2026 Festival
Speaker Profile
Miranda Darling
Miranda Darling is a writer, poet and co-founder of Vanishing Pictures. She read English and Modern Languages at Oxford then took a Masters in Strategic Studies and Defence from the ANU (GSSD). She became an adjunct scholar at a public policy think tank, specialising in non-traditional security threats. Her novels, Thunderhead and Fireweather, are published by Scribe.
The Character Lab: Discovering the people who tell my story
Sunday April 26
Hotel Sorrento (Cooper Room)
9.00am
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60 mins
Miranda Darling, Tara Moss and JP Pomare with Rosemarie Milsom
Fiction writers get to make up stuff. They can also create their own characters with whatever kinds of foibles, weaknesses, or strengths they wish. So how much fun is that?
How Did I Come Up With That? Three fiction writers reveal their ideas
Sunday April 26
Hotel Sorrento (Cooper Room)
10.30am
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60 mins
Miranda Darling, Bri Lee, Murray Middleton with Mel Fulton