Events:

Karen is an active public speaker. She also interviews other writers about books, writing and life, and moderates panels at literary festivals.

To invite Karen to speak at an event or festival, please contact Fiona Inglis at Curtis Brown Australasia.

Email: fiona@curtisbrown.com.au

Upcoming Events

CLICK HERE for details and booking links for Karen’s UPCOMING AUTHOR TALKS

Events also listed below

FEBRUARY 2024

6 February (Tuesday): In Conversation at WAGGA WAGGA CITY LIBRARY - FREE

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6 February (Tuesday): In Conversation at DYMOCKS ALBURY

(details available soon)

7 February (Wednesday): In Conversation at BEECHWORTH LIBRARY - FREE

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7 February (Wednesday): In Conversation at SHEPPARTON LIBRARY - FREE

Details HERE

8 February (Thursday) : In Conversation at MYRTELFORD LIBRARY

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8 February(Thursday) : In Conversation at INK BOOKSHOP, MANSFIELD

(details available soon)

11 February (Sunday): BOOK LAUNCH at Yarra Glen Memorial Hall 2:30PM; In Conversation with Kylie Ladd (FREE event)

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14 February (Wednesday): In Conversation with Kate Mildenhall at ELTHAM BOOKSHOP

Booking details HERE

15 February (Thursday): In Conversation at FARRELLS BOOKSTORE with Irma Gold

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22 February (Thursday): ANU Meet the Author, Kambri Cinema, Canberra, 6PM

Bookings HERE

Interlocutor: Alex Sloan

26 February (Monday): In Conversation at COOMA LIBRARY

(details available soon)

26 February (Monday): In Conversation at COOMA LIBRARY

Details HERE

27 February (Tuesday): In Conversation with Inga Simpson at MORUYA BOOKS

(details available soon)

27 February (Tuesday): In Conversation at ULLADULLA LIBRARY

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28 February (Wednesday): In Conversation at BOOBOOK ON OWEN, Huskisson

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28 February (Wednesday): In Conversation at WOLLONGONG LIBRARY

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29 February (Thursday): In Conversation at at Centennial Vineyards Restaurant for THE BOOKSHOP BOWRAL

(details available soon)

29 February (Thursday): In Conversation at GOULBURN LIBRARY

(details available soon)

MARCH 2024

1 March (Friday): YASS BOOK STORE

in Conversation with Robyn Cadwallader

(details available soon)

8-10 March : CAIRNS TROPICAL WRITERS FESTIVAL

In Conversation with Robyn Cadwallader

(details available soon)

12 March (Tuesday): AVID READER BOOKSHOP, BRISBANE

In Conversation with Sally Piper

Free event. Bookings HERE

APRIL 2024

20-21April : WRITERS AT THE WOOSHED, WAGGA WAGGA

Bookings here

Past Events

2019

SEPTEMBER 2019

14 September Wangaratta LitFest

Author Panel: Karen Viggers and Jack Heath

18 September: Corrimal and Nowra Libraries

19 September: Margaret Atwood’s, The Testaments

Introductory address at a Screening of Margaret Atwood Live: fundraising evening for the Soroptimist’s Society

August 10/11: Bendigo Writers Festival

Session 1: Sisters: Karen Viggers and Tishani Doshi

Session 2: Over It:

August 24-25 Canberra Writers Festival

Session 1: Our Backyard:

Session 2: Behind Closed Doors:

July 30: Hawkesbury Central Library

June 1: Great Escape Bookshop, Aireys Inlet 7:30PM

June 4: Eltham Bookshop.

June 5: Mornington Library, Victoria

June 21/22: MILTON Storyfest 2019

June 30: Terroux Fireside Event: The Language of Trees. Keynote speaker.

May 1: Sydney Writers Festival: Translations

May 9: National Seniors Canberra North Branch

May 22: Inspiring other Writers with Zoya Patel (Bookface Gungahlin):

April 16-18: Karen Viggers in PARIS for the launch of Le Bruissement des feuilles (The Orchardist’s Daughter)

April 27/28: FLASH FICTION Festival

April 6: COOMA Library Literary Lunch. 1

April 8: WODEN Library

March 18. Meet the Author at Candelo Books (Bega) and Booktique merimbula

March 19: LITERARY LUNCHEON at MORUYA

March 23: JUGIONG Writers Festival with Holly Throsby

March 28: Bookface Gungahlin, BookClub

March 13: GUNGAHLIN Library: workshop on writing place and bringing landscape to life.

February 18: Bowral Library Author talk

February 26: MELBOURNE Readings Bookshop with Kylie Ladd

February 25: Yarra Junction Library Author Talk

February 27: LAUNCESTON Petrarchs Bookshop

February 28: HOBART Fullers Bookshop with Katherine Johnson

A Bilingual Literary Soiree with Canberra en Francais

INTERVIEWS

Interview with Sofie Laguna, Winner of the Miles Franklin Award 2015 (ACT Writers Centre 2017)

Interviewed Jonathon Drori - author of Around the World in 80 Trees and high profile TED speaker (Canberra Writers Festival 2018)

Interview with Krissy Kneen about “Wintering”, Krissy’s book released December 2018 (Muse Bookshop)

WRITERS FESTIVALS

Canberra Writers Festival 2016, 2017, 2018: panel participant and moderator

2017: Karen interviewed Nicola Gates author of "A Brain for Life" and Jessica Friedman author of 'Things that Helped'.

2016: Panellist: 666ABC Big Book Club with Alex Sloan. Interviewed: Rosalie Ham and Marion Halligan and Nick Earls. Coffee and Papers with Sally Pryor from The Canberra Times

Kiama Readers Festival October 2016 (panellist)

Goulburn Book Festival November 2016 (delivered workshop on pathways to creativity and getting [published).

International  Women's Day Motivational Speeches

Berrigan Shire Luncheon 2016:

Firbank Girls Grammar School Melbourne 2015

Public Talks

How Does She Do It? Juggling Work, Life and Motherhood. (Friday November 10, 2017)

The Write Stuff: Finishing your NaNoWriMo novel with Karen Viggers (Ages 16+) (Gungahlin library)

Events in France April 2017:

Mots en Marge bookshop (20 April 2017)

Le Furet du Nord bookshop, Lille (21 April 2017)

La Griffe Noire bookshop, St Maur (22 April 2017)

Australia

Noted Festival Canberra: Writers Uncorked: A smorgasbord of literary conversation. May 2017.

Animal Rights Writing (Tuggeranong Arts Centre: Lakeside Literary Lounge). May 2017. Panel with Irma Gold, Sam Vincent. Chair: Nigel Featherstone.

Libraries where Karen has given free public talks

Hawkesbury Library: June 2017

Picton Wollondilly Library: June 2017

Thirroul Library NSW: April 2017

Queanbeyan Library October 2016

Parkes Library (NSW): September 2016 ("Finding Stories in Australian Landscapes")

Young Library (NSW): September 2016

Corrimal Library (NSW): August 2016

Sutherland Shire Library (NSW): August 2016

Brighton Library (Victoria): March 2016 ("Tips for Writing and Getting Published")

Croydon Library (Victoria) : March 2016

Goulburn Library (NSW): February 2016

20 Unrehearsed Questions, Muse Cafe, Canberra: February 2016

Berrigan Library (NSW): July 2015 ("Fictionalising Environmental Issues")

Coff Harbour LIbrary (NSW) July 2015

Yarra Junction Library (Vic): May 2015

Kiama Library (NSW): May 2015

Other ROLES

Assessor Hard Copy Fiction Program 2018

Patron Snowy Mountains Readers Writers Festival 2014, 2015

Patron Wildlife ACT (2017 - ongoing)

Judge: ACT Fiction Publishing Awards 2016 

Judge: Snowy Mountains Readers Writers Festival Young Writers Competition 2015