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    • Programs 2017-2018
      • The 91-Storey Treehouse
    • 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
      • 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
    • 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
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    • Nicole Abadee
    • Sally Abbott
    • Patrick Abboud
    • Annabel Abbs
    • Randa Abdel-Fattah
    • Yassmin Abdel-Magied
    • Hani Abdile
    • Louise Adler
    • Deng Adut
    • Michael Mohammed Ahmad
    • Emma Alberici
    • Jada Alberts
    • Steven Amsterdam
    • Jayne Anderson
    • Eunice Andrada
    • Desi Anwar
    • Evelyn Araluen Corr
    • Samantha Armytage
    • Anuk Arudpragasam
    • Kaveh Arya
    • Melissa Ashley
    • Auburn Poets and Writers Group
    • Amal Awad
    • Sarah Ayoub
    • Maryam Azam
    • Van Badham
    • Julia Baird
    • Sarah Bakewell
    • Jimmy Barnes
    • Caroline Baum
    • Matt Beard
    • Paul Beatty
    • Davina Bell
    • Brit Bennett
    • Tegan Bennett Daylight
    • Craig Billingham
    • Danielle Binks
    • Tony Birch
    • Carmel Bird
    • Hera Lindsay Bird
    • Sophie Black
    • Graeme Blundell
    • Mike Bowers
    • James Bradley
    • Troy Bramston
    • Bernadette Brennan
    • Saroo Brierley
    • Sue Brierley
    • Nick Brodie
    • Caroline Brothers
    • Lachlan Brown
    • Daniel Browning
    • Dame Quentin Bryce AC
    • Robbie Buck
    • Anne Buist
    • J. C. Burke
    • John Muk Muk Burke
    • Caroline Butler-Bowdon
    • Ita Buttrose AO OBE
    • Michelle Cahill
    • Michael Campbell
    • Susan Carland
    • Jane Caro
    • A.J. Carruthers
    • Barrie Cassidy
    • Felicity Castagna
    • Michael Cathcart
    • Mona Chalabi
    • Merelyn Chalmers
    • Jenevieve Chang
    • Lisa Chaplin
    • Joseph Chebatte
    • Neil Chenoweth
    • Durga Chew-Bose
    • Lauren Child
    • Tamar Chnorhokian
    • Eileen Chong
    • Lucy Clark
    • Maxine Beneba Clarke
    • Greg Clarke
    • Catherine Cole
    • Allison Colpoys
    • Rachael Coopes
    • Bryce Corbett
    • Claire Corbett
    • Craig Cormick
    • Peter Corris
    • Tim Costello
    • Ivan Coyote
    • Annabel Crabb
    • Sarah Crichton
    • Jenny Crocker
    • Emily Crocker
    • Sarah Crossan
    • Meredith Curnow
    • Amelia Dale
    • Stephen Dando-Collins
    • Kerrie Davies
    • Anne Davies
    • Joel Davison
    • Giulia De Biase
    • Brigid Delaney
    • Matthia Dempsey
    • Robert Dessaix
    • Viola Di Grado
    • Mark Di Stefano
    • Kate DiCamillo
    • Kirk Docker
    • Tony Doherty
    • Ben Doherty
    • Hannah Donnelly
    • Briohny Doyle
    • Catherine du Peloux Menage
    • Carol Ann Duffy
    • Alan Duffy
    • Winnie Dunn
    • Nick Earls
    • Catherine Eccles
    • Ali Cobby Eckermann
    • Jill Eddington
    • Nick Enfield
    • Anne Enright
    • Anton Enus
    • Natanya Eskin
    • James Evans
    • Tanya Evans
    • Kate Evans
    • Delia Falconer
    • Susan Faludi
    • Ellen Fanning
    • Paul Farrell
    • Michael Farrell
    • Sarah Ferguson
    • Richard Fidler
    • Bianca Fileborn
    • Charles Firth
    • Toby Fitch
    • Eamon Flack
    • Victoria Flanagan
    • Tim Flannery
    • James Foley
    • Clementine Ford
    • Robert Forster
    • Sara Foster
    • Candice Fox
    • Catherine Fox
    • Jan Fran
    • David Francis
    • Kate Fraser
    • Brentley Frazer
    • Mia Freedman
    • Genevieve Fricker
    • Thomas Friedman
    • Jessica Friedmann
    • Roxane Gay
    • Nikki Gemmell
    • Sulari Gentill
    • Jane Gibian
    • Rebecca Giggs
    • Benjamin Gilmour
    • Ross Gittins
    • George Gittoes
    • Madeline Gleeson
    • Libby Gleeson
    • Justin Gleeson SC
    • Richard Glover
    • Linda Godfrey
    • Peter Godfrey-Smith
    • Lisa Goldberg
    • Roanna Gonsalves
    • Gus Gordon
    • Alyx Gorman
    • Nayuka Gorrie
    • Erin Gough
    • Stan Grant
    • A.C. Grayling
    • John M. Green
    • Jonathan Green
    • Kate Grenville
    • Ryan Griffen
    • Tom Griffiths
    • Andy Griffiths
    • Alice Grundy
    • Eda Gunaydin
    • Eleanor Hall
    • Michelle Hamadache
    • Sophie Hamley
    • James Gulliver Hancock
    • Andrea Hanke
    • Marieke Hardy
    • Wendy Harmer
    • Angie Hart
    • Ashley Hay
    • Bill Hayes
    • Natalie Haynes
    • Jack Heath
    • Anita Heiss
    • Fiona Henderson
    • Eliza Henry-Jones
    • Kathryn Heyman
    • Lex Hirst
    • Lewis Hobba
    • Richard Holden
    • Joel Horwood
    • Bill Hosking
    • David Hunt
    • Rebecca Huntley
    • Amjad Hussain
    • Jane Hutcheon
    • Armando Iannucci
    • Witi Ihimaera
    • Graeme Innes
    • Holly Isemonger
    • Bridie Jabour
    • Meredith Jaffé
    • Linda Jaivin
    • Ben Jenkins
    • Robert Jensen
    • Ha Jin
    • Alexandra Joel
    • Maggie Joel
    • Rebecca Johinke
    • Katherine Johnson
    • Melanie Joosten
    • Debra Jopson
    • Chin Jou
    • Michaela Kalowski
    • Sarah Kanowski
    • Fiona Katauskas
    • Amie Kaufman
    • Rupi Kaur
    • Bec Kavanagh
    • Lynne Kelly
    • Meg Keneally
    • Christine Kenneally
    • Hannah Kent
    • Vanessa Kirkpatrick
    • Krissy Kneen
    • Malcolm Knox
    • Julie Koh
    • Will Kostakis
    • Chris Kraus
    • Lawrence Krauss
    • Friederike Krishnabhakdi-Vasilakis
    • Karl Kruszelnicki
    • Meredith Lake
    • Karen Lamb
    • Margo Lanagan
    • Brodie Lancaster
    • Benjamin Law
    • Tilly Lawless
    • Joy Lawn
    • Shirley Le
    • Sarrah Le Marquand
    • Tess Lea
    • Suzanne Leal
    • Chris Leben
    • Alex Lee
    • Steve Lewis
    • Maria Lewis
    • Isabelle Li
    • Lee Lin Chin
    • Melissa Lucashenko
    • Amelia Lush
    • Michael Lynch
    • Sarah Macdonald
    • Stuart Macintyre
    • Hugh Mackay
    • Kim Mahood
    • Sebastian Mallaby
    • Jack Manning Bancroft
    • Sara Mansour
    • Melina Marchetta
    • Lauren Marriott
    • Henry Marsh
    • Matthew Martin
    • Hisham Matar
    • Helen McCabe
    • Kate McClymont
    • Mardi McConnochie
    • Garry Robert McDougall
    • Fiona McFarlane
    • Ann McGrath
    • Fiona McIntosh
    • Mark McKenna
    • Maxine McKew
    • Alex McKinnon
    • Duncan McNab
    • Melinda McNaughton
    • George Megalogenis
    • Caro Meldrum-Hanna
    • Grace Menary-Winefield
    • Miles Merrill
    • Stephen Metcalf
    • Patti Miller
    • James M. Miller
    • Peter Minter
    • Pia Miranda
    • Chris Mitchell
    • Alys Moody
    • Frank Moorhouse
    • Mark Moran
    • Liane Moriarty
    • Jaclyn Moriarty
    • Linda Morris
    • Zoë Morrison
    • Di Morrissey
    • Jamie Morton
    • Tommy Murphy
    • Olivia Murphy
    • Joanna Murray-Smith
    • Angelica Neville
    • Aunty Barbara Nicholson
    • Astrida Niemanis
    • Jennifer Niven
    • Garth Nix
    • Bianca Nogrady
    • Lynette Noni
    • Adam Norris
    • Marilla North
    • Belinda Nowell
    • Connor Tomas O’Brien
    • Jess O’Callaghan
    • Mark O’Flynn
    • James O’Loghlin
    • Ryan O’Neill
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