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Colin Talbot

Colin Talbot was an actor, writer, and director of the first Melbourne Writers’ Festival.

'Making the Melbourne Writers’ Festival' by Colin Talbot

October 1986, no. 85 01 October 1986
Melbourne, which has somehow appropriated for itself the reputation of being the first Australian city of ‘thought’, has become the last major city in this country to host a large-scale writer’s week. Well, we now have one and it’s called the Melbourne Writers’ Festival, and it is currently being staged. The Festival’s major attractions have been concentrated into a three-day read-in ... (read more)