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Festivals
- Programs 2017-2018
  - Alcohol and Us
- Festival 2017
  - Vikings and Zombies and Robots, Oh My! with James Foley
  - The Patchwork Bike
  - Andy Griffiths: Are You Ready to Roll?
  - Mariko Tamaki Reading and Workshop
  - R.A. Spratt’s Writing Masterclass (1)
  - Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys: Creating a Unique Children's Book
  - S.D. Gentill: Mining Mythology
  - James Foley: Where Children's Book Ideas Come From
  - Swearing In: Veep's Armando Iannucci on Spin and Satire
  - John M. Green: The Tao Deception (Ashfield)
  - Kathryn Heyman: Storm and Grace (Blacktown)
  - Ashley Hay: A Hundred Small Lessons (Camden)
  - Candice Fox: Crimson Lake (Campbelltown)
  - Holly Throsby: Goodwood (Castle Hill)
  - David Hunt: True Girt (Chatswood)
  - Stephen Dando-Collins: The Hero Maker (Chatswood)
  - Zoe Morrison: Music and Freedom (Randwick)
  - Gratefully Yours
  - MCA Zine Fair 2017
  - Words From the West (Parramatta)
  - The Art of Biography
  - Di Morrissey: A Distant Journey
  - Liane Moriarty: Truly Madly Guilty
  - The Best of the Festival: Poetry and Performance
  - Dear Quentin: Letters of a Governor-General
  - A Murderer in the Family
  - Deng Adut: Songs of a War Boy
  - James Shapiro: The Year of Lear
  - Susan Faludi: In the Darkroom
  - Dreams of Her Real Self: Writers on Helen Garner
  - All The Girls To The Front
  - Hisham Matar: The Return
  - Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales: Our Reading Year
  - I Love Dick
  - Clementine Ford: Fight Like a Girl
  - 2017 Opening Night: Brit Bennett, Anne Enright and George Saunders
  - Lion: A Long Way Home
  - Elaine Welteroth: On Editing Teen Vogue
  - Not to Scale: Numbers and the Immigration Debate
  - SWF Gala: Origin Story
  - Anne Enright: What You Have To Do Is Not Leave The House
  - Ian Rankin: Who Says Crime Doesn't Pay?
  - Roxane Gay: Difficult Women
  - Thomas Friedman: The Case for Optimism
  - American Carnage
  - The Singular George Saunders
  - Colson Whitehead: The Underground Railroad
  - Live from Sydney: Slate's Culture Gabfest
  - SWF Gala: Advice from Nasty Women
  - Viral and Verse: Hera Lindsay Bird and Rupi Kaur
  - Jamie Morton: My Dad Wrote a Porno
  - NSW Premier's Literary Awards Presentation and Cocktail Reception
  - And the Award Goes to...
  - A Significant Date: 1967 Referendum – 50 Years On
  - Women in the Spotlight: Still Looking for a Room of One's Own
  - Troy Bramston: Paul Keating (Hurstville)
  - TeenCon 2017
  - Writing Race
  - John Safran: Depends What You Mean By Extremist
  - Insiders Live at Sydney Writers' Festival
  - 2017 Closing Address: Susan Faludi
  - Anuk Arudpragasam: The Story of a Brief Marriage
  - Brexit
  - The Writer's Habitat
  - Hugh Mackay: Selling the Dream
  - Through the Wardrobe
  - Secret City
  - Strong Female Characters
  - Being a Historian in the Digital Age
  - No More Questions
  - Historical Fiction: Chick Lit with Wimples?
  - Writing Through Fences
  - New Australian Voices
  - Why Your Wrong to Care About Grammar
  - Do We All Turn into Our Mothers?
  - Who the Bloody Hell Are We?
  - Group Text
  - Natalie Haynes: The Children of Jocasta
  - Question Time
  - It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Visions of Dystopia
  - On Arrival
  - Outsider Looking In: Reporting on True Crime
  - Lingo: What is Lost When a Language Dies?
  - Homemade Shorts: Australian Stories
  - Tracey Spicer: The Good Girl Stripped Bare
  - Kate Grenville: The Case Against Fragrance
  - Scandal!
  - Documenting Hardship
  - Julia Baird: Victoria the Queen
  - The Good Book? The Bible in Australian Culture Today
  - Sebastian Mallaby: The Man Who Knew
  - Pamela Paul: By The Book
  - Crimes of the Father
  - Things You Need To Know and May Have Missed
  - Lawrence Krauss: The Greatest Story Ever Told... So Far
  - Robert Forster: Grant & I
  - Viola Di Grado: Hollow Heart
  - No Place Like
  - Stan Grant: The Australian Dream
  - Reworking the Classics
  - Ha Jin: The Boat Rocker
  - The Attachment
  - Near-Death Experience
  - Decolonising Australian Literature
  - The Art of Rivalry: Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
  - Monday Morning Cooking Club: It's Always About the Food
  - Fighting Hislam and Beyond Veiled Cliches
  - Ivan Coyote: Tomboy Survival Guide
  - Caroline Brothers: The Memory Stones
  - A Gathering Storm: The Rise and Rise of Cli-Fi
  - Nextness and Nearness: Bill Hayes on Oliver Sacks
  - Human Baggage: The Hate Politics of Immigration
  - Russ Rymer: Notes on Nonfiction
  - Caroline Baum: Only
  - Foreign Correspondents: Anecdotes from Abroad
  - Get Well Soon
  - System Breakdown
  - Robert Dessaix: The Pleasures of Leisure
  - A.N. Wilson: Resolution
  - Cultural Capital
  - Close to Home: The Work of Georgia Blain
  - First Nations: Voices of the Matriarchy
  - Hell and High Water
  - Henry Lawson and The Drover's Wife
  - Memoir: A Slippery Art
  - This Won't End Well: Secrets of Great Short Storytelling
  - Auburn Poets and Writers Group: Grandma's Bed (Auburn)
  - PEN Lecture: The Threat to Freedom of Expression
  - Carmel Bird: Family Skeleton (Belrose)
  - Bankstown Poetry Slam
  - Liam Pieper: The Toymaker (Gordon)
  - Richard Fidler: Ghost Empire
  - Rob Schmitz: Street of Eternal Happiness
  - Maxine Beneba Clarke: The Hate Race
  - Doing It!
  - Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
  - Fictional Truths
  - Smoking Gun: Crime Fiction
  - Transforming My Country
  - Resist!
  - Nevertheless, She Persisted
  - Too Much and Not The Mood
  - The Great Divide
  - Hannah Kent: The Good People
  - Women In Their Place (Blue Mountains)
  - I Feel You
  - Globalisation & Inequality in the Age of Trump
  - Mikhail Zygar: All the Kremlin's Men
  - Generation Next (Blue Mountains)
  - Peter Polites: Down the Hume
  - The Natural World of the Imagination (Blue Mountains)
  - Hope Street Press Poetry Launch
  - Poetry Circle (Blue Mountains)
  - Bill Hayes: Insomniac City
  - Henry Marsh: Admissions — A Life in Brain Surgery
  - Bernadette Brennan: Writing Helen Garner
  - 25 Years of Looking For Alibrandi: Have a Say Day
  - Graeme Simsion: The Best of Adam Sharp
  - Do Bad Times Make For Great Art?
  - Sex, Blood and Death
  - Sarah Bakewell: At the Existentialist Cafe
  - Ellen van Neerven: Comfort Food
  - People of Letters
  - Holly Throsby: Goodwood
  - The Politics of Fear
  - From Russia, With Love
  - Borders of Our Writing
  - SWF Gala: Maybe This Will Help
  - Tough Love: Writing Complex Relationships
  - Frank Moorhouse: Is Writing Still a Way of Life?
  - Graeme Simsion: What Novelists Can Learn From Screenwriters
  - Amie Kaufman: Get Your Story Started
  - Amie Kaufman: Get Your Story Started (2)
  - Norman Ohler: High Hitler
  - Social Media As Art: An Indigenous Perspective
  - The Full Catastrophe
  - Zoe Morrison: Music and Freedom
  - Tim Costello: On Faith
  - Blerd Culture
  - Netflix and Chill
  - Liane Moriarty: Truly Madly Guilty (Chatswood)
  - Ian Rankin: Rather Be the Devil (Parramatta)
  - Turia Pitt: Unmasked
  - Ali Cobby Eckermann: Little Bit Long Time
  - C.S. Pacat: Writing Fantasy (1)
  - Kerrie Davies: Memoir - More Than You
  - The Book Club (1)
  - Kim Mahood: Creative Non-Fiction - What Is It and Why Write It?
  - The Dangerous Borderlands: Truth and Fiction in Memoir
  - Desi Anwar: Life, Strife and the Pursuit of Democracy
  - Working Class Boy: Q&A With Jimmy Barnes (Parramatta)
  - Betoota Advocate: Australia's Oldest and Favourite Newspaper
  - Lawrence Krauss: On Hidden Realities
  - Sarah Bakewell: On Bambi as an Existentialist Hero
  - Lynne Kelly: On How Memory Training Changed My Thinking
  - Roanna Gonsalves: On Literature as Selfie
  - Henry Marsh: On Hospital Architecture and Design
  - Tom Griffiths: On Antarctica
  - Norman Ohler: On Non-Orthodox Research Methods in Berlin
  - Jeff Sparrow: On Paul Robeson
  - Fiona McIntosh: On the Importance of Being Selfish
  - John M. Green: On Why We Should Be Scared Shitless About North Korea
  - Candice Fox: On the Importance of Rejection
  - Kim Mahood: On Stilettos and Salt Lakes
  - Robert Dessaix: On Kissing, Hugging and Saying ‘I love you’
  - Lucy Clark: On Competition
  - Desi Anwar: On Spiritual Encounters
  - Jacqueline Rose: On Remarkable Women
  - Ivan Coyote: On Diversity
  - Natalie Haynes: On Greek Myth and Harry Potter
  - Liam Pieper: On Taylor Swift
  - Hera Lindsay Bird: On Metaphor
  - Melanie Joosten: On Big Sisters
  - Olivia Murphy: On The Problem with Austen
  - Michael Traill: Jumping Ship
  - Sincerest Form of Flattery
  - Food and Water: Fundamentals for Living
  - Dear Science
  - Border Force
  - Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing
  - The Big Black Thing
  - Mark McKenna: On Music and Writing
  - Russ Rymer: On Saving the Music Tree
  - Karen Pickering: On Shark Week
  - Chris Rodley: On How To Build A Novel-Writing Machine
  - ABC Morning: ABC RN'S Books and Arts Daily and ABC Radio's Conversations Live Broadcast
  - Meet the SMH Best Young Novelists
  - Australian Readers and Their Habits
  - Suspense: Setting and Mood
  - Candice Fox: Crims, Coppers and Corpses
  - David Francis: On a Verdict, Curiosity and a Riot
  - Gay For Page
  - Kathryn Heyman: Diving In - Getting Started on Fiction
  - Kathryn Heyman: The Carpentry of Making Fiction
  - Roanna Gonsalves: Rewilding Your Short Story
  - Amanda Hampson: Five Secrets to Compelling Stories
  - Alice Campion: How to Write Collaborative Fiction
  - Claire Scobie: From Travel Writing to Travel Memoir
  - Kerrie Davies: Social Media: Sharing and Slamming
  - C.S. Pacat: Writing Fantasy (2)
  - Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (1)
  - Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (2)
  - Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (3)
  - Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (4)
  - Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (5)
  - Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (6)
  - Sarah Wilson: First, We Make the Beast Beautiful
  - Drive with Richard Glover, featuring Thank God It's Friday
  - Sara Foster: Disrupt Your Creativity
  - Kirk Docker: How To Ask The Hard Questions
  - Ashley Hay: A Hundred Small Lessons
  - A.S. Patric: Black Rock White City
  - R.A Spratt's Writing Masterclass (2)
  - Tragedy Plus Time
  - Michael Sala: The Restorer
  - Lex Hirst: Editing Like a Pro - the Tricks of the Trade
  - Coffee and Papers with the SMH: Norman Ohler
  - Coffee and Papers with the SMH: Jenny Valentish
  - Coffee and Papers with the SMH: Mikhail Zygar
  - Coffee and Papers with the SMH: Ruth Quibell
  - Bangarra Backyard
  - Sydney Dance Viewing Lounge
  - Australian Book Design Awards
  - Lucy Clark: Beautiful Failures
  - On Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing
  - Meredith Jaffe: The Fence (Brookvale)
  - Talking 'Til Late with Chris Taylor (2)
  - Richard Fidler: Ghost Empire (Ryde)
  - The Ancient Guide to Modern Life
  - Melanie Joosten: Gravity Well (Manly)
  - Cover to Cover: Roald Dahl international book covers
  - Heidi Pett and Jess O'Callaghan: Writing To Be Heard
  - Sandra Leigh Price: The River Sings (Windsor)
  - Kick on for Literacy: A Fundraiser for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation
  - James Strong Address: Thomas Friedman
  - AVANT GAGA
  - You're Doing It Wrong: A Guide to Modern Parenting
  - Tom Griffiths: The Art of Time Travel (Ryde)
  - Still Lucky
  - Swearing In: Veep's Armando Iannucci on Spin and Satire (1)
  - The Book Club (2)
  - Trust and Persistence: How Investigative Journalists Cultivate Sources and Share Their Stories
  - Collaborative Journalism: Sources and Secrets
  - Patrick White Playwrights' Award and Fellowship
  - Caroline Baum: Only (Double Bay)
  - Mariko Tamaki Talks the Talk
  - Jane Hutcheon: China Baby Love (Hornsby)
  - The Rumble: Youth Slam (Parramatta)
  - Stella Sparks: Women Writers On Influence and Inspiration
  - Black Wallaby Indigenous Writers' Night (Wollongong)
  - Rocket Readings (Wollongong)
  - Tracey Spicer: The Good Girl Stripped Bare (Kogarah)
  - Little Fictions
  - Alexandra Joel: Rosetta (Penrith)
  - Forest for the Trees: Writers and Publishing in 2017
  - UTS 2017 Anthology Launch: And Watch the Whale Explode
  - Lauren Child's Quirky Characters!
  - Love OZ YA Anthology: Begin, End, Begin
  - More Than Meets the Eye: Diversity in YA Fiction
  - Word Hunters Exploration
  - Under the Love Umbrella: How Do We Make a Picture Book?
  - Defying Expectations: How Do Female Writers Defy Stereotypes
  - Writing in Verse: Sarah Crossan in Conversation
  - Talking Tough Topics with Jennifer Niven
  - Expressing Herself: The Brilliant Life of Rupi Kaur
  - Keeping Company: Characters Across a Series
  - Fresh Voices from Western Sydney: A Showcase of Real Talk
  - How to Deal with Nasty, Horrible, Terrible People (with a Little Help from Roald Dahl)
  - Illustrator Battle Rounds
  - Kate DiCamillo: Connecting People Through Stories
  - Richard Roxburgh's Artie and the Grime Wave
  - Professor Frankie's Harry Potter
  - How Deep Can You Go?
  - They Cannot Take the Sky: Stories from Detention
  - Witi Ihimaera (Blue Mountains)
  - Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
  - Lost the Plot: Writing About Mental Health
  - A Conversation With Di Morrissey (Blue Mountains)
  - Brit Bennett: The Mothers
  - Paul Beatty: The Sellout
  - Jacqueline Rose: Women in Dark Times
  - Writing Perseverance: Remarkable Memoirs
  - Contemporary Essay: Personal and Public
  - Fake News and Alternative Facts
  - Krissy Kneen: An Uncertain Grace
  - Nadja Spiegelman: I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This
  - From Far Away We Come (Blue Mountains)
  - Borders of the Queer Body
  - Dr Dark Memorial Lecture: Crossing The Line - Activism and Academic Bioethics (Blue Mountains)
  - Not Waving, Drowning
  - Sins of the Past (Blue Mountains)
  - Love and Music
  - Steven Amsterdam: The Easy Way Out
  - A Fine-Figured Man With a Camera (Blue Mountains)
  - Joy Williams: Ninety-Nine Stories of God
  - Peter Corris: Win, Lose or Draw
  - New Voices (Blue Mountains)
  - The Legacy of Eleanor Dark (Blue Mountains)
  - Writers' Journeys: Authors' Personal Reflections on Writing and Publishing (Blue Mountains)
  - The Most Unlikely of Places
  - Student Sessions: Indigenous Voices
  - Student Sessions: Unpacking the Change in Climate
  - Student Sessions: Re-Inventing the Classics
  - Student Sessions: Shakespeare in His World and Ours
  - Student Sessions: Mono or Multi-cultured?
  - Student Sessions: In Conversation with Ross Gittins (Parramatta)
  - Student Sessions: Indigenous Voices (Parramatta)
  - Student Sessions: Unpacking the Change in Climate (Parramatta)
  - Student Sessions: Re-inventing the Classics (Parramatta)
  - Student Sessions: Shakespeare in His World and Ours (Parramatta)
  - Student Sessions: Mono or Multi-cultured? (Parramatta)
  - Student Sessions: In Conversation with Ross Gittins
  - Primary School Days: City (1)
  - Primary School Days: City (2)
  - Secondary School Days: Chatswood
  - Primary School Days: Parramatta
  - Secondary School Days: City
  - Primary School Days: Penrith
  - Primary School Days: Free at Town Hall
  - Secondary School Days: Parramatta
  - Mark Colvin: Light and Shadow
  - The Big Read
  - Talking 'Til Late with Chris Taylor (1)
  - Annabel Abbs: On 1920s Paris
  - Juanita Ruys on the Devil's Coach House
  - All The Kremlin's Men: In Conversation with Mikhail Zygar and Monica Attard
  - Readings from Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy
  - Jumping Ship: Michael Traill in conversation
  - Susan Faludi in Conversation
  - Roxane Gay: What's Feminism Got to Do With It?
  - Sarah Schmidt: See What I Have Done
  - Kirk Docker: On Asking the Hard Questions
  - Caravan Fran
  - A Tribute to Mark Colvin
  - Author Talks and Workshops
- Early Program
  - Swearing In: Veep’s Armando Iannucci on Spin and Satire
  - Primary School Days: City (1)
  - Student Sessions: Indigenous Voices
  - Student Sessions: Unpacking the Change in Climate
  - Student Sessions: Re-Inventing the Classics
  - Student Sessions: Shakespeare in His World and Ours
  - Student Sessions: Mono or Multi-cultured?
  - Primary School Days: City (2)
  - Secondary School Days: Chatswood
  - Primary School Days: Parramatta
  - Secondary School Days: City
  - Primary School Days: Penrith
  - Student Sessions: In Conversation with Ross Gittins (Parramatta)
  - Student Sessions: Indigenous Voices (Parramatta)
  - Student Sessions: Unpacking the Change in Climate (Parramatta)
  - Student Sessions: Re-inventing the Classics (Parramatta)
  - Student Sessions: Shakespeare in His World and Ours (Parramatta)
  - Student Sessions: Mono or Multi-cultured? (Parramatta)
  - Primary School Days: Free at Town Hall
  - Secondary School Days: Parramatta
  - Jamie Morton: My Dad Wrote a Porno
  - Student Sessions: In Conversation with Ross Gittins
- Children's Festival 2016
- Festival 2016
  - New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards Presentation and Cocktail Reception
  - Coffee and Papers with the SMH, Aleksandar Hemon and Madeline Gleeson
- Children's Festival 2015
- Festival 2015
- Children's Festival 2014
- Festival 2014
- Festival 2013
- Festival 2012
- Festival 2011
- Festival 2010
- Festival 2009
- Festival 2008
- Festival 2007
- Festival 2006
- Festival 2005
- Festival 2004
- Festival 2003
- Programs 2018-2019
- Programs 2019–2020
- Festival 2020
  - Transformational Histories
  - ABC Radio National Live: Stop Everything!
  - J.P. Pomare: How to Write a Book Readers Won’t Put Down
- Festival 2021
  - Opening Night Address: Melissa Lucashenko, Tara June Winch and Evelyn Araluen
  - Australian Book Industry Awards 2021
  - Griffith Review 72: States of Mind
  - Barrie Cassidy & Friends: The China Question
  - Press Freedom
  - Uncomfortably Close
  - Your Favourites’ Favourites: Michelle de Kretser & Andrew Pippos
  - James Bradley & Kim Stanley Robinson
  - Anwen Crawford & Alison Croggon
  - The True History of Peter Carey
  - The Other C-Word
  - A Lie Agreed Upon
  - Susan Johnson & Heather Rose
  - Rick Morton & Don Watson
  - Rebecca Starford & Claire Thomas
  - Upturn
  - Journalism: A Voice for the Vulnerable
  - A Bit of Shush
  - Veronica Heritage-Gorrie & Kathryn Heyman
  - Thomas Keneally & Stan Grant
  - In Conversation: 2021 Stella Prize Winner
  - I Don’t Hold a Hose Mate: Leadership and Accountability
  - Displaced
  - Your Favourites’ Favourites: Heather Rose & K.M. Kruimink
  - Guwayu – For All Times
  - Sydney PEN: Dan Oakes and ‘The Afghan Files’
  - The Art of the Interview
  - Kazuo Ishiguro: Klara and the Sun
  - ABC Radio National Live: Stop Everything!
  - Who’s Afraid of Big Tech?
  - Rachel Cusk: Second Place
  - The Full Catastrophe
  - Coffee & Headlines With 7am: Rick Morton & Ariel Bogle
  - The Nature Writing Prize
  - Barrie Cassidy & Friends: Biden’s America
  - Simple Pleasures
  - Ceridwen Dovey & Emily Maguire
  - Bill Hayes: How We Live Now
  - ABC Radio Live: Conversations
  - Danielle Celermajer & Jonica Newby
  - Are You There, Sydney? It’s Me, Judy Blume
  - The War in Newsrooms
  - ABC Radio National Live: The Bookshelf
  - Your Favourites’ Favourites: Nam Le & Rebecca Giggs
  - Nikki Gemmell & Sofie Laguna
  - Iconic Duos: The Next Chapter Writers and Mentors
  - But Not Forgotten
  - Have a Go, Get a Go
  - Future Cities
  - Richard Fidler & Ramona Koval
  - The Beijing Bureau
  - Bearing Witness
  - The Larrikin Lie
  - Science Class: The Rise of the Armchair Epidemiologist
  - Malcolm Knox & Michael Robotham
  - Writing the Unspeakable
  - Kate Holden & Louise Milligan
  - Blowing the Whistle: Government, the Law and Secrecy
  - The Feminists Are Coming
  - Paul Kelly: Words and Music
  - Why We Love a TV Villain
  - Swan on Swan
  - Story Club
  - Within Reach Gala
  - Coffee & Headlines With The Saturday Paper: Mike Seccombe & Karen Middleton
  - Barrie Cassidy & Friends: Opposition and Dissent
  - Beyond the Pale
  - The Art of Armchair Travel
  - Your Favourites’ Favourites: Tony Birch & Evelyn Araluen
  - Anita Heiss & Meg Keneally
  - Isabel Wilkerson: Caste – The Lies That Divide Us
  - Disagreeable
  - Meet the SMH Best Young Australian Novelists
  - John Bell & Virginia Trioli
  - Whose Country Is It Anyway?
  - Sarah Krasnostein & Helen Garner
  - The Climate Cure: A Global Perspective
  - Launching Racism
  - Practice and Critique
  - Faruqi on Faruqi
  - Richard Flanagan & Laura Tingle
  - Beyond Fire, Flood and Plague
  - Collisions
  - Your Favourites’ Favourites: Melissa Lucashenko & Adam Thompson
  - Krissy Kneen & Rick Morton
  - Stan Grant & Kerry O’Brien
  - SWF Great Debate: How Good Is Australia?
  - Erotic Fan Fiction
  - Queerstories
  - Comfort in Numbers
  - The Space Between Words
  - Coffee & Headlines With The Monthly: Scott Ludlam & Jess Hill
  - Writing the Invisible
  - Barrie Cassidy & Friends: The Canberra Bubble
  - Writing and Racism
  - Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now
  - Land of Plenty
  - Lee Tran Lam & Sam van Zweden
  - George Miller
  - Growing Up Disabled in Australia
  - Sarah Dingle & Kaya Wilson
  - Women in Politics
  - Radical Black Futures
  - Jan Fran & Judith Lucy
  - After Australia
  - Jacqueline Maley & Debra Oswald
  - Your Favourites’ Favourites: Christos Tsiolkas & Jessie Tu
  - Bruce Pascoe & Vicky Shukuroglou
  - Kavita Bedford & Jamie Marina Lau
  - Great Adaptations: Margaret and David Return
  - Laughing at the News
  - Cop This Lot
  - Voices of Our Future
  - The Unacknowledged Legislators
  - Closing Night Address: David Malouf
  - SWF Debutante Ball
  - Illustration Space
  - Russ the Story Bus
  - Storytime Clubhouse
  - Squidge’s Speedy Portraits
  - Badge Making With Cheryl Orsini
  - Art Class
  - It’s Bluey! Giant Colouring In
  - Happy 100th Birthday, Ginger Meggs
  - Alison Lester: Through the Seasons
  - Caring for Country With Kirli and Dub
  - Bonjour! It’s Claris!
  - Jessica Townsend: What a Wundrous World
  - The Real Pigeons Live Mystery
  - Illustrator Battle Rounds
  - Nat Amoore’s Amazing Trivia Challenge
  - Rob Brooks: On AI and Intimacy
  - Bernard Collaery: On Rescuing
  - Krissy Kneen: On How Mushrooms Can Save Your Life
  - Ramona Koval: On Friendships With Dead Writers
  - George Megalogenis: On An Unlikely Australian Alliance
  - Sam van Zweden: On Working With the Dog You’ve Got
  - Kylie Maslen: On Sport As Shakespeare
  - Vicky Shukuroglou: On Whimsical Australia
  - How Distance Can Keep Us Together
  - New Voices on Food: Celebrating the Diverse Stories That Flavour Australia’s Food Landscape
  - Trent Dalton: All Our Shimmering Skies
  - Microlit Improv
  - Words: Powerful, Positive and Profound
  - Words/Sounds
  - ABC Sydney Drive With Richard Glover featuring Thank God It’s Friday!
  - NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
  - And the Award Goes To...
  - Histories of Mayhem and Margins
  - Zine Futures: A Participatory Panel Discussion
  - Patrick White Playwrights Award and Fellowship
  - Ngana Barangarai Dreaming Inside Volume 9
  - Kate Grenville: A Room Made of Leaves
  - Anita Heiss: Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray
  - Candice Fox: The Chase
  - J.P. Pomare: How to Write a Book Readers Won’t Put Down
  - Sara Saleh: Poetry
  - Ellen van Neerven: Short Story Fundamentals
  - Rick Morton: Writing Creative Non-fiction That Captivates
  - Kathryn Heyman: Making Story From Truth and Truth From Story
  - Nikki Gemmell: Column Writing
  - Rebecca Giggs: Nature Writing
  - Sofie Laguna: Creating Compelling Characters
  - Osman Faruqi: When the Writer Becomes the Story
  - Richard Cooke: Creating Non-Fiction Under Pressure
  - Sweatshop Workshop: Jamie Marina Lau
  - Better Living Through Fantasy
  - Gary Lonesborough: The Boy From the Mish
  - Disaster Kids in Love
  - This Is Going to Hurt
  - YA Gala: Protect Them at All Costs
  - A. C. Grayling: The Frontiers of Knowledge
  - Hilary Mantel: The Final Wolf Hall
  - Meg Mason & Ewa Ramsey
  - Linda Jaivin: On Drunken Poets, Daring Women and the Other ‘China Story’
Writers
- Hajer
- Nicole Abadee
- Michael Mohammed Ahmad
- Emma Alberici
- Sydnye Allen
- Nat Amoore
- Evelyn Araluen
- Rawah Arja
- Auburn Poets and Writers Group
- Tim Ayliffe
- Julia Baird
- Sami Bayly
- Tony Birch
- Sophie Black
- Ariel Bogle
- James Bradley
- Daniel Browning
- Julian Burnside
- Felicity Castagna
- Faith Chaza
- Janette Chen
- Santilla Chingaipe
- Philip Clark
- Justine Clarke
- Callum Clayton-Dixon
- Maddison Connaughton
- Richard Cooke
- Matt Cosgrove
- Annabel Crabb
- Michelle de Kretser
- Sarah Dingle
- Ben Doherty
- Ceridwen Dovey
- Winnie Dunn
- Mick Elliott
- Anton Enus
- Kate Evans
- Osman Faruqi
- Nick Feik
- Richard Fidler
- Tim Flannery
- Chris Fleming
- Jan Fran
- Sarah Gaul
- Rebecca Giggs
- Richard Glover
- Roanna Gonsalves
- Gus Gordon
- Phoebe Grainer
- Eleanor Hall
- Chris Hammer
- Ashley Hay
- Jess Hill
- Jean Hinchliffe
- Rebecca Huntley
- Bridie Jabour
- Daisy Jeffrey
- Ben Jenkins
- Rob Johnson
- Rae Johnston
- Michaela Kalowski
- Yumna Kassab
- Alice Keath
- Paul Kelly
- Thomas Keneally
- Gayle Kennedy
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