Canberra Writers Festival 2019 program launched
Monday, 15 July 2019
Canberra Writers Festival has announced the full line-up of guest speakers for its festival program, which runs under the theme ‘power, politics and passion’ from 21–25 August. Over 160 authors...
Melbourne Writers Festival program announced
Thursday, 11 July 2019
The full program for the 2019 Melbourne Writers Festival, which runs from 30 August to 8 September, has been announced. The program will run under the theme ‘When We Talk...
Boochani, Fidler, Winch announced in first line-up for Ubud 2019
Tuesday, 2 July 2019
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced its first guests for the 2019 festival, which will run from 23–27 October in Ubud, Indonesia. Headlining the festival is Kurdish-Iranian journalist...
MWF reveals first international guests
Monday, 24 June 2019
Sonic Youth co-founder and author of the memoir Girl in a Band (Faber) Kim Gordon, Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt, and Black Lives Matter activist and author DeRay Mckesson are the...
BWF 2019 program announced
Friday, 21 June 2019
The program has been announced for the 2019 Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which runs from 5–8 September. Over 160 writers will appear at the festival, which in recognition of the...
MWF schools’ program 2019 announced
Friday, 24 May 2019
The program for the 2019 Melbourne Writers Festival schools’ program has been announced. More than 60 writers, artists and performers will feature in over 70 events from 2–5 September, with...
Melbourne Spoken Word & Poetry Festival launches crowdfunding campaign for 2019 event
Friday, 17 May 2019
The organisers of the Melbourne Spoken Word & Poetry Festival, which is set to run this year from 12–28 July, have begun a crowdfunding campaign after unsuccessful applications for Australia...
EWF 2019 program announced
Thursday, 16 May 2019
The program has been announced for this year’s Emerging Writers’ Festival, which runs in Melbourne from 19-29 June. More than 300 guests will appear at over 70 events. The opening...
First authors announced for Byron Writers Festival
Wednesday, 8 May 2019
The first authors have been announced for the 2019 Byron Writers Festival, which runs from 2–4 August. International guests include Kurdish-Iranian refugee Behrouz Boochani (who will appear via livestream from...
Program for inaugural Storyfest announced
Wednesday, 1 May 2019
The program for the inaugural Storyfest, running on the NSW South Coast from 21-23 June, has been announced. The festival’s gala dinner, featuring a conversation with Maggie Beer at Cupitt’s...
NT Writers’ Festival 2019 program announced
Tuesday, 23 April 2019
The program for the 2019 NT Writers’ Festival, to be held from 16-19 May, has been announced. The annual festival alternates between Darwin and Alice Springs, and will this year...
EWF announces 2019 festival ambassadors
Tuesday, 2 April 2019
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has announced the five writers appointed ambassadors for the National Writers’ Conference, which runs from 22-23 June at State Library Victoria. The ambassadors are Katherine...
First AWW from Jo Dyer attracts new audiences; Dalton tops bestsellers
Wednesday, 27 March 2019
Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) has reported it brought new demographics to the 2019 festival, which ran from 2-7 March 2019. In her first year as AWW director, Jo Dyer said...
SWF 2019 program announced
Friday, 15 March 2019
The program has been announced for this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), which runs from 29 April to 5 May. Fifty-five international guests and 360 Australian writers, academics and public...
Queenscliffe Literary Festival breaks ticket sales record
Thursday, 14 March 2019
The Queenscliffe Literary Festival (QLF) has broken its record for ticket sales. Running from 11-26 May in the Victorian beachside towns of Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale, the festival will feature...
Clunes Booktown Festival 2019 program announced
Friday, 1 March 2019
The program for the 2019 Clunes Booktown Festival, to be held from 4-5 May in Clunes, Victoria, has been announced. Around 25 writers will appear at the festival, including Robbie...
Inaugural crime fiction festival in Tasmania announces first guests
Thursday, 21 February 2019
A new biennial festival focused on crime fiction has announced the first guests for its inaugural program. Taking place in Cygnet and locations around Tasmania’s Huon Valley over Halloween (31...
FitzSimons announced as ambassador for inaugural International Military Writers’ Festival
Wednesday, 13 February 2019
A new three-day festival focusing on military writing has been announced as part of the inaugural Territory Tribute series of events in Darwin. Running from 5-7 April, the International Military...
MWF to move to State Library Victoria
Tuesday, 5 February 2019
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) will move its headquarters this year to State Library Victoria (SLV), after 10 years of being based at Federation Square. The library’s ongoing Vision2020 redevelopment...
Full program announced for 2019 Perth Writers Week
Tuesday, 15 January 2019
The full program has been announced for the 2019 Perth Festival Writers Week, which runs from 18-24 February. International guests attending the festival include Man Booker Prize-winning Nigerian novelist and...
First authors announced for 2019 Perth Festival Writers Week
Monday, 5 November 2018
The first authors and events have been announced for the 2019 Perth Festival Writers Week, which runs from 18-24 February. 'Our Imagined Selves' is the theme of the week, which...
Book industry figures to attend Australia Fest in India
Thursday, 1 November 2018
Australian authors, publishers and literary festival programmers are among the guests at Australia Fest, a six-month festival comprising more than 75 events across 20 Indian cities. Supported by the federal...
First authors announced for 2019 Adelaide Writers’ Week
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
A number of authors have been announced for the 2019 Adelaide Writers’ Week, which runs from 2-7 March 2019. Among the international authors attending the festival are Nigerian poet and...
2019 Scribblers Festival Schools Program announced
Friday, 19 October 2018
The program for the Scribblers Festival Schools Program, which runs from 8-10 May 2019 in Claremont, Western Australia, has been announced. Launched last year, Scribblers Festival celebrates children’s literature and...
Digital Writers’ Festival announces 2018 program
Tuesday, 9 October 2018
The program for the 2018 Digital Writers' Festival (DWF), which runs from 30 October to 3 November, has been announced. More than 140 guests will participate in the digital festival,...
BWF wrap-up: Dalton tops bestsellers
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
This year’s Brisbane Writers festival (BWF), which ran from 6 to 9 September, was programmed by guest artistic director Carl Lindgren, who worked with the theme ‘What the World Needs...
The Little Bookroom to hold kids book festival in Melbourne
Tuesday, 18 September 2018
Melbourne children’s bookshop The Little Bookroom will hold its first kids book festival in October, called Kids Book Fest. Held at the Fitzroy Town Hall, the one-day event will feature...
MWF reports ‘strongest first day’ in ticket sales; Boochani tops bestseller chart
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
This year's Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which ran from 24 August to 2 September, attracted audiences that were 'excited by the fresh offer' of a more performance-based program, according to festival...
Queer literature festival to launch in India
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
In India, a new literary festival for LGBTIQIA+ readers and writers will be hosted by the city of Lucknow in November, reports the Times of India. Organised by the the Awadh...
RMIT students to host 2018 Odyssey Literary Festival on genre
Thursday, 6 September 2018
Students from RMIT University’s Professional Writing and Editing program will host the Odyssey Literary Festival in Melbourne on 13 September. This year’s festival, which is held at RMIT's Kaleide Theatre,...
