September 27 - October 3, 2023
Learning new ways of writing By CHLOE JAENICKE
COSTA Georgiadis is a well-known landscape architect and TV presenter with a passion for all things gardening and will be featuring at the Mount Beauty Writer Festival on October 7. He started writing his debut book, ‘Costa’s World: Gardening for the Soil, the Soul and the Suburbs’, in 2019, two years before it was published in 2021. In the book he merged his two loves of gardening and writing, both of which he fell in love with at a young age. His passion for gardening was fuelled by his family, specifically grandparents. “My grandparents were the real catalyst for my connection, my parents just nurtured what my grandparents instilled in me,” he said. “When we start to see us as nature and not separate, we can begin to appreciate it more.” As for his love of writing, that stemmed from his love of language due to studying other languages including Greek, French, German and Czech. According to Costa, he had always been asked to write a book since his days on SBS in the 2000s but said he just didn’t have the time until recently. “I thought I just don’t have the time, unless there’s some kind of app you can put your hand on while you sleep and it transcribes your thoughts,” he said. While he had done other forms of writing, such as writing articles and speeches, Costa found he couldn’t participate in writers festivals without a book. This prompted him to begin writing his first book and he is proud he did.
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◆ COSTA’S WORLD: Costa Georgiadis released his first book in 2021 and will be a featured writer at the Mount Beauty Writers Festival.
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