Byron Bay Writers Festival and Lennox Arts Board invite you to join the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, William Finnegan and Sean Doherty  in a discussion about their surfing lives.

William Finnegan is the author of Cold New World, A Complicated War, Dateline Soweto, Crossing the Line, andBarbarian Days. He has twice been a National Magazine Award finalist and has won numerous journalism awards, including two Overseas Press Club awards since 2009.

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography. A staff writer at The New Yorker since 1987, he lives in Manhattan.

Sean Doherty is the author of MP Untold: The Lost Stories of an Australian Surfing Legend. He was editor of Tracks magazine from 2000–2008.