ONLINE WRITERS’ FESTIVAL, 26-29 MARCH 2020
Above: A selection of photos from across TAF2019, held 31 Oct to 3 Nov 2019
The Program and How to Participate
Here’s what you can look forward to! Four days of fascinating, incisive discussions of crime and mystery fiction written by women.
Our panellists include Tara Moss, Marta Dusseldorp and Debi Marshall, our International Guest of Honour Shamini Flint, as well as Joanna Baker, Lindy Cameron, Jack Heath, Meg Keneally, Angela Meyer, Tansy Rayner Roberts, David Owen, Angela Savage and Festival Director L.J.M. Owen.
Download a PDF of the TAF2020 Replay Program Here
Sessions will be released across Thursday 26 March to Sunday 29 March 2020 in the afternoons and early evenings, AEDT.
Each session will be posted here in a new blog post.
Each post will contain a link to the audio recording of the session.
They will remain online until at least Monday 30 March 2020, allowing attendees to catch up on any missed sessions.
More detail on the program is provided below.
How to be part of the Live Q&As
Q&A sessions will be held in the comment section at the bottom of the relevant blog post.
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There will also be options to ask questions via Twitter and to chat with some authors live on Facebook.
More detail will be provided in the next post.
The sessions are all free.
We’re looking forward to sharing our stories and conversations with you!
Thursday 26 March 2020
3pm, TAF2019 Official Opening and Welcome Ceremony, 30 mins
Welcome to Country, Julie Dunlop, South East Tasmania Aboriginal Corporation
Official Opening of the TAF2019 Hall of Writers Bookfair presented by 26TEN, Cr Bec Enders, Mayor of the Huon Valley
Official Opening of the TAF2019 Murder She Wrote Festival by Her Excellency Professor the Honourable Kate Warner, Governor of Tasmania
4 pm, Panel Session 1: Motive, 51 mins
Opening Remarks on the Murder She Wrote Panel Sessions from the Festival Matron, Dr Alison Alexander
What makes a writer turn to a life of crime?
Angela Savage, David Owen and Chris Gallagher
5.30pm, Panel Session 2: Means, 48 mins
What does it feel like to be shot? How do you perform a post-mortem? What goes through the mind of a serial killer?
Tara Moss, Marta Dusseldorp, Jack Heath and L.J.M. Owen
6.30 pm, Panel Session 3: Opportunity, 52 mins
How do a lawyer and a journalist become crime fiction authors?
Shamini Flint and Meg Keneally
Friday 27 March 2020
3 pm, Panel Session 4: The Mirror Crack’d, 50 mins
How difficult is it for a novelist to land a TV or movie deal? What are the pressures and challenges of translating your work to the screen?
Debi Marshall, Lindy Cameron and Shamini Flint
4.30 pm, Panel Session 5: Pick Your Poison, 53 mins
Cosy? Noir? Thriller? Historical?
Jack Heath, Meg Keneally and Tansy Rayner Roberts
6 pm, Book Launch: PRESENT TENSE by Natalie Conyer, 17 mins
Natalie Conyer, Angela Savage, Lindy Cameron
7 pm, Panel Session 6: Scene of the Crime, 54 mins
What are the challenges of setting your story in another country and creating an authentic sense of place?
Shamini Flint and Angela Savage
Saturday 28 March 2020
12 pm, Panel Session 7: CSI: Tasmania, 49 mins
Tasmania is a rich a source of inspiration for (fictional) foul deeds. The landscape and weather, in particular, seem to captivate writers from across the globe, including - at one time - Agatha Christie.
David Owen, Joanna Baker, Angela Meyer and L.J.M. Owen
1.30 pm, Book Launch by Marta Dusseldorp of The Great Divide, L.J.M. Owen, 28 mins
Twisted Secrets. Hidden Victims. Monstrous Crimes.
with Angela Meyer
2.30 pm, Panel Session 8: The Usual Suspects, 45 mins
How diverse are crime and mystery fiction authors? Is there a difference between the diversity of those who are attracted to writing in the genre and those who are published?
Shamini Flint, Angela Meyer and Angela Savage, introduced by Sulari Gentill
4 pm, Panel Session 9: The Lady Vanishes, 57 mins
How do writers and readers approach crime fiction written by women or featuring female protagonists?
Marta Dusseldorp, Jack Heath and L.J.M. Owen
Sunday 29 March 2020
12 pm, Panel Session 10: The Female Gumshoe, 51 mins
Tara Moss is one of Australia’s most celebrated and dedicated crime fiction authors and her protagonists, Mak Vanderwall and Billie Walker, are two of the country’s strongest women detectives.
Tara Moss and Angela Meyer
1.30 pm, Book Launch: I WANT YOU TO BE THE VICTIM by Eastern Shore Writers Group
Includes an interview with anthology editor Marion Stoneman in the Hall of Writers
2.30 pm, Panel Session 11: Marple vs. Holmes, 54 mins
Why does Sherlock fan-fic abound, yet homages to Miss Marple are few and far between? Both have incredibly sharp minds and observational skills, and Marple brings an element of compassion and understanding of the human condition to her investigations that Holmes lacks.
Joanna Baker, Lindy Cameron, Meg Keneally and L.J.M. Owen
4 pm, Panel Session 12: And Then There Were None, 57 mins
Who is your favourite author from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction?
Joanna Baker, Lindy Cameron, Shamini Flint, Jack Heath, Meg Keneally, Angela Meyer, Tara Moss, L.J.M. Owen, Tansy Rayner Roberts, David Owen and Angela Savage
Details of how to attend will be provided in the next post.
Q&A sessions will initially be held in the comment section at the bottom of blog posts.
Please check you can comment by popping a hello, and perhaps let us know where you’re living, below.
There will also be options to ask questions via Twitter and to chat with some authors live on Facebook.