Manly Writer's Festival
I’m excited and honoured to be invited to the second wonderful Manly Writers’ Festival on the New Voices in Fiction panel
2025 Manly Writers’ Festival
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
Come along to the second Manly Writers' Festival—a three-day event for readers, writers, and thinkers celebrating the power and joy of reading, writing and ideas.
Authors include Heather Morris (Tattooist of Auschwitz), Blanche d’Alpuget, Peter Fitzsimons, Hayley Scrivenor, Jane Caro, Julia Baird and more in a jam packed three days including a trivia night, books for sale and more.
Dates: March 28, 2025 to March 30, 2025
Venues:
Friday and Saturday: Darley Smith Building, cnr The Corso & Darley Road, Manly
Friday evening: Manly Spirits Distillery, 9-13 Winbourne Road, Brookvale
Saturday evening: Manly Surf Life Saving Club, cnr Ashburner Street & South Steyne, Manly
Sunday: Manly Golf Club, 38-40 Balgowlah Road, Manly
For further information, and to view the full program, and list of authors and hosts, please visit our website at: www.manlywritersfestival.org.au.
Find us on social media at: BlueSky, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn.
Manly Writers' Festival Inc is a registered charity of the ACNC. Contributions of $2 and above may be tax deductible.
Full festival program here and tickets available here.
Join me, Catherine Greer and Kate Horan chatting about New Voices in Fiction
DATE: Friday 28th March
LOCATION: Darley Smith Building
COST: $22
Discover the fresh voices shaping contemporary fiction in this engaging session with Liz Foster (The Good Woman’s Guide to Making Better Choices), Catherine Greer (Bittersweet Bakery Café), and Northern Beaches local Kate Horan (The Inheritance). Join them as they discuss their inspirations, creative processes, and what it means to bring new energy and ideas to the world of fiction.
Host: Liz Deep-Jones
Harry Hartogs Mosman Author Talk
Come along and celebrate the opening of the new Harry Hartogs Mosman - three literary luminaries plus me!
Mount Beauty Writers Festival Attending Author
Come and enjoy the stories of award winning authors, from thriller and crime novelists, biographies, romance, lifestyle and adventure! Experience an intimate connection and celebration of books with the amazing authors who write them, all taking place in the picturesque Alpine setting of Mount Beauty Victoria.
Author talk with Jodi Gibson
Come and here Liz chat to local author Jodi Gibson about her writing process and journey to publication.
Writing Workshop - Older protagonists
Come and join a fun and interactive creative writing workshop
A North Shore Book Affair
Do you enjoy reading romance? Do you wonder what it's like to pick an author's brain, or simply get a book signed by them?
Come and meet a group of (mostly) Australian indie authors who come together in the heart of Lane Cove to celebrate romance and give back to the reading community.
Feel-good fiction Author talk with Amber Jakeman
Come along and hear local authors Amber Jakeman and Liz Foster chat about their latest novels, their writing process and why feelgood fiction is so popular.
Cardinal Freeman Author Talk
Liz will be chatting to residents of the Cardinal Freeman retirement village about her inspiration for her feel-good bookclub fiction novel, including inspiration for lighter moments gained from working in a local nursing home.
Author Book Signing
Come along and chat to Liz at Novella Fine Books, Wahroonga about all things fraud and goat’s cheese.
Mothers' Day Book Signing
Come along and meet three Aussie authors and chat about their novels - all perfect gift ideas for Mothers’ Day.
Manly Library Book Chat with Jen Galland
Join debut author Liz Foster as she discusses her contemporary fiction The Good Woman's Guide to Making Better Choices.
Lane Cove Library Q&A with Ber Carroll
Ber (B.M.) Carroll in conversation with Liz Foster talking about her debut novel, The Good Woman’s Guide to Making Better Choices. A warm, funny, and outrageously unfair novel about deception, financial fraud and goat’s cheese, and starting over.
Chatswood Library Author Talk
How well do you ever really know your husband? And how did Libby - a thoroughly decent straighty one-eighty who's never even had a speeding ticket - end up with Ludo?
Come and hear Liz talk about A Good Woman’s Guide to Making Better Choices, a warm, funny and outrageously unfair novel about deception, financial fraud and goat's cheese, and the possibility of starting your life all over again when everything goes south of the border.
Book Launch, Gallery Lane Cove
The talented and wonderful author Joanna Nell will be asking Liz questions about the novel, her journey to publication and how it feels to be launching her very first book.