DAYLESFORD | Words in Winter Festival
16-18 August 2019
Welcome to Words in Winter 2019
Words in Winter is an annual literary and arts festival held in August each year in the Hepburn Shire and surrounding districts. Words in Winter is a celebration of words, stories and ideas in all their forms shared by locals and visiting presenters through readings, poetry, theatre, music, talks, workshops, visiting authors, and exhibitions.
You can find out more about the festival here
Cover image by Josh Bowes @drystonejackson
2018 Festival Highlights
2018 Competition Winners
Poetry Prize Winner
Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Award Winner:
Shari Kocher – Ode to Earth
Typwriters in Cafes
Drusilla Dickenson-Bray
With and entertaining story about pillow forts…
Short Story Winner
Suzanne McKinley
With her story But You Always Have the Carbonara.
Story Slam Winner
Winner of the inaugural Mosquito Story Slam:
Rania Awad
“We live by stories. It’s the principle by which we organize our experience and thus derive our sense of who we are. ”
Tobias Wolf
Our Sponsors
Words in Winter is an annual literary and arts festival held in August each year in the Hepburn Shire and surrounding districts.