2026 Festival

Speaker Profile

Konrad Marshall

Konrad Marshall is an acclaimed longform journalist specialising in sport, art and science, and is currently deputy editor of Good Weekend magazine. He is the author of Yellow & Black: A Season with Richmond (2017), and has collaborated on memoirs with everyone from tennis icon Ash Barty to AFL transgender advocate Danielle Laidley. He is the only two time winner of the Harry Gordon Australian Sports Journalist of the Year.

Is Sport Truly A Level Playing Field?

Sunday April 26
Sorrento Bowls Club
10.30am / 60 mins

Rana Hussain, Konrad Marshall and Caroline Wilson with Emma Race 

The Game/Race/Tournament Via Me: A discussion about sportswriting

Sunday April 26
Sorrento Bowls Club
12.00pm / 60 mins

Konrad Marshall, Martin McKenzie-Murray with Rose Donohoe

Newspaper sports sections - and sporting books - still produce some of journalism’s best reporting and finest writing. Our panel discusses why.