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 / 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 / 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?