Love YA Festival: Love, relationships and the extraordinary existence of ordinary human beings
Authors Christine Bongers, Deb Fitzpatrick and Daniel Herborn discuss love, relationships and the extraordinary existence of ordinary humans in YA Fiction.
Brisbane-based Christine Bongers is a former radio and television journalist who is now happier writing fiction. Her novels for young people include Dust, and Henry Hoey Hobson. Intruder is her latest novel for teens.
Deb Fitzpatrick lives and works in Fremantle, Western Australia. She is the author of The Amazing Spencer Gray, a novel for younger readers (2013). Her two novels for young adults – 90 Packets of Instant Noodles (2010) and Have You Seen Ally Queen? (2011) – were both awarded Notable Books by the Children’s Book Council of Australia. The Break is her first book for adult readers.
Daniel Herborn is the author of contemporary young adult novel You’re the Kind of Girl I Write Songs About, released in 2015. A tale of first love and dive bars set in Sydney’s Inner West, it has been described as “the perfect mixtape of a novel” by Cath Crowley. His writing about popular culture has appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Financial Review, The Big Issue, Australian Book Review, Eureka Street, Good Reading, Time Out Sydney and many more. He has worked as an Intellectual Property lawyer and public servant and lives in Sydney.
Presented in partnership with Brisbane Writers Festival.