One of Rosalie Writers Festival’s favourite authors, Jon Doust, has been placed on the ‘long list’ of 12 for the Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel, Bird on a Wire.
Jon will be at the festival again this year for a full day, and will host the opening breakfast. He then shoots off to Sydney to promote his book, although he assured us that he would rather stay at Rosalie for the whole three days if he could – it being his favourite festival!
Also on the list is Craig Silvey, who spoke at the Wine and Words night for our very first festival in 2004 – just after the publication of his first novel, Rhubarb. Craig would have come along to this year’s festival, but he will be in London promoting his second book, Jasper Jones.
Here’s a message for us from Craig:
“Thanks so much for thinking of me for the Rosalie festival, but unfortunately I’m London bound this winter for Jasper’s various European adventures, so, short of a satellite link-up, I’ll be unable to attend…
thanks again for getting in touch, and best of luck with this year’s festival. Hopefully I can be involved in the years to come…”
You can read all about Jon and Craig’s success here:
WA Writers Listed for Miles Franklin Award
Posted in Festival presenters. Permalink for this post: permalink.
| 
Stumble It
edward, are you the guy who nearly died on the back row?
sorry.
i’m at the airport now.
flying to sydney.
i really wanted to hang around with you funks at rosalie.
and i wanted to play british bulldog, that game where you catch people running at you and maybe get injured and have to go to hospital with a broken arm, or leg, or even a small finger, ’cause it looked dangerous and i love a bit of danger.
ok.
Arrrrrrrr!
they ARE CALLING MY PLANE!
bugger.
missed it!
ok, i’m coming back to rosalie.
ha ha.
sorry.
i made that up.
say gidday to everyone from me.
edward, go good.
go well.
go slightly crazy.
jon doust
Hi Jon
I really enjoyed your talk today.
Your story about the magpies and the cross walk made me laugh a lot.Please come back to Rosalie again.
Thanks.
Edward Pownall.
Year 4, Rosalie.