Here are 10 questions where you have to match the description to the writer.
If you can get five correct, you’re doing pretty well. Anything above that, well you’re a literary genius (in Kyogle at least). Have a go.
Here are the questions, answers at end of the quiz.
1 Which author could describe the pitch for their first book in just two words – feral nuns?
2 This radio commemntator is interviewing her favourite author at the festival.
3 She’s local and she has won the Miles Franklin and countless awards for her books.
4 She was a dairy farmer and launched her first book about a stamp collector in Kyogle earlier this year .
5 She’s a poet and her first collection of poetry is called Two Tongues.
6 This local author is often seen strolling the main street of Kyogle in rainbow coloured trousers.
7 She’s loud and wears bright clothes and she makes Kyogle laugh (sometimes she is naughty, I’ve been told).
8 A crime writer who used to be an inspector for the RSPCA.
9 He is a journo, radio host, YouTuber and TikToker and co-authored a book about one of Kyogle’s locals.
10 She moved to Kyogle from Newcastle a year ago and she is both a writer and publisher.
ANSWERS
1 Marele Day
2 Bridie Tanner from ABC Radio
3 Melissa Lucashenko
4 Dianna Jarman
5 Maria Van Neerven
6 Stan Munro (of course)
7 Odette Nettleton
8 Georgia Harper
9 William Brougham
10 Leanne Murner