LOCAL author Lindsay Simpson has joined the line-up for this year’s Whitsundays Writers Festival.
Dr Simpson is an award-winning author, academic and investigative journalist.
She is the author and co-author of eleven books including the bestselling ‘Brothers in Arms’, co-authored with Sandra Harvey, the subject of the Netflix television mini-series Bikie Wars.
Her historical fiction novel ‘The Curer of Souls’ was shortlisted for the Colin Roderick prize, in 2007, the same year she won, with Sandra, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Australian Crime Writers Association.
Her 2014 book ‘Where is Daniel?’ – written with Daniel’s parents Bruce and Denise Morcombe – investigated Daniel’s disappearance and the subsequent police investigation.
Dr Simpson’s latest book, ‘Following its Dirty Footsteps: Adani’ is a memoir on climate change, which won a Queensland Premier Literary Award, in 2019.
Festival president Karen Jacobsen said she was thrilled.
“We are thrilled to have Lindsay join this year’s program. Her body of work is profound.
“Her meticulous research and passionate telling of important stories often present the reader with uncomfortable and problematic aspects of Queensland and Australian stories that need to be told.”
Lindsay was also an investigative journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald, from 1983-1995, and spent 13 years as an academic as the inaugural Head of Journalism and Media Studies, at the University of Tasmania, and founded the Bachelor of Multimedia Journalism degree, at James Cook University, in 2010.
She now writes full-time and lives in the Whitsundays with her husband Grant. They have their own tourism business running two sailing boats, Providence V and MiLady.
“We look forward to Lindsay’s significant contribution to the festival, sharing insights on responsible and respectful truth telling,” Karen said.
Lindsay joins authors Shankari Chandran, Garry Disher, Sally Hepworth, Kirsty Manning, Christos Tsiolkas, Anne Buist, Graeme Simsion, Karina Kilmore, Melissa Ashley, Jack Roney, Joy Damousi, and Nick Earls for this year’s program.
Festival program highlights and ticket information are available on the festival’s website.
