Mountain Writers Festival

  • Writers celebrate place, story, nature

    Writers celebrate place, story, nature

    The inaugural Mountain Writers Festival was a draw for booklovers and nature-lovers alike. Held earlier this month, the festival was the flagship event for the Macedon Ranges Literary Association and carried the theme ‘Place Story Nature’. It was the first Australian literary festival to solely focus on environmental and ecological writing, and the impact literature…

  • Literary lunch to launch festival

    Literary lunch to launch festival

    The Mountain Writers Festival will hold its first event – a lunch in Macedon featuring Victorian writers – on Saturday March 26. This literary feast brings together esteemed writers Tony Birch, Evelyn Araluen, Tom Griffiths and Sophie Cunningham. “We’re thrilled to finally be able to stage our first event,” said festival director, local author Sonia…