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Sydney Writers’ Festival introduces a landmark partnership with the State Library of NSW, supported by the NSW Government, to deliver a new year-round program of literary events in addition to its annual Festival, beginning this September.

This season, we're reacquainting ourselves with the authors we know and love. Join us for a journey through the backlist.

Sit down with longstanding volunteer Adeline Teoh to chat all things Sydney Writers' Festival and of course, books!

From inner worlds to outer space, here's a round of up of our recent, current and future reads.

Another year, another Festival over and another heap of books added to our "Best of 2025" lists. While we're still holding onto that lingering Festival glow, we've reflected on some of the books that we just can't stop thinking about.

There's no better season to hit some reading goals and knock a few inches off your TBR stack.

Dylin Hardcastle, Festival Blogger reflects on the 2025 Sydney Writers' Festival.

Writer, editor and former restaurant reviewer Candice Chung's tender new memoir is about saying the unsayable with food.

Catherine Chidgey caught readers' attention with her 2023 novel Pet and she returns with a similarly gripping story in her latest release.

Award-winning author Torrey Peters won hearts with her 2021 debut Detransition, Baby. She returns to Sydney Writers' Festival with a kaleidoscopic follow up, Stag Dance.

Ferdia Lennon is an Irish writer whose Sunday Times bestselling debut Glorious Exploits is an original and brilliant story of war and art in ancient Sicily.

Meet master of the unexpected Christian White, whose latest crime fiction novel The Ledge weaves a web of secrets.

Mariana Enriquez is the queen of macabre political and queer horror. Her latest short story collection, A Sunny Place for Shady People, is about all kinds of hauntings in the suburbs of Argentina.

Sydney Writers’ Festival introduces a landmark partnership with the State Library of NSW, supported by the NSW Government, to deliver a new year-round program of literary events in addition to its annual Festival, beginning this September.

This season, we're reacquainting ourselves with the authors we know and love. Join us for a journey through the backlist.

Sit down with longstanding volunteer Adeline Teoh to chat all things Sydney Writers' Festival and of course, books!

From inner worlds to outer space, here's a round of up of our recent, current and future reads.

Another year, another Festival over and another heap of books added to our "Best of 2025" lists. While we're still holding onto that lingering Festival glow, we've reflected on some of the books that we just can't stop thinking about.

There's no better season to hit some reading goals and knock a few inches off your TBR stack.

Dylin Hardcastle, Festival Blogger reflects on the 2025 Sydney Writers' Festival.

Writer, editor and former restaurant reviewer Candice Chung's tender new memoir is about saying the unsayable with food.

Catherine Chidgey caught readers' attention with her 2023 novel Pet and she returns with a similarly gripping story in her latest release.

Award-winning author Torrey Peters won hearts with her 2021 debut Detransition, Baby. She returns to Sydney Writers' Festival with a kaleidoscopic follow up, Stag Dance.

Ferdia Lennon is an Irish writer whose Sunday Times bestselling debut Glorious Exploits is an original and brilliant story of war and art in ancient Sicily.

Meet master of the unexpected Christian White, whose latest crime fiction novel The Ledge weaves a web of secrets.

Mariana Enriquez is the queen of macabre political and queer horror. Her latest short story collection, A Sunny Place for Shady People, is about all kinds of hauntings in the suburbs of Argentina.