2026 Festival

Speaker Profile

Katrina Strickland

Katrina Strickland is a senior writer with Good Weekend magazine. She is a former editor of both Good Weekend and The Australian Financial Review Magazine and has held arts editor roles at both the AFR and The Australian. Her book, Affairs of the Art, about the widows and widowers who control the estates of some of Australia's most renowned artists, was published by Melbourne University Publishing in 2013.

Urgency Of The Here And Now: How the modern world inspires our writing

Friday April 24
Hotel Sorrento (Cooper Room)
4.30pm / 60 mins

Evelyn Araluen, Clare Stephens and Sarah Walker with Katrina Strickland 

Smashed Avos: And other challenges for the first-time home owner

Saturday April 25
Portsea Surf Life Saving Club
1.00pm / 60 mins

Chris Kohler, Bernard Salt and Katrina Strickland