This year, when you buy an Author Talks Pass for $25 you can support the festival remaining open to all word-lovers of all budgets and get priority seating at all [...]
Usually stunned, grief-stricken, in shock or exhausted, the friends or family of the dearly departed (i.e., YOU) find they now must make 101 unfamiliar decisions fast. Don’t be that guy! [...]
Join 2024 Stella Prize shortlisted author, Katia Ariel, for a compelling conversation, as she reflects on writing her debut memoir, The Swift Dark Tide, an open love letter on selfhood, [...]
Walkley Award winner, and now novelist, Erina Reddan talks about secrets, lies and cults in her latest crime thriller, DEEP IN THE FOREST. Fed up with being shunned by locals [...]
Writing about the natural world can help us first notice nature, but narrative – where living things have agency and inner lives – really fosters connection.
An on-stage interview with Alison J Barton discussing nineteenth-century archives and the mistruths they tell about Indigenous people. Alison shares how contemporary Indigenous Australian poets are re-writing the archive with [...]
Come meet Michelle Bourke, author and storyteller, the only widow that has travelled around the world with a cardboard cut-out of her late husband. This story is a journey of [...]
Join Sam Elkin as he discusses his debut narrative non-fiction book Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga, which centres on his experiences transitioning while working at a queer legal service.
Leah Kaminsky will discuss her latest novel ‘Doll’s Eye’, an intriguing story of love, loss and survival against the backdrop of war brewing in 1930s Europe. A young German dollmaker [...]
Author event with readings. Author Annette Higgs will talk about her novel On a Bright Hillside in Paradise which won the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize. In conversation (interviewer TBC)
