Scone Literary Festival

It is with great disappointment that The Scone Literary Festival (SLF) announced major changes to its eagerly anticipated March festival due to the uncertainty and anxiety with COVID.

A modified, community-focussed outdoor event is being planned to replace the packed, mostly indoor-focussed three-day program that featured a very diverse range of topics, activities and speakers.

The SLF Committee hope to stage the planned, full three-day festival on the second weekend of November this year. Full refunds will be provided to those who have already purchased tickets.

Picnic style events such as the Picnic in the Park at Murrurundi with Hunter author, Paula Beavan on Sunday March 13 can be expected, and there’s a high likelihood that the popular Bush Poets’ Breakfast will also be part of the modified program.
The writing competitions – Farmers Short Story Writing competition and Write Up for high schoolers in the Upper Hunter and Muswellbrook LGAs – proceed as planned.

More details on the modified, community event for the weekend of March 11-13 will be announced shortly.