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 Rebecca Lister for a compelling conversation with 2024 Stella Prize shortlisted author, Katia Ariel, as she reflects on writing her debut memoir, The Swift Dark Tide, an open love…
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. Rebecca Lister chats to…
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…
Bruce Pascoe has won numerous awards, including the Children’s Book Council of Australia Eve Pownall Award for Young Dark Emu, New South Wales Premier’s Book of the Year Award in 2016…
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…
