Reading and writing : a criminal venture

It’s villainous to miss out on this year’s Reader and Writers Festival.

With investigative journalist Caroline Overington as the keynote speaker, anyone interested in psychological thrillers should not miss out.

Overington is a two time winner of the Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism, and she is a past winner of the Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Blake Dawson Prize, and the Davitt Prize.

She has written 11 books including this year’s thriller, The One Who Got Away, an unsettling psychological thriller for fans of Girl on a Train and Gone Girl.

Central West Libraries manager Jan Richards said “we are very pleased to welcome the Orange Regional Arts Foundation onboard as this year’s sponsor.”

“And we are also absolutely thrilled to have a high calibre writer such as Caroline Overington giving the keynote address at the Festival.”

“This year’s theme is Villain Attraction – a look at our obsession with villains in storytelling.”

“We will have a great line up of writers exploring this topic and lots of stimulating discussion,” Jan said.

The festival gets under way at the Hotel Canobolas on Saturday 9 July 10am to 5pm.

A feature of the event will be a writing workshop held on Sunday 10 July by local author and editor Kim Kelly about how to write engaging characters.

Tickets to the festival will be $60 and available from Orange City Library. The writing workshop tickets will be $35.