{"id":835258,"date":"2026-07-31T08:37:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/835258\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:37:30","slug":"nigella-lawson-announced-as-headline-guest-at-tamar-valley-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/835258\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigella Lawson announced as headline guest at Tamar Valley festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Internationally renowned food writer, bestselling author and television personality Nigella Lawson will headline the 2026 Tamar Valley Writers Festival in Launceston this October.<\/p>\n

Lawson was revealed as the festival\u2019s headline guest during the program launch, where supporters and community members gathered at a public book bar and read-in.<\/p>\n

The British writer began her career as a journalist, working as a deputy literary editor and columnist before becoming one of the world\u2019s best-known food writers.<\/p>\n

Her first cookbook, How to Eat, was published in 1998 and was followed by international bestsellers including How to Be a Domestic Goddess and Feast.<\/p>\n

\"\"Lawson said it was always a pleasure discussing food and food writing<\/p>\n

She has since hosted numerous television series, including Nigella Bites and Nigella Kitchen.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are so excited that Nigella will be joining the line-up for the 2026 Tamar Valley Writers Festival,\u201d festival co-presidents Georgie Todman and Lyndon Riggall said.<\/p>\n

\"\"New Town author Rebecca Armitage will discuss her debut novel The Heir Apparent<\/p>\n

\u201cShe will bring a rich, warm and nourishing presence to our festival as well as a wealth of experience as a journalist and food writer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawson said she was looking forward to the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m hugely excited to be at The Tamar Valley Writers\u2019 Festival this October,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always a pleasure to be discussing food and food writing with readers and answering your questions and how glorious to be in beautiful Tasmania to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"The festival will run from October 15 to 19 at the UTAS Inveresk campus<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s festival centres on the theme Feed the Soul, with a program designed to cover a wide range of literary tastes.<\/p>\n

New Town author Rebecca Armitage will appear to discuss her debut novel The Heir Apparent, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick.<\/p>\n

Comedian and writer Shaun Micallef will deliver a keynote and join the Funny Bones panel alongside Siang Lu and others.<\/p>\n

Hannah Kent will feature on the Life Well Seasoned memoir panel.<\/p>\n

Todman and Riggall said the theme leaned into the strengths of the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cLaunceston is a UNESCO City of Gastronomy and the Tamar Valley is renowned for its fresh produce, wines and restaurants,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to celebrate all of those things while at the same time allowing our readers to savour the best authors and books on offer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The festival will run from October 15 to 19 at the River\u2019s Edge building at the UTAS Inveresk campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Internationally renowned food writer, bestselling author and television personality Nigella Lawson will headline the 2026 Tamar Valley Writers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-835258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}