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  • Festivals
    • Programs 2017-2018
      • Alcohol and Us
    • Festival 2017
      • Vikings and Zombies and Robots, Oh My! with James Foley
      • The Patchwork Bike
      • Andy Griffiths: Are You Ready to Roll?
      • Mariko Tamaki Reading and Workshop
      • R.A. Spratt’s Writing Masterclass (1)
      • Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys: Creating a Unique Children's Book
      • S.D. Gentill: Mining Mythology
      • James Foley: Where Children's Book Ideas Come From
      • Swearing In: Veep's Armando Iannucci on Spin and Satire
      • John M. Green: The Tao Deception (Ashfield)
      • Kathryn Heyman: Storm and Grace (Blacktown)
      • Ashley Hay: A Hundred Small Lessons (Camden)
      • Candice Fox: Crimson Lake (Campbelltown)
      • Holly Throsby: Goodwood (Castle Hill)
      • David Hunt: True Girt (Chatswood)
      • Stephen Dando-Collins: The Hero Maker (Chatswood)
      • Zoe Morrison: Music and Freedom (Randwick)
      • Gratefully Yours
      • MCA Zine Fair 2017
      • Words From the West (Parramatta)
      • The Art of Biography
      • Di Morrissey: A Distant Journey
      • Liane Moriarty: Truly Madly Guilty
      • The Best of the Festival: Poetry and Performance
      • Dear Quentin: Letters of a Governor-General
      • A Murderer in the Family
      • Deng Adut: Songs of a War Boy
      • James Shapiro: The Year of Lear
      • Susan Faludi: In the Darkroom
      • Dreams of Her Real Self: Writers on Helen Garner
      • All The Girls To The Front
      • Hisham Matar: The Return
      • Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales: Our Reading Year
      • I Love Dick
      • Clementine Ford: Fight Like a Girl
      • 2017 Opening Night: Brit Bennett, Anne Enright and George Saunders
      • Lion: A Long Way Home
      • Elaine Welteroth: On Editing Teen Vogue
      • Not to Scale: Numbers and the Immigration Debate
      • SWF Gala: Origin Story
      • Anne Enright: What You Have To Do Is Not Leave The House
      • Ian Rankin: Who Says Crime Doesn't Pay?
      • Roxane Gay: Difficult Women
      • Thomas Friedman: The Case for Optimism
      • American Carnage
      • The Singular George Saunders
      • Colson Whitehead: The Underground Railroad
      • Live from Sydney: Slate's Culture Gabfest
      • SWF Gala: Advice from Nasty Women
      • Viral and Verse: Hera Lindsay Bird and Rupi Kaur
      • Jamie Morton: My Dad Wrote a Porno
      • NSW Premier's Literary Awards Presentation and Cocktail Reception
      • And the Award Goes to...
      • A Significant Date: 1967 Referendum – 50 Years On
      • Women in the Spotlight: Still Looking for a Room of One's Own
      • Troy Bramston: Paul Keating (Hurstville)
      • TeenCon 2017
      • Writing Race
      • John Safran: Depends What You Mean By Extremist
      • Insiders Live at Sydney Writers' Festival
      • 2017 Closing Address: Susan Faludi
      • Anuk Arudpragasam: The Story of a Brief Marriage
      • Brexit
      • The Writer's Habitat
      • Hugh Mackay: Selling the Dream
      • Through the Wardrobe
      • Secret City
      • Strong Female Characters
      • Being a Historian in the Digital Age
      • No More Questions
      • Historical Fiction: Chick Lit with Wimples?
      • Writing Through Fences
      • New Australian Voices
      • Why Your Wrong to Care About Grammar
      • Do We All Turn into Our Mothers?
      • Who the Bloody Hell Are We?
      • Group Text
      • Natalie Haynes: The Children of Jocasta
      • Question Time
      • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Visions of Dystopia
      • On Arrival
      • Outsider Looking In: Reporting on True Crime
      • Lingo: What is Lost When a Language Dies?
      • Homemade Shorts: Australian Stories
      • Tracey Spicer: The Good Girl Stripped Bare
      • Kate Grenville: The Case Against Fragrance
      • Scandal!
      • Documenting Hardship
      • Julia Baird: Victoria the Queen
      • The Good Book? The Bible in Australian Culture Today
      • Sebastian Mallaby: The Man Who Knew
      • Pamela Paul: By The Book
      • Crimes of the Father
      • Things You Need To Know and May Have Missed
      • Lawrence Krauss: The Greatest Story Ever Told... So Far
      • Robert Forster: Grant & I
      • Viola Di Grado: Hollow Heart
      • No Place Like
      • Stan Grant: The Australian Dream
      • Reworking the Classics
      • Ha Jin: The Boat Rocker
      • The Attachment
      • Near-Death Experience
      • Decolonising Australian Literature
      • The Art of Rivalry: Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
      • Monday Morning Cooking Club: It's Always About the Food
      • Fighting Hislam and Beyond Veiled Cliches
      • Ivan Coyote: Tomboy Survival Guide
      • Caroline Brothers: The Memory Stones
      • A Gathering Storm: The Rise and Rise of Cli-Fi
      • Nextness and Nearness: Bill Hayes on Oliver Sacks
      • Human Baggage: The Hate Politics of Immigration
      • Russ Rymer: Notes on Nonfiction
      • Caroline Baum: Only
      • Foreign Correspondents: Anecdotes from Abroad
      • Get Well Soon
      • System Breakdown
      • Robert Dessaix: The Pleasures of Leisure
      • A.N. Wilson: Resolution
      • Cultural Capital
      • Close to Home: The Work of Georgia Blain
      • First Nations: Voices of the Matriarchy
      • Hell and High Water
      • Henry Lawson and The Drover's Wife
      • Memoir: A Slippery Art
      • This Won't End Well: Secrets of Great Short Storytelling
      • Auburn Poets and Writers Group: Grandma's Bed (Auburn)
      • PEN Lecture: The Threat to Freedom of Expression
      • Carmel Bird: Family Skeleton (Belrose)
      • Bankstown Poetry Slam
      • Liam Pieper: The Toymaker (Gordon)
      • Richard Fidler: Ghost Empire
      • Rob Schmitz: Street of Eternal Happiness
      • Maxine Beneba Clarke: The Hate Race
      • Doing It!
      • Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
      • Fictional Truths
      • Smoking Gun: Crime Fiction
      • Transforming My Country
      • Resist!
      • Nevertheless, She Persisted
      • Too Much and Not The Mood
      • The Great Divide
      • Hannah Kent: The Good People
      • Women In Their Place (Blue Mountains)
      • I Feel You
      • Globalisation & Inequality in the Age of Trump
      • Mikhail Zygar: All the Kremlin's Men
      • Generation Next (Blue Mountains)
      • Peter Polites: Down the Hume
      • The Natural World of the Imagination (Blue Mountains)
      • Hope Street Press Poetry Launch
      • Poetry Circle (Blue Mountains)
      • Bill Hayes: Insomniac City
      • Henry Marsh: Admissions — A Life in Brain Surgery
      • Bernadette Brennan: Writing Helen Garner
      • 25 Years of Looking For Alibrandi: Have a Say Day
      • Graeme Simsion: The Best of Adam Sharp
      • Do Bad Times Make For Great Art?
      • Sex, Blood and Death
      • Sarah Bakewell: At the Existentialist Cafe
      • Ellen van Neerven: Comfort Food
      • People of Letters
      • Holly Throsby: Goodwood
      • The Politics of Fear
      • From Russia, With Love
      • Borders of Our Writing
      • SWF Gala: Maybe This Will Help
      • Tough Love: Writing Complex Relationships
      • Frank Moorhouse: Is Writing Still a Way of Life?
      • Graeme Simsion: What Novelists Can Learn From Screenwriters
      • Amie Kaufman: Get Your Story Started
      • Amie Kaufman: Get Your Story Started (2)
      • Norman Ohler: High Hitler
      • Social Media As Art: An Indigenous Perspective
      • The Full Catastrophe
      • Zoe Morrison: Music and Freedom
      • Tim Costello: On Faith
      • Blerd Culture
      • Netflix and Chill
      • Liane Moriarty: Truly Madly Guilty (Chatswood)
      • Ian Rankin: Rather Be the Devil (Parramatta)
      • Turia Pitt: Unmasked
      • Ali Cobby Eckermann: Little Bit Long Time
      • C.S. Pacat: Writing Fantasy (1)
      • Kerrie Davies: Memoir - More Than You
      • The Book Club (1)
      • Kim Mahood: Creative Non-Fiction - What Is It and Why Write It?
      • The Dangerous Borderlands: Truth and Fiction in Memoir
      • Desi Anwar: Life, Strife and the Pursuit of Democracy
      • Working Class Boy: Q&A With Jimmy Barnes (Parramatta)
      • Betoota Advocate: Australia's Oldest and Favourite Newspaper
      • Lawrence Krauss: On Hidden Realities
      • Sarah Bakewell: On Bambi as an Existentialist Hero
      • Lynne Kelly: On How Memory Training Changed My Thinking
      • Roanna Gonsalves: On Literature as Selfie
      • Henry Marsh: On Hospital Architecture and Design
      • Tom Griffiths: On Antarctica
      • Norman Ohler: On Non-Orthodox Research Methods in Berlin
      • Jeff Sparrow: On Paul Robeson
      • Fiona McIntosh: On the Importance of Being Selfish
      • John M. Green: On Why We Should Be Scared Shitless About North Korea
      • Candice Fox: On the Importance of Rejection
      • Kim Mahood: On Stilettos and Salt Lakes
      • Robert Dessaix: On Kissing, Hugging and Saying ‘I love you’
      • Lucy Clark: On Competition
      • Desi Anwar: On Spiritual Encounters
      • Jacqueline Rose: On Remarkable Women
      • Ivan Coyote: On Diversity
      • Natalie Haynes: On Greek Myth and Harry Potter
      • Liam Pieper: On Taylor Swift
      • Hera Lindsay Bird: On Metaphor
      • Melanie Joosten: On Big Sisters
      • Olivia Murphy: On The Problem with Austen
      • Michael Traill: Jumping Ship
      • Sincerest Form of Flattery
      • Food and Water: Fundamentals for Living
      • Dear Science
      • Border Force
      • Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing
      • The Big Black Thing
      • Mark McKenna: On Music and Writing
      • Russ Rymer: On Saving the Music Tree
      • Karen Pickering: On Shark Week
      • Chris Rodley: On How To Build A Novel-Writing Machine
      • ABC Morning: ABC RN'S Books and Arts Daily and ABC Radio's Conversations Live Broadcast
      • Meet the SMH Best Young Novelists
      • Australian Readers and Their Habits
      • Suspense: Setting and Mood
      • Candice Fox: Crims, Coppers and Corpses
      • David Francis: On a Verdict, Curiosity and a Riot
      • Gay For Page
      • Kathryn Heyman: Diving In - Getting Started on Fiction
      • Kathryn Heyman: The Carpentry of Making Fiction
      • Roanna Gonsalves: Rewilding Your Short Story
      • Amanda Hampson: Five Secrets to Compelling Stories
      • Alice Campion: How to Write Collaborative Fiction
      • Claire Scobie: From Travel Writing to Travel Memoir
      • Kerrie Davies: Social Media: Sharing and Slamming
      • C.S. Pacat: Writing Fantasy (2)
      • Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (1)
      • Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (2)
      • Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (3)
      • Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (4)
      • Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (5)
      • Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (6)
      • Sarah Wilson: First, We Make the Beast Beautiful
      • Drive with Richard Glover, featuring Thank God It's Friday
      • Sara Foster: Disrupt Your Creativity
      • Kirk Docker: How To Ask The Hard Questions
      • Ashley Hay: A Hundred Small Lessons
      • A.S. Patric: Black Rock White City
      • R.A Spratt's Writing Masterclass (2)
      • Tragedy Plus Time
      • Michael Sala: The Restorer
      • Lex Hirst: Editing Like a Pro - the Tricks of the Trade
      • Coffee and Papers with the SMH: Norman Ohler
      • Coffee and Papers with the SMH: Jenny Valentish
      • Coffee and Papers with the SMH: Mikhail Zygar
      • Coffee and Papers with the SMH: Ruth Quibell
      • Bangarra Backyard
      • Sydney Dance Viewing Lounge
      • Australian Book Design Awards
      • Lucy Clark: Beautiful Failures
      • On Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing
      • Meredith Jaffe: The Fence (Brookvale)
      • Talking 'Til Late with Chris Taylor (2)
      • Richard Fidler: Ghost Empire (Ryde)
      • The Ancient Guide to Modern Life
      • Melanie Joosten: Gravity Well (Manly)
      • Cover to Cover: Roald Dahl international book covers
      • Heidi Pett and Jess O'Callaghan: Writing To Be Heard
      • Sandra Leigh Price: The River Sings (Windsor)
      • Kick on for Literacy: A Fundraiser for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation
      • James Strong Address: Thomas Friedman
      • AVANT GAGA
      • You're Doing It Wrong: A Guide to Modern Parenting
      • Tom Griffiths: The Art of Time Travel (Ryde)
      • Still Lucky
      • Swearing In: Veep's Armando Iannucci on Spin and Satire (1)
      • The Book Club (2)
      • Trust and Persistence: How Investigative Journalists Cultivate Sources and Share Their Stories
      • Collaborative Journalism: Sources and Secrets
      • Patrick White Playwrights' Award and Fellowship
      • Caroline Baum: Only (Double Bay)
      • Mariko Tamaki Talks the Talk
      • Jane Hutcheon: China Baby Love (Hornsby)
      • The Rumble: Youth Slam (Parramatta)
      • Stella Sparks: Women Writers On Influence and Inspiration
      • Black Wallaby Indigenous Writers' Night (Wollongong)
      • Rocket Readings (Wollongong)
      • Tracey Spicer: The Good Girl Stripped Bare (Kogarah)
      • Little Fictions
      • Alexandra Joel: Rosetta (Penrith)
      • Forest for the Trees: Writers and Publishing in 2017
      • UTS 2017 Anthology Launch: And Watch the Whale Explode
      • Lauren Child's Quirky Characters!
      • Love OZ YA Anthology: Begin, End, Begin
      • More Than Meets the Eye: Diversity in YA Fiction
      • Word Hunters Exploration
      • Under the Love Umbrella: How Do We Make a Picture Book?
      • Defying Expectations: How Do Female Writers Defy Stereotypes
      • Writing in Verse: Sarah Crossan in Conversation
      • Talking Tough Topics with Jennifer Niven
      • Expressing Herself: The Brilliant Life of Rupi Kaur
      • Keeping Company: Characters Across a Series
      • Fresh Voices from Western Sydney: A Showcase of Real Talk
      • How to Deal with Nasty, Horrible, Terrible People (with a Little Help from Roald Dahl)
      • Illustrator Battle Rounds
      • Kate DiCamillo: Connecting People Through Stories
      • Richard Roxburgh's Artie and the Grime Wave
      • Professor Frankie's Harry Potter
      • How Deep Can You Go?
      • They Cannot Take the Sky: Stories from Detention
      • Witi Ihimaera (Blue Mountains)
      • Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
      • Lost the Plot: Writing About Mental Health
      • A Conversation With Di Morrissey (Blue Mountains)
      • Brit Bennett: The Mothers
      • Paul Beatty: The Sellout
      • Jacqueline Rose: Women in Dark Times
      • Writing Perseverance: Remarkable Memoirs
      • Contemporary Essay: Personal and Public
      • Fake News and Alternative Facts
      • Krissy Kneen: An Uncertain Grace
      • Nadja Spiegelman: I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This
      • From Far Away We Come (Blue Mountains)
      • Borders of the Queer Body
      • Dr Dark Memorial Lecture: Crossing The Line - Activism and Academic Bioethics (Blue Mountains)
      • Not Waving, Drowning
      • Sins of the Past (Blue Mountains)
      • Love and Music
      • Steven Amsterdam: The Easy Way Out
      • A Fine-Figured Man With a Camera (Blue Mountains)
      • Joy Williams: Ninety-Nine Stories of God
      • Peter Corris: Win, Lose or Draw
      • New Voices (Blue Mountains)
      • The Legacy of Eleanor Dark (Blue Mountains)
      • Writers' Journeys: Authors' Personal Reflections on Writing and Publishing (Blue Mountains)
      • The Most Unlikely of Places
      • Student Sessions: Indigenous Voices
      • Student Sessions: Unpacking the Change in Climate
      • Student Sessions: Re-Inventing the Classics
      • Student Sessions: Shakespeare in His World and Ours
      • Student Sessions: Mono or Multi-cultured?
      • Student Sessions: In Conversation with Ross Gittins (Parramatta)
      • Student Sessions: Indigenous Voices (Parramatta)
      • Student Sessions: Unpacking the Change in Climate (Parramatta)
      • Student Sessions: Re-inventing the Classics (Parramatta)
      • Student Sessions: Shakespeare in His World and Ours (Parramatta)
      • Student Sessions: Mono or Multi-cultured? (Parramatta)
      • Student Sessions: In Conversation with Ross Gittins
      • Primary School Days: City (1)
      • Primary School Days: City (2)
      • Secondary School Days: Chatswood
      • Primary School Days: Parramatta
      • Secondary School Days: City
      • Primary School Days: Penrith
      • Primary School Days: Free at Town Hall
      • Secondary School Days: Parramatta
      • Mark Colvin: Light and Shadow
      • The Big Read
      • Talking 'Til Late with Chris Taylor (1)
      • Annabel Abbs: On 1920s Paris
      • Juanita Ruys on the Devil's Coach House
      • All The Kremlin's Men: In Conversation with Mikhail Zygar and Monica Attard
      • Readings from Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy
      • Jumping Ship: Michael Traill in conversation
      • Susan Faludi in Conversation
      • Roxane Gay: What's Feminism Got to Do With It?
      • Sarah Schmidt: See What I Have Done
      • Kirk Docker: On Asking the Hard Questions
      • Caravan Fran
      • A Tribute to Mark Colvin
      • Author Talks and Workshops
    • Early Program
      • Swearing In: Veep’s Armando Iannucci on Spin and Satire
      • Primary School Days: City (1)
      • Student Sessions: Indigenous Voices
      • Student Sessions: Unpacking the Change in Climate
      • Student Sessions: Re-Inventing the Classics
      • Student Sessions: Shakespeare in His World and Ours
      • Student Sessions: Mono or Multi-cultured?
      • Primary School Days: City (2)
      • Secondary School Days: Chatswood
      • Primary School Days: Parramatta
      • Secondary School Days: City
      • Primary School Days: Penrith
      • Student Sessions: In Conversation with Ross Gittins (Parramatta)
      • Student Sessions: Indigenous Voices (Parramatta)
      • Student Sessions: Unpacking the Change in Climate (Parramatta)
      • Student Sessions: Re-inventing the Classics (Parramatta)
      • Student Sessions: Shakespeare in His World and Ours (Parramatta)
      • Student Sessions: Mono or Multi-cultured? (Parramatta)
      • Primary School Days: Free at Town Hall
      • Secondary School Days: Parramatta
      • Jamie Morton: My Dad Wrote a Porno
      • Student Sessions: In Conversation with Ross Gittins
    • Children's Festival 2016
    • Festival 2016
      • New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards Presentation and Cocktail Reception
      • Coffee and Papers with the SMH, Aleksandar Hemon and Madeline Gleeson
    • Children's Festival 2015
    • Festival 2015
    • Children's Festival 2014
    • Festival 2014
    • Festival 2013
    • Festival 2012
    • Festival 2011
    • Festival 2010
    • Festival 2009
    • Festival 2008
    • Festival 2007
    • Festival 2006
    • Festival 2005
    • Festival 2004
    • Festival 2003
    • Programs 2018-2019
    • Programs 2019–2020
    • Festival 2020
    • 2020-21
      • Malcolm Turnbull in Conversation with Annabel Crabb
      • Return of the Sweatshop Woman
      • Ann Patchett and Kevin Wilson: A Conversation with Friends
      • Rebecca Giggs: Fathoms
      • Jess Hill: See What You Made Me Do
      • Miranda Tapsell: Top End Girl
      • Alison Whittaker: Opening Address
      • Intan Paramaditha: The Wandering
      • Sophie Hardcastle: Below Deck
      • Liam Pieper: Sweetness and Light
      • Ellen van Neerven: Throat
      • Richard Cooke: On Robyn Davidson
      • Philippe Sands: The Ratline
      • James Bradley: Ghost Species
      • Cassandra Pybus: Truganini
      • Kay Kerr: Please Don't Hug Me
      • Eimear McBride: Strange Hotel
      • Bob Brown: Planet Earth
      • Writing on a Knife’s Edge
      • Vivian Pham: The Coconut Children
      • Chris Hammer: Silver
      • Julia Gillard: Women and Leadership
      • David Mitchell: Utopia Avenue
      • Kathy Lette Gets Candid
      • Paul Kelly: Love is Strong as Death
      • Kawai Strong Washburn: Sharks in the Time of Saviours
      • Lisa Taddeo: Three Women
      • Remembering Clive James
      • Queerly Beloved
      • Golriz Ghahraman: Know Your Place
      • Flocks and Fakes
      • Layla F. Saad: Me and White Supremacy
      • Remembering Christchurch
      • Tanya Talaga: All Our Relations
      • Animals Like Us
      • The Art of the Story
      • Sophie McNeill: We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know
      • Long-Form Journalism in Australia
      • Bart van Es: The Cut Out Girl
      • Jeff Sparrow: Fascists Among Us
      • First on the Ground
      • Anna Wiener: Uncanny Valley
      • Reckoning and Retribution
      • Vicki Laveau-Harvie: The Erratics
      • Antony Loewenstein: Pills, Powder, and Smoke
      • Text on the Beach
      • Josephine Rowe: Here Until August
      • Alex Dyson: When it Drops
      • Nicole Dennis-Benn: Patsy
      • Favel Parrett: There Was Still Love
      • Heather Rose: Bruny
      • Mirandi Riwoe: Stone Sky Gold Mountain
      • Secrets and Lies: Donor-Conceived Rights
      • Drawn from Life: Alice Oseman in Conversation
      • Griffith Review 68: Getting On
      • Guardian Australia Book Club with Helen Garner
      • Behrouz Boochani and Tara June Winch in Conversation
      • Tony Birch: The White Girl
      • Julia Phillips: Disappearing Earth
      • Charlotte Wood: The Weekend
      • Daniel Mendelsohn: The Bad Boy of Athens
  • Writers
    • Hajer
    • Jack the Insider
    • Nicola
    • Nicole Abadee
    • Patrick Abboud
    • Deborah Abela
    • Bim Adewunmi
    • Michael Mohammed Ahmad
    • Amir Ahmadi Arian
    • Hakeem al-Araibi
    • Emma Alberici
    • Sydnye Allen
    • Nat Amoore
    • Liz Anelli
    • Léa Antigny
    • Evelyn Araluen
    • Ella Archibald-Binge
    • Rawah Arja
    • Monica Attard
    • Auburn Poets and Writers Group
    • Tim Ayliffe
    • Sarah Ayoub
    • Maryam Azam
    • Jean Bachoura
    • Julia Baird
    • Jesse Ball
    • Leigh Bardugo
    • Paul Barry
    • Sami Bayly
    • Tony Birch
    • Alice Bishop
    • Stephanie Bishop
    • Sophie Black
    • Andrew Boe
    • Ariel Bogle
    • Arthur Bolkas
    • Chelsea Bond
    • Jaclyn Booton
    • Clare Bowditch
    • Mike Bowers
    • Anne Boyer
    • James Bradley
    • Bernadette Brennan
    • Tanya Bretherton
    • Adam Briggs
    • David Brooks
    • Bob Brown
    • Matt Brown
    • Daniel Browning
    • Julian Burnside
    • Patrick Carey
    • Felicity Castagna
    • Faith Chaza
    • Janette Chen
    • Wai Chim
    • Santilla Chingaipe
    • Tasneem Chopra
    • Philip Clark
    • Justine Clarke
    • Callum Clayton-Dixon
    • Claire G. Coleman
    • Maddison Connaughton
    • Anne Connolly
    • Annaliese Constable
    • Lee Constable
    • Aminata Conteh-Biger
    • Stephanie Convery
    • Richard Cooke
    • Matt Cosgrove
    • Tim Costello
    • Nicholas Cowdery
    • Annabel Crabb
    • Melissa Crouch
    • Nancy Cushing
    • Blanche d’Alpuget
    • Andrew Daddo
    • Paul Daley
    • Helen Dalley
    • Angus Dalton
    • Antony Dapiran
    • Anne Davies
    • Gareth Davies
    • Robin Davies
    • Michelle de Kretser
    • Brigid Delaney
    • Callum Denness
    • Nicole Dennis-Benn
    • Georgie Dent
    • George Dertadian
    • Jason Di Rosso
    • Andrew Dimitri
    • Sarah Dingle
    • Ben Doherty
    • Ceridwen Dovey
    • Catherine Doyle
    • Nikki Dryden
    • Liz Duck-Chong
    • Winnie Dunn
    • Alex Dyson
    • Julia Ebner
    • Charles Edel
    • Stephen Edgar
    • Mick Elliott
    • Anton Enus
    • Sarah Epstein
    • Kate Evans
    • Bernardine Evaristo
    • Elizabeth Farrelly
    • Osman Faruqi
    • Nick Feik
    • Adele Ferguson
    • Richard Fidler
    • William Figueira
    • Adam Fish
    • Tim Flannery
    • Chris Fleming
    • Piéra Forde
    • Craig Foster
    • Peter Fox
    • Jan Fran
    • Lisa Fuller
    • Linda Funnell
    • Nina Funnell
    • Stelly G
    • Petina Gappah
    • Ally Garrett
    • Sarah Gaul
    • Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi
    • Golriz Ghahraman
    • Ronojoy Ghosh
    • Nicolás Giacobone
    • Rebecca Giggs
    • Mike Giglio
    • Richard Glover
    • Peter Goldsworthy
    • Roanna Gonsalves
    • Sophie Gonzales
    • Jane R. Goodall
    • Gus Gordon
    • Erin Gough
    • Phoebe Grainer
    • Nicki Greenberg
    • Gorana Grgic
    • Ben Grubb
    • Betty Grumble
    • Eleanor Hall
    • Ruby Hamad
    • Rebecca Hamilton
    • Chris Hammer
    • Sophie Hardcastle
    • Rebecca Harkins-Cross
    • Wendy Harmer
    • Vicki Hastrich
    • Ashley Hay
    • Jess Hill
    • Jean Hinchliffe
    • Lex Hirst
    • Karen Hitchcock
    • Lewis Hobba
    • Rachael Hocking
    • Lucinda Holdforth
    • Megana Holiday
    • Tracey Holmes
    • Matt Hopkins
    • Rebecca Huntley
    • Siri Hustvedt
    • Bridie Jabour
    • Gabrielle Jackson
    • Sherice Jackson
    • Leslie Jamison
    • Helena Janeczek
    • Lizzie Jarrett
    • Tomasz Jedrowski
    • Daisy Jeffrey
    • Ben Jenkins
    • Rebecca Johinke
    • Rob Johnson
    • Rae Johnston
    • Anna Jones
    • Susan Kadar
    • Michaela Kalowski
    • Adam Kamradt-Scott
    • Sarah Kanowski
    • Yumna Kassab
    • Fiona Katauskas
    • Matthew Kearnes
    • Alice Keath
    • Catherine Keenan AM
    • Deborah Kelly
    • Fran Kelly
    • Paul Kelly
    • Tom Keneally
    • Gayle Kennedy
    • Kay Kerr
    • Mervyn King
    • Stephen Michael King
    • Krissy Kneen
    • Tony Koch
    • Jacinta Koolmatrie
    • Will Kostakis
    • Anna Krien
    • Martin Krygier
    • Cliff Kuang
    • Konrad Kwiet
    • Catherine Lacey
    • Jeremy Lachlan
    • Meredith Lake
    • Vicki Laveau-Harvie
    • Daniel Lavery
    • Ange Lavoipierre
    • Benjamin Law
    • Michelle Law
    • Jes Layton
    • Shirley Le
    • Suzanne Leal
    • Alex Lee
    • Bri Lee
    • Fiona Lee
    • Claire Lehmann
    • Geoffrey Lehmann
    • Jo Lennan
    • Patrick Lenton
    • Kathy Lette
    • Judith Levine
    • Andrew Levins
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