Welcome to the 2025 Capricorn Coast Writers Festival
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!
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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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
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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!
SANDRA MAKARESZ &
LORI-JAY ELLIS
Student Short Story Writing Competition
The Capricorn Coast Writers Festival is supported by Livingstone Shire Council and Keppel Coast Arts.
The Regional Arts Development Fund is a Queensland Government program through Arts Queensland and Livingstone Shire Council partnership to support local arts and culture.
The Regional Arts Development Fund is a Queensland Government program through Arts Queensland and Livingstone Shire Council partnership to support local arts and culture.
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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.