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Tamar Valley Writers Festival
PO Box 5306,
Launceston, 7250, Tasmania
Mary Machen
President
Ruby Ashby-Orr
Committee Member
Johanna Baker-Dowdell
Committee Member
Erin Bowring
Committee Member
Mathew Butler
Treasurer
Robert Clarke
Committee Member
Marjorie Colvill
Secretary
Lyndon Riggall
Committee Member & Podcast Presenter
Georgie Todman
Committee Member
A huge thanks to you all for inviting me to be a part of your brilliant festival. I had a blast. It was such a warm, welcoming and invigorating environment.
I write in praise of the Tamar Valley Writers Festival. I've attended a great many of these events around the country over the decades but few as impressive and enjoyable as yours.
Wonderful panels and terrific audiences — and a general atmosphere of friendship and generosity. Congratulations on the success of the whole weekend which buzzed with ideas and pleasure.
Many, many thanks for all your efforts in making the Tamar Valley Writers Festival such a warm and wonderful place to celebrate big ideas and connections between readers and writers. It was such a joy to be involved.
The Tamar Valley Writers’ Festival is already one of the finest in the country.
I enjoyed myself and received great feedback from kids, teachers and parents, many of whom had travelled to get to this fantastic festival. All your volunteers did a great job.
I met some fascinating people and made some new friends. I really don't think I can fault anything.
Very well organised, and appreciative of the volunteers who did a fantastic job in ensuring all the writers were welcomed, and looked after so well. Refreshing to have a festival where writers are not simply ‘left to their own devices’ before and after their respective sessions.
Throughout my panel sessions I met and spent time with more devoted teen readers, some of whom sought advice with their own writing. Some told me they rarely get the opportunity to meet Young Adult writers in person.
Congratulations on a terrific festival. We enjoyed it immensely. The final session, on writing drunk, was a hoot — a great way to finish a festival.
The festival was a great deal of fun and, for my part, I thoroughly enjoyed participating in the various panels and hearing so many other writers talk as well.
My kids loved the school sessions. They loved the diversity of the presenters; having an illustrator and seeing someone who writes non-fiction picture books was fantastic.
Not only was it in a spectacular location but, more importantly, the impressive diversity of writers it attracted and the effective composition and curation of panels, allowed for enjoyable and important discussions.
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