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2023 Carriageworks Bookshop Birdseye (Jamie Williams)

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Explore the 2026 Program

An Evening with Patrick Radden Keefe

Tuesday 19 May

Shorts

Alexandra Lapierre: The Very Secretive And Passionate Stella Miles Franklin

Heather Rose: A Great Act of Love

Tayari Jones: Kin

Covering the Globe: Global Roaming LIVE

Thursday 21 May

Dreaming Big: Voices from Detention

Writing About Women, Writing About War

Friday 22 May

Luke Kemp: Goliath's Curse

Melissa Lucashenko: A Writing Life

Rewriting Histories

Silenced

Weird Fiction

Barrie Cassidy and Friends: State of the Nation

The Japan Effect

Randa Abdel-Fattah: Discipline

Saturday 23 May

Funny Books for Funny Kids

Enter the Ella-verse

When We Write About Men

What We Know About Gaza

Power Up with Dav Pilkey

Radical Hope

Whitlam and Howard: Leaders of Consequence

Mick Herron in Conversation

Hiroko Yoda: Eight Million Ways to Happiness

Lyse Doucet: The Finest Hotel in Kabul

Sunday 24 May

2023 Audience Appaulding Sydney Town Hall (Jacquie Manning)

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