CAPRICORN COAST WRITERS' FESTIVAL
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Welcome to the 2025 Capricorn Coast Writers Festival
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​Hello and a warm Cap Coast Welcome to  Stories By The Sea 2025. We are delighted to be back for our fourth Capricorn Coast Writers Festival, to be held from 30 May to 1 June 2025.

We are as keen as ever to bring a high calibre, welcoming and inclusive festival to our wonderfully creative community. We love that our readers and writers don’t have to travel far to attend a writer’s festival - it’s right here on their doorstep. Holding an arts event such as ours in regional Queensland is, we feel, an important step in addressing isolation  and a major goal is to tell the world about this fabulous corner of the country. Sometimes described as a country town at the seaside, Yeppoon is full of friendly locals, excellent eateries, unique shopping  and an array of accommodation options to suit all pockets. We have galleries on the coast, plenty of street art and an abundance of creativity. Our beaches are spectacular, and we are just a stone’s throw from the Keppel Islands - paradise!
​​To find out more about our  beautiful  festival location 
VISIT CAPRICORN

​The  2025 Festival Program 

The  workshops program will cover topics to improve writing in all genres, and there will be specialised workshops in Romance, Crime, Writing for Children, Memoir and Historic Fiction, Author Consults, Crime Writers' Consults, a reading event for children at the Yeppoon Library, and much more. ​We have a packed program for readers and writers alike, presented by the best of the best. There is something for everyone and we can’t wait to share the festival with you all.
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MEET THE 2025 PRESENTERS 
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ALEESAH DARLISON
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BARBARA HANNAY
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GENEVE FLYNN
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GARY CREW
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JACK RONEY
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RICHARD YAXLEY

QWC Writers Consults


​What now? What next? Critique? Edit? Publish? Courses?
You can book yourself a one-on-one consult with either Lori-Jay Ellis   or   Sandra Makaresz  from the Queensland Writers Centre.   
Spend half an hour with a QWC expert talking about your writing/career.
Spaces are limited, so be quick!
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SANDRA MAKARESZ & LORI-JAY ELLIS
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Student Short Story Writing Competition


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The 2025 CCWF 
Student Short Story Competition
 
 is open to all school students enrolled in schools within the Livingstone Shire.
 
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The Capricorn  Coast Writers Festival is supported by  Livingstone Shire Council and Keppel Coast Arts. 
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The Regional Arts Development Fund is a Queensland Government program through Arts Queensland and Livingstone Shire Council partnership to support local arts and culture.

Join our Volunteers

Donate or Partner


A great event doesn’t just happen, we need you too! We’ll need friendly faces to greet and assist festival visitors and help set up and pack away venues.

If you would like to volunteer your time over the festival weekend, please send us your details on this link. We can’t wait to meet you!
JOIN THE VOLUNTEER TEAM

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The Capricorn Coast Writers Festival relies on the generosity and support of our business and local  communities.   To donate and help us  engage the best and brightest in the industry to join the festival program  please scan the  QR CODE 
Or follow this link ​https://www.trybooking.com/au/donate/ccwf


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We respectfully acknowledge the Darumbal people, the Traditional Owners  of the land on which we meet and we pay respect to their elders past and  present.   
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  • Home
    • About
    • Contact
  • Schools' Program
    • Students' entry Form
  • 2025 Festival Program
    • Writing for Children
    • Festival Opening Event
    • Creating Memorable Characters
    • Creating Place
    • Creating Conflict and Suspense
    • Saturday Evening Event
    • Writing Romance
    • Writing your first novel
    • Writing Crime
    • Author Panels
    • Storytime
    • Crime Writer Author Consults
    • Author Consults
  • 2025 Presenters
  • TICKETS
  • LOCAL AUTHOR EXPO