Sydney Writers' Festival

HEATHER O'NEILL (INTERNATIONAL)
Heather O’Neill is a contributor to This American Life and her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine. Her childhood was divided between Virginia with her mother and Montreal with her father. She now lives in Montreal, Canada with her family. Lullabies for Little Criminals is her first novel. It was recently shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.

Heather O’Neill’s participation in Sydney Writers’ Festival is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

appearing at...
193: The Big Reading
213: Heather O’Neill in Conversation
250: Under the Influence

HELEN O'NEILL (LOCAL)
Helen O'Neill is an award-winning journalist whose articles appear in the UK, USA, Australasia and Asia. A former staff journalist for The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald and Vogue Australia, her latest biography, Florence Broadhurst: Her Secret and Extraordinary Lives, won the Australian Publishers Association’s Book of the Year Award. It was a finalist in the Walkley Awards and The Age Book of the Year, and is published in Australia and the USA. Documentaries on which Helen has worked have screened worldwide.

appearing at...
281: Australian Lives

ROSLYN OADES (LOCAL)
Roslyn Oades is a theatre director/creator. Her productions include Fast Cars & Tractor Engines and Stories of Love & Hate for Urban Theatre Projects.

appearing at...
315: From Oral History to Contemporary Performance

MELANIE OSTELL (INTERSTATE)
Melanie Ostell has more than 20 years' experience in Australian book publishing. In 2007 she went freelance after 10 years at Text Publishing. While senior editor at Text she worked with many award-winning writers including Tim Flannery, J.M. Coetzee, Kate Grenville and Lloyd Jones.

appearing at...
348: Workshop: An Insider’s Guide to Getting Published with Melanie Ostell
336: Workshop: An Insider’s Guide to Getting Published with Melanie Ostell
55: Workshop: An Insider’s Guide to Getting Published with Melanie Ostell
159: Small Stories, Big Politics
178: Imagining History
289: Steve Toltz in Conversation

DEBRA OSWALD (LOCAL)
Debra Oswald is a Sydney-based playwright and author. She writes for film, television, stage and radio, and has published a number of novels for children. Her play, Stories in the Dark, has won the 2008 Play Award.

appearing at...
45: Readings from the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards