SWF 2021 ‘emphasised the power and importance of live events’
The 2021 Sydney Writers' Festival, which wrapped up earlier this month having run from 26 April to 2 May, achieved sales and attendance levels ‘that would have been significant even...
SWF 2021 program announced
The program for the 2021 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) program has been released. The festival, which runs from Monday, 26 April to Sunday, 2 May, will host 231 live events...
SWF 2019 program announced
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...
VIPs announced for SWF 2019
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests attending the 2019 Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) program, to be held alongside the Sydney Writers’ Festival in late April and...
Sharp appointed CEO of SWF
Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has appointed Chrissy Sharp as its new CEO. Sharp, who was previously the inaugural director of the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne from 2009 to 2011, will...
Diaz withdraws from Australian tour after sexual harassment allegations
Author Junot Diaz has withdrawn from his scheduled appearances at the Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) and the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, after being accused of past sexual misconduct and verbal...
Scott appointed chair of SWF
Mark Scott AO has been appointed chair of the Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) board, beginning on 15 February. Scott, who joined the SWF board in July 2016, is replacing chair...
Box office and attendance records ‘smashed’ at SWF; Pichon, Steinem among the bestsellers
The Sydney Writers’ Festival has ‘smashed box office and attendance records’, attracting close to 110,000 attendees, including 64,944 ticketed sales. This compares to 96,000 attendees and 52,873 ticketed sales last...
SWF 2016 program launched
The 2016 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) program has been launched and is now available online. Sixty international writers will attend this year’s festival, which runs from 16-22 May, with UK novelist,...
Steinem to headline SWF
Writer, activist and feminist Gloria Steinem will be one of the headline guests at this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF). Appearing at an event at the Sydney Town Hall on...
Cult following: Em Bailey on ‘The Special Ones’
Em Bailey’s The Special Ones is an ‘edge-of-your-seat’ YA novel that ‘marks the gradual return of the YA thriller’, writes reviewer Bec Kavanagh. She spoke to the author. What was...
SWF to run ‘mini March festival’
The Sydney Writers Festival (SWF) is running events with four international authors in March. From 3-4 March the festival will host events with British novelist and journalist Simon Winchester, Scottish...
Sydney Writers Festival 2015 program launched
The 2015 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) program has been launched and is now available on the website.Forty-five international authors will attend this year’s festival, which will be held from 18-24 May,...
Dyer to replace Strout as SWF executive director
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced the appointment of Jo Dyer as its new executive director. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, current executive director Ben Strout will leave the...
SWF launches first ever children’s writers festival
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) will hold its first dedicated children’s festival from 14 November to 4 December 2014. The Children’s Festival of Moving Stories features 25 authors in almost 40...
City of Sydney increases SWF sponsorship
The City of Sydney has increased its funding to the Sydney Writers’ Festival.The city will provide $360,000 in cash and $110,000 in in-kind support each year for the next three years....
Strout to step down as SWF executive director
The Sydney Writers’ Festival has announced that executive director Ben Strout will leave the role at the end of 2014. Strout joined the festival in 2009 and has ‘overseen growth...
Box office and books sales up at SWF 2014; Solomon the top seller
The sun shone particularly brightly at this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), which ran from 19-25 May, with the warm weather matched by strong box office and book sales for...
‘SMH’ 2014 Best Young Novelists announced
The winners of this year’s Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) Best Young Australian Novelists Awards were announced at the Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) on 23 May.The winners are: Hannah Kent (Burial Rites,...
Collins appointed to SWF board
The Sydney Writers’ Festival has announced the appointment of Peter Collins to the festival’s board of directors.Collins joins board directors Deena Shiff (chair), Lena Nahlous, Elizabeth Johnstone, Guy Hedley and...