2026 Festival
Speaker Profile
Anna Snoekstra
Anna Snoekstra is a bestselling author. Her novels have been published in over twenty countries and sixteen languages. She has written for many literary magazines and newspaper and is a profile writer for The Saturday Paper. Her new novel The Ones We Love (Ultimo Press) is in bookstores now. Her Penguin Audio Exclusives audio novella The End of The Ski Season was released in October 2025.
The Family Dynamic: Literature’s gift that keeps on giving
Friday April 24
Ellen Grant Hall
10.30am
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60 mins
Tim Ayliffe, Toni Jordan and Anna Snoekstra with Jaclyn Crupi
Edge Of My Seat... Creating suspense and surprise in modern fiction
Friday April 24
Ellen Grant Hall
12.00pm
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60 mins
Laura McCluskey, Jock Serong and Anna Snoekstra with Charlotte Guest
How do writers create page-turning suspense for their readers? And how difficult is it to create tension around The Big Reveal?