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Australia's largest free literary Festival, held in March in Adelaide, South Australia.
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With Sarah Martin | Kate Morton is one of Australia’s best-selling authors. A fascination with secrets and their impact has shaped her writing. She explains why to Sarah Martin.
Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 5:00pm
With Susan Johnson | 'Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue' is the stating point for Clementine Ford's case against marriage. She explains to Susan Johnson why she believes marriage is an institution that is passé, oppressive and against women's interests.
Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 5:00pm
With Jo Case | Author Catharine Lumby knew Frank Moorhouse for many years. A decade before his death in 2022, Moorhouse asked her to be his biographer. In conversation with Jo Case, Lumby shares how this relationship influenced her approach.
Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 3:45pm
With Amanda Vanstone | Umut Özkırımlı, the author of Cancelled: The Left Way Back from Woke, joins Amanda Vanstone to discuss the question: “What do evangelical Christians, far right Trump supporters and the woke Left have in common? They all burn books, and in fact they burn the same books. But book burning - or other forms of cancelling - is not simply an act of protest. It does not seek justice; it calls for retribution and revenge. And there is nothing progressive about this dogmatic and fanatical activism”.
Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 3:45pm
With Mike Ladd | Omar Sakr is an award-winning poet and novelist. His latest collection, Non-Essential Work, confronts issues of gender, race and identity. He explores these concerns with Mike Ladd.
Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 2:30pm
With Helen Elliott | Una Mannion’s second novel, Tell Me What I Am, is a superbly literary novel masquerading as a compelling thriller. In conversation with Helen Elliott, Mannion asks how we know who we are.
Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 2:30pm
With Jo Case | Brooklyn and Jerusalem are places that have powerfully informed the recent writing of two leading American writers – Jonathan Lethem and Nathan Thrall. Join them in conversation with Jo Case.
Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 1:15pm
With Hannah Kent | Myfanwy Jones, the Miles Franklin-shortlisted author of Leap, has just published a new novel about fathers, sons and the damage that can ripple through generations. She discusses the writing process with Hannah Kent.
Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 1:15pm
With Annabelle Quince | Ilan Pappé is one of the most influential historians writing today on the history of Israel and Palestine. He joins Annabelle Quince via live stream to explain why context matters.
Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 12:00pm
With Nicole Abadee | Anna Funder’s Wifedom shines a light on the woman who George Orwell described as his wife thirty-seven times without ever using her name. Eileen O’Shaughnessy has now been written back into history, as Funder explains to Nicole Abadee.
Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 12:00pm
With Sarah Martin | Polly Toynbee has been a columnist for The Guardian for over twenty-five years. In conversation with Sarah Martin, Toynbee speaks about her new memoir and its exploration of class in Britain, social justice and the effects of privilege.
Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 10:45am
With Louise Adler and Sian Cain | By exploring an episode of her own life in the context of a residential creative writing course, Miranda France examines how and why we tell our own stories in The Writing School. Can writing be taught? Louise Adler joins Sian Cain to test this proposition and discuss France's work.
Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 10:45am
With Tory Shepherd | Women have long been written out of history, marginalised and ignored. Tory Shepherd interviews Sarah Watling about the remarkable women writers who went to Spain to fight fascism in the 1930s.
Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 9:30am
With Lucia Sorbera | Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and his most recent work has focused on engaged writers. He tells Lucia Sorbera why he chose to write a biography of Frantz Fanon at this moment.
Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 9:30am
With Annabelle Quince | Understanding the Middle East conflict requires us to consider the origins of Hamas: the organisation, its political ambitions and relationship to the Palestinian polity. Tareq Baconi, the author of Hamas Contained, explains the background and context to Annabelle Quince.
Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 8:15am
Evelyn Araluen, Madison Godfrey, Jill Jones and Ellen van Neerven with Jessica Alice | Join renowned Australian poets Evelyn Araluen, Madison Godfrey, Jill Jones and Ellen van Neerven with chair Jessica Alice for an exploration of poetry as a tool for resistance and social transformation.
Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 5:00pm
With Anne Pender | Susan Johnson is a brave writer. She is also a brave daughter. Johnson tells Anne Pender why and how she decided to bring her elderly mother to live with her on a Greek island.
Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 5:00pm
Kate Grenville, Susan Johnson, Una Mannion and Pip Williams with David Marr | Have you ever wondered what happens during a book tour? Kate Grenville, Susan Johnson, Una Mannion and Pip Williams join chair David Marr to give you the scoop as they share stories from their own book tours across Australia and around the world.
Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 3:45pm
With Beejay Silcox | Helen Elliott, a wonderfully perceptive literary critic, finally decided to write a memoir – a letter to eleven people who influenced her life. She explains why to Beejay Silcox.
Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 2:30pm
Ali Cobby Eckermann, Brad Darkson, Dominic Guerrera and Karen Wyld | What remains after colonisation? After heartbreak? After protest? Like the rocks, First Peoples remain. Co-editors and contributors of The Rocks Remain anthology discuss continuation and the power of story. Ali Cobby Eckermann, Brad Darkson, Dominic Guerrera, and Karen Wyld in-conversation.
Supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.
Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 2:30pm
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