Clunes: the tiny gold rush town with a little writers' festival and a big bookshop

Far from the Sydney writers’ festival, the little historic Victorian town lined its streets with secondhand books and readers came flocking

The former Victorian gold rush town Clunes had a cameo in Tony Birch’s 2009 short story collection Shadowboxing, but it took more than a decade for the Indigenous writer to step foot in the historic village.

Over the weekend, Birch took to the stage at the Clunes Booktown festival as part of a lineup of 25 writers including Jane Caro, George Megalogenis, Tim Fischer and Alice Pung.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2V9B5e8
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