ACT Writing & Publishing Awards Night

The Street Theatre 15 Childers Street, Canberra City, ACT, Australia

From the website: Please join us for a fun-filled evening to celebrate the 2019 ACT Writing & Publishing award winners, and the end of a wonderful year. This year we're pleased to be hosting our night of nights at The Street Theatre in Canberra city. Ticket bookings are required.

$30

Something in Lake Burley Griffin

National Library of Australia Parkes Place, Canberra, ACT, Australia

From the website: Join two world-class writers and old friends, Garth Nix and Felicity Packard, as they chat about their childhood and university years growing up in Canberra; their work; and their most recent venture together, a pilot for Amazon Studios adapted from Garth’s Old Kingdom books.

In Conversation with Kaaron Warren

Harry Hartog Bookseller, ANU Australian National University, 153-11 University Avenue, Acton, ACT, Australia

From the website: Join Kaaron Warren in conversation with Paul Mannering and Joseph Ashley Smith as they discuss her critically-acclaimed new novella, Into Bones Like Oil.

Romance Writing – Love, Lust and Longing

CIT Bruce 35 Vowels Crescent, Bruce, ACT, Australia

From the website: Are you ready for romance? This one-day, writing intensive boot camp puts the best-selling genre under the spotlight. You’ll learn about the four pillars of romance, how to create tension (even when the reader is confident of a Happy Ever After) and how to write convincing relationships [...]

$175

BookFest – Goulburn Reader Writer Festival

184 Bourke Street Goulburn NSW 2580 184 Bourke Street, Goulburn, NSW, Australia

From the website: Come and celebrate all things books at the BookFest - Goulburn Reader Writer Festival. The Festival includes: Special guest author talks and book signings by Jane Caro, Peter FitzSimons, Sulari Gentill, Richard Glover and Markus Zusak Adults writing workshop with author Nigel Featherstone From Artist to Published […]

Swancon 2020

From the website: Swancon is WA's annual speculative fiction convention celebrating Science Fiction, fantasy, and other speculative fiction genres. We like to talk about books, TV and pop-culture. It is the longest continuously running science fiction convention in Australia. We also like to play quidditch, live action foosball and kitkat [...]

$200

CoNZealand 2020

The 78th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Wellington, New Zealand.

NZD400