Toni Jordan

The Emerging Writers' Festival brings writers together – with each other and new audiences – to inspire, create and entertain. It just keeps getting bigger and better … and this year, it gets a new director too, in Sam Twyford Moore.

The fun starts at the 2013 program launch, where four writers will be challenged to leave their comfort zones behind and write well outside their genres.

How will the novelist survive composing experimental cut-up poetry? How will the YA writer create erotica for a very different, very adult audience? And how will the literary critic cope when the tables are turned, and they must come up with something creative?

Be amused (and maybe learn something new) at this genre-bending writers’ challenge.

Nicki Greenberg

Nicki Greenberg is a writer and illustrator with a special interest in sequential art narrative – a fancy way of describing comics. Her latest book is an adaptation of 10565205::Hamlet.

Toni Jordan

Toni Jordan is the author of Addition, Fall Girl and Nine Days.

Andrew McDonald

Andrew McDonald is an author of books for children and young adults.

Luke Ryan

Luke Ryan is a freelance writer, comedian and man about town. He writes short-form non-fiction with a comic edge and is currently working on his debut book, I Guess You’re Only as Sick as You Feel, a comedy memoir about having had cancer a couple of times, due for release through Scribe Publications in late 2013. (rodneyvc)… (more)

Toni Jordan on tour for Nine days.

Meet Toni Jordan, author of Australian World War II saga Nine Days, at a literary wine and cheese evening presented by Get Reading! Set in wartime Melbourne, Nine Days is a novel about one family and every family. It is about dreams and fights and sacrifices. And finally, of course, it is - as it must be - about love. Toni Jordan has harnessed all the spiky wit, compassion and lust for life that drew readers in droves to her previous novels Addition and Fall Girl. About Nine Days It is 1939 and although Australia is about to go to war, it doesn’t quite realise yet that the situation is serious. Deep in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Richmond it is business - your own and everyone else’s - as usual. And young Kip Westaway, failed scholar and stablehand, is living the most important day of his life. Kip’s momentous day is one of nine that will set the course for each member of the Westaway clan in the years that follow. Kip’s mother, his brother Francis and, eventually, Kip's wife Annabel and their daughters and grandson: all find their own turning points, their triumphs and catastrophes, in days to come. But at the heart of all their stories is Kip, and at the centre of Kip’s fifteen-year-old heart is his adored sister Connie. They hold the threads that will weave a family. About Toni Jordan Toni Jordan has a Bachelor of Science in physiology and qualifications in marketing and professional writing. Her debut novel, Addition, was shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award and longlisted for the Miles Franklin in 2009, and has been published in sixteen countries. Toni lives in Melbourne. Find out more about Toni Jordan http://www.tonijordan.com/abouttoni.html Find all Toni Jordan's books in our libraries http://library.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?ENTRY_NA... Find out more about Get Reading! http://www.getreading.com.au/ Dates / Times Arana Hills Library, 17 September 2012, 6.30pm Cost FREE Bookings Bookings for this event are required. Contact Arana Hills Library (07) 3351 3401 AranaHills.library@moretonbay.qld.gov.au (alexdaw)… (more)

Toni Jordan discusses Addition.; Alison Croggon discusses The gift.

Toni Jordan strikes a fabulous blow for resolute individuality with her novel, Addition. It tells the story of Grace, a woman whose obsession with numbers and counting things seriously affects how she lives.
'A stylish, witty and moving love story.' Sigrid Thornton.

Alison Croggon was born in South Africa, has worked as a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald and has won awards for her collections of poetry. Alison has written three novels in the fantasy genre series, Pellinor, with a fourth due for publication in 2008.

Hear Toni and Alison discuss their writing as part of the Books Alive 2008 campaign in conjunction with The Big Book Club.
Bookings: 9389 8600 (Chris-86)… (more)