16-25 October 2026

We're Hiring

Exciting Opportunity

QLF is hiring!

The Queenscliffe Literary Festival (QLF) Committee seeks to contract the services of a single provider or individual providers for three functions:

Event management

In conjunction with the Program Director and committee members, coordinate and oversee the planning and staging of festival events. This includes the main festival, staged over two weekends, in October, providing operational assistance to the Schools Program in May, and a minimum of two pop-up events in July 2026 and January 2027.

Communications / publicity management.

In conjunction with the Program Director and the operations committee develop, design, produce and disseminate QLF communications to promote the QLF and our events to multiple stakeholders. This includes communications / publicity management for the main festival staged over two weekends, a minimum of two pop up events in 2026, and the Schools Program.

Ticketing management

In conjunction with the Festival Manager and the operations sub committee, refine, implement and monitor ticketing systems for all QLF events, including pop-ups and our October festival.

About the Queenscliffe Literary Festival

The Queenscliffe Literary Festival (QLF) brings the best of established and emerging Australian literary talent to the Borough of Queenscliffe and the greater Bellarine community. The festival has become a recognised and anticipated cultural event on the local calendar. The purpose is to curate a lively, intelligent and engaging season of events that stimulates discussion and provides opportunities participation. The program aims to be inclusive, accessible, thought-provoking and diverse. It celebrates Australian literature across fiction, non-fiction, poetry, music, and visual art, and is delivered by an exciting and diverse range of authors, storytellers, and social commentators to the Borough of Queenscliffe and the wider community.

More information about the functions and how to apply can be accessed here: Management Tender Document

Tenders close at 5.00pm on Friday 20 March 2026.

Virginia Todd

President

president@queenscliffeliteraryfestival.com.au

2025 festival lineup announced

We’re rapt to unveil the lineup for our 2025 festival, featuring award-winning writers and household names and, for the first time, an international author.

The stellar Australian list includes Marcia Langton, Peter Greste (sold out), Bob Brown (sold out), Virginia Trioli, Alice Zaslavsky (sold out), Brian Nankervis and Melissa Leong, as well as 2025 Miles Franklin-winner Siang Lu and two previous Stella Prize-winners, poet Evelyn Araluen and novelist Heather Rose.

QLF will host its first-ever international guest in Egyptian-Canadian journalist Omar El Akkad, who’ll be talking with Australian journalist Antoinette Lattouf about global flashpoints including Black Lives Matter and the genocide in Gaza. (Sold out.)

Footy fans can check out Geelong Cats champion Zach Tuohy and ABC broadcaster Catherine Murphy in conversation about their book The Way of the Irish.

Mystery afficianados will enjoy sessions with Sydney author Jane Caro and local crime writers Mark Smith, Christine Keighery and Tanya Scott, and true crime lovers will relish a conversation about podcasting with vereran crime reporter Andrew Rule and ABC investigative journalist Rachael Brown, in which they’ll unpack our fascination with the mushroom murders.

We’ll also—