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- Festival 2018
  - Ceridwen Dovey: In the Garden of the Fugitives (State Library of NSW)
  - NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Presentation and Cocktail Reception
  - Opening Address: André Aciman, Min Jin Lee and Alexis Okeowo
  - Derision For Homeowners Won’t Save You – Discomforting Innercity Stories
  - Staging Our Stories
  - Helen Garner’s Savage Self-Scrutiny
  - PEN Lecture: The War on Journalism – How 9/11 Changed Everything
  - EDMUND. THE BEGINNING (Wednesday)
  - Insiders Live at Sydney Writers’ Festival
  - The Future of Russia
  - Coffee and Papers with SMH: Irin Carmon
  - Christos Tsiolkas: On Patrick White
  - UTS Anthology Launch: Light Borrowers
  - John Dickson: A Doubter’s Guide to Jesus
  - Family Ties
  - Go Gentle
  - Bright Lights, Big City: Dreaming of a Better Sydney
  - James Maskalyk: Life on the Ground Floor
  - How The News Has Changed
  - Immersive Histories
  - Drawing the Line: The Ethics of True Crime Writing
  - Becoming the Story
  - Tara Westover: Educated
  - Home Truths: Telling Australian Stories
  - Balancing Acts: Women in Sport
  - Saga Land
  - And the Award Goes To ...
  - Johann Hari: Lost Connections
  - Gods and Monsters: Mythology in Fiction
  - Christine Milne: An Activist Life
  - History’s Next Generation
  - Straight from the Headlines
  - On the Record: Historical Fiction
  - Xue Yiwei: Dr. Bethune's Children
  - Can Children’s Stories Save the World?
  - Paul Lynch: Grace
  - Commonwealth Now: End of Empire
  - Stories of Sydney
  - Borderlines: Stories of Migration
  - Alexis Wright: Tracker
  - Brexit Plan
  - The Big Bent Poetry Reading
  - Romance Was Born: A Love Story with Fashion
  - Warren Mundine in Black + White
  - Axiomatic: Maria Tumarkin
  - Good Sports
  - Dennis Glover: The Last Man in Europe
  - Sam Dastyari: One Halal of a Story
  - Junot Díaz: Islandborn
  - The Full Catastrophe
  - EDMUND. THE BEGINNING (Thursday)
  - Min Jin Lee: Pachinko
  - Story Club
  - Coffee and Papers with SMH: Alec Luhn
  - Poetic Threads: The Lady And The Unicorn (Friday)
  - Jane Harper: Force of Nature
  - Ceridwen Dovey: In the Garden of the Fugitives
  - Toby Walsh: It's Alive!
  - Sofie Laguna: The Choke
  - Hugh Mackay: Australia Reimagined
  - Manal al-Sharif: Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
  - Mohammed Al Samawi: The Fox Hunt
  - Media in Full Colour
  - ABC Radio’s Conversations and ABC RN’s The Bookshelf Live Broadcast
  - The Future of China
  - Danny Denton: The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow
  - Zack McDermott: Gorilla and the Bird
  - Sharp Instruments
  - Kim Scott: Taboo
  - Omar Musa: Millefiori
  - Climate Change: A Hastening Catastrophe
  - Stella Prize: Brilliant Careers
  - Going Rogue: North Korea
  - Great Expectations: Emerging Writers
  - Stanley Johnson: Kompromat
  - Family Portrait
  - Eddie Ayres: Danger Music
  - Josephine Wilson: Extinctions
  - Don Watson: There it is again
  - Merit Over Mates: Women in Media Reach Toward Newsroom Equality
  - Conflicting Narratives: Reporting on International Conflict
  - Somewhere in the Middle: Israel and Palestine
  - André Aciman: Enigma Variations
  - Poetry in Motion: Live Performances
  - Amy Bloom: White Houses
  - Robert Drewe: Whipbird
  - Why We Read
  - Kate Cole-Adams: Anaesthesia
  - Gareth Evans: Incorrigible Optimist
  - Australian Idols: Writers on Writers
  - Sympathy for the Devil
  - Eliza Robertson: Demi-Gods
  - Richard Lloyd Parry: Ghosts of the Tsunami
  - New Australian Voices
  - Trump’s New World Order
  - The Future of Science Writing
  - Drive with Richard Glover, featuring Thank God It’s Friday!
  - Eileen Myles: To Dig a Hole in Eternity
  - Katy Tur: Unbelievable
  - Still Processing
  - EDMUND. THE BEGINNING (Friday)
  - Fox and Friends: The Far Reach of Murdoch
  - SWF Gala: Power
  - Pretty for an Aboriginal
  - Poetic Threads: The Lady And The Unicorn (Saturday)
  - New Power
  - Emma Glass: Peach
  - Zinzi Clemmons: What We Lose
  - Michael Robotham: The Secrets She Keeps
  - Sarah Krasnostein: The Trauma Cleaner
  - Lang Leav: Sea of Strangers
  - Angela Saini: Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong
  - First Dog on the Moon’s Guide to Living Through the Impending Apocalypse
  - Peter Greste: The First Casualty
  - Sharlene Teo: Ponti
  - Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country
  - Source Material
  - Francisco Cantú: The Line Becomes a River - EVENT CANCELLED
  - Women, Colour and Western Sydney
  - The Global Refugee Crisis
  - Yrsa Daley-Ward: bone
  - Resisting Unjust Authority
  - Tony Birch: Common People
  - Jenny Zhang: Sour Heart
  - Glory Edim: Well-Read Black Girl
  - Gabriel Tallent: My Absolute Darling
  - Kapka Kassabova: Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
  - Leigh Sales: On Doubt
  - Meet the SMH Best Young Australian Novelists
  - Women in Tech: Okay Ladies, Now Let’s Get Information
  - Sofija Stefanovic: Miss Ex-Yugoslavia
  - The Politics of Empathy
  - The Body Politic
  - Recognise
  - Conjuring the Past
  - Richard Denniss: Curing Affluenza
  - The Gig Economy: Today’s Hungry Mile?
  - Annabel Crabb's BooKwiz
  - Bankstown Poetry Slam
  - Michael Brooks: The Quantum Astrologer’s Handbook
  - Ashleigh Young: Can You Tolerate This?
  - My Feminism Will Be Intersectional Or It Will Be Bullshit
  - Writing Grief and Trauma
  - Jeff Goodell: The Water Will Come
  - Return of the Big Black Thing
  - Jennifer Egan: Manhattan Beach
  - This is Not a Moment, It's a Movement
  - Gay For Page
  - EDMUND. THE BEGINNING (Saturday)
  - André Aciman: Call Me by Your Name
  - Julia Gillard: On Power and Gender
  - People of Letters
  - Coffee and Papers with SMH: Francis Wade
  - Poetic Threads: The Lady And The Unicorn (Sunday)
  - Economic Inequality: From Wisconsin to Whyalla
  - Power Play: Toxic Masculinity in Storytelling
  - Michelle de Kretser: The Life to Come
  - Pajtim Statovci: My Cat Yugoslavia – EVENT CANCELLED
  - The End of China’s Economic Miracle?
  - MCA Zine Fair
  - Everyone's a Critic
  - Ben Taub: Covering a Crisis
  - Charles Massy: Call of the Reed Warbler
  - The Rise of Australian Populism
  - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: Wrestling with the Devil – EVENT CANCELLED
  - Tayari Jones: An American Marriage
  - Taboo and Other Battles
  - Alexis Okeowo: A Moonless, Starless Sky
  - Emotional Complexity
  - Amy Goldstein: Janesville
  - An Evolving Crisis: Rohingya in Myanmar
  - Sarah Ferguson: On Mother
  - If You Don’t Laugh You’ll Cry
  - Carmen Maria Machado: Her Body and Other Parties
  - Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
  - Ben Taub: Syria
  - My Words to Remember
  - Claire Higgins: Asylum By Boat
  - Emily Wilson: Translating The Odyssey
  - First Things First
  - Anne Aly: Finding My Place
  - Alannah Hill: Butterfly on a Pin
  - The Changing Face of Australia
  - Jacqui Lambie: Rebel With a Cause
  - Closing Address: Jennifer Egan
  - Jeff Kinney: The Getaway
  - Junot Díaz: The Power of Imagination – EVENT CANCELLED
  - Levi Pinfold: Illustrating Harry Potter
  - Outside: A Feast of the Senses
  - Chris Riddell and A.F. Harrold Bring Quirky Tales to Life
  - Spies, Lies and Mysteries: Meet Kensy and Max!
  - Bab Sharkey and the Animal Mummies
  - The Ultimate Guide to Disgusting Food
  - Illustrator Battle Rounds
  - The Pink Hat
  - The Mr Chicken and Old Tom Draw Off with Leigh Hobbs
  - Billy Griffiths: On Deep Time Dreaming
  - Joe Gorman: On Soccer and Australian Multiculturalism
  - Michael Robotham: On Plotting the Perfect Crime
  - Melanie Cheng: On Reading and Empathy
  - Nick Brodie: On the Need for Millennial Historians
  - Eliza Robertson: On Astrology
  - Claire G. Coleman: On Fiction, Villains and the Nature of Evil
  - Kate Rossmanith: On Crime and Remorse
  - Jack Manning Bancroft: On Mentorship
  - Danny Denton: On Rain
  - Carmen Maria Machado: On Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  - Jennifer Down: On How to Disappear
  - Eileen Myles: Straight Expectations
  - Jay Kristoff: On the Evolution of Sci-Fi
  - Robert E. Kelly: On Becoming BBC Dad
  - Taking a Stand
  - Reporting on Natural Disaster
  - Writers on Writers: Alice Pung discusses John Marsden
  - Next Wave
  - Express Yourself
  - The Untold Stories in Australian History
  - Primary School Days: Town Hall (Monday) Not Making Sense
  - Xue Yiwei: Shenzheners
  - Eddie Ayres: Danger Music (Ashfield)
  - Auburn Poets and Writers: Stories of Us
  - Bankstown Poetry Slam (Bankstown)
  - Jennifer Down: Pulse Points
  - Michael Robotham: The Secrets She Keeps (Blacktown)
  - Anna Broinowski: Please Explain
  - Owning Your Story
  - Tony Jones: The Twentieth Man
  - Jane Harper: Force of Nature (Chatswood)
  - Sofie Laguna: The Choke (Chatswood)
  - Stuart Kells: The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
  - Melanie Cheng: Australia Day
  - Richard Denniss: Curing Affluenza (Hornsby)
  - Hugh Riminton: Minefields
  - Jenny Zhang at UNSW
  - Jane Caro: Unbreakable
  - Jamelle Wells: The Court Reporter
  - Lunchtime Sessions: Richard Denniss
  - Lunchtime Sessions: Jeff Goodell
  - Finishing School presents Talking Bodies
  - The Rumble
  - Peter Greste: The First Casualty (Parramatta)
  - Jacqui Lambie: Rebel With a Cause (Parramatta)
  - Luke Slattery: Mrs. M
  - Alice Pung: On John Marsden
  - Felicity Fenner: Running the City
  - Anna George: The Lone Child
  - Hugh Mackay: Australia Reimagined (Ryde)
  - Felicity Castagna: No More Boats
  - Rocket Readings
  - Black Wallaby Indigenous Writers’ Night
  - The Unbelievable Truth
  - Varuna Festival Launch Party
  - Good Thinking, Good Writing with Tohby Riddle
  - Flash!
  - Grug
  - Emily Rodda
  - Cracking Climate by Cracking Consumption
  - Rising in the West: Writing from Sydney’s Heart
  - How to Get Published: Insiders’ Perspectives
  - The Common Table
  - Varuna Poetry Circle
  - Tara Westover: Getting Educated
  - Dias Novita Wuri: Feminist Perspectives
  - Michelle de Kretser: How Life Could Be Different
  - Kim Scott: Taboo (Blue Mountains)
  - Music, Gender and Transformation with Eddie Ayres
  - Michael Mohammed Ahmad: Good Writing Vs. Bad Writing
  - Kirk Docker: How to Ask the Hard Questions
  - Liam Pieper: Realise Your Novel’s Potential
  - Sofie Laguna: Creating Compelling Characters
  - Meera Atkinson: Writing Trauma: Exploring Literary Trauma Testimony
  - Dennis Glover: The Art of Speech Writing
  - Anna George: How to Write a Page Turner
  - Candy Royalle: Write Breathe Perform
  - Forest for the Trees: Writers and Publishing in 2018
  - Nick Brodie: Writing Family History (That Other People Actually Want to Read)
  - Nicki Greenberg: Bringing Your Picture Book to Life
  - Maria Tumarkin: Writing Literary Non-Fiction
  - Meera Atkinson: Saying the Unsayable: The Art and Practice of Writing Poetry
  - A.F. Harrold: Playing with Poetry
  - Alison Croggon: Building Worlds: How to Make Fantasy Real
  - Eleanor Limprecht: Research and Writing: The Truth is in the Detail
  - Katrina Nannestad: Writing for Children - Nuts and Bolts and Giggles
  - Daniel Findlay: Finding and Writing A Convincing Voice
  - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl: Film screening and Q&A
  - From the Sidelines
  - Burn the Burn Book: Real Girls in YA
  - Writing for YA Books and Film
  - The Personal is Political
  - Architects of New Worlds
  - #poetrydebate: Who Takes the Crown?
  - Bringing Imaginary Worlds to Life
  - The Future of Writing
  - TeenCon 2018
  - Storytime Clubhouse
  - On the Spot Stories
  - Shout Out to the Girls Exhibition - A Celebration of Awesome Australian Women
  - May Gibbs Colouring-In Wall
  - Casula Powerhouse’s Dada Music
  - Russ the Story Bus
  - The Colour and Craft Depot
  - Welcome to Mumphis!
  - The Turners Audioplay
  - The Big Backyard: On the Spot Stories (repeat)
  - The Big Backyard: Storytime Clubhouse with Oliver Phommavanh
  - On the Spot Stories (second session)
  - Ideas to Inspire with Cleo Wade - EVENT CANCELLED
  - Cleo Wade: Heart Talk
  - Johann Hari: On Our Depression, Anxiety and Addiction Crisis
  - Heather Morris: The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- 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
  - Russ The Story Bus
  - 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
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  - Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
  - Lost the Plot: Writing About Mental Health
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  - Brit Bennett: The Mothers
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  - 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)
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  - Writers' Journeys: Authors' Personal Reflections on Writing and Publishing (Blue Mountains)
  - The Most Unlikely of Places
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Writers
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- Julia Baird
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- Tony Birch
- Sophie Black
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- John Muk Muk Burke
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- Michelle Cahill
- Jane Caro
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- Felicity Castagna
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- Eileen Chong
- Annabel Crabb
- Emily Crocker
- Kirk Docker
- Ben Doherty
- Winnie Dunn
- Anton Enus
- Kate Evans
- Sarah Ferguson
- Richard Fidler
- Toby Fitch
- Richard Glover
- Linda Godfrey
- Roanna Gonsalves
- Stan Grant
- Eda Gunaydin
- Eleanor Hall
- Angie Hart
- Ashley Hay
- Anita Heiss
- Lex Hirst
- Richard Holden
- David Hunt
- Rebecca Huntley
- Bridie Jabour
- Linda Jaivin
- Ben Jenkins
- Michaela Kalowski
- Sarah Kanowski
- Fiona Katauskas
- Bec Kavanagh
- Julie Koh
- Will Kostakis
- Friederike Krishnabhakdi-Vasilakis
- Shirley Le
- Suzanne Leal
- Amelia Lush
- Sarah Macdonald
- Hugh Mackay
- Jack Manning Bancroft
- Sara Mansour
- Melina Marchetta
- Matthew Martin
- Kate McClymont
- George Megalogenis
- Aunty Barbara Nicholson
- Mark O’Flynn
- James O’Loghlin
- Cheryl Orsini
- Bruce Pascoe
- Janice Petersen
- Stephen Pham
- Sandra Phillips
- Oliver Phommavanh
- Liam Pieper
- Ailsa Piper
- Peter Polites
- Jamila Rizvi
- Michael Robotham
- Juliet Rogers
- Stephen Romei
- James Roy
- Leigh Sales
- Niki Savva
- Julianne Schultz
- Michael Slezak
- Tracey Spicer
- R.A. Spratt
- Fiona Stager
- Sofija Stefanovic
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- Lenore Taylor
- Holly Throsby
- Maria Tumarkin
- Abigail Ulman
- James Valentine
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- Alison Whittaker
- Michael Williams
- Charlotte Wood
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- Fiona Wright
- Susan Wyndham
- Caroline Overington
- Jennifer Byrne
- Nakkiah Lui
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- Monica Attard
- Peter Greste
- Andrew Boe
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- Alison Croggon
- Patrick Ness
- Morris Gleitzman
- Katrina Nannestad
- Chris Riddell
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- Julia Zemiro
- Anna Clark
- Cleo Wade
- Alice Pung
- Omar Musa
- Melanie Cheng
- Geoffrey Robertson
- First Dog On the Moon
- André Aciman
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- Sina Aghamofid
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- Tonya Alexandra
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- Claire G. Coleman
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- Joëlle Gergis
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- Emma Glass
- Dennis Glover
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- Nicki Greenberg
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- Luise Guest
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- Jane Harper
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- Rameen Hayat
- Grace Heifetz
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- Richard Higgins
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- Erik Jensen
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- Lou Johnson
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- Rae Johnston
- Tayari Jones
- Tony Jones
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- Sarah Kaine
- Kapka Kassabova
- Catherine Keenan
- Stuart Kells
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- Robert E. Kelly
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- Amelia Lester
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