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Festivals
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Festival 2019
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
- And the Award Goes To ...
- Conflict, Collective Memory and the Creation of History
- Opening Address: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Max Porter and Meg Wolitzer
- Storification: Short Fiction + Sound
- Unpacking Language: The Subtle Art of Translation
- Punch Lines: Poets Play Duchamp
- Coffee and Papers with SMH: Anabel Hernández
- Tim Flannery: Europe - A Natural History
- Australian Idols: Writers on Writers
- Truth 2, Lies 1: Crabb and Sales On Lying About Books
- Fatima Bhutto: The Runaways
- Alison Whittaker: Blakwork
- Tom Keneally: Two Old Men Dying
- David Astle: Rewording the Brain
- Marina Benjamin: Insomnia
- Trent Dalton: Boy Swallows Universe
- Fault Lines
- Sallie Tisdale: Advice for Future Corpses
- Paula Saunders: The Distance Home
- Behind Closed Doors
- Smoke and Mirrors
- The Perfect Crime
- Class Acts: Writers on Capitalism
- Anna Funder: The Cost of Lying and Truth-telling
- Father Figures
- Meg Keneally: Fled
- Melissa Lucashenko: Too Much Lip
- Desert Island Books: Carrie Tiffany
- Sarah Perry: Melmoth
- Markus Zusak: Bridge of Clay
- Outside Voices
- Dead Europe?
- Carla Guelfenbein: In the Distance with You
- Toby Walsh: 2062 - The World that AI Made
- Graeme Simsion: The Rosie Result
- Rick Morton: One Hundred Years of Dirt
- Matters of Fact
- Suffragettes, Referenda and Sausages: The History of Democracy in Australia
- Anabel Hernández: A Massacre in Mexico
- Iconic Duos: The Next Chapter Writers and Mentors
- Homecomings
- All Your Faves Are Problematic: Can We Cancel Art?
- Anshel Pfeffer: Bibi - The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- The Russell Prize for Humour Writing 2019
- George Saunders in Conversation with Paul Holdengräber
- The Full Catastrophe
- Jill Abramson: Merchants of Truth
- All the Rage
- Erotic Fan Fiction
- Coffee and Papers with SMH: William Davies
- The Right Way Up: Populism in Australia
- Taking Flight: Stories of Expulsion and Migration
- Leigh Sales: Any Ordinary Day
- Jonathan Lusthaus: Industry of Anonymity - Inside the Business of Cybercrime
- ABC RN LIVE: Stop Everything!
- Matthew Condon: The Night Dragon
- Steven Carroll: The Year of the Beast
- The Sails
- ABC RADIO LIVE: ABC Conversations
- Eddie Woo's Wonderful World of Maths
- An Irrevocable Condition
- Is Russia the Enemy We’ve Come to Believe?
- Know Your Place: The Politics of Identity
- He Who Must Not Be Named: Suppression Law
- Future D. Fidel: Prize Fighter
- William Davies: Nervous States
- ABC RN LIVE: The Bookshelf
- Adélaïde Bon: The Little Girl on the Ice Floe
- Desert Island Books: Paul Holdengräber
- Sticks and Stones: Defamation Law
- Can You Spot a Liar?
- Sophie Cunningham: City of Trees
- Kristina Olsson: Shell
- Caro Llewellyn: Diving into Glass
- Dunya Mikhail: The Beekeeper of Sinjar
- Women's Work
- Beth Macy: Dopesick
- Sweatshop Women
- Melanie Cheng: Room for a Stranger
- Jane Harper: The Lost Man
- Ben Quilty: Home
- PEN Lecture: Fragile Minds
- Gillian Triggs: Speaking Up
- David Marr: My Country
- Origin Story
- The Next Chapter: Writing Blak
- Griffith Review: The New Disruptors
- Home Truths
- Drive with Richard Glover, Featuring Thank God It’s Friday!
- No Friend but the Mountains
- An Evening with Antony Beevor
- Susan Orlean: The Library Book
- Gay For Page
- Stan Grant: Australia Day
- The Second Shelf
- Insiders Live at Sydney Writers’ Festival
- Story Club
- Coffee and Papers with SMH: Anshel Pfeffer
- Hedley Thomas: The Teacher’s Pet
- Ian Parker: The Talented Dan Mallory
- Inside Stories
- Worried Sick: Living in the Age of Anxiety
- Niviaq Korneliussen: Crimson
- Literary Worlds
- Ling Ma: Severance
- Akala: Natives - Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
- Chloe Hooper: The Arsonist
- Max Porter: Lanny
- The Kingdom and the Power: Saudi Arabia
- Elaine Castillo: America is Not the Heart
- Poetic Justice
- George Megalogenis: The Football Solution
- Trolling in the Deep
- The Millennial Condition
- Whose ABC?
- The Writers' Lie
- Meet the SMH Best Young Australian Novelists
- Jordy Rosenberg: Confessions of the Fox
- Making Monsters
- Bri Lee: Eggshell Skull
- Rachel Kushner: The Mars Room
- Jenny Erpenbeck: Go, Went, Gone
- Christian White: The Nowhere Child
- Blak Brow: Blak Women Take Control
- Finding the Lost Arabs
- Holly Throsby: Cedar Valley
- Richard Cooke: Tired of Winning
- Notes on a Crisis: The Literature of Love, HIV and AIDS
- Boys to Men: The Masculinity Crisis
- Oyinkan Braithwaite: My Sister, the Serial Killer
- The Windham-Campbell Prizes: Ali Cobby Eckermann
- Carrie Tiffany: Exploded View
- The Price of Ambition
- Casey Legler: Godspeed
- Simon Schama: Wordy
- Bankstown Poetry Slam: Women of the Word
- The Monthly Retells: Bad Teenage Poetry
- Kristen Roupenian: Cat Person and Other Stories
- Lie to Me: An Evening of Storytelling at Sydney Town Hall
- Queerstories
- Kerry O’Brien: A Memoir
- Huge Mood: Feelings and Politics in a Divided Age
- A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth
- Rebecca Makkai: The Great Believers
- Get Lit
- MCA Zine Fair
- Trial by Fire
- Brittney Cooper: Eloquent Rage
- Meg Wolitzer: The Female Persuasion
- David Vann: Halibut on the Moon
- Bryan Washington: Lot
- Alexander Chee: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
- Richard Glover: The Land Before Avocado
- Belonging: The Story of the Jews
- Daisy Johnson: Everything Under
- Growing Up African in Australia
- Starting the Conversation: Introducing the Holocaust to Young Readers
- Gabbie Stroud: Teacher
- Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: Friday Black
- Andrew Sean Greer: Less
- Jenny Erpenbeck: Memory and Forgetting, Home and Exile
- What’s God Got to Do With It?
- Ece Temelkuran: How to Lose a Country
- Desert Island Books: Ceridwen Dovey
- “I Do Not Want to See This in Print”
- Breaking News in the Age of Social Media
- Caoilinn Hughes: Orchid and the Wasp
- Closing Address: Fatima Bhutto
- Patrick White Playwrights Award and Fellowship
- Aaron Blabey: The Bad Guys, Pig the Pug and Thelma the Unicorn
- Fashionista: Express Yourself!
- Vital Science with Dr Karl
- My Culture and Me
- Judy Moody and Stink’s Guide to Life
- How to Survive in the Amazon Jungle
- Polly and Buster: The Best of Friends
- All the Ways to be Smart
- Storytellers’ Battle Ground!
- Macca the Alpaca with Matt Cosgrove
- The Never-ending Quack Up!
- Adélaïde Bon: A Witch in Time
- Jane Caro: On Princess Diana
- Tony Wheeler: On Travelling Everywhere
- Sam George-Allen: On Kate Bush
- Sallie Tisdale: On Flies, Maggots and Decomposition
- Sophie Cunningham: On the Bloomsbury Set and Ideas of Bohemia
- Bryan Washington: On Murakami
- Peter Godfrey-Smith: On Our Mysterious Cousin, the Octopus
- Rebecca Makkai: On Chicago
- Marc Fennell: On the Subculture of ‘Chilli-Heads’
- Toni Jordan: On Why Molière Was a Rom Com Writer
- Lisa Lucas: On Why Literary Awards Do (And Sometimes Don’t) Matter
- Jeff Sparrow: On Why Free Speech is an Industrial Issue
- Zoya Patel: On Token Ethnic Friends in Pop Culture
- Maxine Beneba Clarke: On Finding Inspiration Everywhere
- Ginger Gorman: Troll Hunting
- Auburn Poets and Writers Group: We Might as Well Be From Mars
- Bankstown Poetry Slam
- Krissy Kneen: Wintering
- Dervla McTiernan: The Scholar
- Rachel Kushner: What it Means to be Free
- Christian White: The Nowhere Child (Castle Hill)
- Power, Politics and Gender in Western Sydney
- David Marr: My Country (Chatswood)
- Rosalie Ham: The Year of the Farmer
- Eddie Woo's Wonderful World of Maths (Chatswood)
- Mark Brandi: The Rip
- Stephanie Bishop: Man Out of Time
- Tim Flannery: Europe – A Natural History (Hornsby)
- Holly Throsby: Cedar Valley (Hurstville)
- Rebecca Traister: Good and Mad
- Melissa Lucashenko: Too Much Lip (Kogara)
- Gabrielle Chan: Rusted Off
- Melina Marchetta: The Place on Dalhousie
- Eat, Talk, Dance
- Australian Poetry Slam Youth – Sydney Final
- Jordy Rosenberg: Confessions of the Fox (Parramatta)
- Richard Glover: The Land Before Avocado (Parramatta)
- Steven Carroll: The Year of the Beast (Penrith)
- Tony Wheeler: On Travel
- Jeff Sparrow: Trigger Warnings
- Matthew Condon: The Night Dragon (Hawkesbury)
- Black Wallaby Indigenous Writers’ Night
- Women in Art
- Felicity Castagna: An Introduction to the Short Story
- Richard Cooke: Technique in Long-form Journalism
- Richard Cooke: Writing in the Digital Age
- Casey Legler: Developing Your Own Creative Practice
- John Birmingham: Just Do It Yourself
- Rick Morton: Speaking Trauma's Name in Reporting and Memoir
- Toni Jordan: Editing Your Fiction Manuscript
- Kristina Olsson: The Art of Memoir - Truth, Lies and Imagination
- Sophie Cunningham: The Writer as Time Traveller
- Forest for the Trees - Writers and Publishing in 2019
- Sam George-Allen: Researching for Creative Non-Fiction
- Marina Benjamin: Too Much Information – How Honesty in Memoir Only Travels So Far
- Rebecca Makkai: Funny Doesn’t Grow on Trees
- Maxine Beneba Clarke: So You Want to Be a Picture Book Author
- Judith Brett: The Biographer’s Task
- Caoilinn Hughes: Finding Hidden Doors in Dead Ends
- Steven Carroll: Writing Strategies
- Lee Kofman: Creating Compelling Characters
- Kathryn Heyman: Diving In and Going Deep - Writing What Matters
- Luke Carman: Dreamwork - How to Dream for the Sake of Writing
- Elaine Castillo: (Re)writing the Canon - Fanfiction and Other Radical Arts
- The Shipping News: Why Fan Fiction Matters
- On History’s Page
- Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories
- The Great Deceit: On Love, Lies and Problematic Faves
- Climate of Fear
- The Reader’s Roundtable
- To All the Fandoms I’ve Loved Before
- DY(STOP)IA
- Rewriting the Body
- TeenCon 2019
- Storytime Clubhouse
- The Illustration Space
- Rainbow Storytime
- Badge Making with Cheryl Orsini
- The Giant 13-Storey Treehouse Colouring-In
- The Corner Park Friendship Spot
- Russ the Story Bus
- How Cities Work with James Gulliver Hancock
- Linda Jackson’s Rainbow Menagerie
- Power, Politics & Gender in Western Sydney
- Programs 2017-2018
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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
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Writers
- Nicole Abadee
- Randa Abdel-Fattah
- Louise Adler
- Michael Mohammed Ahmad
- Evelyn Araluen
- Auburn Poets and Writers Group
- Sarah Ayoub
- Davina Bell
- Tony Birch
- Daniel Browning
- John Muk Muk Burke
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- Jane Caro
- Barrie Cassidy
- Felicity Castagna
- Maxine Beneba Clarke
- Allison Colpoys
- Annabel Crabb
- Winnie Dunn
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- Anton Enus
- Kate Evans
- Tim Flannery
- Clementine Ford
- Candice Fox
- Jan Fran
- Rebecca Giggs
- Richard Glover
- Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Roanna Gonsalves
- Nayuka Gorrie
- Erin Gough
- Stan Grant
- Alice Grundy
- Eda Gunaydin
- Eleanor Hall
- James Gulliver Hancock
- Ashley Hay
- Kathryn Heyman
- Lex Hirst
- Rebecca Huntley
- Bridie Jabour
- Ben Jenkins
- Michaela Kalowski
- Sarah Kanowski
- Meg Keneally
- Krissy Kneen
- Malcolm Knox
- Will Kostakis
- Karl Kruszelnicki
- Meredith Lake
- Benjamin Law
- Shirley Le
- Suzanne Leal
- Maria Lewis
- Melissa Lucashenko
- Sarah Macdonald
- Sara Mansour
- Melina Marchetta
- Kate McClymont
- George Megalogenis
- Aunty Barbara Nicholson
- Astrida Neimanis
- Cheryl Orsini
- Bruce Pascoe
- Janice Petersen
- Oliver Phommavanh
- Liam Pieper
- Ailsa Piper
- Peter Polites
- Jamila Rizvi
- Leila Rudge
- Michael Sala
- Leigh Sales
- George Saunders
- Niki Savva
- Eleni Schumacher
- Ronnie Scott
- Graeme Simsion
- Carl Smith
- Jeff Sparrow
- R.A. Spratt
- Jason Steger
- Miranda Tapsell
- Lenore Taylor
- Chris Taylor
- Holly Throsby
- Gabrielle Tozer
- James Valentine
- Sally Warhaft
- Tiger Webb
- Alison Whittaker
- Marian Wilkinson
- Michael Williams
- Kip Williams
- Ashleigh Wilson
- Fiona Wright
- Susan Wyndham
- Catriona Feeney
- David Marr
- Caroline Overington
- Jennifer Byrne
- Thomas Keneally
- Monica Attard
- Stephanie Bishop
- James Jeffrey
- Jonathan Holmes
- Julian Burnside
- Ursula Dubosarsky
- Richard Flanagan
- Morris Gleitzman
- Anna Clark
- Melanie Cheng
- Sina Aghamofid
- Ali Al Haj
- Manal al-Sharif
- Rawah Arja
- Nadia Bailey
- Mike Bowers
- Anna Broinowski
- Faith Chaza
- Claire G. Coleman
- Matthew Condon
- Sam Cooney
- Michelle de Kretser
- Ceridwen Dovey
- Monikka Eliah
- Marc Fennell
- Allison Gallagher
- Helen Garner
- Jenna Guillaume
- Rebecca Harkins-Cross
- Jane Harper
- Rameen Hayat
- Chloe Higgins
- Leigh Hobbs
- Annamarie Jagose
- Erik Jensen
- Felix Johnson
- Sarah Krasnostein
- Angela Ledgerwood
- Hope Lee
- Min Jin Lee
- Rebecca Lim
- John Lyons
- Elizabeth McCarthy
- Cassie McCullagh
- Elizabeth McMahon
- Tim Miller
- Layla Mkhayber
- Sharnay Mkhayber
- Claire Nichols
- Zoe Norton Lodge
- Kerry O’Brien
- Jadey O’Regan
- Zoya Patel
- Shaun Prescott
- Sally Rugg
- Omar Sakr
- Zarlasht Sarwari
- Monique Schafter
- Christos Tsiolkas
- Toby Walsh
- Ella Watson-Russell
- Bianca Whiteley
- Helen Pitt
- Alex Lee
- Susie Youssef
- Ginger Gorman
- Jacqueline Maley
- Tim Soutphommasane
- Kate Wild
- Jeremy Lachlan
- Sefakor Aku Zikpi
- Megan McDonald
- Neal Shusterman
- Ambelin Kwaymullina
- Akala
- Clare Wright
- Bri Lee
- Maeve Marsden
- Trent Dalton
- Dhonielle Clayton
- Freedom Writers
- Jack the Insider
- Ms Saffaa
- Nicola
- Marian Abboud
- Deborah Abela
- Jill Abramson
- Richard Ackland
- Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- Aishah Ali
- Frances An
- David Astle
- Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
- Ferdous Bahar
- Josie Baker
- Paola Balla
- Greg Barns
- Adrian Beck
- Antony Beevor
- Marina Benjamin
- Fatima Bhutto
- John Birmingham
- David Blaazer
- Aaron Blabey
- Jess Black
- Adélaïde Bon
- Behrouz Boochani
- Oyinkan Braithwaite
- Mark Brandi
- Linda Brescia
- Judith Brett
- Jax Jacki Brown
- Fiona Burrows
- Pascalle Burton
- Bronwyn Carlson
- Luke Carman
- Steven Carroll
- Sofia Casanova
- Elaine Castillo
- Gabrielle Chan
- Alexander Chee
- Corrie Chen
- Christopher Cheng
- Santilla Chingaipe
- Matt Chun
- William Clapton
- Philip Clark
- Callie Collins
- Richard Cooke
- Brittney Cooper
- Marni Cordell
- Patricia Cornelius
- Matt Cosgrove
- Sophie Cunningham
- William Davies
- James Der Derian
- Gregg Dreise
- Beth Driscoll
- Michael Earp
- Mick Elliott
- Alison Elzayed
- Jenny Erpenbeck
- Alison Evans
- Pola Fanous
- Osman Faruqi
- Beck Feiner
- Future D. Fidel
- Frances Flanagan
- Michele Freeman
- Jackie French
- Peggy Frew
- Brian Fuata
- Anna Funder
- Linda Funnell
- Stelly G
- Charlie Garber
- Sam George-Allen
- Graeme Gill
- Moreno Giovannoni
- Eleanor Gordon-Smith
- Phoebe Grainer
- Andrew Sean Greer
- Betty Grumble
- Carla Guelfenbein
- Rosalie Ham
- Beate Hammet
- Sarah Hanson-Young
- James Hart
- Claire Harvey
- Anabel Hernández
- Mitchell Hogan
- Tom Hogan
- Paul Holdengräber
- Megana Holiday
- Chloe Hooper
- Penny Hueston
- Jackie Huggins
- Caoilinn Hughes
- Paul Irish
- Rafeif Ismail
- Daisy Johnson
- Toni Jordan
- Ashley Kalagian Blunt
- Hawraa Kash
- Sim Kaur
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- Michael Kelleher
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- Jordi Kerr
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- Jennine Khalik
- Lee Kofman
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- Rachel Kushner
- Helen Latukefu
- Michelle Law
- Nam Le
- Mackenzi Lee
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- Casey Legler
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- Helen Lewis
- Ailsa Liu
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- Lisa Lucas
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- Ling Ma
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- Scott Monk
- Daiane Moret
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- Sher Rill Ng
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Venues
- Campbelltown HJ Daley Central Library
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- Ashfield Town Hall
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- Hawkesbury Central Library
- Carriageworks, Bay 20
- Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
- Auburn Town Hall
- Sydney Town Hall
- Bankstown Arts Centre
- Seymour Centre, Sound Lounge
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