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Australia’s most beloved celebration of literature, stories and ideas.

The 2022 Festival theme, Change My Mind, is an invitation, a challenge and a promise of intent.

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Festival Highlight

Auslan Interpreted

SWF Great Debate: Words Don’t Change Minds

26 May 2022 - 6:00 PM

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Festival Highlight

Auslan Interpreted

The Chrissy Sharp Poetry Gala: Stars of Stage and Screen

26 May 2022 - 8:30 PM

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An Evening with Jonathan Franzen

29 Jun 2022 - 7:30 PM

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Embracing Ambiguous Endings

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  • Whose Country Is It Anyway? 04 Jun 2021
  • Women In Politics 01 Jun 2021
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21 May 2022

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20 May 2022

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Luke Patterson on the Opening Night Address

19 May 2022

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RT @shand_kathy: In his last appearance as Artistic Director ⁦@SydWritersFest⁩ ⁦@mmccwill⁩ read us all a poem to kick off the Chrissy Sharp…

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26 May 2022

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26 May 2022

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“We readers and writers must never give up the fight…Our language is worth fighting for.” – David Marr on the power… https://t.co/uZwExIIWIJ

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“Every writer I know hates English….What a slippery, complicated, conniving, bastard of a thing.” – David Marr #SydneyWritersFestival

26 May 2022

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26 May 2022

“Nearly all the great wrongs in our world involved the perversion of English.” – David Marr at the #SydneyWritersFestival Great Debate

26 May 2022

“Words are powerful but powerful when deployed for evil as well as good.” – David Marr at the #SydneyWritersFestival Great Debate

26 May 2022

@KarenBalstrup Hi Karen, we’ll be aiming to release this as a podcast in the coming months.

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