an extended literary festival taking the form of occasional conversations with writers

We hold our events on the lands of the Jinabara and Gubbi Gubbi Peoples. We acknowledge their elders past and present.

They are the keepers of the ancient stories of this place.

Welcome to our 2026 program.

We now have two events booked for the first half of the year:

March 31st

a conversation with

Bob Carr

and

May 12th

a conversation with

Lisa Wilkinson

more details soon

If you want to hear about upcoming events via email, with links to booking, please visit the Sign Up page.

You can make a tax-deductible donation to Outspoken here,

we’d be immensely grateful!

In 2025 we held seven events with Debra Oswald & Steve MinOn, Jane Rawson & Barry Traill, Hugh White & Joanna Jenkins, Chris Hammer, Heather Rose, Bob Brown & Peter Stevens from Lake Baroon Catchment Care. In 2024 we spoke with Rick Morton, Gina Chick, Bri Lee, Hugh Mackay and Dr Norman Swan, with introducing authors Siang Lu, Andrew Stafford, Carly-Jay Metcalfe, Simon Cleary and Marko Newman.

We’re immensely grateful to all our authors for making the journey up to Maleny, and to the publishers who help us get them here.

The podcasts of all our events are now available.

There is a total of 90 podcasts available free under the banner of Outspoken Maleny.

Please click on the Podcasts or find us on Apple Podcasts and Amazon Podcasts, click here to be directed to them.

Once on their podcast page click the three dots on the top right and choose ‘follow’

That way you will get regular updates of all of our episodes!

We use the on-line booking platform TryBooking for all our ticket sales. It makes it easier for you to purchase tickets, you can buy them at any time of day or night. If for some reason you have difficulties purchasing tickets over the internet please contact Steven directly, but only as a last resort!