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Festivals
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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
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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
- 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
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Festival 2020
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
- Microlit Chocolate Wheel
- Patrick White Playwrights Award and Fellowship
- And the Award Goes To...
- Transformational Histories
- Shadow Catchers: Poetic Reflections
- Aminata Conteh-Biger: Rising Heart
- Siri Hustvedt: I’m Writing For My Life
- Bernardine Evaristo: Girl, Woman, Other
- Shadow Catchers: Poetic Tour
- Richard Cooke: On Robyn Davidson
- Remembering Clive James
- Johny Pitts: Afropean
- Journalism: A Voice for the Vulnerable
- Tom Keneally: The Dickens Boy
- Julia Phillips: Disappearing Earth
- A Million Little Truths
- Chris Hammer: Silver
- The Limitless Self
- Michelle de Kretser: On Shirley Hazzard
- Petina Gappah: Out of Darkness, Shining Light
- Journey to the End of Speech
- Joshua Yaffa: Between Two Fires
- The Savage Detectives
- Fighting Words: The Literature of Cancer
- Sharks: An Australian Obsession
- Antony Loewenstein: Pills, Powder, and Smoke
- Tara June Winch: The Yield
- The Big Read
- Yumna Kassab: The House of Youssef
- Australia’s Leadership Problem
- Mike Giglio: Shatter the Nations
- Fire Front
- Kevin Wilson: Nothing to See Here
- Secrecy, Surveillance and State Power
- Elliot Perlman: Maybe the Horse Will Talk
- Chris Fleming: On Drugs
- Kathy Lette Gets Candid
- The Poetry of Medicine
- Disinformation Spreads Like Wildfire
- Antony Dapiran: City on Fire
- A Prize of One’s Own
- Secrets and Lies: Donor-Conceived Rights
- The Empire Writes Back
- Sophie McNeill: We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know
- Jeff Sparrow: Fascists Among Us
- Cassandra Pybus: Truganini
- Bob Brown: Planet Earth
- The New Vanguard of Climate Fiction
- Liberalism at Large
- Artistic Freedoms: Creativity and Incarceration
- Critical Condition
- Christos Tsiolkas: Damascus
- Griffith Review 68: Getting On
- Paul Muldoon: Frolic and Detour
- Claire G. Coleman: The Old Lie
- Favel Parrett: There Was Still Love
- Little Women Through the Ages
- A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America
- ABC Radio National Live: Stop Everything!
- Insiders Live at Sydney Writers’ Festival
- Astrology in Uncertain Times
- Erotic Fan Fiction
- Coffee and Headlines with The Monthly: Peter Pomerantsev
- Liam Pieper: Sweetness and Light
- Fair Game: Activism and Ethics in Sport
- Creature Comforts
- Vicki Hastrich and Charlotte Wood: A Writer’s Friendship
- Julia Baird: Phosphorescence
- Data Insecurity
- Heather Rose: Bruny
- Annabel Crabb, Samantha Maiden and David Marr: A Year in Review
- ABC Radio Live: Conversations
- Kawai Strong Washburn: Sharks in the Time of Saviours
- Pandemic
- Apocalypse Then
- Vicki Laveau-Harvie: The Erratics
- Peter Pomerantsev: This is Not Propaganda
- Amir Ahmadi Arian: Then the Fish Swallowed Him
- Anna Krien: Act of Grace
- Bob Hawke
- ABC Radio National Live: The Bookshelf
- The Next Chapter: Writing Blak
- Daniel Mendelsohn: The Bad Boy of Athens
- Hugh Mackay: The Inner Self
- Golriz Ghahraman: Know Your Place
- Anne Boyer: The Undying
- Jesse Ball: The Divers’ Game
- Josephine Rowe: Here Until August
- How Democracy Can Survive Social Media
- Left on Read
- Corruption in the Church
- Dani Shapiro: Inheritance
- Sydney PEN: Keeping Australians Quiet
- Susanna Moore: In the Cut
- James Bradley: Ghost Species
- Insights from the American Campaign Trail
- Animals Like Us
- Simple Pleasures
- Eimear McBride: Strange Hotel
- Droughts and Flooding Rains
- Terror Australis
- The Answers Are Not Important
- Intan Paramaditha: The Wandering
- Understanding Extremism
- ABC Radio Sydney Drive with Richard Glover, Featuring Thank God It’s Friday!
- Lisa Taddeo: Three Women
- Midnight’s Children
- Slate Thirst Aid Kit Live
- Clare Bowditch: Your Own Kind of Girl
- Anna Wiener: Uncanny Valley
- Gay For Page
- Coffee and Headlines with The Saturday Paper: Carol Leonnig
- Tomasz Jedrowski: Swimming in the Dark
- Hope in the Face of Climate Change
- Archie Roach: Tell Me Why
- Layla F. Saad: Me and White Supremacy
- Daniel Mallory Ortberg: Something That May Shock and Discredit You
- Thant Myint-U: The Hidden History of Burma
- Nicole Dennis-Benn: Patsy
- Vivian Pham: The Coconut Children
- Mervyn King: Radical Uncertainty
- Lucia Osborne-Crowley: I Choose Elena
- Violent Sydney
- Nell Zink: Doxology
- Tanya Talaga: All Our Relations
- Nesrine Malik: We Need New Stories
- Critical Care
- Tony Birch: The White Girl
- Philippe Sands: The Ratline
- Cliff Kuang: User Friendly
- Remembering Christchurch
- Virginia Trioli: Generation F
- Ellen van Neerven: Throat
- The Anatomy of Female Desire
- Julia Ebner: Going Dark
- The Ethics of Parenthood
- Vicki Hastrich: Night Fishing
- After the Flames
- Meet the SMH Best Young Australian Novelists
- Politics in Fiction
- Leslie Jamison: Up Close and Personal
- Iconic Duos: The Next Chapter Writers and Mentors
- Niki Savva: Plots and Prayers
- Tim Flannery: Life
- Distant Concerns
- Helena Janeczek: The Girl with the Leica
- Classified Disinformation: Living in Russia
- Leah Purcell: The Drover's Wife
- Bruce Pascoe: Writing Australia
- The Full Catastrophe
- Anonymous Bankstown Poetry Slam
- Andrew Boe: The Truth Hurts
- Breaking the Banks
- Catherine Lacey: An Indelible Voice
- Madeleine Watts: The Inland Sea
- Art in Catastrophic Times
- What Next for Hong Kong?
- Truth 2, Lies 1: Crabb and Sales on Lying About Books
- Story Club
- Almost Midnight: An Evening of Storytelling and Song
- The Art of the TV Finale
- Queerstories
- Coffee and Headlines with 7am: Joshua Yaffa
- Ronnie Scott: The Adversary
- Colum McCann: Apeirogon
- Nicolás Giacobone: The Crossed-Out Notebook
- Charlotte Wood: The Weekend
- First on the Ground
- MCA Zine Fair 2020
- An Yu: Braised Pork
- Iran: At Home and Abroad
- Flocks and Fakes
- Hope Less
- Reckoning and Retribution
- Rebekah Robertson and Georgie Stone: About a Girl
- Law and the World: On the Edge
- Anna Jones: A Modern Cook
- Jeff VanderMeer: Future Shocks
- Third Culture Kids: Identity in a Cross-Cultural World
- Susanna Moore: Miss Aluminum
- Beyond Imagining: A Holocaust Journal
- Text on the Beach
- The Future of Black Britain and Europe
- It’s Time!
- Algorithmic Time
- Pros and Cons: Why Scammers Fascinate Us
- Sophie Hardcastle: Below Deck
- The Journey of the Uluru Statement
- Paul Kelly: Love Is Strong as Death
- Women and Their Bodies
- Closing Night Address: Nell Zink
- Malcolm Turnbull in Conversation with Annabel Crabb
- Dav Pilkey: The Do Good Tour at City Recital Hall
- Singalong Storytime
- Pranks, Parks and Peeking Ducks
- Raina Telgemeier: All Guts, All Glory
- Story Club Junior: It Was a Dark and Stormy Night...
- Our Home, Our Heartbeat
- The Real Pigeons Live Mystery Hour
- A History of Everything in 15 Objects
- Take Heart, Take Action
- Of Myths and Magic
- The Weird, Wild and Amazing World with Tim Flannery
- Illustrator Battle Rounds
- Salah Sukkarieh: On the Rise of Robo-Crops
- Elizabeth Farrelly: On Congestion
- Mike Giglio: On Istanbul
- Johny Pitts: On Mediocrity
- Amir Ahmadi Arian: On Stupidity
- Karen Hitchcock: On Growing Your Own Food
- Thom van Dooren and Matthew Kearnes: On Extraterrestrial Ethics
- Peter Polites: On Gay Pride and Prejudice
- Colum McCann: On Badminton
- Tomasz Jedrowski: On Troye Sivan
- Virginia Trioli: Generation F (Ashfield)
- 2020: On the Human Experiment
- Bankstown Poetry Slam
- Elliot Perlman: Maybe the Horse Will Talk (Blacktown)
- Peter Fox: Walking Towards Thunder
- Nesrine Malik in Conversation with Tim Soutphommasane
- Tim Costello: A Lot with a Little
- Gritty Sydney with Tanya Bretherton
- Heather Rose: Bruny (Chatswood)
- Tim Flannery: Life (Chatswood)
- Shaun Micallef: Mad as Hell and Back
- Tony Birch: The White Girl (Concord)
- Sophie Hardcastle: Below Deck (Gordon)
- Anna Krien: Act of Grace (Hornsby)
- Tara June Winch: The Yield (Hurstville)
- Kathy Lette: HRT: Husband Replacement Therapy
- Chris Hammer: Silver (Oran Park)
- Words/Sounds Block Party
- An Yu: Writing Dialogue
- Fighting for Hakeem
- Dav Pilkey: The Do Good Tour at Riverside Theatres
- J.P. Pomare: In the Clearing
- Hugh Mackay: The Inner Self (Randwick)
- Niki Savva: Plots and Prayers (Ryde)
- Nicola Redhouse: Unlike the Heart
- Mirandi Riwoe: Stone Sky Gold Mountain
- Matt Okine: Being Black ‘n Chicken, and Chips
- Ngana Barangarai Dreaming Inside #8
- Matt Okine: Typing for TV
- Melina Marchetta: The Writer’s Toolbox
- Richard Cooke: Creating Non-Fiction Under Pressure
- Ronnie Scott: Getting a Grip on Your Manuscript
- Meg Mundell: Momentum for Novelists
- Johny Pitts: Making the Written Visual, and the Visual Narrative
- Heather Rose: Harnessing the Power of Imagination
- Daniel Mallory Ortberg: Holding Something Back
- Osman Faruqi: When the Writer Becomes the Story
- Jeff Sparrow: How to Write Opinion
- Anna Krien: The Fundamentals of Long-form Journalism
- Josephine Rowe: Coming Unstuck
- J.P. Pomare: How to Write a Book Readers Won’t Put Down
- Nicola Redhouse: Taking Your Memoir Beyond Plot
- Tomasz Jedrowski: Writing Without Fear
- Paul Muldoon: The End of the Line
- Colum McCann: Narrative 4
- Ellena Savage: Writing Artful Essays
- Ollie Wards: The Art of Audio Storytelling
- An Evening with Leigh Bardugo – CANCELLED
- Queerly Beloved
- Writing on a Knife’s Edge
- I Guess This Is Growing Up
- Drawn from Life: Alice Oseman in Conversation
- TeenCon 2020
- The Illustration Space
- Illustration Space with Nicki Greenberg
- Storytime Clubhouse
- Bluey’s Big Book Adventure!
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