Rose Scott Women Writers Festival releases 2025 program

The 2025 Rose Scott Women Writers Festival will run 27–28 June in Sydney.

This year’s festival will open with Suzanne Chick discussing her newly released memoir, Searching for Charmian (Summit, April 2025), in a conversation with her daughter Gina Chick (We Are the Stars, Summit); and continue with panels and discussions featuring Sophie Gee, Tracey Spicer, Hannah Kent, Jane Caro, Antoinette Lattouf, and Sara Saleh.

Two keynotes will close the program: Charlotte McConaghy in conversation with Melissa Lee Speyer, and Tasma Walton in conversation with Bronte Charles.

Additionally, two writing workshops will precede the main program.

In the festival announcement, the Women’s Club noted this month marks the 100-year anniversary of the passing of feminist activist Rose Scott, ‘a prolific writer of pamphlets, speeches, letters and articles published in the Sydney press’. ‘Rose Scott sought to build a peaceful society where women and children were not disregarded or exploited in the home, in prisons or in the workplace,’ said the Women’s Club.

As well as her role as a founding member of the Women’s Club in 1901, Scott was also a founding member of the Women’s Literary Society in 1889, the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales in 1891, the National Council of Women in 1896, and the Women’s Political and Educational League in 1902.

More information about the Rose Scott Women Writers Festival – along with the full program – is available on the festival website.

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