BYRON BAY WRITERS FESTIVAL
Screenworks Top Picks at the Byron Bay Writers Festival
Screenworks is sponsoring the following session at this year’s festival.
 Voices in my head: writing dialogue that works
Voices in my head features playwright and screenwriter Hannie Rayson, novelist Kate Veitch and actor, novelist and screenwriter Tasma Walton, wrangled by notable editor Virginia Lloyd. Under discussion will be the essential art of creating credible dialogue and three women are experts in the field. In Tasma's case, of course, there is the added perspective of an actor who must speak the words of others on a professional basis. What do you do when the actor says "My character wouldn't say that?" Can the writer simply say "well, my character does"? How does the creative relationship work betwen writer and performer: how does a fiction writer create dialogue to be read on a page? Are the techniques different? This is the basis of a session that wil appeal to practitioners and those simply wanting to know how it's done.
Byron Bay Writers Festival
Friday 6th August 1.30pm - 2.30pm
Day pass required
pictured: Tasma Walton, photo by Liz Ham
Fit to be seen is a session exploring the adaptation of page to screen, or stage to screen. Ross Grayson Bell was creative producer of Fight Club, adapted from Chuck Palahniuk's novel of the same name. It is often twinned in discussion with American Psycho, the instant cult classic adapted from the groundbreaking fiction from Bret Easton Ellis. In fact, every one of Bret's novels and anthologies has been turned into films. Hannie Rayson joins them: her celebrated play Hotel Sorrento was made into a successful Australian film. The conversation will hit upon the good and bad experiences, how characters leap from one medium to another, how stories are transfomed and perceptions altered. How image complements word.
SCREENWORKS MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO MEET ROSS GRAYSON BELL IN THE FESTIVAL BAR IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THIS SESSION
Byron Bay Writers Festival
Saturday 7th August 3.00 - 4.00 pm
Day pass required
 Clever clever men focuses very tightly on writing satire for perfomanc and we're proud that three giants have put their ink stained hands up to participate. John Doyle, Tony Martin and Tim Pye are no slouches when it comes to making us laugh, but there is often a barb in the message. Learn the pupose of satire, how they get away with it and be prepared to let loose.
Byron Bay Writers Festival
Sunday 8th August 3.00pm - 4.00pm
Day pass required
The comedy hour. Or two. Invaluable to those writing comedy for small or large screen. Join an alarmingly sharp and devilishly clever of Australian writers of comedy and satire as they dissect their process of writing, making us laugh, making us cry and all the bits in between. Learn their influences and anxieties, share the moments when they feel they’ve gone too far. Lily Bragge, John Doyle, Tony Martin, Tim Pye and Akmal Saleh are ready and waiting to spill the beans on funny business. Who’s brave enough to keep them in check?
Saturday 7th August 8pm
Byron Bay Community Centre
Tickets $45
All tickets and passes available on line www.byronbaywritersfestival.com or p 6685 6262
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