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Okay writers, readers, fans in general of the written word, listen up. Create has double passes to two of the Sydney Writers' Festivals most exciting sessions, and we want to give them away.

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If you could be reincarnated as any writer (past or present) who would it would be, and why.

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Here's what you could be going to see ...

Blake Morrison in Conversation

Blake Morrison

A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and former Chair of the Poetry Book Society and Vice-Chair of PEN, Blake Morrison has written fiction, poetry, journalism, literary criticism and libretti, as well as adapting plays for the stage. His best-known works are his two memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father? which has recently been made into a film starring Colin Firth and Things My Mother Never Told Me. He also has a new novel, South of the River, described by one critic as a kind of English The Corrections. He talks to Sunil Badami.

Sunil Badami

Sunil Badami has an Honours degree in communications from UTS and a Masters with distinction in creative and life writing from Goldsmiths College, The University of London. He has written for publications including The Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, The Australian, The Australian Literary Review, The Cultural Studies Review and Meanjin. His short story ‘Collective Silences’ is included in the 2007 Best Australian Short Stories. He is completing his first novel.

When & Where: Friday, May 23rd, 1.00-2.00pm, Pier 2/3, Downstairs, Pier 2/3, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay

Sarah Hall in Conversation

Sarah Hall

One of the UK’s hottest young literary talents, Sarah Hall’s The Electric Michelangelo was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize. Her new novel The Carhullan Army, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, is a futuristic and dystopian fable which takes us to a point in the future to the point at which the hand that rocks the cradle must pick up a gun. She talks to Faith Liddell.

Faith Liddell

Faith Liddell is Director of Festivals Edinburgh, the organisation that leads on the joint strategic direction of Edinburgh’s 12 major festivals and is a former Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

When & Where: Thursday, May 22nd, 4.00-5.00pm, Pier 2/3, Upstairs Writers’ Salon, Pier 2/3, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay

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