As part of The Bellingen Readers & Writers Festival, 2026, The Alternatives Bookshop was showcasing five local authors. The room was packed and the writers were interviewed.
The author and publisher Ross Macleay introduced Neil Horne's dotAtelier writings and images as a book. All new books are available in your local, independent bookshop.
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| Alternatives Bookshop, 2026 |
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"A nation of rich cowards’: Australia needs its dreamers but the arts are underfunded, undervalued and despised."
"We need a society that values its visionaries, those who go against the grain to create new dreams that reveal other ways of being."
"We stand in the 21st century, one of the wealthiest societies in human history, yet diminished and lost: a nation of rich cowards without even the courage to acknowledge our origins and far less the possibility of a better future than the nightmare daily growing around us."
"To be an artist in a society contemptuous of the very idea of art is an act of courage."
