) as well as Teacher, Teacher (Affirm Press, 2023) and The Beehive (Walker Books, 2024). Megan is a Teacher Librarian and early years educator and has been awarded the Australian Teacher Librarian of the Year and the Queensland Teacher Librarian of the Year, as well as the national Dromkeen Librarian’s Award. A former national vice-president of the Children’s Book Council of Australia, Megan is also a regular literary judge, a workshop presenter, the creator of the popular website Children's Books Daily and co-creator of the Your Kid's Next Read podcast.
#Moderator
Joy Lawn
Joy Lawn reviews fiction for the Australian newspaper. Her reviews and interviews have also appeared in Australian Book Review, Magpies magazine, SMH/The Age, Books+Publishing and professional journals.
Joy is currently judging fiction for the Queensland Literary Awards and women’s crime writing for the Davitt Awards. She has judged the Prime Minister’s and NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, the Russell Prize for Humour Writing and other awards; blogs about literary fiction, young adult and children’s literature as ‘Joy in Books’ at ‘PaperbarkWords’ blog https://paperbarkwords.blog/ and loves moderating sessions at writers’ festivals.
Joy is fascinated by ideas and images and how authors and illustrators express these with truth and originality.
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