This year will be the first year of the Writers Festival at Federation Square, rather than our beloved (albeit somewhat crowded) Malthouse Theatre.
Organisers announced the dates yesterday - 22nd to 31st August, so we'd better start preparing holidays, comfy shoes and the whole box and dice.
Let's hope for another stellar Crime fiction line up this year. Dare we hope that maybe some of our prolific local authors get some recognition this time - Kerry Greenwood / Garry Disher / Paul Thomas / Geoff McGeachin / Lindy Cameron (should I go on, and on, and on, and on... )? Maybe invite Paul Cleave and others from the land of the long white cloud.
And for himself - Sara Douglass and other local science fiction and fantasy writers such as Jennifer Fallon and goodness knows there are plenty of others.
It would be fabulous to see the festival champion some of our fabulous local writers!