Dylin Hardcastle

Dylin Hardcastle (they/them) is an award-winning author, artist, screenwriter and scholar based on Gadigal Land. Dylin's forthcoming novel, A Language of Limbs won the 2023 Kathleen Mitchell Literary Award, presented by the Australia Council for the Arts. The novel will be released July 2024 in Australia and New Zealand, and is slated for publication in May 2025 in North America. Dylin's novel, Below Deck was published in ten territories and translated into eight languages.  Dylin is also the co-creator, co-writer and co-director of Cloudy River. It premiered at Mardi Gras Film Festival in 2020 and was later acquired by SBS On Demand.

 

The Bendigo Writers Festival acknowledges that the City of Greater Bendigo is located on Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung country.