SWF Live & Local = Sydney Writers’ Festival live stream = Bathurst Writers’ & Readers’ Festival Live Events Two Australian Contemporary Poets In Conversation and reading FRIDAY 6.40pm - 7.30pm Theatre from their work. Featuring Todd Turner and David Musgrave 1pm Theatre Doors open Networking event: Writers Rainbow and Poetry Slam. Come along 1.20pm Theatre Welcome: BMEC Manager Stephen Champion and meet local writers and network with festival goers and enjoy SWF Live & Local: Let Nature Be Your Teacher 7.30pm- 9pm City Hall drinks and nibbles, followed by Poetry Slam 1.30pm – 2.30pm Theatre Panel: Jeanette Winterson, Tim Flannery, James Rebanks hosted by If you are interested in performing in the poetry slam register on the ABC RN’s Natasha Mitchell day of the event at BMEC. Great prizes. All Welcome SWF Live & Local: Inside The New Yorker 3pm – 4pm Theatre Panel: Ann Goldstein, Paul Muldoon, Amelia Lester SUNDAY SWF Live & Local: Andrew Denton: Better Off Dead SWF Live & Local: Kerry O’Brien: Living with Keating 4.30pm – 5.30pm Theatre 10am – 11am Theatre Andrew Denton in conversation with David Leser Kerry O’Brien talks to Ellen Fanning Book Groups: The Books We Loved and Some We Didn’t Conference Play Readings Conference 5.30pm – 6pm 11am – 11.30am Members of local book groups discuss some of the best and worst Room Rehearsed readings of new works by local playwrights room books they have read. SWF Live & Local: David Gonski: I Gave A Gonski 6pm – 7pm Theatre SWF Live & Local: Annabel Crabb and : Our Reading Year David Gonski in conversation with Margot Saville 11.30am - 12.30pm Theatre Annabel and Leigh muse over their reading year SWF Live & Local: Magda Szubanski and George Megalogenis: 7.30pm – 8.30pm Theatre Rated PG Magda Szubanski in conversation with George Megalogenis Workshop: The Importance of Telling Your Story – Whether You’re A Writer Or Not 11.30-12.30pm City Hall In this short workshop, author Kim Kelly will take you through the many SATURDAY ways you can get your words out of your head and into the world SWF Live & Local: Why Women Should Rule the World Panel: Gloria Conference Sunday Sonnets – poetry on Sunday afternoon 10am – 11am Theatre 12.50 - 1.20pm Steinem, Ira Trivedi, hosted by George Megalogenis Room Local poets read their own and other’s work Children’s Writing Workshop with author Paul Stafford SWF Live & Local: Sarah Ferguson: The Killing Season Uncut Conference 1.30 -2.30pm Theatre 10am – 11.30am School age children Years 2-4. Limited places available. Sarah Ferguson in conversation with George Megalogenis Room Register with Books Plus Ph 6331 5994 Conference Great books you may have missed in the last 12 months and what to 2.30pm – 3pm SWF Live & Local: James Rebanks: A Shepherd’s Life Room look out for later this year. With Jen Barry and friends 11.30am - 12.30pm Theatre James Rebanks talks to ABC’s Richard Fidler SWF Live & Local: Bob Brown: On Optimism 3pm – 4pm Theatre 12.50-1.20pm Theatre Paul Stafford Book Launch ‘Ned Kelly’s Helmet’ Bob Brown in conversation with ABC RN’s Ellen Fanning SWF Live & Local: Paul Kelly: Seven Sonnets and a Song SWF Live & Local: Marlon James: A Brief History of Seven Killings 4.30pm – 5.30pm Theatre 1.30 -2.30pm Theatre 2015 Man Booker Prize winning author Marlon James speaks with Paul Kelly in conversation with Kate Mulvaney ABC RN’s Michael Cathcart SWF Live & Local: Closing Address Hanya Yanagihara: Children’s Writing Workshop with author Paul Stafford The Conversations Between Words Hanya Yanagihara, author of one Conference 1.30pm – 3pm School age children Years 5-6. Limited places available. 6pm – 6.50pm Theatre of the most talked-about and most confronting books of the year, A Room Register with Books Plus Ph 6331 5994 Little Life, asks whether an author owes her reader anything more than that? How much can a reader be expected to handle? 2.30-3pm City Hall Play Reading Rehearsed readings of new works by local playwrights 6.50pm – 7pm Theatre Local Closing SWF Live & Local: Grant: Talking to My Country 3pm – 4pm Theatre speaks about questions of our identity and race with Rhoda Roberts Books Plus sales available in the foyer SWF Live & Local: America: Writers Talk Politics throughout the Festival. 4.30pm – 5.30pm Theatre Vivian Gornick, Roger Cohen, Aleksandar Hemon, Snacks and lunches available Dr David Smith, in conversation with Amelia Lester at downstairs bar Panel: Latest Locals on the Shelf 5.40pm - 6.30pm Theatre A selection of local writers talk about the books they have published during the last 12 months. Chair: Dave Rankine This schedule is correct at time of publication. Check website and social media regularly for updates