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Festivals
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Festival 2018
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Ceridwen Dovey: In the Garden of the Fugitives (State Library of NSW)
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NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Presentation and Cocktail Reception
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Opening Address: André Aciman, Min Jin Lee and Alexis Okeowo
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Derision For Homeowners Won’t Save You – Discomforting Innercity Stories
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Staging Our Stories
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Helen Garner’s Savage Self-Scrutiny
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PEN Lecture: The War on Journalism – How 9/11 Changed Everything
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EDMUND. THE BEGINNING (Wednesday)
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Insiders Live at Sydney Writers’ Festival
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The Future of Russia
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Coffee and Papers with SMH: Irin Carmon
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Christos Tsiolkas: On Patrick White
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UTS Anthology Launch: Light Borrowers
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John Dickson: A Doubter’s Guide to Jesus
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Family Ties
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Go Gentle
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Bright Lights, Big City: Dreaming of a Better Sydney
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James Maskalyk: Life on the Ground Floor
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How The News Has Changed
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Immersive Histories
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Drawing the Line: The Ethics of True Crime Writing
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Becoming the Story
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Tara Westover: Educated
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Home Truths: Telling Australian Stories
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Balancing Acts: Women in Sport
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Saga Land
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And the Award Goes To ...
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Johann Hari: Lost Connections
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Gods and Monsters: Mythology in Fiction
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Christine Milne: An Activist Life
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History’s Next Generation
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Straight from the Headlines
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On the Record: Historical Fiction
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Xue Yiwei: Dr. Bethune's Children
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Can Children’s Stories Save the World?
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Paul Lynch: Grace
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Commonwealth Now: End of Empire
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Stories of Sydney
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Borderlines: Stories of Migration
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Alexis Wright: Tracker
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Brexit Plan
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The Big Bent Poetry Reading
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Romance Was Born: A Love Story with Fashion
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Warren Mundine in Black + White
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Axiomatic: Maria Tumarkin
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Good Sports
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Dennis Glover: The Last Man in Europe
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Sam Dastyari: One Halal of a Story
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Junot Díaz: Islandborn
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The Full Catastrophe
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EDMUND. THE BEGINNING (Thursday)
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Min Jin Lee: Pachinko
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Story Club
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Coffee and Papers with SMH: Alec Luhn
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Poetic Threads: The Lady And The Unicorn (Friday)
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Jane Harper: Force of Nature
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Ceridwen Dovey: In the Garden of the Fugitives
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Toby Walsh: It's Alive!
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Sofie Laguna: The Choke
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Hugh Mackay: Australia Reimagined
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Manal al-Sharif: Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
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Mohammed Al Samawi: The Fox Hunt
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Media in Full Colour
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ABC Radio’s Conversations and ABC RN’s The Bookshelf Live Broadcast
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The Future of China
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Danny Denton: The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow
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Zack McDermott: Gorilla and the Bird
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Sharp Instruments
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Kim Scott: Taboo
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Omar Musa: Millefiori
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Climate Change: A Hastening Catastrophe
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Stella Prize: Brilliant Careers
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Going Rogue: North Korea
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Great Expectations: Emerging Writers
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Stanley Johnson: Kompromat
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Family Portrait
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Eddie Ayres: Danger Music
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Josephine Wilson: Extinctions
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Don Watson: There it is again
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Merit Over Mates: Women in Media Reach Toward Newsroom Equality
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Conflicting Narratives: Reporting on International Conflict
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Somewhere in the Middle: Israel and Palestine
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André Aciman: Enigma Variations
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Poetry in Motion: Live Performances
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Amy Bloom: White Houses
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Robert Drewe: Whipbird
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Why We Read
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Kate Cole-Adams: Anaesthesia
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Gareth Evans: Incorrigible Optimist
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Australian Idols: Writers on Writers
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Sympathy for the Devil
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Eliza Robertson: Demi-Gods
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Richard Lloyd Parry: Ghosts of the Tsunami
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New Australian Voices
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Trump’s New World Order
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The Future of Science Writing
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Drive with Richard Glover, featuring Thank God It’s Friday!
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Eileen Myles: To Dig a Hole in Eternity
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Katy Tur: Unbelievable
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Still Processing
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EDMUND. THE BEGINNING (Friday)
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Fox and Friends: The Far Reach of Murdoch
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SWF Gala: Power
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Pretty for an Aboriginal
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Poetic Threads: The Lady And The Unicorn (Saturday)
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New Power
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Emma Glass: Peach
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Zinzi Clemmons: What We Lose
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Michael Robotham: The Secrets She Keeps
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Sarah Krasnostein: The Trauma Cleaner
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Lang Leav: Sea of Strangers
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Angela Saini: Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong
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First Dog on the Moon’s Guide to Living Through the Impending Apocalypse
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Peter Greste: The First Casualty
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Sharlene Teo: Ponti
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Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country
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Source Material
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Francisco Cantú: The Line Becomes a River - EVENT CANCELLED
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Women, Colour and Western Sydney
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The Global Refugee Crisis
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Yrsa Daley-Ward: bone
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Resisting Unjust Authority
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Tony Birch: Common People
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Jenny Zhang: Sour Heart
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Glory Edim: Well-Read Black Girl
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Gabriel Tallent: My Absolute Darling
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Kapka Kassabova: Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
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Leigh Sales: On Doubt
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Meet the SMH Best Young Australian Novelists
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Women in Tech: Okay Ladies, Now Let’s Get Information
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Sofija Stefanovic: Miss Ex-Yugoslavia
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The Politics of Empathy
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The Body Politic
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Recognise
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Conjuring the Past
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Richard Denniss: Curing Affluenza
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The Gig Economy: Today’s Hungry Mile?
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Annabel Crabb's BooKwiz
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Bankstown Poetry Slam
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Michael Brooks: The Quantum Astrologer’s Handbook
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Ashleigh Young: Can You Tolerate This?
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My Feminism Will Be Intersectional Or It Will Be Bullshit
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Writing Grief and Trauma
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Jeff Goodell: The Water Will Come
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Return of the Big Black Thing
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Jennifer Egan: Manhattan Beach
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This is Not a Moment, It's a Movement
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Gay For Page
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EDMUND. THE BEGINNING (Saturday)
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André Aciman: Call Me by Your Name
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Julia Gillard: On Power and Gender
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People of Letters
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Coffee and Papers with SMH: Francis Wade
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Poetic Threads: The Lady And The Unicorn (Sunday)
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Economic Inequality: From Wisconsin to Whyalla
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Power Play: Toxic Masculinity in Storytelling
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Michelle de Kretser: The Life to Come
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Pajtim Statovci: My Cat Yugoslavia – EVENT CANCELLED
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The End of China’s Economic Miracle?
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MCA Zine Fair
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Everyone's a Critic
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Ben Taub: Covering a Crisis
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Charles Massy: Call of the Reed Warbler
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The Rise of Australian Populism
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: Wrestling with the Devil – EVENT CANCELLED
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Tayari Jones: An American Marriage
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Taboo and Other Battles
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Alexis Okeowo: A Moonless, Starless Sky
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Emotional Complexity
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Amy Goldstein: Janesville
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An Evolving Crisis: Rohingya in Myanmar
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Sarah Ferguson: On Mother
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If You Don’t Laugh You’ll Cry
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Carmen Maria Machado: Her Body and Other Parties
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Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
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Ben Taub: Syria
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My Words to Remember
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Claire Higgins: Asylum By Boat
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Emily Wilson: Translating The Odyssey
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First Things First
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Anne Aly: Finding My Place
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Alannah Hill: Butterfly on a Pin
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The Changing Face of Australia
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Jacqui Lambie: Rebel With a Cause
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Closing Address: Jennifer Egan
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Jeff Kinney: The Getaway
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Junot Díaz: The Power of Imagination – EVENT CANCELLED
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Levi Pinfold: Illustrating Harry Potter
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Outside: A Feast of the Senses
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Chris Riddell and A.F. Harrold Bring Quirky Tales to Life
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Spies, Lies and Mysteries: Meet Kensy and Max!
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Bab Sharkey and the Animal Mummies
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The Ultimate Guide to Disgusting Food
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Illustrator Battle Rounds
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The Pink Hat
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The Mr Chicken and Old Tom Draw Off with Leigh Hobbs
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Billy Griffiths: On Deep Time Dreaming
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Joe Gorman: On Soccer and Australian Multiculturalism
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Michael Robotham: On Plotting the Perfect Crime
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Melanie Cheng: On Reading and Empathy
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Nick Brodie: On the Need for Millennial Historians
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Eliza Robertson: On Astrology
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Claire G. Coleman: On Fiction, Villains and the Nature of Evil
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Kate Rossmanith: On Crime and Remorse
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Jack Manning Bancroft: On Mentorship
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Danny Denton: On Rain
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Carmen Maria Machado: On Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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Jennifer Down: On How to Disappear
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Eileen Myles: Straight Expectations
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Jay Kristoff: On the Evolution of Sci-Fi
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Robert E. Kelly: On Becoming BBC Dad
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Taking a Stand
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Reporting on Natural Disaster
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Writers on Writers: Alice Pung discusses John Marsden
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Next Wave
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Express Yourself
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The Untold Stories in Australian History
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Primary School Days: Town Hall (Monday) Not Making Sense
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Xue Yiwei: Shenzheners
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Eddie Ayres: Danger Music (Ashfield)
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Auburn Poets and Writers: Stories of Us
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Bankstown Poetry Slam (Bankstown)
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Jennifer Down: Pulse Points
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Michael Robotham: The Secrets She Keeps (Blacktown)
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Anna Broinowski: Please Explain
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Owning Your Story
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Tony Jones: The Twentieth Man
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Jane Harper: Force of Nature (Chatswood)
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Sofie Laguna: The Choke (Chatswood)
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Stuart Kells: The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
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Melanie Cheng: Australia Day
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Richard Denniss: Curing Affluenza (Hornsby)
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Hugh Riminton: Minefields
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Jenny Zhang at UNSW
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Jane Caro: Unbreakable
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Jamelle Wells: The Court Reporter
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Lunchtime Sessions: Richard Denniss
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Lunchtime Sessions: Jeff Goodell
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Finishing School presents Talking Bodies
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The Rumble
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Peter Greste: The First Casualty (Parramatta)
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Jacqui Lambie: Rebel With a Cause (Parramatta)
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Luke Slattery: Mrs. M
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Alice Pung: On John Marsden
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Felicity Fenner: Running the City
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Anna George: The Lone Child
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Hugh Mackay: Australia Reimagined (Ryde)
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Felicity Castagna: No More Boats
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Rocket Readings
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Black Wallaby Indigenous Writers’ Night
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The Unbelievable Truth
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Varuna Festival Launch Party
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Good Thinking, Good Writing with Tohby Riddle
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Flash!
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Grug
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Emily Rodda
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Cracking Climate by Cracking Consumption
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Rising in the West: Writing from Sydney’s Heart
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How to Get Published: Insiders’ Perspectives
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The Common Table
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Varuna Poetry Circle
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Tara Westover: Getting Educated
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Dias Novita Wuri: Feminist Perspectives
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Michelle de Kretser: How Life Could Be Different
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Kim Scott: Taboo (Blue Mountains)
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Music, Gender and Transformation with Eddie Ayres
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Michael Mohammed Ahmad: Good Writing Vs. Bad Writing
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Kirk Docker: How to Ask the Hard Questions
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Liam Pieper: Realise Your Novel’s Potential
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Sofie Laguna: Creating Compelling Characters
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Meera Atkinson: Writing Trauma: Exploring Literary Trauma Testimony
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Dennis Glover: The Art of Speech Writing
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Anna George: How to Write a Page Turner
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Candy Royalle: Write Breathe Perform
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Forest for the Trees: Writers and Publishing in 2018
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Nick Brodie: Writing Family History (That Other People Actually Want to Read)
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Nicki Greenberg: Bringing Your Picture Book to Life
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Maria Tumarkin: Writing Literary Non-Fiction
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Meera Atkinson: Saying the Unsayable: The Art and Practice of Writing Poetry
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A.F. Harrold: Playing with Poetry
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Alison Croggon: Building Worlds: How to Make Fantasy Real
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Eleanor Limprecht: Research and Writing: The Truth is in the Detail
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Katrina Nannestad: Writing for Children - Nuts and Bolts and Giggles
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Daniel Findlay: Finding and Writing A Convincing Voice
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl: Film screening and Q&A
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From the Sidelines
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Burn the Burn Book: Real Girls in YA
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Writing for YA Books and Film
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The Personal is Political
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Architects of New Worlds
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#poetrydebate: Who Takes the Crown?
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Bringing Imaginary Worlds to Life
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The Future of Writing
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TeenCon 2018
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Storytime Clubhouse
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On the Spot Stories
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Shout Out to the Girls Exhibition - A Celebration of Awesome Australian Women
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May Gibbs Colouring-In Wall
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Casula Powerhouse’s Dada Music
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Russ the Story Bus
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The Colour and Craft Depot
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Welcome to Mumphis!
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The Turners Audioplay
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The Big Backyard: On the Spot Stories (repeat)
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The Big Backyard: Storytime Clubhouse with Oliver Phommavanh
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On the Spot Stories (second session)
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Ideas to Inspire with Cleo Wade - EVENT CANCELLED
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Cleo Wade: Heart Talk
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Johann Hari: On Our Depression, Anxiety and Addiction Crisis
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Heather Morris: The Tattooist of Auschwitz
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Programs 2017-2018
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Festival 2017
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Vikings and Zombies and Robots, Oh My! with James Foley
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The Patchwork Bike
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Andy Griffiths: Are You Ready to Roll?
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Mariko Tamaki Reading and Workshop
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R.A. Spratt’s Writing Masterclass (1)
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Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys: Creating a Unique Children's Book
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S.D. Gentill: Mining Mythology
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James Foley: Where Children's Book Ideas Come From
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Swearing In: Veep's Armando Iannucci on Spin and Satire
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John M. Green: The Tao Deception (Ashfield)
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Kathryn Heyman: Storm and Grace (Blacktown)
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Ashley Hay: A Hundred Small Lessons (Camden)
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Candice Fox: Crimson Lake (Campbelltown)
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Holly Throsby: Goodwood (Castle Hill)
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David Hunt: True Girt (Chatswood)
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Stephen Dando-Collins: The Hero Maker (Chatswood)
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Zoe Morrison: Music and Freedom (Randwick)
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Gratefully Yours
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MCA Zine Fair 2017
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Words From the West (Parramatta)
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The Art of Biography
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Di Morrissey: A Distant Journey
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Liane Moriarty: Truly Madly Guilty
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The Best of the Festival: Poetry and Performance
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Dear Quentin: Letters of a Governor-General
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A Murderer in the Family
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Deng Adut: Songs of a War Boy
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James Shapiro: The Year of Lear
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Susan Faludi: In the Darkroom
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Dreams of Her Real Self: Writers on Helen Garner
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All The Girls To The Front
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Hisham Matar: The Return
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Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales: Our Reading Year
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I Love Dick
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Clementine Ford: Fight Like a Girl
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2017 Opening Night: Brit Bennett, Anne Enright and George Saunders
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Lion: A Long Way Home
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Elaine Welteroth: On Editing Teen Vogue
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Not to Scale: Numbers and the Immigration Debate
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SWF Gala: Origin Story
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Anne Enright: What You Have To Do Is Not Leave The House
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Ian Rankin: Who Says Crime Doesn't Pay?
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Roxane Gay: Difficult Women
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Thomas Friedman: The Case for Optimism
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American Carnage
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The Singular George Saunders
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Colson Whitehead: The Underground Railroad
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Live from Sydney: Slate's Culture Gabfest
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SWF Gala: Advice from Nasty Women
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Viral and Verse: Hera Lindsay Bird and Rupi Kaur
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Jamie Morton: My Dad Wrote a Porno
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NSW Premier's Literary Awards Presentation and Cocktail Reception
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And the Award Goes to...
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A Significant Date: 1967 Referendum – 50 Years On
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Women in the Spotlight: Still Looking for a Room of One's Own
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Troy Bramston: Paul Keating (Hurstville)
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TeenCon 2017
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Writing Race
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John Safran: Depends What You Mean By Extremist
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Insiders Live at Sydney Writers' Festival
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2017 Closing Address: Susan Faludi
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Anuk Arudpragasam: The Story of a Brief Marriage
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Brexit
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The Writer's Habitat
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Hugh Mackay: Selling the Dream
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Through the Wardrobe
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Secret City
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Strong Female Characters
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Being a Historian in the Digital Age
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No More Questions
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Historical Fiction: Chick Lit with Wimples?
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Writing Through Fences
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New Australian Voices
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Why Your Wrong to Care About Grammar
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Do We All Turn into Our Mothers?
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Who the Bloody Hell Are We?
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Group Text
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Natalie Haynes: The Children of Jocasta
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Question Time
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Visions of Dystopia
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On Arrival
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Outsider Looking In: Reporting on True Crime
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Lingo: What is Lost When a Language Dies?
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Homemade Shorts: Australian Stories
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Tracey Spicer: The Good Girl Stripped Bare
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Kate Grenville: The Case Against Fragrance
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Scandal!
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Documenting Hardship
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Julia Baird: Victoria the Queen
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The Good Book? The Bible in Australian Culture Today
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Sebastian Mallaby: The Man Who Knew
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Pamela Paul: By The Book
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Crimes of the Father
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Things You Need To Know and May Have Missed
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Lawrence Krauss: The Greatest Story Ever Told... So Far
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Robert Forster: Grant & I
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Viola Di Grado: Hollow Heart
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No Place Like
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Stan Grant: The Australian Dream
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Reworking the Classics
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Ha Jin: The Boat Rocker
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The Attachment
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Near-Death Experience
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Decolonising Australian Literature
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The Art of Rivalry: Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
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Monday Morning Cooking Club: It's Always About the Food
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Fighting Hislam and Beyond Veiled Cliches
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Ivan Coyote: Tomboy Survival Guide
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Caroline Brothers: The Memory Stones
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A Gathering Storm: The Rise and Rise of Cli-Fi
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Nextness and Nearness: Bill Hayes on Oliver Sacks
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Human Baggage: The Hate Politics of Immigration
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Russ Rymer: Notes on Nonfiction
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Caroline Baum: Only
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Foreign Correspondents: Anecdotes from Abroad
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Get Well Soon
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System Breakdown
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Robert Dessaix: The Pleasures of Leisure
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A.N. Wilson: Resolution
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Cultural Capital
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Close to Home: The Work of Georgia Blain
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First Nations: Voices of the Matriarchy
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Hell and High Water
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Henry Lawson and The Drover's Wife
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Memoir: A Slippery Art
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This Won't End Well: Secrets of Great Short Storytelling
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Auburn Poets and Writers Group: Grandma's Bed (Auburn)
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PEN Lecture: The Threat to Freedom of Expression
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Carmel Bird: Family Skeleton (Belrose)
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Bankstown Poetry Slam
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Liam Pieper: The Toymaker (Gordon)
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Richard Fidler: Ghost Empire
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Rob Schmitz: Street of Eternal Happiness
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Maxine Beneba Clarke: The Hate Race
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Doing It!
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Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
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Fictional Truths
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Smoking Gun: Crime Fiction
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Transforming My Country
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Resist!
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Nevertheless, She Persisted
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Too Much and Not The Mood
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The Great Divide
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Hannah Kent: The Good People
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Women In Their Place (Blue Mountains)
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I Feel You
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Globalisation & Inequality in the Age of Trump
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Mikhail Zygar: All the Kremlin's Men
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Generation Next (Blue Mountains)
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Peter Polites: Down the Hume
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The Natural World of the Imagination (Blue Mountains)
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Hope Street Press Poetry Launch
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Poetry Circle (Blue Mountains)
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Bill Hayes: Insomniac City
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Henry Marsh: Admissions — A Life in Brain Surgery
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Bernadette Brennan: Writing Helen Garner
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25 Years of Looking For Alibrandi: Have a Say Day
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Graeme Simsion: The Best of Adam Sharp
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Do Bad Times Make For Great Art?
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Sex, Blood and Death
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Sarah Bakewell: At the Existentialist Cafe
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Ellen van Neerven: Comfort Food
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People of Letters
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Holly Throsby: Goodwood
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The Politics of Fear
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From Russia, With Love
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Borders of Our Writing
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SWF Gala: Maybe This Will Help
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Tough Love: Writing Complex Relationships
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Frank Moorhouse: Is Writing Still a Way of Life?
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Graeme Simsion: What Novelists Can Learn From Screenwriters
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Amie Kaufman: Get Your Story Started
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Amie Kaufman: Get Your Story Started (2)
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Norman Ohler: High Hitler
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Social Media As Art: An Indigenous Perspective
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The Full Catastrophe
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Zoe Morrison: Music and Freedom
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Tim Costello: On Faith
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Blerd Culture
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Netflix and Chill
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Liane Moriarty: Truly Madly Guilty (Chatswood)
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Ian Rankin: Rather Be the Devil (Parramatta)
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Turia Pitt: Unmasked
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Ali Cobby Eckermann: Little Bit Long Time
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C.S. Pacat: Writing Fantasy (1)
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Kerrie Davies: Memoir - More Than You
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The Book Club (1)
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Kim Mahood: Creative Non-Fiction - What Is It and Why Write It?
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The Dangerous Borderlands: Truth and Fiction in Memoir
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Desi Anwar: Life, Strife and the Pursuit of Democracy
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Russ The Story Bus
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Working Class Boy: Q&A With Jimmy Barnes (Parramatta)
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Betoota Advocate: Australia's Oldest and Favourite Newspaper
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Lawrence Krauss: On Hidden Realities
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Sarah Bakewell: On Bambi as an Existentialist Hero
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Lynne Kelly: On How Memory Training Changed My Thinking
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Roanna Gonsalves: On Literature as Selfie
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Henry Marsh: On Hospital Architecture and Design
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Tom Griffiths: On Antarctica
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Norman Ohler: On Non-Orthodox Research Methods in Berlin
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Jeff Sparrow: On Paul Robeson
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Fiona McIntosh: On the Importance of Being Selfish
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John M. Green: On Why We Should Be Scared Shitless About North Korea
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Candice Fox: On the Importance of Rejection
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Kim Mahood: On Stilettos and Salt Lakes
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Robert Dessaix: On Kissing, Hugging and Saying ‘I love you’
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Lucy Clark: On Competition
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Desi Anwar: On Spiritual Encounters
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Jacqueline Rose: On Remarkable Women
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Ivan Coyote: On Diversity
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Natalie Haynes: On Greek Myth and Harry Potter
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Liam Pieper: On Taylor Swift
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Hera Lindsay Bird: On Metaphor
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Melanie Joosten: On Big Sisters
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Olivia Murphy: On The Problem with Austen
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Michael Traill: Jumping Ship
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Sincerest Form of Flattery
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Food and Water: Fundamentals for Living
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Dear Science
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Border Force
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Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing
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The Big Black Thing
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Mark McKenna: On Music and Writing
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Russ Rymer: On Saving the Music Tree
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Karen Pickering: On Shark Week
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Chris Rodley: On How To Build A Novel-Writing Machine
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ABC Morning: ABC RN'S Books and Arts Daily and ABC Radio's Conversations Live Broadcast
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Meet the SMH Best Young Novelists
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Australian Readers and Their Habits
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Suspense: Setting and Mood
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Candice Fox: Crims, Coppers and Corpses
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David Francis: On a Verdict, Curiosity and a Riot
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Gay For Page
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Kathryn Heyman: Diving In - Getting Started on Fiction
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Kathryn Heyman: The Carpentry of Making Fiction
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Roanna Gonsalves: Rewilding Your Short Story
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Amanda Hampson: Five Secrets to Compelling Stories
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Alice Campion: How to Write Collaborative Fiction
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Claire Scobie: From Travel Writing to Travel Memoir
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Kerrie Davies: Social Media: Sharing and Slamming
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C.S. Pacat: Writing Fantasy (2)
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Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (1)
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Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (2)
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Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (3)
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Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (4)
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Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (5)
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Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (6)
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Sarah Wilson: First, We Make the Beast Beautiful
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Drive with Richard Glover, featuring Thank God It's Friday
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Sara Foster: Disrupt Your Creativity
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Kirk Docker: How To Ask The Hard Questions
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Ashley Hay: A Hundred Small Lessons
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A.S. Patric: Black Rock White City
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R.A Spratt's Writing Masterclass (2)
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Tragedy Plus Time
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Michael Sala: The Restorer
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Lex Hirst: Editing Like a Pro - the Tricks of the Trade
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Coffee and Papers with the SMH: Norman Ohler
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Coffee and Papers with the SMH: Jenny Valentish
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Coffee and Papers with the SMH: Mikhail Zygar
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Coffee and Papers with the SMH: Ruth Quibell
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Bangarra Backyard
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Sydney Dance Viewing Lounge
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Australian Book Design Awards
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Lucy Clark: Beautiful Failures
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On Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing
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Meredith Jaffe: The Fence (Brookvale)
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Talking 'Til Late with Chris Taylor (2)
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Richard Fidler: Ghost Empire (Ryde)
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The Ancient Guide to Modern Life
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Melanie Joosten: Gravity Well (Manly)
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Cover to Cover: Roald Dahl international book covers
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Heidi Pett and Jess O'Callaghan: Writing To Be Heard
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Sandra Leigh Price: The River Sings (Windsor)
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Kick on for Literacy: A Fundraiser for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation
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James Strong Address: Thomas Friedman
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AVANT GAGA
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You're Doing It Wrong: A Guide to Modern Parenting
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Tom Griffiths: The Art of Time Travel (Ryde)
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Still Lucky
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Swearing In: Veep's Armando Iannucci on Spin and Satire (1)
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The Book Club (2)
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Trust and Persistence: How Investigative Journalists Cultivate Sources and Share Their Stories
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Collaborative Journalism: Sources and Secrets
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Patrick White Playwrights' Award and Fellowship
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Caroline Baum: Only (Double Bay)
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Mariko Tamaki Talks the Talk
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Jane Hutcheon: China Baby Love (Hornsby)
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The Rumble: Youth Slam (Parramatta)
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Stella Sparks: Women Writers On Influence and Inspiration
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Black Wallaby Indigenous Writers' Night (Wollongong)
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Rocket Readings (Wollongong)
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Tracey Spicer: The Good Girl Stripped Bare (Kogarah)
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Little Fictions
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Alexandra Joel: Rosetta (Penrith)
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Forest for the Trees: Writers and Publishing in 2017
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UTS 2017 Anthology Launch: And Watch the Whale Explode
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Lauren Child's Quirky Characters!
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Love OZ YA Anthology: Begin, End, Begin
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More Than Meets the Eye: Diversity in YA Fiction
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Word Hunters Exploration
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Under the Love Umbrella: How Do We Make a Picture Book?
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Defying Expectations: How Do Female Writers Defy Stereotypes
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Writing in Verse: Sarah Crossan in Conversation
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Talking Tough Topics with Jennifer Niven
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Expressing Herself: The Brilliant Life of Rupi Kaur
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Keeping Company: Characters Across a Series
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Fresh Voices from Western Sydney: A Showcase of Real Talk
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How to Deal with Nasty, Horrible, Terrible People (with a Little Help from Roald Dahl)
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Illustrator Battle Rounds
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Kate DiCamillo: Connecting People Through Stories
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Richard Roxburgh's Artie and the Grime Wave
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Professor Frankie's Harry Potter
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How Deep Can You Go?
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They Cannot Take the Sky: Stories from Detention
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Witi Ihimaera (Blue Mountains)
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Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
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Lost the Plot: Writing About Mental Health
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A Conversation With Di Morrissey (Blue Mountains)
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Brit Bennett: The Mothers
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Paul Beatty: The Sellout
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Jacqueline Rose: Women in Dark Times
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Writing Perseverance: Remarkable Memoirs
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Contemporary Essay: Personal and Public
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Fake News and Alternative Facts
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Krissy Kneen: An Uncertain Grace
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Nadja Spiegelman: I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This
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From Far Away We Come (Blue Mountains)
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Borders of the Queer Body
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Dr Dark Memorial Lecture: Crossing The Line - Activism and Academic Bioethics (Blue Mountains)
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Not Waving, Drowning
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Sins of the Past (Blue Mountains)
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Love and Music
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Steven Amsterdam: The Easy Way Out
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A Fine-Figured Man With a Camera (Blue Mountains)
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Joy Williams: Ninety-Nine Stories of God
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Peter Corris: Win, Lose or Draw
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New Voices (Blue Mountains)
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The Legacy of Eleanor Dark (Blue Mountains)
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Writers' Journeys: Authors' Personal Reflections on Writing and Publishing (Blue Mountains)
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The Most Unlikely of Places
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Student Sessions: Indigenous Voices
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Student Sessions: Unpacking the Change in Climate
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Student Sessions: Re-Inventing the Classics
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Student Sessions: Shakespeare in His World and Ours
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Student Sessions: Mono or Multi-cultured?
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Student Sessions: In Conversation with Ross Gittins (Parramatta)
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Student Sessions: Indigenous Voices (Parramatta)
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Student Sessions: Unpacking the Change in Climate (Parramatta)
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Student Sessions: Re-inventing the Classics (Parramatta)
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Student Sessions: Shakespeare in His World and Ours (Parramatta)
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Student Sessions: Mono or Multi-cultured? (Parramatta)
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Student Sessions: In Conversation with Ross Gittins
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Primary School Days: City (1)
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Primary School Days: City (2)
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Secondary School Days: Chatswood
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Primary School Days: Parramatta
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Secondary School Days: City
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Primary School Days: Penrith
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Primary School Days: Free at Town Hall
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Secondary School Days: Parramatta
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Mark Colvin: Light and Shadow
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The Big Read
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Talking 'Til Late with Chris Taylor (1)
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Annabel Abbs: On 1920s Paris
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Juanita Ruys on the Devil's Coach House
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All The Kremlin's Men: In Conversation with Mikhail Zygar and Monica Attard
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Readings from Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy
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Jumping Ship: Michael Traill in conversation
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Susan Faludi in Conversation
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Roxane Gay: What's Feminism Got to Do With It?
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Sarah Schmidt: See What I Have Done
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Kirk Docker: On Asking the Hard Questions
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Caravan Fran
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A Tribute to Mark Colvin
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Author Talks and Workshops
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Early Program
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Children's Festival 2016
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Festival 2016
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Children's Festival 2015
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Festival 2015
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Children's Festival 2014
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Festival 2014
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Festival 2010
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Festival 2009
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Festival 2008
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Festival 2007
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Festival 2006
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Festival 2005
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Festival 2004
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Festival 2003
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Programs 2018-2019
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Writers
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Support Us
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Stories
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Venues
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Campbelltown HJ Daley Central Library
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Carrington Hotel, Katoomba
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City Recital Hall Angel Place
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Penrith City Library
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Riverside Theatres, Parramatta
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Sydney Jewish Museum
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Ashfield Town Hall
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Blacktown City Max Webber Library
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Riverside Theatres, Lennox Theatre
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Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Richard Bonynge Concert Hall
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Wollongong Art Gallery
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State Library of NSW, Metcalfe Auditorium
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Hornsby Central Library
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Ryde Library
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Seymour Centre, Everest Theatre
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Seymour Centre, York Theatre
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Margaret Martin Library, Randwick
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State Library of NSW, The Galleries
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The Concourse Concert Hall
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Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
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Glen Street Theatre
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Hurstville Library
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Kogarah Library and Service Centre
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Chatswood Library on the Concourse
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Varuna the National Writers’ House
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Knox St Bar
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Parramatta Artists Studios
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Ku-Ring-Gai Gordon Library
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Woollahra Library at Double Bay
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Giant Dwarf
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Foundation Hall, Ground Level
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Hawkesbury Central Library
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Coleman Greig Lawyers Parramatta
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Matthews Folbigg Lawyers
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Leighton Hall, John Niland Scientia Building
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Carriageworks, Bay 20
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Art Gallery of New South Wales
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Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
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Newtown Library
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Auburn Town Hall
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Sydney Town Hall
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Bankstown Arts Centre
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Seymour Centre, Sound Lounge
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State Library of NSW, Mitchell Reading Room
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Seymour Centre, Reginald Theatre
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Seymour Centre, Workshop Room 1
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Seymour Centre, Workshop Room 2
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Seymour Centre, Workshop Room 3
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Carriageworks, Bay 17
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Carriageworks, Bay 25
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Carriageworks, Track 12
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Carriageworks, Track 8
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Carriageworks, Blacksmith’s Workshop
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Narellan Library
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The Connection, The Event Space
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Rockdale Library
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The Church
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Katoomba Library
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Carriageworks, Bay 21
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Io Myers Studio, UNSW
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