Welcome to the 2025 Capricorn Coast Writers' Festival
We are delighted to be back for our fourth Capricorn Coast Writers' Festival, to be held from May 30th to June 1st, 2025.
We have a packed program for readers and writers alike, presented by many exciting and well-known, award-winning authors and industry professionals.
The adult general workshops will show writers many ways to improve their 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.
The full program is on the 2025 Festival Program page.
MEET OUR PRESENTERS
If you are a writer or a reader you will get the chance to meet, mingle and buy a signed book from these wonderful authors.
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Select their photos or the button below to learn more about our presenters.
QWC Writers Consults
What now? What next? Critique? Edit? Publish? Courses?
Get 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.
Limited spaces available, don’t miss out!
Lori-Jay Ellis
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Sandra Marakesz
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Select their photo or the button above to learn more about these presenters.
STUDENT SHORT STORY WRITING COMPETITION
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The Student Short Story Competition is back.
The 2025 CCWF Student Short Story Competition is open to all school students enrolled in schools within the Livingstone Shire. Go to the Schools' Program page to get the details. |
Volunteer |
Donate or Partner |
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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 email us directly, and don’t forget to tell us a little about yourself. We can’t wait to meet you!
To donate, partner or volunteer, please email [email protected] Capricorn Coast Writers Festival is supported by the Keppel Coast Arts Council |
The Capricorn Coast Writers Festival would not be here if not for the generosity and support of our business and local communities.
All proceeds from ticket sales go towards festival running costs. This includes engaging the best and brightest in the industry to present workshops and events. If you would like to donate, please contact us. [email protected] |
OUR PARTNERS
Keppel Coast Arts 
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We respectfully acknowledge the Darumbal people, the Traditional Owners and Native Title Holders of the land on which we meet, and pay respect to their elders past, present and future.spiration – all against the backdrop of the beautiful Capricorn Coast.
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