Six panel events. Six interactive installations. Three launches. Dozens of panellists, guest artists and volunteers. Hundreds of attendees.
Presenting Odyssey Literary Festival 2024.
Photography by Brett Magnuson, Emmy Brown, Luke Peck and Sequoia Pather.
Phase I: Emergence
Colour between the lines: the magic of graphic storytelling
Read through the chaos: why teen lit matters
Phase II: Rites of passage
See the in-betweeners: the rise of New Adult fiction
In conversation: Yannick Thoraval’s The Marriage Gap Year
Phase III: The approach
Talk to the body: poetry in motion
Imagine tomorrow: facing our fears through speculative fiction
Anthology Launches
Visible Ink magazine and At What Cost anthology launches
Phases / Futures, the theme of Odyssey Literary Festival for 2024, examines what it means to create and read throughout our lives. It seeks to guide you through life’s phases and inspire you through your futures.
How does what we read change from childhood to adulthood? How does what we read change us?
In 2024, we took our audience on an epic literary journey through life’s liminal stages – from childhood to adolescence, coming of age to midlife malaise, to the ageing body and the great beyond. Together we reckoned with the legacies we leave behind – all through the lens of reading, writing and creativity.