Sydney Writers' Festival: Author Talk with Jock Serong

For Sydney Writers’ Festival, we’re journeying into a novel about legacy, community, wonder, love, and reinvention with Jock Serong.

“Between the familiar and the magical comes a novel of romantic vision ... Rarely is historical fiction this fraught and alive.” – The Sydney Morning Herald.

What connects an impulsive Scottish industrialist in 1916 Edinburgh and a frustrated lawyer dropping into the pub for a bottle of wine in 1993 Melbourne?

From multi-award-winning author Jock Serong comes Cherrywood, an imaginative, darkly playful and deeply meaningful delight; a novel about legacy, community, wonder, love and reinvention. Join Jock Serong in conversation with Amy Sambrooke.

Tea, coffee and light refreshments will be provided.

The session is $5 per person. Bookings are essential.

QBD the Booksellers will be there. Purchase one of Jock's books to have it personally signed.

Please advise us on 4732 7891 if you have accessibility requirements for this session.

About Jock Serong

Jock Serong is the author of seven novels. He is also the founding editor of Great Ocean Quarterly and his non-fiction work appears in publications from The Guardian and The Monthly to Surfing World and Patagonia's Roaring Journals. Jock writes for the screen and teaches writing to rooms that are sometimes filled with judges and sometimes prisoners. He is a board member of Melbourne's Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas. His latest novel is the urban fairytale Cherrywood.

About Amy Sambrooke

Amy Sambrooke is a creative producer and facilitator and manages the professional development masterclass program at Varuna, the National Writers' House. Formerly the Creative Director of Varuna and the Blue Mountains Writers' Festival (2017–2023), Amy has held senior roles in program leadership, education and communications in the arts and in public policy. Amy started her career as a producer at ABC Sydney and is a graduate of Macquarie University and the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.