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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
  - NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
  - Microlit Chocolate Wheel
  - Opening Night Address: Bernardine Evaristo and Alison Whittaker
  - Patrick White Playwrights Award and Fellowship
  - And the Award Goes To...
  - Transformational Histories
  - Shadow Catchers: Poetic Reflections
  - Aminata Conteh-Biger: Rising Heart
  - Siri Hustvedt: I’m Writing For My Life
  - Bernardine Evaristo: Girl, Woman, Other
  - Shadow Catchers: Poetic Tour
  - Richard Cooke: On Robyn Davidson
  - Remembering Clive James
  - Johny Pitts: Afropean
  - Journalism: A Voice for the Vulnerable
  - Tom Keneally: The Dickens Boy
  - Julia Phillips: Disappearing Earth
  - A Million Little Truths
  - Chris Hammer: Silver
  - The Limitless Self
  - Michelle de Kretser: On Shirley Hazzard
  - Petina Gappah: Out of Darkness, Shining Light
  - Journey to the End of Speech
  - Joshua Yaffa: Between Two Fires
  - The Savage Detectives
  - Fighting Words: The Literature of Cancer
  - Sharks: An Australian Obsession
  - Antony Loewenstein: Pills, Powder, and Smoke
  - Tara June Winch: The Yield
  - The Big Read
  - Yumna Kassab: The House of Youssef
  - Australia’s Leadership Problem
  - Mike Giglio: Shatter the Nations
  - Fire Front
  - Jess Hill: See What You Made Me Do
  - Kevin Wilson: Nothing to See Here
  - Secrecy, Surveillance and State Power
  - Elliot Perlman: Maybe the Horse Will Talk
  - Chris Fleming: On Drugs
  - Kathy Lette Gets Candid
  - The Poetry of Medicine
  - Disinformation Spreads Like Wildfire
  - Antony Dapiran: City on Fire
  - A Prize of One’s Own
  - Secrets and Lies: Donor-Conceived Rights
  - The Empire Writes Back
  - Sophie McNeill: We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know
  - Jeff Sparrow: Fascists Among Us
  - Cassandra Pybus: Truganini
  - Bob Brown: Planet Earth
  - The New Vanguard of Climate Fiction
  - Liberalism at Large
  - Artistic Freedoms: Creativity and Incarceration
  - Critical Condition
  - Christos Tsiolkas: Damascus
  - Griffith Review 68: Getting On
  - Paul Muldoon: Frolic and Detour
  - Claire G. Coleman: The Old Lie
  - Favel Parrett: There Was Still Love
  - Little Women Through the Ages
  - A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America
  - ABC Radio National Live: Stop Everything!
  - Insiders Live at Sydney Writers’ Festival
  - Astrology in Uncertain Times
  - Erotic Fan Fiction
  - Coffee and Headlines with The Monthly: Peter Pomerantsev
  - Liam Pieper: Sweetness and Light
  - Fair Game: Activism and Ethics in Sport
  - Creature Comforts
  - Vicki Hastrich and Charlotte Wood: A Writer’s Friendship
  - Julia Baird: Phosphorescence
  - Data Insecurity
  - Heather Rose: Bruny
  - Annabel Crabb, Samantha Maiden and David Marr: A Year in Review
  - ABC Radio Live: Conversations
  - Kawai Strong Washburn: Sharks in the Time of Saviours
  - Pandemic
  - Apocalypse Then
  - Vicki Laveau-Harvie: The Erratics
  - Peter Pomerantsev: This is Not Propaganda
  - Amir Ahmadi Arian: Then the Fish Swallowed Him
  - Anna Krien: Act of Grace
  - Bob Hawke
  - ABC Radio National Live: The Bookshelf
  - The Next Chapter: Writing Blak
  - Daniel Mendelsohn: The Bad Boy of Athens
  - Hugh Mackay: The Inner Self
  - Golriz Ghahraman: Know Your Place
  - Anne Boyer: The Undying
  - Jesse Ball: The Divers’ Game
  - Josephine Rowe: Here Until August
  - How Democracy Can Survive Social Media
  - Left on Read
  - Corruption in the Church
  - Dani Shapiro: Inheritance
  - Sydney PEN: Keeping Australians Quiet
  - Susanna Moore: In the Cut
  - Rebecca Giggs: Fathoms
  - James Bradley: Ghost Species
  - Insights from the American Campaign Trail
  - Animals Like Us
  - Simple Pleasures
  - Eimear McBride: Strange Hotel
  - Droughts and Flooding Rains
  - Terror Australis
  - The Answers Are Not Important
  - Intan Paramaditha: The Wandering
  - Understanding Extremism
  - ABC Radio Sydney Drive with Richard Glover, Featuring Thank God It’s Friday!
  - Lisa Taddeo: Three Women
  - Midnight’s Children
  - Slate Thirst Aid Kit Live
  - Clare Bowditch: Your Own Kind of Girl
  - Anna Wiener: Uncanny Valley
  - Gay For Page
  - Coffee and Headlines with The Saturday Paper: Carol Leonnig
  - Tomasz Jedrowski: Swimming in the Dark
  - Hope in the Face of Climate Change
  - Archie Roach: Tell Me Why
  - Layla F. Saad: Me and White Supremacy
  - Daniel Mallory Ortberg: Something That May Shock and Discredit You
  - Thant Myint-U: The Hidden History of Burma
  - Nicole Dennis-Benn: Patsy
  - Vivian Pham: The Coconut Children
  - Mervyn King: Radical Uncertainty
  - Lucia Osborne-Crowley: I Choose Elena
  - Violent Sydney
  - Nell Zink: Doxology
  - Return of the Sweatshop Woman
  - Tanya Talaga: All Our Relations
  - Nesrine Malik: We Need New Stories
  - Critical Care
  - Tony Birch: The White Girl
  - Philippe Sands: The Ratline
  - Cliff Kuang: User Friendly
  - Remembering Christchurch
  - Virginia Trioli: Generation F
  - Ellen van Neerven: Throat
  - The Anatomy of Female Desire
  - Julia Ebner: Going Dark
  - The Ethics of Parenthood
  - Vicki Hastrich: Night Fishing
  - After the Flames
  - Meet the SMH Best Young Australian Novelists
  - Politics in Fiction
  - Leslie Jamison: Up Close and Personal
  - Iconic Duos: The Next Chapter Writers and Mentors
  - Niki Savva: Plots and Prayers
  - Tim Flannery: Life
  - Distant Concerns
  - Helena Janeczek: The Girl with the Leica
  - Classified Disinformation: Living in Russia
  - Leah Purcell: The Drover's Wife
  - Bruce Pascoe: Writing Australia
  - The Full Catastrophe
  - Anonymous Bankstown Poetry Slam
  - Andrew Boe: The Truth Hurts
  - Breaking the Banks
  - Catherine Lacey: An Indelible Voice
  - Madeleine Watts: The Inland Sea
  - Art in Catastrophic Times
  - What Next for Hong Kong?
  - Miranda Tapsell: Top End Girl
  - Truth 2, Lies 1: Crabb and Sales on Lying About Books
  - Story Club
  - Almost Midnight: An Evening of Storytelling and Song
  - The Art of the TV Finale
  - An Evening with Ann Patchett – CANCELLED
  - Queerstories
  - Coffee and Headlines with 7am: Joshua Yaffa
  - Ronnie Scott: The Adversary
  - Colum McCann: Apeirogon
  - Nicolás Giacobone: The Crossed-Out Notebook
  - Charlotte Wood: The Weekend
  - First on the Ground
  - MCA Zine Fair 2020
  - An Yu: Braised Pork
  - Iran: At Home and Abroad
  - Flocks and Fakes
  - Ann Patchett and Kevin Wilson: A Conversation with Friends – CANCELLED
  - Hope Less
  - Reckoning and Retribution
  - Rebekah Robertson and Georgie Stone: About a Girl
  - Law and the World: On the Edge
  - Anna Jones: A Modern Cook
  - Jeff VanderMeer: Future Shocks
  - Third Culture Kids: Identity in a Cross-Cultural World
  - Susanna Moore: Miss Aluminum
  - Beyond Imagining: A Holocaust Journal
  - Text on the Beach
  - The Future of Black Britain and Europe
  - It’s Time!
  - Algorithmic Time
  - Pros and Cons: Why Scammers Fascinate Us
  - Sophie Hardcastle: Below Deck
  - The Journey of the Uluru Statement
  - Paul Kelly: Love Is Strong as Death
  - Women and Their Bodies
  - Closing Night Address: Nell Zink
  - Malcolm Turnbull in Conversation with Annabel Crabb
  - Dav Pilkey: The Do Good Tour at City Recital Hall
  - Singalong Storytime
  - Pranks, Parks and Peeking Ducks
  - Raina Telgemeier: All Guts, All Glory
  - Story Club Junior: It Was a Dark and Stormy Night...
  - Our Home, Our Heartbeat
  - The Real Pigeons Live Mystery Hour
  - A History of Everything in 15 Objects
  - Take Heart, Take Action
  - Of Myths and Magic
  - The Weird, Wild and Amazing World with Tim Flannery
  - Illustrator Battle Rounds
  - Salah Sukkarieh: On the Rise of Robo-Crops
  - Elizabeth Farrelly: On Congestion
  - Mike Giglio: On Istanbul
  - Johny Pitts: On Mediocrity
  - Amir Ahmadi Arian: On Stupidity
  - Karen Hitchcock: On Growing Your Own Food
  - Thom van Dooren and Matthew Kearnes: On Extraterrestrial Ethics
  - Peter Polites: On Gay Pride and Prejudice
  - Colum McCann: On Badminton
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