Toni Jordan

Toni Jordan is the author of the eight novels, including the international bestseller Addition. Her latest novel, Tenderfoot, is about growing up in the 1970s.

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Toni Jordan

Toni Jordan is the author of the international bestseller Addition, which was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and adapted into a feature film, in cinemas in 2026. Her novel Nine Days was awarded Best Fiction at the 2012 Indie Awards; Our Tiny, Useless Hearts, was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award; and her two Schnabel family novels, Dinner with the Schnabels and Prettier if She Smiled More, were critically acclaimed. Toni holds a Bachelor of Science in physiology and a PhD in Creative Arts and lives in Melbourne. Her latest novel is Tenderfoot.

Festival Events

Slippery Truths: Gail Jones and Toni Jordan

DATE March 28 TIME 10:00 am WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X320 Book now

Writing Fiction From Life

DATE March 29 TIME 2:30 pm WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X321 Book now

BY THE ARTIST

A predominantly green and pink book cover featuring an illustration of a thin dog sitting and looking up at a cloud. The title and author's name are in lower-case lettering across the top

Tenderfoot

Newcastle Writers Festival would like to acknowledge the Awabakal and Worimi peoples, the Traditional Custodians of the land on which the festival takes place, and recognise their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging and extend this respect to all First Nations people attending our festival.

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