'Playwright HANNIE RAYSON , 63, is curator of the Yarra Valley Writers Festival, to be held in May. She feels writers are no strangers to isolation. The Yarra Valley Writers Festival is happening next month for the first time and despite the coronavirus it has avoided the chopping block. How?'
'Being Charles Dickens’s youngest son would have been hard work, as Tom Keneally tells Stephen Romei'
'It’s extraordinary to think how swiftly our lives have been upended by coronavirus. Rewind the calendar a few months and we were spending our Saturday mornings having breakfast at cafes, or turning up for our favourite gym class or boot camp, or going to the beach with friends or to the shops for a wander, or any other number of social gatherings that make the weekend feel like a respite.'
