Musicland at the 2026 Byron Writers Festival

Tricia will be appearing at the Byron Writers Festival to launch Musicland on August 15th 4:30-5:30 on the Bay Street Stage with Shane Howard (Goanna), Murray Burns (Mi-Sex) and Mark Pope (music industry legend). This is a free event.

About the Byron Writers Festival

Australia’s favourite regional meeting place of storytelling and ideas. Byron Writers Festival is the largest regional writers festival in Australia. It showcase writers from around the world, representing all aspects of contemporary literature, especially First Nations writing and ways of knowing, environment, politics, philosophy, art, history and society.

Established in 1995, at the heart of the Northern Rivers, the festival and year-round programs engage tens of thousands of audience members annually to develop and promote literature from and in the region.

Our artistic vision is to deliver world-class programs that provide transformative experiences for authors and audiences, and to ensure everybody is able to enjoy a life enriched by books, stories and ideas.

Byron Writers Festival delivers profound cultural, social and economic impact to NSW and Australia. We present a major cultural event in regional NSW, which 50% of our audience travels to attend. We support the careers of writers, a culture of literature and literacy, and experience tourism in our region.

Through our vibrant year-round program, we celebrate diverse Australian writers and stories, engage audiences with new ideas, and enhance access to literature and literacy for people regionally and nationally.

Find out more here