Today YOU can choose your family

The structures of our families have become more bespoke, complex, sometimes messier. Some find comfort in a 'chosen family', choosing friends over blood-relatives as kin. Patchwork families are increasingly common. You can a birth mother, a genetic mother and a social mother. How is the family changing and with what impacts? Meet three writers here to help you re-imagine the ties that bind. Presented at the Byron Writers Festival , supported by the Byron Shire Council. Speakers Kon Karapanagiotidis CEO and Founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre; author of A Seat at My Table: Philoxenia Marina Kamenev Former deputy arts editor of the Moscow Times, author of Kin Molly Schmidt Writer and journalist, author of Salt River Road Rosemarie Milsom Founding director of Newcastle Writers Festival, journalist and broadcaster Also listen to Future Tense: The greatest demographic shift in a century is being ignored: single living