The Brimbank Writers & Readers Festival (BWRF) is an annual event that encourages a love of reading and literature, celebrates creativity and diversity, and promotes lifelong learning in Brimbank.
The ten day program of workshops, author talks, panel discussions, creative & professional writing, storytelling and more is free of charge for the community. In 2024, the festival was held from March 14 to 23. Vision Australia Radio is a proud media partner to the festival for a second year running.

Read my way: Reading with all our senses, was an event hosted by Vision Australia Radio and the Vision Australia Library service, on the 22nd of March, 2024, as part of the Brimbank Writers and Readers Festival. The live event, held at the Sunshine Library in the west of Melbourne, was an immersive exploration of different ways of reading with a journey through audio, braille and tactile literacy and learning.

The panel of six guests included audio producer and book narrator David Tredinnick, our library services manager Sarah Bloedorn, Hear This radio program presenter Frances Keyland, and three participants with lived experience of blindness or low vision, writer Nalini Haynes and library members Sheilah Blanchfield and Janine Lord.