Join us for a very special Closing Night of Berry Writers’ Festival 2026. Tim Winton is one of Australia’s most decorated living writers — a four-time Miles Franklin winner (Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music, Breath) and twice Booker-shortlisted. Raised in Western Australia, he’s spent his career writing the state’s coastline into literature.
Tim Winton will join us to discuss his latest book, Songs From the Firefront, a memoir in essays about the fragility of existence. From memories of his own childhood to what he sees in his grandchildren’s future, Songs from the Firefront is a call for solidarity and a testament to the deep joys and sorrows of family life.
Profoundly personal, infused with anger, humour and love – for family, for our beautiful and brutal Australian landscape – Tim Winton’s writing reminds us why it is that words matter and asks the question, how do we keep going in a burning world?
