The 2025 Festival will again open at the iconic Waltzing Matilda Centre
We are a non-profit incorporated association founded in 2015
Registered organisation IA55482 | ABN 50 829 174 375
The objectives of the Festival are to:
Engage & Encourage
Tell Stories of the Outback
Promote Winton & the Outback
- To hold the festival annually in Winton
- To engage writers and readers who will continue to enjoy and advocate for more Australian stories
- To encourage the children of isolated and rural families and indigenous children to engage in more reading and writing of stories that they can associate with
- To promote the Outback as an important tourism destination for Australian and overseas visitors
- To tell the stories of the Outback as an iconic Australian cultural art form
- To tell the history of the Australian Outback, the indigenous people and their culture and the generations of settlers that opened this frontier as well as those who live in it today
