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Karen is an active public and motivational speaker about books, writing and life. She also interviews other writers and moderates panels at literary festivals.
To invite Karen to speak at an event or festival, please contact her agent, Fiona Inglis at Curtis Brown Australasia.
Email: fiona@curtisbrown.com.au
Upcoming Events
MAY 2019
May 9: National Seniors Canberra North Branch: Karen will speak about her new novel, The Orchardist’s Daughter
JUNE 2019
June 1: Great Escape Bookshop, Aireys Inlet 7:30PM
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June 4: Eltham Bookshop. A literary In Conversation (interlocutor Kate Mildenhall, author of Skylarking)
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June 5: Mornington Library, Victoria
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June 21/22: MILTON Storyfest 2019, Milton, NSW
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AUGUST 2019
August 10/11: Bendigo Writers Festival
Details coming soon
SEPTEMBER 2019
11September: Corrimal Library Author talk
Details to come
Recent Events
May 1: Sydney Writers Festival: Panel discussion on the experience of being translated into other languages. At the NSW State Library
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 Canberra: Karen will speak about her journey in writing and her international success
April 6: COOMA Library Literary Lunch. 11:30 - 1PM. Karen will talk about the inspiration for her new novel, The Orchardist’s Daughter
April 8: WODEN Library Author Talk event.
MARCH 2019
March 19: LITERARY LUNCHEON at MORUYA12-2PM. Karen Viggers ‘In Conversation’ about her new novel The Orchardist’s Daughter, with Inga Simpson (author of Mr Wigg, Nest, Understory and Where the Trees Were).
March 23: JUGIONG Writers Festival. Panel with Holly Throsby, moderator: Deb Stevens
March 28: Bookface Gungahlin, BookClub Discussion: The Orchardist’s Daughter.
March 13: GUNGAHLIN Library: FREE workshop on writing place and bringing landscape to life.
FEBRUARY 2019
February 26: MELBOURNE launch of ‘The Orchardist’s Daughter’ at Readings Bookshop Hawthorn in conversation with Kylie Ladd, author of The Way Back, Mothers and Daughters, Into My Arms, and Last Summer.
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February 27: LAUNCESTON book launch at Petrarchs Bookshop
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February 28: HOBART launch at Fullers Bookshop in conversation with Katherine Johnson, author of The Better Son and Matryoshka.
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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)
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
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