Five acclaimed writers and storytellers will board the magnificent Storyboard bus and make stops from Grafton to Taree from April 8-12 including an evening at Nambucca Heads Library from 5pm on Tuesday, April 9. 

Byron Writers' Festival director Edwina Johnson said that 'Writers on the Road' had reached thousands of book lovers over the past five years.

"And thanks to Create NSW, this year we can extend this rewarding program as far as Taree," Ms Johnson said.

"Byron Writers Festival has grown to be Australia's largest regional literary festival and we're thrilled to be celebrating the diversity of storytelling with communities in regional towns via Writers on the Road."

Onboard the tour will be best-selling Young Adult author Melaina Faranda (The Circle Series), illustrator extraordinaire Tony Flowers (Jinny Cooper, Samurai Ninja), Australian Slam Poetry Finalist Anna Stewart, powerful Arakwal oral storyteller Delta Kay, and writer and passionate educator Zacharey Jane.

An initiative of Byron Writers' Festival and Create NSW, Writers on the Road is a travelling literary festival that brings readers and storytellers together to celebrate storytelling in a series of free events in regional towns, as well as visiting local schools.

For the first time the tour will include an Australian Slam Poetry Championship Regional Final hosted by Australian Slam Finalist, Anna Stewart - it will be at the Crown Hotel Grafton, 7pm on Monday, April 8.

The winner will go in to the Australian Finals at the Sydney Opera House.

Power, passion and performance will be writ large this year as the writers tell their tales live on stage.

All events are free and all are welcome - come share a story of your own.

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