Baldwin Zane, rococo raconteur, impish impresario, director of the Ern Malley Writers’ Festival, is in a jam. Assembling his prose and poetaster tableaux, a Writer’s Festival Emergency is declared! Like the proverbial pub with no beer, the Malley is in danger of being a Writers’ Festival … without writers!
Alas for Zane, the deep-thought Generals of Australian literature – Naitanui, Corby, Warne, Capper, Gallen, Hogg – are all una…