2026 Festival

Speaker Profile

Adrian Hyland

Adrian Hyland is the award-winning author of Diamond Dove, Gunshot Road and Kinglake-350, which was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction in 2012. He lives in St Andrews, north-east of Melbourne, and teaches at La Trobe University. 

Meet The Crime Writers

Wednesday April 22
Sorrento Portsea RSL
3.00pm / 60 mins

Adrian Hyland and Laura McCluskey with Seth Robinson 

Murderers, I’ve Known A Few: Our crime writers discuss their grizzly process

Friday April 24
Ellen Grant Hall
1.30pm / 60 mins

Candice Fox, Adrian Hyland and Peter Wilmoth