Fantasy fiction legend Garth Nix joins the festival We're thrilled to announce our next headline author for the 2026 Dandenong Ranges Literary Festival: fantasy fiction legend Garth Nix OAM. If you’ve ever travelled the Old Kingdom subduing the restless dead with Sabriel, Lirael or Abhorsen, or solved a supernatural mystery alongside The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, … [Read more...] about Fantasy fiction legend Garth Nix joins the festival!
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Sally Hepworth to discuss new novel at Festival
Sally Hepworth to discuss new novel at Festival We are thrilled to announce that bestselling author Sally Hepworth will discuss her new novel Mad Mabel, and everything writing, at this year’s Dandenong Ranges Literary Festival. Fresh from rave reviews of her novel - and a stint on the big screens in New York’s Times Square - Sally will join Kerryn Mayne for a special In … [Read more...] about Sally Hepworth to discuss new novel at Festival
Best-selling children’s authors in special Literary Festival events
Best-selling children’s authors share their skills in special Literary Festival events The Dandenong Ranges Literary Festival will this year host two incredible children’s events with best-selling authors Zeno Sworder and George Ivanoff in partnership with Belgrave Library, as part of Book Week and the September school holidays. George Ivanoff is a Melbourne author of … [Read more...] about Best-selling children’s authors in special Literary Festival events
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Scrublands author Chris Hammer to open Dandenong Ranges Literary Festival Chris Hammer, one of Australia’s leading Australian crime fiction writers and author of the hugely successful and award-winning novel Scrublands, will launch an expanded Dandenong Ranges Literary Festival in October. Hammer, who has sold more than 1.5 million books around the world and won the … [Read more...] about Media Release
Do you live for fantasy or real-life yarns?
More than fantasy: capturing the YA audience What makes a great book for young adults? How do you capture the attention of readers who have so many distractions with social media, which provides instant gratification and little effort? Writers of three different styles of young adult books will discuss what they think it takes to engage the YA audience at the … [Read more...] about Do you live for fantasy or real-life yarns?