Scribe at the Canberra Writers Festival

Join Scribe authors Rachael Brown, Gwynne Dyer and Ross McMullin at the 2018 Canberra Writers Festival.

Rachael Brown is a broadcast journalist. In 2002, after graduating from RMIT, she began her career with the ABC, where she has held several postings, including Europe correspondent from 2010 to 2013. In 2008, she won her first Walkley Award, for Best Radio Current Affairs Report, for her investigation into the Victorian Medical Practitioners Board whose negligence contributed to the sexual assaults of a dozen women. Rachael was the creator, investigator, and host of the ABC's first true-crime podcast, Trace, which won the 2017 Walkley Award for Innovation. The podcast also won two 2017 Quill Awards: for Innovation, and for Best Podcast. Trace is her first book. Rachael lives in Melbourne, Victoria.

Sunday 26 August: Who Killed Maria James?

Ross McMullin is a historian and biographer who has written extensively about Australia's involvement in World War I. Dr McMullin’s biographies include the award-winning Pompey Elliott and Will Dyson: Australia’s radical genius. He also wrote the commissioned ALP centenary history, The Light on the Hill, and another political history, So Monstrous a Travesty: Chris Watson and the world’s first national labour government. His book, Farewell, Dear People: biographies of Australia’s lost generation, was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History. His most recent book is Pompey Elliot at War: In His Own Words.

Sunday 26 August: Pompey Elliot at War
Sunday 26 August: Villers-Bretonneux

Gwynne Dyer has worked as a freelance journalist, columnist, author, broadcaster, and lecturer on international affairs for more than 20 years. His twice-weekly column on international affairs is published by 175 newspapers in some 45 countries and is translated into more than a dozen languages. He is the author of several books, including War, Future: Tense, The Mess They Made, Climate Wars and Growing Pains.

Friday 24 August: On the Brink
Saturday 25 August: In Conversation with Richard Fidler
Saturday 25 August: New World Disorder