Cheryl Strayed is coming to Bendigo Writers Festival. The author of the astonishing memoir, Wild, will be on stage at Ulumbarra and the Capital Theatre, part of our packed lineup for the three-day program, August 12-14. So, if you’re heading to Bendigo for the festival, come a little early this year. The weekend kicks off […]
Bendigo Writers Festival’s first on-the-road session in Dunolly Historic Precinct took place as part of Law Week, on Sunday May 22. Thanks to the Victoria Law Foundation and our brilliant speaker Gideon Haigh, for making it such a success. A great venue, a glorious afternoon in beautiful Central Victoria, packed house and afternoon tea too!! […]
Two poems and a prose memoir… We are delighted to announce that this year’s Vox Bendigo Fyffe Award goes jointly to Tru S. Dowling and Melinda Kallasmae. Tru and Melinda will each receive $500, courtesy of our sponsor, Rod Fyffe AO, and their poems will become our very first artisan-zine – a hand-crafted publication to […]
1. The place: Bendigo is a small city so everything you need is close by. Our venues are lovely and also very efficient so you can really enjoy the events 2. The writers: our program is packed with excellent writers who come to Bendigo first and foremost because they care about books and writing, but […]
Once January has come and gone, it all starts to get busy again, kids back to school, the university year off and running, Easter just around the corner… and there’s even a federal election looming on that shimmering distant horizon. So, flip the pages of your diary and turn the corner of the calendar where […]
THE VOX BENDIGO BOOK: YOUNG WRITERS ANTHOLOGY Bendigo Writers Festival in association with The Rotary Club of Bendigo will present THE VOX BENDIGO BOOK: YOUNG WRITERS ANTHOLOGY at this year’s festival. The theme is MY PLACE. Submissions of any kind of writing – stories, poems or prose – can be up to 1000 words and there is […]
Remember when you couldn’t get a decent cup of coffee in a country town? We can’t! Not only is coffee a huge subculture in Bendigo, there is a lively competition among restaurants to be the one Bendigonians talk about in the most delirious tones. We can mention Masons, for instance, or the Woodhouse, or Rocks […]
The Bendigo Visitor Information Centre is right in the middle of town, just past the fountain and just before the turnoff to the Golden Dragon Museum (more a deviation than a turnoff, actually). If you’re looking for a place to stay while you explore Bendigo, you can drop in there and they’ll help. You might […]
As you drive into Bendigo from the southern freeway out of Melbourne, you’ll pass Central Deborah, the last surviving mine in central Bendigo which was once honeycombed with working mines. If you’re one of those who enjoy history (and Bendigo is a great place to visit for that), take some time to see just what […]
David Marr was our very first Bendigo Writers Festival keynote speaker, and we’ve not forgotten his wonderful reaction to being shown inside Bendigo Town Hall. He roared with laughter and delight. It’s a very grand building indeed, and right now it’s undergoing a loving update, to keep it in the sumptuous glory of its heyday. […]
A city of about 130,000 people that attracts thousands of people to a writers festival … that tells you something about Bendigo. We’ve got fantastic venues in a great locale (and we’re not just saying that, anyone who knows View Street and the surrounding Rosalind Park precinct will tell you just how lovely the area […]
The Bendigo Writers Festival program for 2016 will be released on June 1.
Stand by for our new-look website, with all the information you need to plan your festival weekend, August 12-14.
You\’ll also find updates on our facebook page.
