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Tara Moss, Molly Ringwald, Robert Greene and more. Live at Sydney Writers’ Festival May 20–26, 2013.

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FTER NOURISHMENT, shelter at how political stories are told, and who and companionship, stories are the is really crafting the message behind the thing we need most in the world.” politicians we love and loathe. At Town Hall, CONTENTS A – Philip Pullman. the ABC’s Leigh Sales speaks to President Stories lie at the heart of our lives. We Barack Obama’s chief digital strategist Joe need them to understand ourselves, to Rospars, alongside pollster Mark Textor and CITY & WALSH understand others, to make sense of the advertising guru Neil Lawrence. BAY EVENTS world around us. This year, Sydney Writers’ In the Opera House, philosopher and MAY 18–23 PAGE 4 Festival looks at the depth and breadth “rock-star moralist” Michael Sandel confronts Daniel of storytelling and celebrates the simple one of the biggest ethical issues of our time, Morden pleasure of being told a great tale. asking if there’s something wrong with a “To begin at the beginning”, as Dylan world in which everything is for sale. CITY & WALSH Aleks Thomas said, is to consider our oral Comedian, writer and activist Ruby Wax, BAY EVENTS Krotoski THURSDAY storytelling traditions. In this year’s who has openly battled depression, takes MAY 23 Festival Opening Address, Daniel Morden, to the stage to tell us how to keep sane in PAGES 4–8 one of Europe’s greatest oral storytellers, an insane world. Ruby is here as part of reinvigorates this ancient tradition by sharing our collaboration with London’s Southbank with us some of the stories he’s collected Centre’s WOW – Women of the World – CITY & WALSH Jackie Kay from around the world and across the ages. festival, which we’re thrilled to be launching BAY EVENTS FRIDAY Irish poet, novelist and bird-watcher in Australia. Feminist and author Naomi Wolf MAY 24 Dermot Healy, whose work has been lavishly delves into sex and creativity, and journalist PAGES 10–11 praised by Seamus Heaney, among others, Janine di Giovanni looks at love in the visits us from the wilds of Sligo. Also in aftermath of war. These are just a few of the Australia for the first time, we have The New fabulous women on the program. FESTIVAL Yorker’s literary critic, James Wood, as well Film icon, writer and “silk-voiced jazz CALENDAR PAGES 12–13 as Norway’s most notorious and controversial chanteuse” Molly Ringwald comes to Sydney author, Karl Ove Knausgaard. Faramerz to share her eclectic work with us. Her first Dabhoiwala, “the Stephen Hawking of sex”, novel, When it Happens to You, explores spices up an event or two, and renowned love, betrayal and the intricacies of the physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss human heart. Molly and her band will close CITY & WALSH BAY EVENTS shows us that not only is it possible that the Festival in style with an evening of jazz, in SATURDAY our universe arose naturally from nothing, homage to the great American songbook. MAY 25 without supernatural shenanigans, but also Down at the wharves, Pat Grant and Leigh PAGES 14–17 Carlos that it probably did. Rigozzi create a drawing spectacle, alongside Ruiz Zafón We welcome one of India’s most loved installations and parading poets. By night, CITY & WALSH writers, Anita Desai, whose work spans the Festival Club returns, with The Chaser Molly BAY EVENTS Ringwald decades, continents and emotional landscapes; team and a fine selection of writers and SUNDAY Kate Atkinson, whose new book is “a box of the story. Eli Horowitz, creator of The Silent musicians brought together by Eddie Sharp. MAY 26 delights”; Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author of The History, a serialised novel for iPhones, shows At Parramatta’s Riverside Theatre, don’t miss PAGE 17–19 Shadow of the Wind; and Claire Messud with us the possibilities of digital storytelling when the genius performance poets Kate Tempest The Woman Upstairs, a brilliant “acid bath” the creatives take control. and Anis Mojgani, and Daniel Morden, who of a novel. Claire, a Canadian-French-American You will be treated to some of the best will enthrall you with gypsy tales from the WORKSHOPS Melanie hybrid, who grew up partly in Australia, will live storytelling from Australia and around woods of Wales. In the city, there’s poetry in PAGE 20 Tait deliver the Festival’s Closing Address on the the world. From London we have 5x15 – one of the last places you’d expect – curated importance of “imaginary homelands”. five speakers each talking for 15 minutes by the winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Showcasing the extraordinary range and about a passion or obsession. Scotland’s Award for Poetry, Luke Davies. Check our scope of Australian writing, the Festival Jackie Kay retells some of her favourite taxi blog for daily posts and interviews from celebrates our unique storytellers. Gillian conversations, Lawrence Krauss argues that writer-in-residence Josephine Rowe. SUBURBAN Cheryl Mears speaks about her award-winning novel, Star Trek saved the world, Australian hip- On Sunday, we have family activities in & REGIONAL Strayed Foal’s Bread, for the first time in Sydney. Major hop artist Urthboy defends new beginnings, the spectacular Big Top for Little People. EVENTS PAGE 21 General John Cantwell shares his profoundly novelist Kate Mosse reveals the importance Australia’s Dreaming will come alive with moving story of living with post-traumatic of female heroes and Amelia Lester gives us Aboriginal storytellers and music, and Archie stress, and Amanda Lohry asks former leader the inside scoop on being Managing Editor of Roach will launch his illustrated songbook. of the Greens, Bob Brown, about the future The New Yorker. This year, Sydney Writers’ Festival brings PARTICIPANTS Rachael of activism. Hannah Kent, whose debut novel, In SWF Shorts, Claudia Karvan, Jacqueline together an exhilarating selection of PAGE 22 Treasure Burial Rites, caused a bidding war around the McKenzie, Brendan Cowell and William storytellers who will delight, inform and world, describes her love letter to Iceland and McInnes read their favourite short stories. And entertain. So come along, sit back, and let us the true story behind it. Kip Williams from Sydney Theatre Company tell you a story. As we hear more and more about curates readings straight from the bazaar in technological innovation, it’s easy to forget The Thousand and One Nights. Jemma Birrell VENUES & that the platform is only as interesting as In this election year, we look more closely Artistic Director, Sydney Writers’ Festival BOOKINGS PAGE 23

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5 NSW PREMIER’S LITERARY from their past, to unravel the threads to AWARDS DINNER MAY 22 their present day lives. Directed by William May 19, 6-10pm 9 BUSINESS BREAKFAST: JOE ROSPARS Yang and Annette Shun Wah. Presented by State Library of NSW May 22, 7-9am Carriageworks and Performance 4a. This year’s Festival celebrates the strength and creativity of women, with a range of A glittering celebration of excellence in The Wharf Restaurant $35, bookings Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 writers and thinkers whose work explores what it is to be a woman. We launch Australian writing, which takes place on George Megalogenis interviews Joe Rospars, London’s Southbank Centre’s WOW – Women of the World – festival in Australia, the eve of Sydney Writers’ Festival 2013. co-founder and CEO of Blue State Digital and 13 FESTIVAL CLUB featuring Ruby Wax in the Opera House on how to find calm in a frenetic world; the Winners of the 2013 NSW Premier’s President Barack Obama’s principal digital May 22, 7-11.45pm WOW Lecture by Shami Chakrabarti, the Director of UK rights organisation Liberty; Literary Awards will be presented with strategist for the 2008 and 2012 campaigns. Pier 2/3 Club Stage bestselling author Kate Mosse; Jude Kelly, the Artistic Director of Southbank Centre prizes totalling up to $315,000. Presented $80, bookings 9250 1988, Featuring Slide Night with Tom Tilley; The and founder of WOW; a speed mentoring session for women; WOW Bites showcasing by the NSW Government and administered swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Chaser’s Empty Vessel with special guests women’s life stories; and at Town Hall, a panel with Dale Spender, Mia Freedman, by the State Library of NSW in association Amelia Lester, Faramerz Dabhoiwala and Jamila Rizvi and more, that ponders the question, “I’m a Feminist – Can I Vajazzle?” with Arts NSW. 10 BOHEMIAN SYDNEY: DANCING Janine di Giovanni; and SWF Up Late with There are so many fabulous women in the program: bestselling author and $150, bookings 9273 1770, WITH EMPTY POCKETS Teen Diary Readings featuring Catherine feminist Naomi Wolf; Rachael Treasure, rural romance icon; Anne Summers on The sl.nsw.gov.au/premiersliteraryawards May 22, 6-7pm Deveny, Lucinda Gleeson and Michael Hing. Misogyny Factor; Cheryl Strayed of Wild and “Dear Sugar” fame; some “Digital Divas”; State Library of NSW, $10 at the door, full details swf.org.au Anna Goldsworthy and Monica Dux on motherhood; correspondent Janine di Giovanni on Metcalfe Auditorium love and war; and artist Wangechi Mutu exploring sex and representation. There are also MAY 20 Debauched, deprived and drunken was the 14 RUBY WAX: SANE NEW WORLD Stella Prize events, the Griffith REVIEW examining women and power, and Jane Caro and 6 THE EDITOR’S CUT common view about bohemians in the May 22, 8.30-10pm Destroying the Joint contributors. To help you navigate, these events are highlighted May 20, 5-6pm mid-19th century. Dr Tony Moore traces the SOH, Joan Sutherland Theatre in blue throughout this guide. They are listed below in the order in which they appear. University of Sydney Macleay Museum history of Australia’s bohemians with Comedian, writer and mental health Three editors talk about the complexities Elizabeth Farrelly. Presented by State campaigner Ruby Wax shows us how to rewire 14 Ruby Wax: Sane New World 161 WOW Bites and challenges of editing another’s work, Library of NSW. our thinking and find calm in a frenetic world. 21 Unexpected Motherhood 162 Naomi Wolf with Mia Freedman how you decide what makes it in and $20/$15, bookings 9250 1988, Presented with Southbank Centre’s WOW. 24 Lost and Found 169 Rachael Treasure and Rural what is left out, and whether you need to swf.sydneytheatre.org.au $45/$35, bookings 9250 1988 or 28 What Makes Fabulous Romance be a writer to be a good editor. 9250 7777, swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Female Fiction? 172 Under 10s Feminist Corner Presented by Macleay Museum, the 11 MICHAEL SANDEL: WHAT MONEY or sydneyoperahouse.com 42 Griffith REVIEW: Women and Power, 175 The Misogyny Factor University of Sydney. CAN’T BUY Turning Things Around 178 Stella Prize Trivia Free, bookings essential, 9036 5253 May 22, 6.30-7.30pm 72 Wangechi Mutu 179 Shami Chakrabarti: WOW at SOH, Joan Sutherland Theatre MAY 23 83 Sex and Representation Sydney Writers’ Festival Lecture 7 NICK EARLS: FROM BOOK TO FILM Is there something wrong with a world in 15 COFFEE AND PAPERS WITH THE 84 A Prize Of One’s Own 196 Speed Mentoring AND BEYOND which everything is for sale? In What SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 92 Conversations with Richard Fidler: 203 I’m a Feminist - Can I Vajazzle? May 20, 6-7pm Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of May 23, 9-10am Cheryl Strayed 210 Destroying the Joint Customs House Reading Room Markets, Harvard philosopher Michael The Bar at the End of the Wharf 106 Digital Divas 219 Stella Stories Nick Earls discusses how it pans out Sandel tackles this big ethical question. Join The Sydney Morning Herald’s 149 Fifty Shades of Feminism 236 Dear Sugar: Advice on Life and Love when a novelist trespasses into the Chair: George Megalogenis. Supported by journalists and special guest Amelia Lester 151 Janine di Giovanni: Love, War SR8 Wild: Stories from the Trail world of film and e-books. Will a book Deutsche Bank. to hear their take on the stand-out stories and Redemption SR10 Sexism, Australian Style always lose something in the process $40/$35, bookings 9250 1988 or and what is making news headlines today. of adaptation or is there a way to 9250 7777, swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Supported by The Sydney Morning Herald. keep the integrity of the written or sydneyoperahouse.com Free, no bookings word? Bring your wireless e-reading MAY 18 MAY 19 device along to download a free 12 STORIES THEN & NOW 16 PUBLIC SYDNEY 1 TROUBADOURS AND MINSTRELS 3 TROUBADOURS AND MINSTRELS story! Presented with City of Sydney May 22, 7-8.30pm May 23, 10-11am May 18, 12-1pm May 19, 12-1pm Libraries. Carriageworks The Mint The Rocks Square The Rocks Square Free, bookings essential, 9242 8555, Stories Then & Now brings together six Public places, essential to a democratic Four musos lead four small crowds to Four musos lead four small crowds to coslibrary.eventbrite.com. Asian Australians to tell personal stories society, are often controversial and alcoves, underpasses and secret corners. alcoves, underpasses and secret corners. marginalised. The authors of Public These mini-performance spaces, decked out These mini-performance spaces, decked out Sydney: Drawing the City discuss. with couches, rugs, curtains and little amps, with couches, rugs, curtains and little amps, Free, no bookings are the backdrop for poetry readings. The are the backdrop for poetry readings. The crowd rotates until everyone has seen all crowd rotates until everyone has seen all 17 A CHARACTER CALLED PLACE four venues. Presented by Word Travels and four venues. Presented by Word Travels and May 23, 10-11am supported by The Rocks pop-up. supported by The Rocks pop-up. DANIEL MORDEN Bangarra Mezzanine Free, no bookings Free, no bookings 8 OPENING ADDRESS: THE How do Amy Espeseth, Ashley Hay and GHOST AT MY SHOULDER Stephen Scourfield create such a vivid 2 WRITER OVERNIGHTER WITH 4 JORDIE ALBISTON: sense of place that it becomes a character CHRISTOPHER CHENG THE BOOK OF ETHEL LAUNCH May 21, 6.30-8.30pm in itself? They talk with Jill Eddington. May 18, from 2.30pm May 19, 2-4pm Sydney Theatre Free, no bookings Powerhouse Museum Brett Whiteley Studio Daniel Morden is one of Europe’s greatest Stay overnight in the Powerhouse Museum Jordie Albiston talks with David Musgrave storytellers. He has collected and told stories from 18 MEET THE NSW PREMIER’S for an evening of cracking ideas, with about The Book of Ethel, her new the Arctic to Haiti to London’s National Theatre. For LITERARY AWARD WINNERS children’s author Christopher Cheng. collection of poems about her maternal the 2013 Opening Address, Daniel blends traditional May 23, 10-11am Includes a special visit to the Wallace & great grandmother, who was born in tale, anecdote and insight, examining the place of Philharmonia Studio Gromit’s World of Invention exhibition. Cornwell in 1872 and emigrated to story in our lives. “To experience Daniel Morden in Winners of this year’s NSW Premier’s Presented by the Powerhouse Museum. Australia. Ethel’s voice speaks across full flight is an amazing thing” (BBC). Literary Awards discuss their work with $120 ($100 for Powerhouse members), centuries in precise micro-portraits. $30/$25, bookings 9250 1988, Suzanne Leal. Presented by the State bookings 9217 0222, Free, bookings essential, email: swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Library of NSW. play.powerhousemuseum.com [email protected] Free, no bookings

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19 RARE OBJECT SERIES LAUNCH burnishing an artist’s reputation after 38 HARBOUR CITY POETS: May 23, 10-11am their death. SOME PEOPLE YOU MAY KNOW Pier 2/3 Club Stage $14/$10, bookings 9250 1988, May 23, 1-2pm Luke Davies launches new poetry chapbooks swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Bangarra Mezzanine by David Malouf, Robert Adamson, Martin Showcasing poems about personalities, Harrison and Adam Aitken, part of the iconic 26 ANNE DEVESON WITH ALEKS KROTOSKI fictional characters, individuals and types, Rare Object Series from Vagabond Press. PHILLIP ADAMS: WAGING PEACE 29 UNTANGLING THE WEB Harbour City Poets deliver a fast-paced, Free, no bookings May 23, 10-11am witty and professional onstage dialogue. Wharf Theatre 2 Featuring Margaret Bradstock, John Carey, 20 THE UNCOMMON READER Writer and documentary filmmaker Anne David Musgrave, Louise Wakeling and May 23, 10-11am Deveson speaks to Phillip Adams about Les Wicks. Pier 2/3 Main Stage Waging Peace, her memoir of an activist’s life. Free, no bookings What makes a good reader? How does one $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, develop a critical instinct? James Wood, swf.sydneytheatre.org.au 39 FAN FICTION Geordie Williamson and Jane Gleeson-White May 23, 1-2pm share some of the books that inspire and 27 MICHELLE DE KRETSER: Philharmonia Studio compel them with Tegan Bennett Daylight. QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL With the publishing success of Fifty Shades $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, May 23, 11.30am-12.30pm of Grey, which began its life as online fan swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Bangarra Mezzanine fiction, everyone wants to know more. A mesmerising novel, Questions of Travel Sydney University’s Joseph Brennan 21 UNEXPECTED MOTHERHOOD follows the two very different lives of Laura, speaks to Amanda Hayward alongside May 23, 10-11am who travels the world, and Ravi, who dreams novelist Lauren Beukes and David Large. Pier 2/3 The Loft of being a tourist until he is driven from Sri Free, no bookings Monica Dux and Anna Goldsworthy join Lanka. Michelle de Kretser speaks with The anthropologist and author Sally Warhaft for a Sydney Morning Herald’s Susan Wyndham. 40 IS THERE A SOUNDTRACK? frank discussion about pregnancy, birth and Free, no bookings May 23, 1-2pm what it means to be a mother today. May 23, 11.30am-12.30pm broadcasts and writes on our increasing Pier 2/3 Club Stage Free, no bookings 28 WHAT MAKES FABULOUS FEMALE Pier 2/3 Club Stage dependence on the online world. Aleks Josephine Rowe, Arnold Zable and FICTION? Social psychologist and presenter of BBC talks with ABC Radio National’s Marc Courtney Collins discuss with Michaela 22 LAUREN BEUKES: May 23, 11.30am-12.30pm Radio 4’s The Digital Human, Aleks Fennell. Supported by Bloomberg. Kalowski whether music has played THE SHINING GIRLS Philharmonia Studio Krotoski has spent a decade probing the $14/$10, bookings 9250 1988, a role in the creation of their books. May 23, 10-11am Publishers Hilary Teeman, Frederique Polet effects of the web on our lives. She swf.sydneytheatre.org.au $14/$10, bookings 9250 1988, Sydney Dance 1 and Annette Barlow discuss what makes a swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Michael Cathcart interviews Lauren Beukes fabulous “women’s fiction read” with Caroline about her new serial-killer novel, The Overington, author and Associate Editor of Major General John Cantwell (Exit Wounds), May 23, 11.30am-12.30pm 41 BEDTIME STORIES WITH Shining Girls, live on ABC Radio National’s Australian Women’s Weekly. Supported by investigative journalist Chris Masters Richard Wherrett Studio PHILLIP ADAMS Books and Arts Daily. The Writer’s Coffee Shop (TWCS). (Uncommon Soldier) and historian Ross Maxine McKew spectacularly unseated May 23, 1-2pm Free, no bookings Free, no bookings McMullin (Farewell, Dear People) discuss John Howard in the 2007 Federal election. Pier 2/3 Main Stage with Mark Corcoran Australia’s involvement Then in 2010 she became one of the For 22 years, Phillip Adams has graced the 23 NARRATIVE IN DOCUMENTARY 30 THE PUBLIC PHILOSOPHER: SOCIAL in wars past and present. casualties of a disastrous election airways of ABC Radio National’s Late Night May 23, 10-11am JUSTICE IN THE AGE OF MARKETS Free, no bookings campaign. Maxine speaks to Margot Saville Live. He shares previously unknown stories Sydney Dance 2 May 23, 11.30am-12.30pm about Tales From the Political Trenches, about the world leaders, thinkers, A discussion of the journalistic issues Pier 2/3 Main Stage 33 BOOKS TO LIVE BY what went wrong and the current political ideologues, gurus and crackpots who have tackled in documentary, with the 2012 Join Harvard philosopher and “rock-star May 23, 11.30am-12.30pm climate. Supported by K&L Gates. joined him on air. Walkley Documentary winner Celeste Geer moralist” Michael Sandel for a conversation Sydney Dance 2 $14/$10, bookings 9250 1988, $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, and finalists Morag Ramsay and Rick with Julian Morrow. On the agenda is the Want some great book recommendations swf.sydneytheatre.org.au swf.sydneytheatre.org.au McPhee. Chaired by the ABC’s Quentin question of whether social justice is dead; from three of Sydney’s most in-the-know Dempster and presented by The Walkley the future of global education; and the idea booksellers and tastemakers? John Purcell 36 ON COLLECTING 42 GRIFFITH REVIEW: WOMEN AND Foundation for Journalism. of the “common good” in an age of markets. (Booktopia), Morgan Smith (Gleebooks) and May 23, 11.30am-12.30pm POWER, TURNING THINGS AROUND Free, no bookings $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, Barbara Horgan (Shearers) speak to Walter Wharf Theatre 2 May 23, 1-2pm swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Mason and recommend their favourite books. From vintage fashion and homewares to Pier 2/3 The Loft 24 LOST AND FOUND Free, no bookings contemporary art, fanzines and antiquarian Join Anne Summers, Mary Delahunty, May 23, 10-11am 31 THE SPIRIT OF ROMANCE books, three influential collectors talk about Chris Wallace, Yassmin Abdel-Magied and Sydney Theatre May 23, 11.30am-12.30pm 34 FARAMERZ DABHOIWALA: their collections and the obsession that Julianne Schultz for a discussion about Writers Ailsa Piper and Cheryl Strayed have Pier 2/3 The Loft THE ORIGINS OF SEX drives them. David Francis talks with Sibella the changing relationship between women both turned to travel in a bid to find Since Samuel Richardson’s 1740 novel May 23, 11.30am-12.30pm Court, Glenn Barkley and Nicholas Pounder. and power. Presented with Griffith REVIEW. redemption and connection. They talk with Pamela, romance novels have become Sydney Theatre $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, Free, no bookings Caroline Baum about the journeys that the world’s most popular literary genre. Faramerz Dabhoiwala has been described as swf.sydneytheatre.org.au have shaped who they are today. What styles of romance writing are people “the Stephen Hawking of sex”. In this witty 43 WHY READ DICTIONARIES? $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, reading today? Suzy Duffy, Kate Forsyth talk, Faramerz explains the origins of our 37 SHAPING PUBLIC SYDNEY May 23, 1-2pm swf.sydneytheatre.org.au and Rachael Treasure discuss with modern sexual culture and how we came May 23, 1-2pm Sydney Dance 1 Amanda Hooton. Supported by The Writer’s to live in a world where sex is supposedly The Mint Crossword-maker David Astle interrogates 25 AFFAIRS OF THE ART Coffee Shop (TWCS). private, yet ever more publicised. Former Government Architect Peter Mould Mark Forsyth, bestselling author of The May 23, 10-11am Free, no bookings $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, and City Historian Lisa Murray discuss the Etymologicon and The Horologicon, and Richard Wherrett Studio swf.sydneytheatre.org.au various factors that have influenced Sydney’s blogger known as The Inky Fool, on having Katrina Strickland (Affairs of the Art) and 32 THE HUMAN COST OF WAR development with Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon, the most boring hobby in the world. Huon Hooke speak to Julianne Schultz May 23, 11.30am-12.30pm 35 MAXINE MCKEW: OUT OF HHT Assistant Director, Creative Services. Supported by Editor Group. about the role of those left behind in Sydney Dance 1 THE TRENCHES Free, no bookings Free, no bookings

THE STATE LIBRARY OF NSW PRESENTS

Congratulations to the shortlisted authors of the NSW The Book Stack: People’s Choice Meet the NSW Premier’s Premier’s Literary Awards. The winners will be announced at the Thursday 9 May, 6 pm – 8 pm Literary Award winners 2013 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Cost: $15, bookings required Thursday 23 May, 10 am – 11 am Venue: Dixson Room, State Library of NSW Free, no bookings presentation dinner, Mitchell Library Enjoy dramatic readings from the Christina Venue: Philharmonia Studio Sunday 19 May, 6 pm – 10 pm Stead Prize for Fiction shortlist, hosted by Pier 4/5, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay award-winning author Dr Kathryn Heyman Cost: $150 per ticket Join the winners of this year’s NSW Premier’s Bookings required (02) 9273 1770, [email protected] Literary Awards as they discuss their work with author and literary judge Suzanne Leal. Visit www.sl.nsw.gov.au/premiersliteraryawards Event bookings: (02) 9273 1770 [email protected] People’s Choice Macquarie St Sydney Vote now for your favourite book from the 2013 Christina Stead Prize Ph (02) 9273 1414 for Fiction shortlist: , Murray Bail (Text Publishing) www.sl.nsw.gov.au Gillian Mears (Allen & Unwin) , Frank Moorhouse (Random House Australia) , Carrie Tiffany (Pan Macmillan Australia) The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards are presented by the NSW Government , Charlotte Wood (Allen & Unwin) and administered by the State Library of NSW in association with Arts NSW , Tom Keneally (Random House Australia) Cast your vote by midnight Sunday 12 May and go into the draw to win fantastic prizes. Vote here: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/peopleschoice The winner will be announced on Sunday 19 May 2013. P&D-4035-4/2013

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57 THE 21ST CENTURY AUTHOR May 23, 2.30-3.30pm Wharf Theatre 2 Social innovator, Rachel Botsman (What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative There’s more Festival to enjoy in Walsh carved book sculptures. Consumption), says we are “wired to Bay this year, with special attractions and n See The Sydney Book Art Group’s share”. She talks to journalist Caroline exhibitions. Have a bite to eat with an “Lifecycle” installation, made of Baum about how technology will change SWF restaurant partner or grab a snack “reborn text”. the role of authors. from the Sydney Food Trucks. n Watch for the collaborative drawing $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, And while you’re in Pier 2/3: spectacle from cartoonists Pat Grant swf.sydneytheatre.org.au n Take a moment to relax in the Reading and Leigh Rigozzi on May 25-26. Room, supported by The Sydney n Bring the kids to join in all the fun of 58 DESIGNER SUBURBS Morning Herald. The Big Top for Little People on Sunday, May 23, 3-4pm n Watch SWF free events on the big May 26. The Mint screen in the Viewing Lounge, thanks n When you least expect it, you might get Join Dr Judith O’Callaghan, Dr Charles Pickett to Bloomberg. a gift from the Q-poets – CJ Bowerbird, and Ian Innes as they discuss how architects n Grab some headphones and listen to Jo Sri, Eleanor Jackson, Scott Sandwich, took high-end design to the suburbs during non-fiction tales from regional project creator Skye Loneragan and the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, and why these Australia via abc.net.au/open more – as they deliver literary relief designer homes are important today.

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59 DANIEL MORDEN: THE EMPTY HAND 44 CAN WRITERS LEARN LESSONS 48 ANTARCTICA DREAMING 53 WHAT OUR FOOD SAYS ABOUT US 55 HISTORICAL FACT AND FICTION May 23, 4-5pm FROM SPORT? May 23, 2.30-3.30pm May 23, 2.30-3.30pm May 23, 2.30-3.30pm Bangarra Mezzanine May 23, 1-2pm Bangarra Mezzanine Sydney Dance 1 Sydney Theatre What if the one you loved was taken from Sydney Dance 2 Jesse Blackadder (Chasing the Light) and How does our relationship with food reflect Edward Rutherfurd, Faramerz Dabhoiwala you? How far would you go to find them? Goal setting, agility, patience, commitment Alasdair McGregor (Antarctica: That Sweep our culture and who we are? Stephanie and Hannah Kent explain the differences Join Daniel Morden, one of Europe’s and overcoming adversity are all sporting of Savage Splendour) discuss their shared Alexander (Kitchen Gardens Program), between historical fact and fiction with greatest storytellers, for haunting tales of virtues. Malcolm Knox, Michael Robotham passion for the “big, white desert” with Lorraine Elliott (Not Quite Nigella) and Miriam Cosic. Are the boundaries between love in this world and the next. and Melissa Lucashenko speak to P.M. historian and biographer Ross McMullin. Pauline Nguyen (Red Lantern restaurant) them important? Free, no bookings Newton and consider what sporting skills Free, no bookings speak with food journalist John Newton. $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, can be applied to their writing technique. Free, no bookings swf.sydneytheatre.org.au 60 THE CUTTING EDGE Free, no bookings 49 LOVE AND EXTINCTION May 23, 4-5pm May 23, 2.30-3.30pm 54 FAMILY MATTERS 56 THE IVANHOE HOTEL: Philharmonia Studio 45 WILLIAM DALRYMPLE: RETURN Philharmonia Studio May 23, 2.30-3.30pm AUSTRALIAN CREATIVITY Satirists Jonathan Biggins and James OF A KING As a writer in a world with threatened Sydney Dance 2 May 23, 2.30-3.30pm Jeffrey (editor of Strewth) celebrate satire May 23, 1-2pm ecologies, how do you grab people’s We all cherish our heritage and stories Richard Wherrett Studio in Australian journalism with Steve Lewis. Sydney Theatre attention? UNSW’s Stephen Muecke speaks passed down in the family, but writing a W.G. Sebald’s work is crammed with history Presented by The Walkley Foundation Join historian William Dalrymple as he talks to Robert Drewe, Deborah Bird Rose and book dealing with the intimacies of and stories. David Brooks considers what for Journalism. about his new book, Return of a King: The Stephen Scourfield about exploring family is not always easy and can an Australian version might be, and Free, no bookings Battle for Afghanistan, described by The environmental issues in their work. bring both heartache and joy. James whether our lack of settler stories might Guardian as a “clear-eyed, non-judgmental, Supported by UNSW. Button, Anna Goldsworthy and Jackie offer creative freedom from the weight of 61 THE BIG READ sober history, beautifully told”. Free, no bookings Kay discuss the challenges with history. Chair: Steven Gale. May 23, 4-5pm $25/$20, bookings 9250 1988, Benjamin Law. $14/$10, bookings 9250 1988, Pier 2/3 Main Stage swf.sydneytheatre.org.au 50 IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Free, no bookings swf.sydneytheatre.org.au A Festival favourite, this year The Big Read CRAIG TAYLOR brings together Australian and 46 KIRSTIE CLEMENTS: May 23, 2.30-3.30pm international guests Lauren Beukes, Sheila THE VOGUE FACTOR Pier 2/3 Club Stage Heti, Patrick Ness, Nicolas Rothwell and May 23, 1-2pm Craig Taylor discusses his bestselling book, Arnold Zable. Hosted by Annette Shun Wah. Richard Wherrett Studio Londoners. You’ll hear from street Includes presentation of The Sydney Ex-Vogue editor Kirstie Clements talks to sweepers and investment bankers, Morning Herald Best Young Australian Tara Moss about her 25 years at Vogue and manicurists and a very British dominatrix. DERMOT HEALY Novelist awards for 2013. Supported by The how fashion bloggers are challenging “A rich and exuberant kaleidoscopic 52 ON CRAFT: THE ORAL Sydney Morning Herald. glossy magazine predominance. portrait” (The New York Times). TRADITION $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, $14/$10, bookings 9250 1988, $14/$10, bookings 9250 1988, swf.sydneytheatre.org.au swf.sydneytheatre.org.au swf.sydneytheatre.org.au May 23, 2.30-3.30pm Pier 2/3 The Loft 62 THE GARDEN: AN ADVENTURE 47 NICK CATER: THE LUCKY CULTURE 51 BY THE BOOK: RAMONA KOVAL Join novelist, playwright, poet and short IN IDEAS May 23, 1-2pm WITH RICHARD GILL story writer Dermot Healy, who Roddy May 23, 4-5pm Wharf Theatre 2 May 23, 2.30-3.30pm Doyle has called “Ireland’s greatest Pier 2/3 The Loft Is the secret of Australia’s good fortune our Pier 2/3 Main Stage writer”, for a talk on the oral tradition “If you have a garden in your library,” wrote particular Australian character? Fifty years Award-winning conductor Richard Gill talks and the craft of writing. He will discuss Cicero, “we will want for nothing.” Gardens after Donald Horne named Australia The with Ramona Koval about her lifelong love his thoughts on dialogue being the key and literature are ancient bedfellows, and Lucky Country, Nick Cater examines whether affair with books, captured in her stunning to fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Part Damon Young gives a unique presentation that spirit of egalitarianism is threatened. By the Book: A Reader’s Guide to Life. of the SWF Craft Series. about the great ideas that have flowered $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, Free, no bookings in parks, yards and pots. swf.sydneytheatre.org.au swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Free, no bookings

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63 WRITING PAINFUL EXPERIENCES Melissa Lucashenko and Sue Woolfe discuss McGuire present a rare “People of Letters”, in book design. This annual event includes Carriageworks and Performance 4a. May 23, 4-5pm the power and influence of the Australian which five pairs of people write “a letter to cocktails, the presentation ceremony and $35, bookings Ticketmaster Sydney Dance 1 landscape on their writing with Walter Mason. my other half”. Join them for a homage to awards party. Presented by the Australian 1300 723 038 Anne Deveson, Dawn Barker and Helen Sage $14/$10, bookings 9250 1988, the lost art of letter writing. Stamps provided. Publishers Association. speak with Caroline Overington and offer swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Free, no bookings $82.50, bookings 9281 9788, 75 EVENINGS WITH DOMINIC KNIGHT their perspectives on writing through trauma. publishers.asn.au May 23, 7-10pm Free, no bookings 67 PANKAJ MISHRA: FROM THE RUINS 69 ANITA DESAI WITH DEBORAH LEVY: Sydney Dance Lounge OF EMPIRE THE ARTIST OF DISAPPEARANCE 72 WANGECHI MUTU Grab a drink and a bite to eat while you join 64 CHINA, FRIEND OR FOE? May 23, 4-5pm May 23, 6-7pm May 23, 6.30-7.30pm 702 ABC Sydney Evenings host Dominic May 23, 4-5pm Wharf Theatre 2 City Recital Hall, Angel Place Museum of Contemporary Art Knight for a special version of NORMAN the Sydney Dance 2 Pankaj Mishra talks with Julian Morrow about Hailed by The Guardian as India’s Join artist Wangechi Mutu and the MCA’s Quiz, plus engaging discussions with visiting China is a key economy of the current era, his latest book, From the Ruins of Empire, a “greatest living writer”, Anita Desai’s Senior Curator Rachel Kent as they discuss authors. Presented with 702 ABC Sydney. but what other effects will economic power deeply researched look at the Victorian era writing spans decades, continents and aspects of Wangechi’s practice – including Free, no bookings have on China? Experts Dr Bates Gill, Mobo from the perspective of Asia. emotional landscapes. She speaks about themes of gender, desire and the female Gao and Feng Chongji talk with Kerry Brown. $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, The Artist of Disappearance and her body, as well as abjection and violence. 76 FESTIVAL CLUB Presented by the University of Sydney. swf.sydneytheatre.org.au extraordinary body of work with 2012 Man Presented by the Museum of Contemporary May 23, 7-11.45pm Free, no bookings Booker finalist Deborah Levy. Supported Art in association with the Human Rights Pier 2/3 Club Stage 68 PEOPLE OF LETTERS by the City of Sydney. Arts and Film Festival. Featuring Erotic Fan Fiction with Noni 66 THE POWER OF LANDSCAPE May 23, 4-5.30pm $32/$25, bookings 9250 1988 or Free, no bookings Hazlehurst, Benjamin Law and Ben Jenkins; May 23, 4-5pm Pier 2/3 Club Stage 8256 2222, swf.sydneytheatre.org.au The Chaser’s Empty Vessel with special Richard Wherrett Studio Co-curators Marieke Hardy and Michaela or cityrecitalhall.com 73 2SER IN CONVERSATION: guests Sylvie Simmons, Mark Forsyth and HOLLY THROSBY AND DARREN HANLON Aleks Krotoski; and SWF Up Late with 70 THE STATE OF REVIEWS May 23, 7-8pm Courtney Collins, Kate Miller-Heidke, May 23, 6-7pm The Green Room Lounge Swimwear and Dave Graney. State Library of NSW, Much-loved Australian songwriters Holly Tickets $10 on the door, Metcalfe Auditorium Throsby and Darren Hanlon talk with 2SER see swf.org.au Join Sophie Cunningham, Chair of the Music Director Andrew Khedoori about ROBERT GREENE Literature Board, as she discusses the their approach to songwriting – their 77 OBAMA: THE DIGITAL CAMPAIGN 65 ON CREATIVITY state of reviews in Australian media with inspirations, motivations and how to build May 23, 8.30-10pm Stephen Romei, James Ley and Angela a tower of song. Presented by 2SER. City Recital Hall, Angel Place May 23, 4-5pm Meyer. Presented by the State Library of Free, bookings email Barack Obama’s Chief Digital Strategist Sydney Theatre NSW and supported by the Literature inconversation@2ser.com. Full details Joe Rospars, and Stephen Muller, the Drawing on the years of research that Board, Australia Council for the Arts. 2ser.com Obama campaign’s Video Director, offer went into his latest book, Mastery, this $20/$15, bookings 9250 1988, an overview of how the campaign presentation from The New York Times swf.sydneytheatre.org.au 74 STORIES THEN & NOW managed to unite and mobilise 13 million bestselling author Robert Greene will May 23, 7-8.30pm online supporters toward a single goal challenge all of your basic assumptions 71 THE 61ST BOOK DESIGN AWARDS Carriageworks of electing President Obama. about creative thinking. May 23, 6-10pm Stories Then & Now brings together six Chair: Michael Brissenden. Supported by Supported by BDO. Powerhouse Museum Asian Australians to tell personal stories the City of Sydney. $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, The Book Design Awards is the premier from their past, to unravel the threads to $32/$25, bookings 9250 1988 or swf.sydneytheatre.org.au event for recognising creativity, excellence their present day lives. Directed by William 8256 2222, swf.sydneytheatre.org.au and innovation in contemporary Australian Yang and Annette Shun Wah. Presented by or cityrecitalhall.com

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78 COFFEE AND PAPERS WITH THE 84 A PRIZE OF ONE’S OWN (Secrets of the Red Lanten) talk with Tim SYDNEY MORNING HERALD May 24, 10-11am Soutphommasane (Don’t Go Back to Where May 24, 9-10am Pier 2/3 The Loft You Came From) about the remarkable The Bar at the End of the Wharf A discussion about the importance of having stories that brought them to Australia. Join The Sydney Morning Herald journalists a prize of one’s own. Introducing the winner Free, no bookings and special guest Janine di Giovanni to of the inaugural Stella Prize, alongside judge CLAIRE MESSUD hear their take on the stand-out stories Claudia Karvan and Kate Mosse, bestselling 94 HOW FARES THE REVOLUTION? 116 THE WOMAN UPSTAIRS and what is making news headlines. novelist and co-founder of UK’s The Women’s May 24, 11.30am-12.30pm Supported by The Sydney Morning Herald. Prize for Fiction – formerly the Orange Prize. Philharmonia Studio May 24, 2.30-3.30pm Free, no bookings Presented with the Stella Prize. News leaders Kate Torney and Lauren Martin Pier 2/3 Main Stage Free, no bookings reveal success stories and lessons learned at The New York Times bestselling author 79 MORNINGS WITH LINDA MOTTRAM the coalface of the transformed newsroom, Claire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs is May 24, 9-11am 85 FOR THE LOVE OF BOOKS and ponder what the future holds. Presented a tour de force. She speaks to Caroline Pier 2/3 Club Stage May 24, 10-11am by The Walkley Foundation for Journalism. Baum about this “scorching social Be part of the live audience as Linda Sydney Dance 1 Free, no bookings anatomy” of ambition, envy and Mottram chats with Festival guests and Richard Glover, Gretel Killeen and Mark betrayal. Claire also gives the Closing presents her 702 ABC Sydney Mornings Dapin talk to Angelo Loukakis about why 95 WHY CRITICISM MATTERS Address on Sunday, May 26 (259). program. Hear from some of the Festival’s they love the beauty, smell and feel of May 24, 11.30am-12.30pm $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988,

leading authors as they explore a range of books. Presented with Sydney PEN. Pier 2/3 Main Stage Cohen Lisa Photo: swf.sydneytheatre.org.au thought-provoking issues. Presented with Free, no bookings Why is it so important to have a robust 702 ABC Sydney. culture of criticism? James Wood, Susan Free, no bookings 86 GRIFFITH REVIEW: REVIVING Wyndham and James Ley discuss this and 102 THE BOOK CLUB Sydney Dance 2 THE NOVELLA more with Sophie Cunningham. Supported May 24, 12.45-1.45pm Announcement of the winner of the annual 80 BOWERBIRD May 24, 10-11am by the Literature Board, Australia Council ABC Studios Finch Memoir Prize for an unpublished May 24, 10-11am Sydney Dance 2 for the Arts. Join Jennifer Byrne with regular panellists Australian life story. The winner joins Richard The Mint Ian McEwan regards the novella as the $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, Jason Steger and Marieke Hardy for the Glover, Susan Duncan and Jacqueline Kent to Interior stylist Sibella Court discusses the “supreme literary form”. Join Julienne van swf.sydneytheatre.org.au taping of a Sydney Writers’ Festival edition discuss the book and the writing process. process of creating her recent book, Loon, Jim Hearn and Katerina Cosgove as of The Book Club. Featuring special Free, no bookings Bowerbird: Creating Beautiful Interiors they debate its future with Julianne 96 THE PEOPLE’S REVOLUTION Festival guests Carlos Ruiz Zafón and with the Things You Collect. Schultz. Presented with Griffith REVIEW. May 24, 11.30am-12.30pm Lauren Beukes. 110 KATE MOSSE: CITADEL Free, no bookings Free, no bookings Pier 2/3 The Loft Free, bookings essential, 8333 3644 May 24, 1-2pm Award-winning author and journalist Sydney Theatre 81 WRITING ACROSS FORMS 87 BOOKS AND ARTS DAILY WITH Janine di Giovanni and Walkley Award- 103 COLLECTOMANIA: FROM OBJECTS OF Internationally bestselling novelist, playwright May 24, 10-11am MICHAEL CATHCART winning, former Middle East correspondent DESIRE TO MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION and short story writer Kate Mosse speaks Bangarra Mezzanine May 24, 10-11am David Hardaker speak to Mike Carlton May 24, 1-2pm with Steven Gale about Citadel, the last book Panellists Lauren Beukes, Robert Drewe and Sydney Dance Lounge about the changing face of people’s The Mint in her Languedoc trilogy, set in World War II. Luke Davies talk to Sally Heath about the ABC Radio National’s Books and Arts Daily, revolutions around the world. Self-confessed “collectomaniac” Claudia $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, creative challenges, rewards and freedoms hosted by Michael Cathcart, broadcasts Free, no bookings Chan Shaw shares the motives behind her swf.sydneytheatre.org.au of writing across different genres. live from Sydney Writers’ Festival. obsession, explains the difference between Free, no bookings Presented with ABC Radio National. 97 PHILOSOPHY AND WRITING collecting and hoarding, and celebrates 111 THE SATIRISTS Free, no bookings May 24, 11.30am-12.30pm collections both strange and beautiful. May 24, 1-2pm 82 WRITERS WHO BLOG Sydney Dance 1 Free, no bookings Richard Wherrett Studio May 24, 10-11am 88 LEARNING FROM THE PAST Philosophy informs and inspires writing in If Australians claim to be anti-authoritarian Philharmonia Studio May 24, 10-11am both subtle and obvious ways. Join Joe 104 NICOLAS ROTHWELL: BELOMOR rabble-rousers, where is the canon of Mark Forsyth, Tara Moss, Lorraine Elliot and Sydney Theatre Gelonesi from ABC Radio National’s The May 24, 1-2pm contemporary satirical novels reflecting this Angela Meyer discuss the pros and cons of William Dalrymple and Pankaj Mishra speak Philosopher’s Zone as he discusses its Bangarra Mezzanine stereotype? David Foster, William McInnes and blogging, and the differences between to the Lowy Institute’s Michael Fullilove, influences in literature with author Scarlett Nicolas Rothwell’s writing seeks to convey Alan Wearne combine to ruffle some feathers writing on and offline. exploring new perspectives in history and Thomas, philosopher Damon Young and something of the scale and grandeur of what with David Musgrave. Free, no bookings how they challenge, inform and redefine novelist David Brooks. surrounds us. Join one of our most original $14/$10, bookings 9250 1988, our current world view. Free, no bookings writers speaking with The Australian’s chief swf.sydneytheatre.org.au 83 SEX AND REPRESENTATION $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, literary reviewer Geordie Williamson. May 24, 10-11am swf.sydneytheatre.org.au 98 THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY Free, no bookings 112 READING IN THE E-FUTURE Pier 2/3 Main Stage May 24, 11.30am-12.30pm May 24, 1-2pm Join four incredible women for a panel on sex 90 BOOK DESIGN: A THOUSAND Sydney Dance 2 105 LITERARY BUZZ Wharf Theatre 2 and representation. Wangechi Mutu, Naomi WORDS WORTH Winners of the 2012 NSW Premier’s History May 24, 1-2pm Is technology changing how and what we Wolf, Emily Maguire and Dr Juanita Ruys May 24, 10-11am Awards, Russell McGregor and Deborah Philharmonia Studio read? Eli Horowitz, Stuart Buchanan, speak to MCA’s Rachel Kent. 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Presented by the 99 EDWARD RUTHERFURD’S PARIS May 24, 1-2pm Australian Publishers Association. May 24, 11.30am-12.30pm Pier 2/3 Main Stage 113 AFTERNOONS WITH JAMES Free, no bookings Sydney Theatre Wendy Harmer, Anne Summers and Elisabeth VALENTINE Edward Rutherfurd presents his new novel, Wynhausen speak with Monica Attard May 24, 1-3pm ANNA KRIEN 91 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD SOLVING Paris, which weaves intricate historical about how women are embracing digital Pier 2/3 Club Stage 89 SEX, POWER AND WITH DA details into a sweeping saga, giving the publishing as an economical and efficient James Valentine hosts a fun-filled spin on SPORT May 24, 10.30am-12pm city of lights a whole new dimension. way to reach new audiences, and deal with the world of writing in this edition of the The Bar at the End of the Wharf $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, subjects not catered to by the mainstream 702 ABC Sydney Afternoons program. Unravel a cryptic crossword with DA, alias swf.sydneytheatre.org.au media. 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117 ON CRAFT: MONKEYS WITH Shane Warne, speak to Julia Baird. of short stories is Black Vodka. $14/$10, bookings 9250 1988, ABC Radio National. TYPEWRITERS $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, Free, no bookings swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Free, no bookings May 24, 2.30-3.30pm swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Pier 2/3 The Loft 128 THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE 132 UTS ANTHOLOGY LAUNCH: 138 STORIES THEN & NOW A session about the craft of writing with 124 AN AUSTRALIAN MUSICAL STYLE? POLITICS THE EVENING LANDS May 24, 7-8.30pm novelist and creative writing teacher Scarlett May 24, 4-5pm May 24, 4-5pm May 24, 4-5.30pm Carriageworks Thomas, who offers advice on how to write Bangarra Mezzanine Sydney Dance 1 Wharf Theatre 2 Brings together six Asian Australians to good characters. Part of the SWF Craft Series. 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9am 9am Coffee and Papers 9.30am with The Sydney 9.30am Morning Herald 15 10am 10am Anne Deveson with Meet the NSW Lauren Beukes: The Narrative in A Character Called The Uncommon Rare Object Series Unexpected 10.30am Phillip Adams: Premier’s Literary 10.30am Lost and Found 24 Affairs of the Art 25 Shining Girls 22 Documentary 23 Place 17 Reader 20 Launch 19 Motherhood 21 Waging Peace 26 Award winners 18 11am 11am 11.30am 11.30am Faramerz The Public Maxine McKew: Out The Human Cost Michelle de What Makes Aleks Krotoski: The Spirit of 12pm Dabhoiwala: The On Collecting 36 Books to Live By 33 Philosopher: 12pm of the Trenches 35 of War 32 Kretser: Questions Fabulous Female Untangling the Web Romance 31 Origins of Sex 34 Michael Sandel 30 12.30pm of Travel 27 Fiction? 28 29 12.30pm 1pm 1pm Kirstie Clements: Can Writers Harbour City Poets: Bedtime Stories Griffith REVIEW: William Dalrymple: Nick Cater: The Why Read Is There a 1.30pm The Vogue Factor Learn Lessons from Some People You with Phillip Adams Women and Power 1.30pm Return of a King 45 Lucky Culture 47 Dictionaries? 43 Fan Fiction 39 Soundtrack? 40 46 Sport? 44 May Know 38 41 42 2pm 2pm 2.30pm 2.30pm The 21st Century By the Book: Historical Fact and The Ivanhoe Hotel: What Our Food Says Antarctica Love and In their Own Words: On Craft: 3pm Author: Ramona Koval with 3pm Fiction 55 David Brooks 56 About Us 53 Family Matters 54 Dreaming 48 Extinction 49 Craig Taylor 50 Dermot Healy 52 Rachel Botsman 57 Richard Gill 51 3.30pm 3.30pm 4pm 4pm Pankaj Mishra: From Daniel Morden: Robert Greene: The Power of Writing Painful China, Friend or The Cutting Edge The Garden: 4.30pm the Ruins of Empire The Empty Hand The Big Read 61 4.30pm 60 People of Letters Damon Young 62 On Creativity 65 Landscape 66 67 Experiences 63 Foe 64 59 5pm 68 5pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 6pm 6pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 7pm 7pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Erotic Fan Fiction 8pm Also showing 76 8pm tonight at City Recital Evenings with 8.30pm Hall Angel Place: Dominic Knight 8.30pm 9pm 69 Anita Desai with 75 9pm 9.30pm Deborah Levy The Chaser’s 9.30pm 77 Obama: The Digital Empty Vessel 76 10pm Campaign 10pm 10.30pm 10.30pm

11pm SWF Up Late 11pm 76 11.30pm 11.30pm 12am 12am FRIDAY, MAY 24 SYDNEY RICHARD WHARF BAR AT THE SYDNEY SYDNEY SYDNEY BANGARRA PHILHARMONIA PIER PIER PIER THEATRE WHERRETT THEATRE END OF DANCE DANCE DANCE MEZZANINE STUDIO 2/3 2/3 2/3 2 THE WHARF 1 2 LOUNGE MAINSTAGE CLUB STAGE THE LOFT

9am 9am Coffee and Papers 9.30am with The Sydney 9.30am Morning Herald 78 10am Mornings with 10am Book Design: Griffith REVIEW: Books and Arts Linda Mottram 79 10.30am Learning From Anna Krien: Sex, For the Love of Writing Across Writers Who Sex and A Prize Of One’s 10.30am The Past 88 Power and Sport 89 A Thousand Books 85 Reviving the Daily with Michael Forms 81 Blog 82 Representation 83 Own 84 Words Worth 90 Novella 86 Cathcart 87 11am 11am Cryptic Crossword Conversations with 11.30am Solving with DA 91 Richard Fidler: 11.30am Edward Extraordinary Robyn Davidson: Philosophy and The Past is a How Fares the Why Criticism Cheryl Strayed 92 The People’s 12pm Rutherfurd’s Stories of 12pm Dark Desires 100 Making Tracks 101 Writing 97 Foreign Country 98 Revolution? 94 Matters 95 Revolution 96 Paris 99 Migration 93 12.30pm 12.30pm 1pm 1pm Kate Mosse: Reading in the What Should We Tell Finch Memoir Prize Nicolas Rothwell: Tension and 1.30pm The Satirists 111 Literary Buzz 105 Digital Divas 106 1.30pm Citadel 110 E-Future 112 Our Children? 108 109 Belomor 104 Suspense 107 2pm Afternoons with 2pm James Valentine 113 2.30pm 2.30pm Lawrence Krauss: Contemporary Beyond Climate Claire Messud: On Craft: The Art and Ethics Dermot Healy with Literary Mag 3pm A Universe From Australian Asian Denial on a The Woman Upstairs Scarlett Thomas 3pm of Biography 122 Luke Davies 118 Turning the Tide 119 Revival 114 Nothing 120 Poetry 121 Neoliberal Planet 115 116 Conversations with 117 3.30pm Richard Fidler: 3.30pm Jackie Kay 123 4pm Deborah Levy: 4pm The People Behind Fiction on the Edge An Australian Women on the Swimming Home 4.30pm SWF Shorts 130 On Adaptation 131 UTS Anthology Mouth to Mic 125 4.30pm Launch: The Evening the Politics 128 of Reality 129 Musical Style? 124 Run 126 and Black Vodka 5pm Lands 132 127 5pm Thank God It’s 5.30pm Friday with Richard 5.30pm Glover 133 6pm Launch: Stoned 6pm 6.30pm Crows and Other 6.30pm RN’s Friday Drive Australian Icons 7pm with Julian Morrow 134 7pm 137 7.30pm 7.30pm Spoken Four 140 8pm Also showing 8pm tonight at Town Hall: 8.30pm 8.30pm Patrick White 135 Crafting the 9pm Playwrights’ Message 9pm Award and The Chaser’s 9.30pm Fellowship 142 Are We Changing 9.30pm Sex or is Sex Empty Vessel 140 10pm 141 10pm Changing Us? 10.30pm 10.30pm

11pm SWF Up Late 11pm 140 11.30pm 11.30pm 12am 12am walsh bay EVENT LIFT-OUT SATURDAY, MAY 25 - SUNDAY, MAY 26 swf.org.au 13 SATURDAY, MAY 25 SYDNEY RICHARD WHARF BAR AT THE SYDNEY SYDNEY SYDNEY BANGARRA PHILHARMONIA PIER PIER PIER THEATRE WHERRETT THEATRE END OF DANCE DANCE DANCE MEZZANINE STUDIO 2/3 2/3 2/3 2 THE WHARF 1 2 LOUNGE MAINSTAGE CLUB STAGE THE LOFT

9am 9am Coffee and Papers 9.30am with The Sydney 9.30am Morning Herald 143 10am 10am Janine di Giovanni: Human Endurance 10.30am Telling Stories: Fifty Shades of Storytelling and Defining Moments The Silent History Words and Music 10.30am Love, War and Conflict in Art 152 in the Extreme Feminism 149 Business 150 Boys to Men 144 Writing Great TV 145 147 146 148 Redemption 151 South 153 11am Water: New Writing 11am 154 11.30am 11.30am Naomi Wolf with Mia Courtney Collins: Patrick Ness: The Sylvie Simmons on Who Are We Without Speculative Fiction Tash Aw: Five Star Question Time with Love and Laughter 12pm WOW Bites 161 12pm Freedman 162 The Burial 163 Crane Wife 164 Leonard Cohen 160 Language? 155 156 Billionaire 158 Sheila Heti 157 159 12.30pm 12.30pm 1pm 1pm The Misogyny Hactivism, Internet James Wood: The Robert Drewe: What the Classics Escape and When a Book Travels Ideas That Changed Five Dials Launch Rachael Treasure 1.30pm Factor: Anne Privacy and 1.30pm Fun Stuff 173 Montebello 174 Teach Us 170 Reinvention 165 166 the World 168 167 and Rural Summers 175 Encryption 171 2pm Romance 169 2pm 2.30pm 2.30pm Around the World in Creative Writing as Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Future Face Questions of Shami Chakrabarti: Stella Prize Trivia On Craft: 3pm In Cold Blood 184 Eighty Etymologies: War Stories 182 Freedom, Education 3pm 183 WOW Lecture 179 178 Jackie Kay 180 Mark Forsyth 185 of Asia 181 Morality 176 as Exploration 177 3.30pm 3.30pm 4pm 4pm Effective Political Meet The SMH Best Bob Brown: The Kate Atkinson: Life In Praise of Australian Marathon Poetry Now Hear This: 4.30pm Storytelling: Diego Marani 191 Young Australian Future of Activism 4.30pm After Life 193 Short Form 194 Character 192 Reading 187 Lost the Plot 189 Speed Mentoring Stephen Muller 195 Novelists 188 190 5pm 196 5pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 6pm Is Caxton Cactus Meanjin LetterRips 6pm 5x15 198 - Newspaper 197 6.30pm Nullius? 199 6.30pm 7pm 7pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Story Club 202 8pm Also showing 8pm 8.30pm tonight at Town Hall: 8.30pm 9pm 200 Molly Ringwald: 9pm When It Happens to You 9.30pm The Chaser’s 9.30pm 203 I’m a Feminist Empty Vessel 202 10pm – Can I Vajazzle? 10pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 11pm 11pm SWF Up Late 11.30pm 202 11.30pm 12am 12am SUNDAY, MAY 26 SYDNEY RICHARD WHARF BAR AT THE SYDNEY SYDNEY SYDNEY BANGARRA PHILHARMONIA PIER PIER PIER THEATRE WHERRETT THEATRE END OF DANCE DANCE DANCE MEZZANINE STUDIO 2/3 2/3 2/3 2 THE WHARF 1 2 LOUNGE MAINSTAGE CLUB STAGE THE LOFT

9am 9am Coffee and Papers 9.30am with The Sydney 9.30am Morning Herald 204 10am 10am Sylvia Nasar: Is the The Amber Amulet: Griffith REVIEW: Transformation: Hugh Mackay: Fun and Games Daniel Morden: Framing a Life: Destroying Fantastical Tales 10.30am West Over and What Short Film Screening Tasmania – The Soft Books to Film, Film What Makes a Life with Libba and Tales From the 10.30am On Memoir 213 the Joint 210 206 Would Keynes say? 214 Power of Culture 211 to Books 205 Worth Living? 208 Justine 207 Odyssey 209 11am 212 11am 11.30am 11.30am Luke Davies: Poetry, Sheila Heti: How Press Freedom Love Letter to Gillian Mears: Foal’s John Cantwell: Research and Storytelling for 12pm Fiction, Screen and Should a Person and the Public’s Stella Stories 219 Jane Austen’s Pride Iceland: 12pm Bread and Living Exit Wounds 223 Writing 218 Young and Old 220 Beyond 226 Be? 228 Right to Know 224 and Prejudice 221 Hannah Kent 222 12.30pm Life 225 12.30pm 1pm 1pm Is Rhetoric Dead Free Voices: Sex, Deception Aleks Krotoski: Dear Sugar: Archie Roach Cricket and The Art and Pleasure Ben Goldacre: 1.30pm in the Age of the Stories That Last Waleed Aly Sydney and Justice: Mark Stories without Cheryl Strayed 1.30pm 241 Country 237 of Reading 233 Bad Pharma 235 Soundbite? 239 240 PEN Lecture 238 Tedeschi 232 Words 234 236 2pm 2pm 2.30pm 2.30pm Almost French to SWF Shorts: The Karl Ove Adapting Reality: Canberra Tales From the Words Collide: Following On Craft: 3pm Food: New Writing All Good Things: 3pm One Thousand and Knausgaard: My The Truth is in 255 Unmasked 250 Editorial Front Line Kate Tempest and Gertrude Stein 247 Deborah Levy 249 One Nights 253 Struggle 254 the Details 256 251 Anis Mojgani 252 Unlocked: Poets, Sarah Turnbull 248 3.30pm Police and Prisoners 3.30pm 4pm 257 4pm 4.30pm 4.30pm 5pm Closing Address: 5pm Claire Messud 259 5.30pm 5.30pm 6pm 6pm 6.30pm 6.30pm

7pm Finale: Molly 7pm Ringwald and Her 7.30pm Jazz Band 260 7.30pm 8pm Don’t miss 8pm 8.30pm kids’ activities 8.30pm and events at The 9pm Big Top for 9pm 9.30pm Little People. 9.30pm 10pm See page 19. 10pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 11pm 11pm 11.30pm 11.30pm 12am 12am 14 swf.org.au SATURDAY, MAY 25

143 COFFEE AND PAPERS WITH THE 147 DEFINING MOMENTS 149 FIFTY SHADES OF FEMINISM Mine Is Yours) and Neil Lawrence, famed 155 WHO ARE WE WITHOUT SYDNEY MORNING HERALD May 25, 10-11am May 25, 10-11am for his renowned “Kevin 07” campaign, as LANGUAGE? May 25, 9-10am Pier 2/3 Main Stage Sydney Dance 1 they speak with Moya Sayer-Jones. May 25, 11.30am-12.30pm The Bar at the End of the Wharf Claire Messud, Georgia Blain and Cate Celebrating the launch of Virago’s Fifty Supported by the Plain English Foundation. Bangarra Mezzanine Join The Sydney Morning Herald Kennedy speak to Monica Dux about delving Shades of Feminism, contributors Jude Free, no bookings A discussion of language and its place journalists and special guest Ben Goldacre into the truth of human nature: our Kelly, Shami Chakrabarti and Kate Mosse in human identity, with Diego Marani, to hear their take on the stand-out stories motivations and desires. They discuss discuss with ABC Radio National’s Natasha 152 TELLING STORIES: CONFLICT IN ART Martin Harrison, Karl Ove Knausgaard and what is making news headlines today. their individual approaches to writing. Mitchell what being a woman today really May 25, 10-11am and Sue Woolfe. Supported by The Sydney Morning Herald. $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, is about. Presented with ABC Radio Richard Wherrett Studio Free, no bookings Free, no bookings swf.sydneytheatre.org.au National and Southbank Centre’s WOW. How do artists engage with war and what Free, no bookings stories are they telling? MCA Senior Curator 156 SPECULATIVE FICTION 144 BOYS TO MEN 148 WORDS AND MUSIC Rachel Kent speaks with critic Michael Fried, May 25, 11.30am-12.30pm May 25, 10-11am May 25, 10-11am 150 RACHEL BOTSMAN: STORYTELLING Afghan artist Khadim Ali and award-winning Philharmonia Studio Bangarra Mezzanine Pier 2/3 The Loft AND BUSINESS photographer Benjamin Lowy. With thanks to Join Lauren Beukes, Scott Westerfeld, How challenging is it for boys to become Music and literature are two very different May 25, 10-11am the Museum of Contemporary Art, Head On David M. Henley and James Bradley as they men? Richard Glover discusses the issues for artistic mediums, yet wholly connected. Sydney Dance 2 Photo Festival and the University of Sydney. speculate on speculative fiction. What is it? boys in this period of transition with Dr Arne Jeff Lang, Kate Miller-Heidke, Kate Fagan Corporations are discovering the power of $14/$10, bookings 9250 1988, Where do the boundaries blur between Rubinstein, Richard Beasley and Craig Silvey. and Andrew Ford discuss with Luke Davies storytelling and using it to great effect. Join swf.sydneytheatre.org.au genres and sub-genres? Free, no bookings how lyrics and poetry intertwine. Shehan Karunatilaka (Chinaman), Robert Free, no bookings Free, no bookings Greene (Mastery), Rachel Botsman (What’s 153 HUMAN ENDURANCE IN THE 145 WRITING GREAT TV EXTREME SOUTH 157 QUESTION TIME WITH May 25, 10-11am May 25, 10-11am SHEILA HETI Philharmonia Studio Wharf Theatre 2 May 25, 11.30am-12.30pm Australian TV writing is going through a Aussie explorers Justin Jones and James Pier 2/3 Club Stage boom period, with hit series such as Puberty Castrission (Extreme South) are constantly Sheila Heti blends the real and imaginary Blues, Offspring, Miss Fisher’s Murder pushing the boundaries of human endurance. in her novel, How Should a Person Be? Mysteries, Underbelly, Paper Giants and JANINE DI Last year they completed the longest ever In this Q&A performance she asks the Howzat! Join Deb Cox, Christopher Lee and unsupported polar expedition. Hear Justin audience questions to find out what Debra Oswald with Ruth Ritchie as they GIOVANNI speak about their daring journey. makes a person “interesting”. share their inside knowledge. 151 LOVE, WAR & REDEMPTION $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, $14/$10, bookings 9250 1988, Free, no bookings swf.sydneytheatre.org.au swf.sydneytheatre.org.au May 25, 10-11am 146 THE SILENT HISTORY Sydney Theatre 154 WATER: NEW WRITING 158 TASH AW: FIVE STAR BILLIONAIRE May 25, 10-11am War correspondent Janine di Giovanni May 25, 10.30-11.30am May 25, 11.30am-12.30pm Pier 2/3 Club Stage has reported on most of the world’s The Bar at the End of the Wharf Pier 2/3 Main Stage Sam Cooney speaks to Eli Horowitz about violent conflicts since the late 1980s. India’s Anita Desai, Ireland’s Dermot Healy ABC Radio National’s Michael Cathcart The Silent History, his revolutionary novel She talks with ABC TV The Book Club’s and Australia’s Amanda Lohrey read new chats to Tash Aw about his new novel, written for the iPad and iPhone. With readings Jennifer Byrne about her deeply short pieces themed around water, Five Star Billionaire, a tale of migrant from Australian contributors Josephine moving memoir, Ghosts by Daylight. especially created for the 2013 Sydney Malaysian workers forging lives for Rowe, Krissy Kneen and Sam Cooney. $25/$20, bookings 9250 1988, Writers’ Festival. Hosted by UNSW’s themselves in sprawling Shanghai.

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159 LOVE AND LAUGHTER Vagina: A New Biography, is no less Craig Silvey and Chloe Hooper discuss with May 25, 11.30am-12.30pm provocative. Naomi speaks to Mia Freedman. international publishers, Erin Clarke and Pier 2/3 The Loft $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, Paul Whitlatch, the way Australian books In their recent novels, both William McInnes swf.sydneytheatre.org.au are edited and packaged for different and Graeme Simsion have created engaging, markets. Chaired by Penguin’s Ben Ball. loveable characters that make us laugh 163 COURTNEY COLLINS: THE BURIAL Includes the announcement of the 2014 JAMES WOOD and empathise with them. What is their May 25, 11.30am-12.30pm Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship. 173 THE FUN STUFF secret? They talk with Fiona Harari. Richard Wherrett Studio Supported by Macleay College. Free, no bookings Courtney Collins’ debut novel, The Burial, Free, no bookings May 25, 1-2pm is inspired by real-life bushranger Jessie Sydney Theatre 160 SYLVIE SIMMONS ON Hickman. Courtney speaks to Claudia 167 FIVE DIALS LAUNCH In his only solo appearance at the LEONARD COHEN Karvan about this heartbreaking novel. May 25, 1-2pm Festival, The New Yorker’s book critic May 25, 11.30am-12.30pm $14/$10, bookings 9250 1988, Pier 2/3 Club Stage James Wood talks to Susan Wyndham, Sydney Dance 1 swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Join Five Dials editor Craig Taylor as he Literary Editor of The Sydney Morning Sylvie Simmons, one of the best-known releases a special edition of this Herald, about the art of critiquing. He names in British rock writing, talks to ABC 164 PATRICK NESS: THE CRANE WIFE international magazine, which includes discusses his latest collection of Radio National’s Robbie Buck about I’m May 25, 11.30am-12.30pm new Australian writing. essays, The Fun Stuff. Supported by Your Man, her biography of Leonard Wharf Theatre 2 Free, no bookings the University of Sydney. Cohen. Presented with ABC Radio National. Patrick Ness speaks to Steven Gale about $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, Free, no bookings The Crane Wife, his first adult novel in nine 168 IDEAS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD swf.sydneytheatre.org.au years. Based on an ancient Japanese May 25, 1-2pm 161 WOW BITES folk-tale, it’s a hymn to the creative Pier 2/3 Main Stage May 25, 11.30am-12.30pm imagination and a celebration of the Throughout history, remarkable ideas 170 WHAT THE CLASSICS TEACH US 172 UNDER 10S FEMINIST CORNER Sydney Dance 2 power of love. have changed the way we play, work and May 25, 1-2pm May 25, 1-2pm Hear amazing women’s stories as part of $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, think. Sylvia Nasar, Rachel Botsman and Sydney Dance 1 Sydney Dance Studio WOW Bites: talks and ideas, achievements, swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Aleks Krotoski speak to Richard Glover Alastair Blanshard speaks to Robert Greene, Join other young feminists for an obsessions, performances, and more. With about some of the key ideas that have David Brooks and Richard Gill about the interactive workshop exploring what being Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Melissa Lucashenko, 165 ESCAPE AND REINVENTION irrevocably changed our lives. ways in which they bring new life and a girl means and how to start a campaign Kristi Mansfield, Katharine Brisbane, Elaf May 25, 1-2pm Supported by Forming Circles. relevance to classic stories in their work. in your bedroom. Presented with Khaleel and Maheen Bhutta. Presented Bangarra Mezzanine $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, Free, no bookings Southbank Centre’s WOW. with Southbank Centre’s WOW. What is it about human nature that drives swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Free, bookings essential, Free, no bookings many of us to run away from our everyday 171 HACTIVISM, INTERNET PRIVACY email [email protected] lives to seek out different experiences in 169 RACHAEL TREASURE AND RURAL AND ENCRYPTION: THE FUTURE OF 162 NAOMI WOLF WITH other places? 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175 THE MISOGYNY FACTOR and sensuality, the everyday and the ecstatic. 193 KATE ATKINSON: LIFE AFTER LIFE May 25, 1-2pm With Elizabeth Allen, Michael Brennan, L.K. May 25, 4-5pm Wharf Theatre 2 Holt, Jessica L. Wilkinson, Luke Davies, Kate Sydney Theatre Anne Summers takes a hard look at what Fagan and Lionel Fogarty, hosted by Michelle Caroline Baum speaks to Kate Atkinson kind of society Australia really is in light of Cahill. Supported by Forming Circles. about Life After Life, her most ambitious the unprecedented expressions of hatred CARLOS RUIZ ZAFÓN Free, no bookings novel to date. “Kate Atkinson’s new novel is directed at women at the top. 183 IN CONVERSATION WITH SUZANNE LEAL a box of delights ... If you wish to be moved $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, 188 MEET THE SYDNEY MORNING and astonished, read it” (Hilary Mantel). swf.sydneytheatre.org.au HERALD BEST YOUNG AUSTRALIAN $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, NOVELISTS swf.sydneytheatre.org.au 246 STORIES THEN & NOW May 25, 4-5pm May 25, 2-3.30pm Philharmonia Studio 194 IN PRAISE OF SHORT FORM Carriageworks Each year The Sydney Morning Herald May 25, 4-5pm Stories Then & Now brings together six names the authors it considers the best Richard Wherrett Studio Asian Australians to tell stories from their young novelists in the country. SMH Literary Join Deborah Levy, Anita Desai and Cate past, unravelling the threads to their Editor Susan Wyndham leads a discussion Kennedy as they speak to Tegan Bennett present day lives. Directed by William with the 2013 winners about their novels, Daylight about why telling a story in short Yang and Annette Shun Wah. Presented by with short readings. Presented with The form can be immensely satisfying. Carriageworks and Performance 4a. Sydney Morning Herald. $14/$10, bookings 9250 1988, $35, bookings Ticketmaster Free, no bookings swf.sydneytheatre.org.au 1300 723 038 189 NOW HEAR THIS: LOST THE PLOT 195 EFFECTIVE POLITICAL 176 QUESTIONS OF MORALITY May 25, 4-5pm STORYTELLING: STEPHEN MULLER May 25, 2.30-3.30pm Pier 2/3 Club Stage May 25, 4-5pm Bangarra Mezzanine May 25, 2.30-3.30pm loved authors, speaks to Suzanne Leal Join ABC Radio National’s Now Hear This Wharf Theatre 2 Infanticide, incest or even using one’s Sydney Theatre about his work and thrilling new book, host Melanie Tait and Conversations’ Richard Stephen Muller, the Obama campaign’s family as creative fodder ... literature is a Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author of The Prisoner of Heaven. Fidler for a special afternoon of live stories, Video Director, speaks to Marc Fennell perfect vehicle to explore human international bestseller The Shadow of $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, as five well-known Australians reveal their about building the largest internal digital boundaries. Karl Ove Knausgaard, Amy the Wind, and one of the world’s most swf.sydneytheatre.org.au true story on the theme, “Lost the Plot”. team in political history, producing 1300 Espeseth, Krissy Kneen and Courtney $14/$10, bookings 9250 1988, pieces of video content that resulted in Collins discuss moral and social swf.sydneytheatre.org.au more than 130 million views. boundaries in their work, with Steven Gale. $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, Free, no bookings 180 ON CRAFT: HOW THE writers bring insights into the complexities 190 BOB BROWN: THE FUTURE swf.sydneytheatre.org.au IMAGINATION CAN HELP US SURVIVE of criminal trials and trial by media. Anna OF ACTIVISM 177 CREATIVE WRITING AS FREEDOM, May 25, 2.30-3.30pm Krien, Mark Tedeschi AM QC and Matthew May 25, 4-5pm 196 SPEED MENTORING EDUCATION AS EXPLORATION Pier 2/3 The Loft Condon discuss with P.M. Newton. Pier 2/3 Main Stage May 25, 4-5.30pm May 25, 2.30-3.30pm Plagued by dementia, delusions and $14/$10, bookings 9250 1988, In 1976, a young Bob Brown fasted at the top Pier 2/3 The Loft Philharmonia Studio desperation, the characters in Jackie Kay’s swf.sydneytheatre.org.au of Hobart’s Mount Wellington in protest Join a women-only speed-mentoring Creative writing is more than just words on books often struggle with reality. In this against the arrival of a nuclear warship. session with experts across many fields, a page; it’s freedom. Libby Gleeson, lecture, Jackie will speak about how they 185 AROUND THE WORLD IN Now, after 16 years in the Senate, he’s joined for four 15-minute mentoring sessions. To Professor Robyn Ewing and Teya use imagination to survive. Part of the SWF EIGHTY ETYMOLOGIES the Sea Shepherd to direct their campaign sign up to be a mentor or apply to be a Dusseldorp discuss how imaginative Craft Series. Supported by Forming Circles. May 25, 2.30-3.30pm against Japanese whalers. Amanda Lohrey mentee, use the email below. Places on a freedom can improve children’s life Free, no bookings Wharf Theatre 2 talks to him about the future of activism. first come first served basis. Presented chances. Presented with Sydney PEN. English language “pedant” and author Mark $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, with Southbank Centre’s WOW. Free, no bookings 181 THE FUTURE FACE OF ASIA Forsyth circles the world in 80 etymologies: swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Free, registration essential, email May 25, 2.30-3.30pm 30 seconds each, with etymologies from [email protected] 178 STELLA PRIZE TRIVIA Sydney Dance 1 London to Sydney and beyond. 191 DIEGO MARANI May 25, 2.30-3.30pm Where is Asia, the world’s largest and most $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, May 25, 4-5pm 197 MEANJIN LETTERRIPS Pier 2/3 Club Stage populous continent, heading next? Will the swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Sydney Dance 1 May 25, 5.30-6.30pm Join MC Sally Warhaft and some of your 21st century be Asia’s finest? Tash Aw, Diego Marani (novelist, essayist, translator Sydney Dance Lounge favourite Australian authors in an Pankaj Mishra and Benjamin Law debate 186 LUCKY SYDNEY: A LUCKY and creator of Europanto, a language Meanjin goes head-to-head with rival afternoon of trivia and laughs, celebrating Asia’s future with Monica Attard. PEACH EVENT without rules) talks with the Plain English Sydney Review of Books in a series of fun, the writing of Australian women, past and Free, no bookings May 25, 4-5pm Foundation’s Neil James about his recent fast-paced literary games, to see who the present. Presented with The Stella Prize. Grain Bar, Four Seasons Hotel novels, looking at whether we need real literary heavyweights are. Free, no bookings 182 WAR STORIES Quarterly journal of food and writing language to define ourselves. Supported Free, no bookings May 25, 2.30-3.30pm Lucky Peach is a culinary bible produced by the Plain English Foundation. 179 SHAMI CHAKRABARTI: WOW AT Sydney Dance 2 by Editor-in-Chief Chris Ying and superchef Free, no bookings 198 5X15 SYDNEY WRITERS’ FESTIVAL LECTURE Mike Carlton speaks to Ross McMullin, Tim David Chang (Momofuku). Chris shares his May 25, 5.30-7pm May 25, 2.30-3.30pm Bowden and national treasure, Thai-Burma recipe for preparing the perfect 192 AUSTRALIAN CHARACTER Sydney Theatre Pier 2/3 Main Stage Railway survivor, 92-year-old Tom Uren, publication and his tips for crafting May 25, 4-5pm Five speakers, 15 minutes: Amelia Lester Shami Chakrabarti, Director of the UK’s about Australians who went to war. delicious food writing with Adam Liaw. Sydney Dance 2 dishes the inside word on The New Yorker; Liberty, sets out the story of women’s Free, no bookings Presented in collaboration with Vivid Ideas. What does the fabric of our multicultural author Jackie Kay shares taxi chats; Urthboy struggles for freedom across the world Free, no bookings society say about who we are? How exactly defends unclean slates and new beginnings; – and why it’s important that we don’t 184 IN COLD BLOOD do we define the Australian character, and is Kate Mosse speaks about the importance of stop making noise. Presented with May 25, 2.30-3.30pm 187 MARATHON POETRY READING it racist to say Australia and Australians are female heroes; and Lawrence Krauss argues Southbank Centre’s WOW. Richard Wherrett Studio May 25, 4-5pm special? Nick Cater, Tim Soutphommasane that Star Trek saved the world. $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, In the tradition of Truman Capote’s In Cold Bangarra Mezzanine and Pat Grant speak with Julia Baird. $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Blood, three bold Australian non-fiction An afternoon of poetics and protest, sense Free, no bookings swf.sydneytheatre.org.au

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199 IS CAXTON CACTUS - NEWSPAPER Pier 2/3 The Loft Genius, has to say. With Jane Gleeson- 221 JANE AUSTEN’S PRIDE AND NULLIUS? SUNDAY MAY 26 Join master-storyteller Daniel Morden for White. Supported by K&L Gates. PREJUDICE May 25, 5.30-7pm 204 COFFEE AND PAPERS WITH the first and greatest adventure story of $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, May 26, 11.30am-12.30pm Wharf Theatre 2 THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD all, The Odyssey, with the one-eyed swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Pier 2/3 Main Stage 702 ABC’s Simon Marnie leads a debate on May 26, 9-10am Cyclops, the enchanting music of the Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is one print media’s future with Margot Saville, The Bar at the End of the Wharf sirens and the temptress Calypso. 213 FRAMING A LIFE: ON MEMOIR of the world’s best-loved classics. Mark its Don Groves, Simon Thomsen and Mark Join The Sydney Morning Herald Supported by Macquarie. May 26, 10-11am 200th anniversary with Amanda Hooton, Colvin. Includes presentation of The Critic journalists and Festival special guest Free, no bookings Richard Wherrett Studio Damon Young and Tegan Bennett Daylight, of the Year Pascall Prize. Presented by the Robert Greene to hear their take on the Tanya Levin (CrimWife), Rebecca who speak with Susannah Fullerton, Geraldine Pascall Foundation. stand-out stories and what is making 210 DESTROYING THE JOINT Huntley (The Italian Girl), Sarah Turnbull President of the Jane Austen Society of Free, no bookings news headlines today. Supported by The May 26, 10-11am (All Good Things) and Kirstie Clements Australia. Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney Dance 1 (The Vogue Factor) discuss writing $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, 200 MOLLY RINGWALD: WHEN IT Free, no bookings #Destroythejoint initiator Jane Caro will their memoirs and the challenges they swf.sydneytheatre.org.au HAPPENS TO YOU ask Senator Christine Milne, Catherine faced in life and on the page, with May 25, 6-7pm 205 TRANSFORMATION: BOOKS TO Deveny, Monica Dux and Jenna Price to Elizabeth Johnstone. 222 LOVE LETTER TO ICELAND Sydney Town Hall FILM, FILM TO BOOKS do what women do best – wreak a little $14/$10, bookings 9250 1988, May 26, 11.30am-12.30pm Molly Ringwald, of The Breakfast Club fame, May 26, 10-11am more havoc! swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Pier 2/3 The Loft discusses her debut novel, When it Happens Bangarra Mezzanine Free, no bookings In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnúsdóttir to You, a series of stories exploring love, How do books morph into film, and films 214 THE AMBER AMULET: SHORT is condemned to death for her part in the loss and betrayal. With Jane Gleeson-White. into books? Robyn Davidson, Nick Earls and 211 GRIFFITH REVIEW: TASMANIA - FILM SCREENING brutal murder of two men. Hannah Kent talks $30/$25, bookings 9250 1988, Graeme Simsion discuss the differences THE SOFT POWER OF CULTURE May 26, 10-11am with SMH Literary Editor Susan Wyndham swf.sydneytheatre.org.au between writing for film and writing books, May 26, 10-11am Wharf Theatre 2 about her powerful debut, Burial Rites, one and question what is lost and/or gained in Sydney Dance 2 Award-winning short-film maker Matthew of this year’s most talked-about novels. 201 STORIES THEN & NOW the transformation, with Marc Fennell. Tasmania is the new black. Natasha Cica, Moore and producer/actor Genevieve Free, no bookings May 25, 7-8.30pm Free, no bookings co-editor of Griffith REVIEW: Tasmania Hegney discuss adapting The Amber Carriageworks – The Tipping Point?, leads a discussion Amulet for the big screen with author 223 JOHN CANTWELL: EXIT WOUNDS Stories Then & Now captures the stories of 208 HUGH MACKAY: WHAT MAKES A with contributors Scott Rankin and Craig Silvey. Includes a special Australian May 26, 11.30am-12.30pm six Asian Australians. Directed by William LIFE WORTH LIVING? Kathy Marks about the soft power of debut screening of the film. Sydney Dance 1 Yang and Annette Shun Wah. Presented by May 26, 10-11am Tasmanian culture. Presented with $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, Author, journalist and political Carriageworks and Performance 4a. Pier 2/3 Main Stage Griffith REVIEW. swf.sydneytheatre.org.au commentator David Marr talks with Major $35, bookings Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 In his new book, The Good Life, social Free, no bookings General John Cantwell about his powerful researcher and psychologist Hugh 217 MCA ZINE FAIR book, Exit Wounds, a raw and 202 FESTIVAL CLUB Mackay addresses the ultimate question: 212 SYLVIA NASAR: IS THE WEST OVER May 26, 11am-4pm compassionate account of the modern May 25, 7-11.45pm what makes a life worth living? Chair: AND WHAT WOULD KEYNES SAY? Museum of Contemporary Art battlefield and a plea for understanding Pier 2/3 Club Stage Peter Shergold. May 26, 10-11am Browse, buy and make zines at the sixth the hidden wounds of war. Featuring Story Club’s The Sincerest Form $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, Sydney Theatre annual MCA Zine Fair. Stuff your pockets Free, no bookings of Flattery; The Chaser’s Empty Vessel with swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Really smart people have argued that the full of boutique handmade zines, catch a Lauren Beukes, Graeme Simsion and Western model – market economies and drop-in workshop, and don’t miss the 224 PRESS FREEDOM AND THE Robert Greene; and SWF Up Late with Pat 209 DANIEL MORDEN: TALES FROM democracy – is no longer the best way Show & Tell session with zine-enthusiast PUBLIC’S RIGHT TO KNOW Grant, Jeff Lang, Melodie Nelson and Solo. THE ODYSSEY forward. Hear what Sylvia Nasar, author and MCA Curator Glenn Barkley. May 26, 11.30am-12.30pm $10 on the door, details swf.org.au May 26, 10-11am of Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Presented by the Museum of Sydney Dance 2 Contemporary Art. A panel analysing freedom of expression Free, no bookings and freedom of the press in Australia, featuring Kate McClymont, Steve Pennells 218 RESEARCH AND WRITING and Linton Besser, led by Christopher May 26, 11.30am-12.30pm Warren. Presented by The Walkley Bangarra Mezzanine Foundation for Journalism. Suzanne Leal leads a discussion with 2012 Free, no bookings Nib Waverley Library Award winner Jane RUBY WAX Gleeson-White, and shortlistees Robin de 225 GILLIAN MEARS: FOAL’S BREAD 203 I’M A FEMINIST - CAN Crespigny and Fiona Harari, about the AND LIVING LIFE I VAJAZZLE? different approaches to research they May 26, 11.30am-12.30pm used in their books. Presented with Sydney Theatre May 25, 8.30-10pm Waverley Library. Gillan Mears reunites with her first Sydney Town Hall Free, no bookings publisher, Bruce Pascoe, to speak about In an era of slut-shaming and porn-on- her most recent novel, Foal’s Bread, demand, comedian and writer Ruby Wax 219 STELLA STORIES winner of the 2012 Prime Minister’s Literary joins Shami Chakrabarti, Mia Freedman, May 26, 11.30am-12.30pm Award for Fiction, her writing and her love Dale Spender and Jamila Rizvi in a Philharmonia Studio of horses. discussion with Jude Kelly, founder of Women are working in many different $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, WOW Festival, about what it means for a genres and across many different swf.sydneytheatre.org.au woman to own her own body. Presented mediums to tell their stories. Debra with Southbank Centre’s WOW. Ruby will Oswald, Kate Mulvany and Cate 226 LUKE DAVIES: POETRY, FICTION, also appear solo in the Sydney Opera Kennedy discuss the art and importance SCREEN AND BEYOND House on Wednesday, May 22 (14). of telling women’s stories with Sophie May 26, 11.30am-12.30pm $25/$20, bookings 9250 1988, Cunningham. Presented with The Richard Wherrett Studio swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Stella Prize. Award-winning poet, novelist and Free, no bookings screenwriter Luke Davies discusses the

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range and breadth of his work – from cult 22 years as a man faced trial for murder. David Malouf will launch Michael favourite, Candy, through to the 2012 Free, no bookings Brennan’s third collection of poetry, Prime Minister’s Literary Award winning Autoethnographic, co-winner of the poetry collection, Interferon Psalms – 233 THE ART AND PLEASURE Grace Leven Prize. Irish author Dermot with David Michôd. OF READING Healy will launch the long-awaited $14/$10, bookings 9250 1988, May 26, 1-2pm reprint edition of Luke Davies’ first book swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Philharmonia Studio KARL OVE of poems, Four Plots for Magnets. A reader lives 1000 lives before they die, a Free, bookings essential, email: 228 SHEILA HETI: HOW SHOULD A non-reader only one. Ramona Koval, KNAUSGAARD [email protected] PERSON BE? William McInnes, Ashley Hay and Jill 254 MY STRUGGLE May 26, 11.30am-12.30pm Eddington discuss the art and pleasure of 247 FOLLOWING GERTRUDE STEIN Wharf Theatre 2 reading, and how it impacts on writers. May 26, 2.30-3.30pm May 26, 2.30-3.30pm Sheila Heti blends the real and the Free, no bookings Richard Wherrett Studio Bangarra Mezzanine imaginary in her novel, How Should a Karl Ove Knausgaard discusses The hip, modern poetry of Jill Jones, Person Be? Hear the Canadian author talk 234 ALEKS KROTOSKI: STORIES My Struggle, the six-volume Toby Fitch, Astrid Lorange and Michael about her “novel from life”, dubbed the WITHOUT WORDS autobiographical novel that intrigued Farrell playfully debates meaning. In this book version of HBO series Girls. “An May 26, 1-2pm the people of Norway to the extent panel discussion with readings, there engaging mashup of memoir, fiction and Pier 2/3 Club Stage that some workplaces had to declare will be spars with high and low culture, philosophy” (The Guardian). Aleks Krotoski, presenter of BBC Radio 4’s “Knausgaard-free days”. By turning a politics, wit and lots of energy. $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, The Digital Human, shares her series of frank and unforgiving eye on his own Presented with Australian Poetry. swf.sydneytheatre.org.au fascinating interviews with people who tell life – without changing any names – Free, no bookings stories without using words. Hear from a Karl shocked his family and became 229 TROUBADOURS AND MINSTRELS five-star Michelin chef on taste and a a media sensation. 248 ALMOST FRENCH TO ALL May 26, 12-1pm perfume-interpreter on storytelling $14/$10, bookings 9250 1988, GOOD THINGS The Rocks Square through scent. Supported by Daily Life. swf.sydneytheatre.org.au May 26, 2.30-3.30pm Alcoves, underpasses and secret corners $14/$10, bookings 9250 1988, Pier 2/3 Main Stage around The Rocks provide mini- swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Sarah Turnbull’s eagerly anticipated performance spaces, decked out with questions from the audience, offering 240 STORIES THAT LAST follow-up to her bestselling memoir, couches, rugs, curtains and little amps. 235 BEN GOLDACRE: BAD PHARMA her advice on love and life. May 26, 1-2pm Almost French, is finally here. She talks Four musos lead four small crowds to May 26, 1-2pm Free, no bookings Richard Wherrett Studio with Moya Sayer-Jones about All Good poets in these intimate spaces. The crowd Pier 2/3 Main Stage In a conversation about ancient Things, which picks up her story after she rotates until each group has visited the Ben Goldacre discusses the scathing 237 CRICKET AND COUNTRY literature and the power of storytelling leaves Paris for a different kind of four makeshift venues. Presented by Word critique of today’s pharmaceutical industry May 26, 1-2pm Sydney Dance 1 over centuries, Dr Juanita Ruys, from paradise on earth – Tahiti. Travels and supported by The Rocks presented in his second book, Bad Pharma, Shehan Karunatilaka, winner of the 2012 The University of Sydney, talks to $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, pop-up. with Lisa Pryor. Commonwealth Book Prize, and Gideon William Dalrymple, Daniel Morden and swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Free, no bookings $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, Haigh, dubbed “the greatest cricket Kooshyar Karimi. swf.sydneytheatre.org.au writer alive”, discuss with P.M. Newton $14/$10, bookings 9250 1988, 249 ON CRAFT: WHY I WRITE AND THE 232 SEX, DECEPTION AND JUSTICE: how sport defines and reflects a culture swf.sydneytheatre.org.au COST OF LIVING THE STORY OF EUGENIA FALLENI 236 DEAR SUGAR: ADVICE ON LIFE and country. May 26, 2.30-3.30pm May 26, 1-2pm AND LOVE Free, no bookings 242 DAVID SHRIGLEY: HOW ARE Pier 2/3 The Loft Bangarra Mezzanine May 26, 1-2pm YOU FEELING? Inspired by George Orwell’s classic Mark Tedeschi AM QC will speak with Elsa Pier 2/3 The Loft 238 FREE VOICES: FREE SPEECH, May 26, 1-3pm essay, Why I Write, Deborah Levy Atkin about his book Eugenia: A True Story Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author and VILIFICATION AND POWER Museum of Contemporary Art addresses the many motivations and of Tragedy, Adversity, Crime and Courage, beloved advice-columnist known as May 26, 1-2pm In this Australian exclusive, inspirations behind her writing. Part of in which a woman who lived in Sydney for “Dear Sugar” at The Rumpus, takes Sydney Dance 2 David Shrigley takes us through the SWF Craft Series. Waleed Aly, broadcaster, author and his quirky creative journey, Free, no bookings commentator, gives the 2013 Sydney PEN explores the ideas behind his books, Free Voices lecture: “Free speech, and explains his collaborations with artists 250 CANBERRA UNMASKED vilification and power”. Presented by from David Byrne to Franz Ferdinand. May 26, 2.30-3.30pm Sydney PEN. Presented in collaboration with Vivid Ideas. Sydney Dance 1 Free, no bookings $25/$20, bookings vividsydney.com Join Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey and ARCHIE ROACH Canberra Press Gallery reporters 241 BUTCHER PAPER, TEXTA, 239 IS RHETORIC DEAD IN THE AGE 244 ZINES: SHOW AND TELL WITH Chris Uhlmann and Steve Lewis as BLACKBOARD AND CHALK OF THE SOUNDBITE? CURATOR GLENN BARKLEY they take a no-holds-barred (and May 26, 1-2pm May 26, 2-3pm only slightly mischievous) look at this May 26, 1-2pm Sydney Theatre Museum of Contemporary Art election year. Wharf Theatre 2 Last year, Prime Minister Julia Gillard Join zine-enthusiast and Museum of Free, no bookings Join Archie Roach, Australia’s beloved electrified the world with her misogyny Contemporary Art Curator Glenn Barkley Aboriginal singer/songwriter, who for speech, but this was a rare exception. Has for an interactive exploration of zines and 251 TALES FROM THE EDITORIAL the first time in Sydney will launch our political discourse been reduced to artist books from his own personal stash. FRONT LINE Butcher Paper, Texta, Blackboard and slogans? And what does this mean for our Presented by the Museum of May 26, 2.30-3.30pm Chalk, a collection of children’s songs. democracy? Michael Fullilove puts the big Contemporary Art. Sydney Dance 2 A documentary will also be screened questions to James Button, Malcolm Free, no bookings Eli Horowitz, Craig Taylor, Ben Ball and and Archie will treat the audience to a Turnbull, Annabel Crabb and Neil James. Jane Palfreyman share war stories, love couple of songs. Chair: Jeff McMullen. Supported by the Plain English 245 LUKE DAVIES AND MICHAEL stories and advice from the editorial $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, Foundation. BRENNAN: POETRY DOUBLE LAUNCH front line with author Matthew Condon. swf.sydneytheatre.org.au $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, May 26, 2-3.30pm Supported by Macleay College. swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Brett Whiteley Studio Free, no bookings

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252 WORDS COLLIDE: KATE TEMPEST The Tall Man. With Tony Kravitz, Darren Dale AND ANIS MOJGANI and Chloe Hooper discussing the adaptation May 26, 2.30-3.30pm with Ross Grayson Bell. Presented with AFTRS. Sydney Dance Lounge Free, no bookings Performance poets Kate Tempest and Anis Mojgani are both described as 257 UNLOCKED: POETS, POLICE “fierce” and “genius” – a potent AND PRISONERS combination. Here in Sydney their worlds May 26, 3-4pm and words collide. Also featuring Philharmonia Studio Q-poets, hosted by Miles Merrill. Experience a series of poetry readings Presented with Word Travels. Supported set in a “prison cell” and a discussion with by Belgiovane Williams Mackay. Anthony Lawrence, Philip Hammial, Solo, Free, no bookings Gareth Jenkins and Lorna Munro. Presented by Johanna Featherstone 253 SWF SHORTS: THE ONE and The Red Room Company. THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS Free, no bookings May 26, 2.30-3.30pm Sydney Theatre 258 FRED WATSON’S JOURNEY A Middle Eastern storytelling adventure, THROUGH TIME AND SPACE The Thousand and One Nights delivers a WITH PIZZA series of stories straight from the bazaar. May 26, 3.30-5.30pm These readings will be directed by STC Sydney Observatory Resident Director Kip Williams, and feature Astronomer Fred Watson takes you some of Sydney’s finest actors. Presented on an adventure, exploring observatories Photo: Getty Images Getty Photo: with Sydney Theatre Company. from ancient Peru to smashing atoms $20/$14, bookings 9250 1988, in Switzerland, followed by planetary 227 DREAMING STORIES swf.sydneytheatre.org.au twilight telescope viewing (weather May 26, 11.30am-12.30pm permitting) and pizza. The Big Top for Little People becomes a 255 FOOD: NEW WRITING $55, family of 4 (including meeting place for four stunning May 26, 2.30-3.30pm pizza), bookings 9921 3485, storytellers. Nardi Simpson, Kaleena The Bar at the End of the Wharf sydneyobservatory.com Bring the whole family to the Festival With US literary agent, Barry Goldblatt. Briggs, Richard Green and Lucy Whet your appetite with readings on Sunday as we celebrate storytelling Free, no bookings Simpson share stories from the of new, as yet unpublished, works 259 CLOSING ADDRESS: CLAIRE for young and old. There are free dreaming. Children will be enchanted around the theme of food, from MESSUD sessions featuring bestselling authors 220 STORYTELLING FOR YOUNG AND and entertained. Scarlett Thomas, Pauline Nguyen May 26, 4.30-5.30pm of books for children and young adults. OLD: PATRICK NESS AND CARLOS Free, no bookings and Josephine Rowe. Chair: Amelia Lester, Sydney Theatre Come to The Big Top For Little People, RUIZ ZAFÓN Managing Editor of The New Yorker. Claire Messud, who juggles American, at Pier 2/3, an amazing activity centre May 26, 11.30am-12.30pm 230 THERE IS A MONSTER UNDER Free, no bookings Canadian and French identities, and who where children explore storytelling, Pier 2/3 Club Stage MY BED WHO FARTS spent her formative childhood years in characters come to life, murals are Patrick Ness and Carlos Ruiz Zafón speak May 26, 12.30-1pm 256 ADAPTING REALITY: THE TRUTH Sydney, will speak about a writer’s painted, dinosaurs drawn, zines made, with Judith Ridge about how great Tim Miller and Matt Stanton engage the IS IN THE DETAILS rootlessness in the global era, and the and much more! See scheduled events storytelling transcends age. audience with a lively reading of their May 26, 2.30-3.30pm underpinning importance of “imaginary below or at swf.org.au Free, no bookings book, There is a Monster Under My Bed Wharf Theatre 2 homelands” in her storytelling. Who Farts, and demonstrate how to A provocative re-examination of the death in $25/$20, bookings 9250 1988, 206 FANTASTICAL TALES THE BIG TOP FOR draw the Fart Monster step-by-step. custody of Cameron Doomadgee, as retold in swf.sydneytheatre.org.au May 26, 10-11am LITTLE PEOPLE Free, no bookings Philharmonia Studio All events held at Pier 2/3 Big Top Young adult fantasy is riding high. The 231 FESTIVAL SHUTTERBUGGING benefit for writers and their publishers 215 FESTIVAL SHUTTERBUGGING May 26, 12.30-2.30pm is that the genre crosses the May 26, 10am-12pm Time to investigate the Festival with generation gap, reaching large Time to investigate the Festival with Sydney Story Factory! Festival goers audiences. Kate Forsyth, S.D. Gentill Sydney Story Factory! Festival-goers aged aged 10-15 years set out with cameras and K.B. Hoyle speak with Judith Ridge 10-15 years set out with cameras and pens and pens to discover a few secrets MOLLY RINGWALD about listening to our inner child and to discover a few secrets about what’s about what’s going on down at the 260 FINALE: MOLLY RINGWALD AND HER JAZZ BAND our desire to read fantastical tales as going on down at the wharves, and then wharves, and then create their own adults and children. Supported by The create their own personal zine. Presented personal zine. Presented with Sydney May 26, 6.30-8pm Writer’s Coffee Shop (TWCS). with Sydney Story Factory. Story Factory. Pier 2/3 Club Stage Free, no bookings Free, registrations essential, Free, registrations essential, 9250 1988 Join us as Molly Ringwald and her jazz 9250 1988 band close the Festival in style with a 207 FUN AND GAMES WITH LIBBA 243 MAKING CHARACTERS WHO DO homage to the great American AND JUSTINE 216 DANCE WITH DINOSAURS! WHAT YOU WANT THEM TO DO! songbook. A performance not to be May 26, 10-11am May 26, 10.30-11.15am May 26, 2-2.45pm missed from this “silk-voiced jazz Pier 2/3 Club Stage Giraffes can’t resist the trees … I love Nick Earls and Terry Whidborne, the chanteuse” (Huffington Post). On May Venture inside the dark, supernatural sandwiches … but who stole the cheese? creators of the Word Hunters series, 25 (200) Molly also talks about her underbelly of 1920s New York with Go wild in a romping, stomping reading of open their bag of tricks and teach new book, When It Happens To You. Libba Bray’s The Diviners, and the Dinosaurs Love Cheese, with popular people of all ages how to bring $30/$25, bookings 9250 1988, strange world of vampire dating with children’s author Jackie French. characters to life! swf.sydneytheatre.org.au Justine Larbalestier’s Team Human. Free, no bookings Free, no bookings

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1HERSA1 S019 WORKSHOPS 20 swf.org.au SATURDAY, MAY 18 – SATURDAY, MAY 25

Sydney Writers’ Festival workshops are into what publishers are looking for, what W24 CATHERINE DEVENY: led by acclaimed local and international drives editors crazy, and how to present WRITING THE FUNNY SIDE OF LIFE authors. The workshops kick off Saturday, your work for publication. May 24, 10am-4.30pm May 18, and run for a week. Workshops for $85/$75 Catherine Deveny shares her tips for children take place between Sunday, finding your voice and writing with May 19, and Tuesday, May 21. MELANIE TAIT W17 STEPHANIE CLIFFORD-SMITH: humour, no matter what life throws at All workshops are held at Sydney’s W20 LEARNING LIVE MAKE YOUR FOOD WRITING STAND OUT you. She will cover comedy, non-fiction, State Library of New South Wales, STORYTELLING May 23, 9.30am-12.30pm columns and social media. Macquarie Street. Tickets can be booked Stephanie Clifford-Smith looks at key $150/$140 through Sydney Theatre Box Office, May 23, 10am-4.30pm ingredients in the descriptive language 9250 1988 or swf.sydneytheatre.org.au, State Library of NSW of flavour, texture and aroma, and what W25 JESSE BLACKADDER: unless otherwise stated. Live storytelling is fast becoming the makes the best food writers stand out WRITING HISTORICAL FICTION The Sydney Writers’ Festival most popular way to spend a night out. from the crowd. May 24, 1.30-4.30pm workshop program is supported by ABC Radio National’s Now Hear This $85/$75 Jesse Blackadder explores how to write Pantera Press. host Melanie Tait explains what makes a dramatic historical fiction. You’ll learn good story and how to become a great W18 MATTHEW CONDON: about using real characters and events; W1 DAVID M. HENLEY: SCI-FI AND storyteller. Supported by Pantera Press. WRITING CREATIVE NON-FICTION how truth and fiction enrich each other; ESCAPING THE KNOWN WORLD $150/$140, bookings 9250 1988, May 23, 9.30am-12.30pm and uses of language. May 18, 9.30am-12.30pm swf.sydneytheatre.org.au With creative non-fiction being one of $85/$75 David M. Henley discusses the history the most popular genres in Australia, of science fiction, challenges for Matthew Condon shows how real life W26 STEPHEN SCOURFIELD: contemporary authors to stay relevant W7 CBCA JUNIOR MASTERCLASS: W12 CBCA JUNIOR MASTERCLASS: events can spark creativity, and how TRAVEL IN WORDS AND PICTURES in the face of technological changes, and JACQUELINE HARVEY SUE WHITING you can develop a story for a variety of May 24, 1.30-4.30pm techniques for writing in the genre. May 19, 10am-4.30pm May 21, 9am-3.30pm narrative directions. Stephen Scourfield focuses on technical $85/$75 Share your writing ideas with Jacqueline Author and editor Sue Whiting shows how $85/$75 and creative aspects of travel writing Harvey and learn new, interesting ways to create sizzling starts to your stories, and photography: research, observation W2 TOMMY MURPHY: to show your characters’ personalities, dramatic details and page-turning plots. W19 FOREST FOR THE TREES: and writing techniques, as well as DRAMATIC ACTION build exciting scenes and write riveting For young writers aged 9-13 years. WRITERS & PUBLISHING IN 2013 photographic equipment, techniques May 18, 9.30am-12.30pm endings. For young writers aged 9-13 years. Presented by the Children’s Book Council May 23, 10am-4.30pm, and composition. A practical introduction to playwriting led Presented by the Children’s Book Council of Australia (NSW). Metcalfe Auditorium $85/$75 by Tommy Murphy. Develop your skills in of Australia (NSW). $70/$70 A one-day seminar looking at the current dialogue and dramatic structure, and $70/$70 state of publishing for Australian writers. W27 SCARLETT THOMAS: discover techniques and tips of the trade. W13 BENJAMIN LAW: The seminar brings together writers, BEGINNING A NOVEL $85/$75 W8 B. MICHAEL RADBURN: FREELANCE WRITING FOR MAGAZINES publishers, marketers and agents to May 25, 9.30am-12.30pm WRITING A SUCCESSFUL THRILLER May 22, 9.30am-12.30pm discuss what is happening in 2013. Novelist Scarlett Thomas shows you how W3 REBECCA HUNTLEY: RESEARCH May 19, 1.30-4.30pm Freelance writer Benjamin Law (Good Presented in association with the NSW to come up with original, exciting ideas AND CREATIVE NARRATIVE IN MEMOIR B. Michael Radburn will fill your literary Weekend, frankie, Qweekend, The Writers’ Centre. and then develop writing plans for that May 18, 1.30-4.30pm toolbox with the skills you need to write Monthly) teaches the skills necessary to $45/$35, bookings 9555 9757, successful novel. Social researcher and writer Rebecca the best thriller you can. write the stories that magazines want. nswwc.org.au $85/$75 Huntley explores the ways in which $85/$75 $85/$75 the research process itself might be W21 KRISSY KNEEN: W28 BRIAN FALKNER: incorporated into memoir writing. W9 CBCA JUNIOR MASTERCLASS: W14 JULIENNE VAN LOON: WRITING THE EROTIC TO KILL A MOCKINGJAY $85/$75 OLIVER PHOMMAVANH REVIVING THE NOVELLA May 23, 1.30-4.30pm May 25, 10am-4.30pm May 20, 9am-3.30pm May 22, 10am-4.30pm How can you avoid winning the Bad Sex Bestselling YA author Brian Falkner cracks W4 WILL SWANTON: SPORTS AS LIFE Oliver Phommavanh shares the secrets of Has the digital age ushered in a new Award whilst writing sensual prose? Join the code of The Hunger Games series, May 18, 1.30-4.30pm writing comedy. Create crazy characters, opportunity for this most rewarding of critically acclaimed writer of erotic sex, examining what made the books such Learn how to write about the real meaning weird plots and get ideas for funnier forms? Bring along a single-page synopsis Krissy Kneen, and explore the art and craft a huge success and looking at common of sport: the life lessons. Sport is hope, stories. Things will get strange! For young for your yet-to-be-written novella and talk of sex writing. writing techniques in YA blockbusters. glory, disappointment and triumph. writers aged 9-13 years. Presented by the strategy and form with Julienne van Loon. $85/$75 $150/$140 $85/$75 Children’s Book Council of Australia (NSW). $150/$140 $70/$70 W22 ANGELA MEYER: W29 ALAN WEARNE: THE SEARCH FOR W5 NEIL JAMES: W15 ASHLEY HAY: WHEN ‘WHERE’ BLOGGING FOR BEGINNERS THE GROUP VILLANELLE THE GENTLE ART OF PERSUASION W10 ANN CURTHOYS: WRITING HISTORY BECOMES ‘WHO’ May 23, 1.30-4.30pm May 25, 10am-4.30pm May 19, 10am-4.30pm May 20, 10am-4.30pm May 22, 1.30-4.30pm Long-term literary blogger Angela Meyer A fun, collaborative poetry workshop. What makes one text compelling and Ann Curthoys leads writing exercises A vivid location can cement a story’s teaches you everything you need to know: Participants submit poems to tutor Alan another pedestrian? Whether you are and class discussion of issues related to truth and power in non-fiction and fiction, why do it, how to get started, how to make Wearne in advance of the workshop for writing fiction or for the web, learn from writing history. Bring a project description. rendering place a character in its own right. your blog engaging, and more. comment. You will be taught how to Neil James how to supercharge your text. $150/$140 Explore how and why with Ashley Hay. $85/$75 construct an elaborate villanelle poem. Supported by the Plain English Foundation. $85/$75 $150/$140 $150/$140 W11 ANNA MAGUIRE: USING AND W23 ASHLEY HAY’S PEP SESSION: UNDERSTANDING CROWDFUNDING W16 KILLING YOUR DARLINGS: DODGING THE DUMPS, THE BLOCKS, W30 SALLY RIPPIN: WHAT IT TAKES W6 GABRIEL CLARK: MAKING May 20, 1.30-4.30pm INTENSIVE EDITING WORKSHOP BLACK HOLES AND DEAD ENDS TO WRITE GREAT KIDS’ BOOKS COMICS – CLARITY, CLOSURE AND Find out how to maximise your chance WITH REBECCA STARFORD May 24, 9.30am-12.30pm May 25, 1.30-4.30pm SEQUENTIAL ART of success through crowdfunding. Anna May 22, 1.30-4.30pm Ashley Hay tenders tools and tricks for What does it take to write a great kids’ May 19, 10am-4.30pm Maguire examines choosing your platform, Editor and publisher Rebecca Starford getting back on track or on the page in book? Join children’s author Sally Rippin Learn the tools to help you communicate planning your project, communication, how teaches you the mechanics of editing those times when your project hits the for a fun and practical workshop on in the language of comics. to engage support and more. and drafting (including plot, structure, slumps and sloughs. writing books for younger readers. $150/$140 $85/$75 character and voice) and offers insight $85/$75 $85/$75

1HERSA1 S020 SUBURBAN & REGIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 18 – SUNDAY, MAY 26 swf.org.au 21

the intersections between literature, ASHFIELD spoken word and music. Presented by SR10 SEXISM, AUSTRALIAN STYLE SR16 MATTHEW CONDON: THE TOE Campbelltown Arts Centre and supported May 21, 10-11am TAG QUINTET by the University of Western Sydney. Leading journalist, writer and feminist May 22, 6.30-7.30pm $5, bookings 4645 4100, Anne Summers discusses her book, The Ashfield Civic Centre campbelltownartscentre.com.au The Blue Mountains program is SR4 MICHELLE DE KRETSER IN Misogyny Factor, with author Tara Moss. Matthew Condon discusses his latest crime presented with Varuna, the Writers’ CONVERSATION novel, The Toe Tag Quintet, which follows CASTLE HILL House. Book tickets online at varuna. May 20, 10-11am SR11 PLACES OF DARKNESS AND the adventures of a retired Sydney SR24 AN EVENING WITH RACHAEL com.au unless otherwise stated. Ali Lemer speaks with Michelle de Kretser LIGHT: NEW AUSTRALIAN FICTION detective. Presented with Ashfield Library. TREASURE about her latest novel, Questions of Travel. May 21, 11.30am-12.30pm Free, bookings essential, 9716 1810, May 23, 7-8pm SR1 BOOK LAUNCH: MARK O’FLYNN Jesse Blackadder (Chasing the Light), eventbrite.com.au Castle Hill Library May 18, 4-5pm SR5 MISSING IN ACTION: AUSTRALIA’S Mark O’Flynn (The Forgotten World) and Rachael Treasure speaks about her new book, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre LITERARY PAST Julienne van Loon (Harmless) discuss AUBURN The Farmer’s Wife, and her previous novels. Join Mark O’Flynn for the launch of his May 20, 11.30am-12.30pm their new books with Carol Major. SR17 COLOURS IN WAITING ... Presented with The Hills Shire Library Service. novel, The Forgotten World. Australian literary critic Geordie Williamson CAN’T WAIT! $10, bookings essential, available from Free, no bookings speaks with Tegan Bennett Daylight about his SR12 A READER’S GUIDE TO LIFE May 24, 4-5pm 22 April thehills.nsw.gov.au/library new book, The Burning Library. May 21, 1.30-2.30pm Australia Post, Auburn SR2 FESTIVAL LAUNCH: WITH Ramona Koval’s By the Book has been Join Auburn Poets and Writers Group as they CASULA JOYFUL STRAINS SR6 LANDSCAPES OF LOVE AND LOSS described as a “love letter to the act of join queues across Auburn, turning mindless SR25 TIM SOUTPHOMMASANE: DON’T May 18, 5.30-7.30pm May 20, 1.30-2.30pm reading”. She talks with Geordie Williamson waiting into entertainment with spoken-word GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM Blue Mountains Cultural Centre New Australian talents Jessie Cole, Berndt about how books shape our lives. performances. Presented by Auburn Poets May 26, 2-3pm Roanna Gonsalaves, Malla Nunn, Catherine Sellheim and Yvette Walker explore themes of and Writers Group and supported by the Casula Powerhouse Rey and Hsu-Ming Teo share their love and loss, and discuss their debut novels. SR13 DERMOT HEALY IN University of Western Sydney. Tim Soutphommasane makes the case for personal experiences of migration with Ali CONVERSATION Free, group meeting point is outside the the success of Australian multiculturalism. Lemer, editor of the anthology, Joyful SR7 MADELEINE ST JOHN: A May 21, 3-4pm Australia Post Office, G2 Level, Auburn Presented with Casula Powerhouse Arts Strains: Making Australia Home. WRITER’S LIFE Ireland’s Dermot Healy discusses his new Central, 57 Queen St, Auburn Centre and the University of Western Sydney. Free, no bookings May 20, 3-4pm book, Long Time, No See, with fellow Free, bookings essential, 9824 1121 Helen Trinca discusses her new book, writer Kate Fagan. BELROSE SR3 Poetry in the Caves Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John, SR18 REBECCA HUNTLEY: THE ITALIAN CHATSWOOD May 19, 3.30-5.30pm with Geordie Williamson. SR14 THE ART OF THE SHORT STORY GIRL SR26 KATE ATKINSON: CRIMINAL Jenolan Caves May 21, 4.30-5.30pm May 22, 11am-12pm TENDENCIES A poetry reading in Cathedral Cave, SR8 WILD: STORIES FROM THE TRAIL Join three of Australia’s finest short Glen Street Theatre May 26, 2-3pm hosted by David Brooks, with Ireland’s May 20, 4.30-5.30pm story writers, Georgia Blain, Cate Rebecca Huntley shares her search for the The Concourse Theatre Dermot Healy alongside Robert Adamson, Cheryl Strayed, author of bestseller, Wild, Kennedy and Josephine Rowe, as they truth about her family in The Italian Girl, and Kate Atkinson speaks to Linda Morris about Kate Fagan and Lionel Fogarty. shares the incredible story of her 1100-mile discuss their new collections with fellow their lives as migrants in pre-World War II writing crime, Case Histories and what the $60 ($75 including bus from Katoomba solo hike on the Pacific Crest Trail. In writer Tegan Bennett Daylight. Australia. Presented with Glen Street Theatre. future holds in store for Brodie. station return), bookings 1300 763 311 conversation with Cate Kennedy. $7.50, bookings essential, 9975 1455, $16/$10, bookings 9250 1988l or SR15 BOOK LAUNCH: JANE glenstreet.com.au swf.sydneytheatre.org.au or The following events are all held at SR9 THE DR DARK MEMORIAL SKELTON - LIVES OF THE DEAD theconcourse.com.au the Carrington Hotel, 15/47 LECTURE - THE GOOD LIFE: WHAT May 21, 6-7pm SR19 SHEHAN KARUNATILAKA: Katoomba Street, Katoomba. All-day MAKES A LIFE WORTH LIVING? Universal Heart Book Club’s co-founder CHINAMAN HORNSBY passes cost $60/$50 concession, and May 20, 6-7pm Walter Mason launches Lives of the May 22, 2-3pm SR27 KATE FORSYTH: THE BROTHERS two-day passes $90 (no concessions). Hugh Mackay shares his answer to the Dead, the debut short fiction collection Glen Street Theatre GRIMM AND THE WILD GIRL Tickets to single sessions can be ultimate question: What makes a life by Blue Mountains writer and Varuna 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize winner May 22, 6.30-7.30pm purchased on the day at the door for worth living? alumna Jane Skelton. Shehan Karunatilaka speaks with P.M. Hornsby Library $15, subject to availability. $15/$10, bookings varuna.com.au Free, no bookings Newtown about his novel, Chinaman, the Kate Forsyth’s new novel, The Wild Girl, story of a retired sportswriter’s quest to tells the love story of Dortchen Wild and find a Sri Lankan cricket legend. Presented Wilhelm Grimm. Presented with Hornsby with Glen Street Theatre. Central Library. SR36 DANIEL MORDEN: DARK TALES overseas that weave together family tales, $7.50, bookings essential, 9975 1455, Free, bookings essential, 9847 6614, KOGARAH FROM THE WOODS speaks about his most recent collection, glenstreet.com.au email [email protected] SR32 JOHN CANTWELL: EXIT WOUNDS May 25, 5-6pm Violin Lessons, and his life as a writer. May 23, 7-8pm Riverside Theatre Presented with Randwick City Library Service. BLACKTOWN SR28 GOOD MORNING, MR SARRA Kogarah Library Award-winning storyteller Daniel Morden Free, bookings essential, 9399 6966, SR20 DAWN BARKER: FRACTURED May 23, 6.30-7.30pm John Cantwell shares the realities of the tells haunting gypsy tales from the woods email [email protected] May 22, 7-8pm Hornsby Library battlefield and post-traumatic stress in Exit of Wales. They are certainly not for the Blacktown Library Chris Sarra has spent his life working for a Wounds. Presented with Kogarah Library. faint of heart. Supported by the University of RYDE Dawn Barker reflects on her heartbreaking better future for our children. He discusses Free, bookings essential, 9330 9528, Western Sydney and Parramatta City Council. SR40 MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: novel, Fractured, the story of a new mother his book, Good Morning, Mr Sarra. kogarahlibrary.eventbrite.com.au $10, bookings 8839 3399, for ages 8-80 AMERICAN STORIES OF HOPE struggling to cope. Presented with Presented with Hornsby Central Library. AND ANGER Blacktown City Library and supported by Free, bookings essential, 9847 6614, PARRAMATTA PENRITH May 22, 6.30-7.30pm the University of Western Sydney. email [email protected] SR33 SO YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER? SR37 SYLVIA NASAR: GRAND PURSUIT Ryde Library Free, bookings essential, 9839 6620 May 19, 3-4.30pm May 22, 6.30-7.30pm In American Stories, ABC current affairs HURSTVILLE Information and Cultural Exchange Penrith Library correspondent Michael Brissenden shares SR21 INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUES: SR29 TIM BOWDEN: THE CHANGI Experts offer practical advice on publishing. Internationally bestselling author of A the stories of hope and anger around LOVE UNBOUND CAMERA Featuring Sophie Hamley, Shiela Pham, Alice Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar, discusses her America that he collected while following May 24, 7-8pm May 23, 7-8pm Grundy, Peter Polites, Mohammed Ahmad and new book, Grand Pursuit, an epic story of Obama’s re-election campaign. Blacktown Arts Centre Hurstville Library Felicity Castagna. Presented with Parramatta the making of modern economics and those Presented with Ryde Library Service. An evening of conversation, music and art, Tim Bowden tells the stories of brave City Council, the University of Western who have shaped modern history. Presented $5, bookings 9952 8352 with Kooshyar Karimi, Majok Tulba and Australian soldiers in The Changi Camera. Sydney Writing and Society Research Centre with Penrith City Library and supported by Nakkiah Lui. Presented by Blacktown Arts Presented with Hurstville Library. and the Information and Cultural Exchange. the University of Western Sydney. WOLLONGONG Centre with WestWords, and supported by Free, bookings essential, 9330 6142 Free, bookings essential, 9897 5744, $5, including light refreshments, SR41 ROCKET READINGS the University of Western Sydney. email [email protected] bookings essential, 4732 7891 May 19, 1.30-3.30pm Free, bookings essential, 9389 6558 INGLEBURN Wollongong City Gallery SR30 CATHERINE DEVENY: THE SR34 THE RUMBLE - YOUTH SLAM SR38 WILLIAM MCINNES: THE A lively afternoon of readings celebrating CAMDEN HAPPINESS SHOW May 25, 1-2pm LAUGHING CLOWNS the prose poem, with special guests SR22 EDWARD RUTHERFURD: PARIS May 23, 7-8pm Riverside Theatre May 23, 6.30-7.30pm Joanne Burns, Peter Lach-Newinsky, Ron May 22, 6-8pm Ingleburn Library Young poets from Western Sydney battle it Penrith Library Pretty and Linda Godfrey. Presented by Camden Civic Centre Catherine Deveny discusses her novel, The out. Featuring DJ/Poet Scott Sandwich, Jo An evening with William McInnes, who South Coast Writers Centre and supported Edward Rutherfurd presents Paris, with Happiness Show, a story of love, fidelity Sri and Miles Merrill. Presented with Word shares his new novel, The Laughter of by Arts NSW and Wollongong City Gallery. readings and discussion about the history of and messy second chances. Presented with Travels and supported by the University of Clowns, about the power of family and Free, no bookings this magical city. Presented with Camden Campbelltown Library and supported by Western Sydney, Arts NSW and Parramatta discovering what’s important in life by Council Library Service and supported by the University of Western Sydney. City Council. returning home. Presented with Penrith SR42 CELEBRATING THE VOICE the University of Western Sydney. Free, bookings essential 4645 4444 Free, bookings 8839 3399 City Library and supported by the WRITERS’ NIGHT $10, including refreshments, bookings University of Western Sydney. May 23, 6.30-8.30pm essential, trybooking.com/CPSN. KENSINGTON SR35 KATE TEMPEST AND ANIS $5, including light refreshments, Wollongong City Gallery Phone Camden Council Library Service SR31 ANIS MOJGANI: SPOKEN WORD MOJGANI bookings essential, 4732 7891 Aunty Barbara Nicholson, Simon Luckhurst, 4654 7951 or 4645 5039 ARTIST, POET May 25, 2.30-3.30pm John Muk Muk Burke and Bruce Pascoe May 23, 6.30-7.30pm Riverside Theatre RANDWICK launch Dreamings Inside, writings by CAMPBELLTOWN Io Myers Studio, UNSW Words collide with performance poets Kate SR39 ARNOLD ZABLE: A WRITER’S Aboriginal inmates, at the 13th Celebrating SR23 SIMON BARKER: INTERSECTIONS International poetry slam champion Anis Tempest and Anis Mojgani, both described JOURNEY the Voice Indigenous Writers’ Night. May 25, 4-6pm Mojgani takes to the stage for a special as “fierce” and “genius”. Presented with May 22, 6-7pm Presented by South Coast Writers Centre Campbelltown Arts Centre performance event of his words and Word Travels and supported by the Randwick Library and supported by Arts NSW and Simon Barker’s Intersections is a new rhymes. Presented with UNSWriting. University of Western Sydney and Acclaimed author, storyteller and human Wollongong City Gallery. performance work developed with local Free, bookings essential, Parramatta City Council. rights advocate Arnold Zable, known for Free, bookings essential, 4228 0151, writing groups and musicians, exploring sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/unswriting/ Free, bookings 8839 3399 writing stories set both in Australia and email [email protected]

1HERSA1 S021 22 swf.org.au A-Z OF PARTICIPANTS

See swf.org.au for biographies Neil Chenoweth 171 Lucinda Gleeson 13 n Aleksandra Krotoski 29, 76, Linda Mottram 79 201, 246 of all participants. Julie Chevalier 134 Libby Gleeson 177 168, 234 Peter Mould 37 Craig Silvey 144, 166, 214 Feng Chongji 64 Richard Glover 34, 85, 109, 133, Ambelin Kwaymullina SD Stephen Muecke 49 n Sylvie Simmons 76, 122, 160 KEY: Natasha Cica 211 144, 168 n Stephen Muller 77, 195 Lucy Simpson 227 nInternational writer Gabriel Clark W6 Linda Godfrey 134, SR41 L Kate Mulvany 189, 219 Nardi Simpson 227 W prefix = workshop, see page 20 n Erin Clarke 166 n Ben Goldacre 143, 235 Peter Lach-Newinsky SR41 Lorna Munro 257 Graeme Simsion 159, 202, 205 SR prefix = Suburban & Regional Kirstie Clements 46, 213 n Barry Goldblatt 207 Benjamin Laird 171 Tommy Murphy W2 Jane Skelton SR15 Event, see page 21 Stephanie Clifford-Smith W17 Anna Goldsworthy 21, 54 Margo Lanagan 178 Joanna Murray-Smith 131 Morgan Smith 33 SD = School Days event, see page 19. Jessie Cole SR6 Roanna Gonsalves SR2 Jeff Lang 148, 202 Lisa Murray 37 Pip Smith 197 Courtney Collins 40, 76, 100, 163, 176 Dave Graney 76, 124 Justine Larbalestier 207 David Musgrave 4, 38, 111 Tim Soutphommasane 93, 192, SR25 A Mark Colvin 199 Pat Grant 192, 202 David Large 39 n Wangechi Mutu 72, 83 Jeff Sparrow 115, 171 Antoinette Abboud 115 Matthew Condon 107, 126, 184, 251, Ross Grayson Bell 256 Max Lavergne 140 Dale Spender 203 Yassmin Abdel-Magied 42, 161 SR16, W18 Alison Green W19 Benjamin Law 54, 76, 142, 181, 189, W13 N Jo Sri 229, SR34 Phillip Adams 26, 41, 128 Sam Cooney 114, 146 John M. Green 129 Anthony Lawrence 257 Joel Naoum W19 Matt Stanton 230 Robert Adamson 19, SR3 Mark Corcoran 32 Richard Green 227 Neil Lawrence 135, 150 n Sylvia Nasar 168, 212, SR37 Rebecca Starford 114, W16 Debra Adelaide 132, 177 Peter Corris 134 n Robert Greene 65, 150, 170, Suzanne Leal 18, 183, 218 Haylee Nash W19 Jason Steger 102 Louise Adler 249 Katerina Cosgrove 86 202, 204 Jeanine Leane 119 Melodie Nelson 202 Elisabeth Storrs W19 Michael Mohammed Ahmad SR33 Miriam Cosic 55 Don Groves 199 Mark Ledbury 6 n Patrick Ness 61, 164, 220 n Cheryl Strayed 24, 92, 140, Adam Aitken 19, 121 Sibella Court 36, 80 Alice Grundy 114, 197, SR33, W19 Christopher Lee 145 P.M. Newton 44, 184, 237, SR19 236, SR8 Jordie Albiston 4 Brendan Cowell 130 Ali Lemer SR2, SR4 John Newton 53 Katrina Strickland 25 Stephanie Alexander 53, 108 Deb Cox 145 H n Amelia Lester 13, 15, 198, 255 Pauline Nguyen 53, 93, 255 Omeima Sukkarieh SR17 n Khadim Ali 152 Annabel Crabb 239 Gideon Haigh 122, 237 Connie Levett 6 Barbara Nicholson SR42 Anne Summers 42, 106, 175, SR10 Elizabeth Allen 187 Andrew Croome 129 Sophie Hamley SR33, W19 Tanya Levin 213 Sherrill Nixon 15, 78, 143, 204 Will Swanton W4 Chris Allen W19 David Cunningham 202 Philip Hammial 257, SR3 Tim Levinson (Urthboy) 198 Zoe Norton Lodge 202 Swimwear 76 Waleed Aly 238 Sophie Cunningham 70, 95, 178, 219 Chris Hanley 62, 153 n Deborah Levy 69, 127, 194, 249 Malla Nunn SR2 David Astle 43, 91 Ann Curthoys W10 Darren Hanlon 73 Steve Lewis 60, 250 T Elsa Atkin 232 Fiona Harari 159, 218 James Ley 70, 95, 197 O Melanie Tait 189, W20 n Kate Atkinson 193, SR26 D David Hardaker 96 Adam Liaw 186 Judith O’Callaghan 58 Chris Taylor 13, 76, 140, 202 Monica Attard 106, 181 n Faramerz Dabhoiwala 13, 34, Marieke Hardy 68, 102 Sophie Lieberman 103 Mark O’Flynn SR1, SR11 n Craig Taylor 50, 114, 167, 228, 251 n Tash Aw 158, 181 55, 142 Wendy Harmer 106, SD Dionne Lister W19 Sarah Oakes 234 Mark Tedeschi 184, 232 Darren Dale 256 Martin Harrison 19, 155 Amanda Lohrey 89, 132, 154, 190 Brett Osmond W19 n Hilary Teeman 28 B n William Dalrymple 45, 88, 240 Jacqueline Harvey W7 Skye Loneragan 252 Debra Oswald 145, 219 n Kate Tempest 125, 140, 252, SR35 Sunil Badami 157, 185, 236 Mark Dapin 85 Ashley Hay 17, 52, 233, W15, W23 Astrid Lorange 247 n Karl Ove Knausgaard 155, 176, 254 Hsu-Ming Teo SR2 Julia Baird 122, 175, 192 Robyn Davidson 101, 205 Amanda Hayward 39 Angelo Loukakis 85 Caroline Overington 28, 63, 107 Mark Textor 135 Ben Ball 166, 251 n Luke Davies 19, 81, 118, 148, 187, Noni Hazlehurst 76 Lenny Ann Low SD Philip Thalis 16 Simon Barker SR23 226, 245 n Dermot Healy 52, 118, 140, 154, n Benjamin Lowy 152 P Catherine Therese SR6 Dawn Barker 63, 108, 129, SR20 Robin de Crespigny 218 245, SR3, SR13 Melissa Lucashenko 44, 66, 119, 161 Jane Palfreyman 225, 251 n Scarlett Thomas 97, 117, 255, W27 Glenn Barkley 36, 244 Michelle de Kretser 27, SR4 Jim Hearn 86 Simon Luckhurst SR42 Bruce Pascoe 225, SR42 Simon Thomsen 199 Annette Barlow 28 Bob Debus SR9 Sally Heath 81 Nakkiah Lui SR21 Steve Pennells 224 Holly Throsby 73 Caroline Baum 24, 57, 116, 169, 193 Mary Delahunty 42 Genevieve Hegney 214 Shiela Pham SR33 Tom Tilley 13 Richard Beasley 144 Quentin Dempster 23 David M Henley 156, W1 M Oliver Phommavanh W9 Kate Torney 94 Deborah Beck 98 Andrew Denton 140 n Sheila Heti 61, 157, 228 Sarah Macdonald 165 Charles Pickett 58 Rachael Treasure 31, 169, SR24 Jean Bedford 134 n Anita Desai 69, 154, 194 Sue Hines 166 Hugh Mackay 208, SR9 Ailsa Piper 24 Anne Treasure W19 Tegan Bennett Daylight 20, 194, Catherine Deveny 13, 165, 210, Michael Hing 13 Anna Maguire 7, 112, W11, W19 n Frederique Polet 28 Helen Trinca 122, SR7 221, SR5, SR14 SR30, W24 Joe Hockey 250 Emily Maguire 83, 100, 165, W19 Peter Polites SR33 Aviva Tuffield 84 Linton Besser 224 Anne Deveson 26, 63 Sandy Holmes SR3 Carol Major SR11 Nicholas Pounder 36 Majok Tulba 93, SR21 n Lauren Beukes 22, 39, 61, 81, 102, n Janine di Giovanni 13, 78, 96, 151 Lucy Holt 187 David Malouf 19, 245 Ron Pretty SR41 Sarah Turnbull 213, 248 126, 156, 202 Robert Drewe 49, 81, 174 Huon Hooke 25 Robert Manne 115 Jenna Price 210 Malcolm Turnbull 239 Jonathan Biggins 60 n Suzy Duffy 31 Chloe Hooper 100, 166, 256 Kristi Mansfield 161 Lisa Pryor 235 Deborah Bird Rose 49 Susan Duncan 109 Amanda Hooton 31, 221 n Diego Marani 155, 191 John Purcell 33 U Jemma Birrell 259 n Kirsty Dunseath 105 Barbara Horgan 33 Kathy Marks 211 Chris Uhlmann 250 Stephanie Bishop 154 Teya Dusseldorp 177 n Eli Horowitz 112, 140, 146, 251 Simon Marnie 199 R Andrew Upton 131, 141 Jesse Blackadder 48, SR11, W25 Monica Dux 21, 147, 178, 210 n K.B. Hoyle 206 David Marr 223 B. Michael Radburn W8 Tom Uren AC 182 Georgia Blain 147, 178, SR14 Rebecca Huntley 213, SR18, W3 Lauren Martin 94 Morag Ramsay 23 Alastair Blanshard 170 E Shona Martyn W19 Scott Rankin 211 V Kim Cheng Boey 121 Nick Earls SD, 7, 205, 243 I Walter Mason 33, 66, SR15 Catherine Rey SR2 James Valentine 113 Frank Bongiorno 142 Jill Eddington 17, 233 Ian Innes 58 Chris Masters 32 Hannah Richell 107 Julienne van Loon 86, 107, SR11, W14 Rachel Botsman 57, 150, 168 Lorraine Elliott 53, 82 Karen McCartney 80 Matt Richell 105 Tim Bowden 182, SR29 Amy Espeseth 17, 176 J Kate McClymont 224 Judith Ridge SD, 206, 220 W CJ Bowerbird 125, 140, 229 Robyn Ewing 177 Eleanor Jackson 140, 229 Alasdair McGregor 48 n Molly Ringwald 200, 260 Louise Wakeling 38 n Helen Boyle 90 Neil James 112, 191, 239, W5 Russell McGregor 98 Sally Rippin SD, W30 Jeremy Walker 115 James Bradley 156 F James Jeffrey 60 Michaela McGuire 68 Ruth Ritchie 145 Yvette Walker SR6 Margaret Bradstock 38 Kate Fagan 148, 187, SR3, SR13 Ben Jenkins 76, 197 William McInnes 111, 130, 159, Jamila Rizvi 203 Chris Wallace 42 n Libba Bray 207, SD Delia Falconer W19 Gareth Jenkins 257 233, SR38 Archie Roach 241 Sally Warhaft 21, 101, 178 Joseph Brennan 39 Brian Falkner SD, W28 Diana Jenkins 198 Jacqueline McKenzie 130 Michael Robotham 44, 126 Christopher Warren 94, 224 n Michael Brennan 187, 245 Michael Farrell 247 n Devin Johnston SR3 Maxine McKew 35, 108 Stephen Romei 70 Fred Watson 258 Kaleena Briggs 227 Elizabeth Farrelly 10 Elizabeth Johnstone 117, 180, 213 Jeff McMullen 241 n Joe Rospars 9, 77, 135 n Ruby Wax 14, 203 Katharine Brisbane 161 Johanna Featherstone 257 Justin Jones 153 Ross McMullin 32, 48, 182 Nicolas Rothwell 61, 104 Alan Wearne 111, W29 Michael Brissenden 77, 128, SR39 Marc Fennell 29, 195, 205 Jill Jones 247 Rick McPhee 23 Josephine Rowe 40, 146, 178, Adina West W19 David Brooks 56, 97, 170, SR3 Richard Fidler 92, 123, 189 Nicholas Jose 121 Gillian Mears 225 255, SR14 Scott Westerfeld 156 Kerry Brown 64 Toby Fitch 247 George Megalogenis 9, 11 James Roy SD Terry Whidborne SD, 243 Bob Brown 190 Lionel Fogarty 119, 187, SR3 K Miles Merrill 1, 3, 125, 140, 229, 252, Arne Rubinstein 144 Sue Whiting W12 Nick Bryant 47 Andrew Ford 124, 148 Michaela Kalowski 40, 131 SR34, SR35 n Carlos Ruiz Zafón 102, 183, 220 n Paul Whitlatch 166 Stuart Buchanan 112 n Mark Forsyth 43, 76, 82, 185 Kooshyar Karimi 93, 240, SR21 n Claire Messud 116, 147, 259 n Grazia Rusticali 105 Les Wicks 38 Robbie Buck 160 Kate Forsyth 206, SR27 n Shehan Karunatilaka 150, 237, Angela Meyer 70, 82, W22 n Edward Rutherfurd 55, 99, SR22 Jessica L. Wilkinson 187 John Muk Muk Burke SR42 David Foster 111 SR19 David Michôd 226 Juanita Ruys 83, 240 Kip Williams 253 Joanne Burns SR41 n David Francis 36, 99, 130 Claudia Karvan 84, 130, 163 Kate Middleton 197 Robyn Williams 120 Caroline Butler-Bowdon 37, 98 Mia Freedman 162, 203 Danny Katz SD Richard Miles 45 S Geordie Williamson 20, 104, SR5, James Button 54, 128, 239 Jackie French SD, 216 n Jackie Kay 54, 123, 180, 198 Kate Miller-Heidke 76, 133, 148 Helen Sage 63 SR7, SR12 Jennifer Byrne 102, 151 n Michael Fried 152 n Jude Kelly 14, 149, 161, 179, 196, Tim Miller 230 Leigh Sales 135 Asher Wolf 171 Solo (from Horrorshow) 202, 257 203 Claire Miller W19 n Michael Sandel 11, 30 n Naomi Wolf 83, 142, 162 C Susannah Fullerton 221 Cate Kennedy 130, 147, 178, 194, 219 Christine Milne 210 Scott Sandwich 1, 3, SR34 n James Wood 20, 95, 173 Jane Cadzow 132 Michael Fullilove 88, 122, 239 SR8, SR14 Peter Minter 119 Sally Sara 13, 189 Sue Woolfe 66, 155 Michelle Cahill 121, 187 Linda Funnell 134 Rachel Kent 72, 83, 152 n Pankaj Mishra 67, 88, 181 Chris Sarra 108, SR28 Tom Wright 129 Peter John Cantrill 16 Hannah Kent 55, 222 Natasha Mitchell 142, 149 Margot Saville 35, 199 Susan Wyndham 27, 61, 95, 173, John Cantwell 32, 223, SR32 G Jacqueline Kent 109 n Anis Mojgani 125, 140, 229, 252, Moya Sayer-Jones 50, 150, 248 188, 222 Amanda Card 6 n Steven Gale 56, 65, 110, 164, 176, 254 Fenella Kernebone 16 SR31, SR35 n Quintin Schevernels 112 Elisabeth Wynhausen 106 John Carey 38 Mobo Gao 64 Andrew Khedoori 73 Tony Moore 10 Julianne Schultz 25, 42, 86 Mike Carlton 96, 182 Celeste Geer 23 Gretel Killeen 85 Matthew Moore 214 Stephen Scourfield 17, 49, W26 Y Jane Caro 210 Joe Gelonesi 97 Krissy Kneen 100, 146, 176, W21 n Daniel Morden 8, 59, 209, 240, SR36 Berndt Sellheim SR6 Willliam Yang 12, 74, 138, 201, 246 Felicity Castagna SR33 Sulari Gentill 206 Dominic Knight 75 Mark Mordue 124, 197 Eddie Sharp 13, 76, 140, 202 n Chris Ying 186 Nick Cater 47, 192 Ross Gibson 136 Malcolm Knox 44, 174 Linda Morris SR26 Paul Sharrad SR42 Damon Young 62, 97, 127, 221 Michael Cathcart 22, 87, 158 Rebecca Giggs 197 Ramona Koval 51, 233, SR12 Julian Morrow 13, 30, 67, 76, 137, Peter Shergold AC 208 n Shami Chakrabarti 149, 179, 203 Richard Gill 51, 108, 124, 170 n Lawrence Krauss 120, 198 140, 202 Emile Sherman 101 Z Claudia Chan Shaw 103 Bates Gill 64 Tony Kravitz 256 Tara Moss 46, 82, 126, SR10 n David Shrigley 242 Arnold Zable 40, 61, 93, 165, SR40 Christopher Cheng 2 Jane Gleeson-White 20, 200, 212, 218 Anna Krien 89, 184 n Kate Mosse 84, 110, 149, 198 Annette Shun Wah 12, 61, 74, 138, n Michael Zollner 105

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INFORMATION Club Stage (capacity 250) BOOKINGS The Loft (capacity 300) Sydney Writers’ Festival presents both free The Big Top For Little People (capacity 100) and ticketed events. Wharf Restaurant (capacity 160) Seats cannot be booked for free events in the Walsh Bay Precinct. These events fill OTHER CITY VENUES quickly, so we recommend you arrive early. City Recital Hall Angel Place All venues must be vacated at the end of Angel Place, Sydney each event. Sydney Opera House The majority of ticketed events can Joan Sutherland Theatre be booked through the Sydney Theatre Bennelong Point, Sydney Company box office, either online at Sydney Town Hall swf.sydneytheatre.org.au, by phone on 483 George Street, Sydney 9250 1988, or in person at 22 Hickson Road, Carriageworks Walsh Bay. Satellite box offices will also 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh operate at Pier 2/3 and Sydney Town Hall for ABC Studios ticket purchases on event days. TRAVELLING TO THE WALSH Wynyard. Buses run every 30 minutes and PARKING 700 Harris Street, Ultimo For bookings not taken by Sydney BAY PRECINCT there’s a bus stop outside Pier 4/5. The closest paid parking is at InterPark Brett Whiteley Studio Theatre, please refer to individual event TRAIN AND FERRY on 26 Hickson Road (next to Sydney 2 Raper Street, Surry Hills listings in the program. Concessions apply The closest train station and ferry terminal SYDNEY WRITERS’ FESTIVAL Theatre) and Wilson Carpark at Towns Customs House Reading Room for children under 16, full-time students is Circular Quay. It is approximately a SHUTTLE BUS Place, near the junction of Hickson Road 31 Alfred Street, Circular Quay and Australian Health Care Card or 15-minute walk to Walsh Bay. From Circular From Thursday, May 23, to Sunday, May 26, and Towns Place. Limited metered parking Museum of Contemporary Art Centrelink pension cardholders. Quay, walk down George Street and turn a Sydney Writers’ Festival shuttle bus will is available on Hickson Road. 140 George Street, The Rocks Transaction fees may apply for all bookings. right on Hickson Road. Follow Hickson Road run a return service from Circular Quay to Powerhouse Museum under the Harbour Bridge and around past the Festival precinct at Walsh Bay. WALSH BAY VENUES 500 Harris Street, Ultimo ACCESSIBILITY Sebel Pier One to the Festival precinct. Buses depart approximately every 15 Sydney Theatre State Library of NSW All venues are wheelchair accessible with minutes between 9am and 6.15pm from the 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay Macquarie Street, Sydney the exception of Bangarra Mezzanine. After BUS First Fleet Park stop on George Street. The Sydney Theatre (capacity 850) Sydney Observatory the Festival, some events will be available Millers Point bus services 431 and 433 first stop is opposite Sydney Theatre, and Richard Wherrett Studio (capacity 100) Watson Road, Observatory Hill, on our website as video or audio files. depart from QVB, travel down George the second stop is outside Pier 4/5. Buses Pier 4/5 The Rocks Street, through The Rocks to Millers Point. then return directly to Circular Quay. Hickson Road, Walsh Bay The Four Seasons Hotel HEARING LOOP It’s a 10-minute walk from Millers Point to The last scheduled return service to Circular Bangarra Mezzanine (capacity 100) Grain Bar and Grand Ballroom, The following venues are fitted with a hearing the Walsh Bay precinct. Quay departs from Walsh Bay at 6.15pm. Sydney Dance 1 (capacity 400) 199 George Street, Sydney loop: Sydney Theatre, Wharf Theatre 2, The 433 Balmain and Glebe Point bus Cost is $2 for a Circular Quay return Sydney Dance 2 (capacity 160) The Mint City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney Opera to Millers Point extends its route down ticket on the SWF shuttle bus. Sydney Dance Studio (Capacity 40) 10 Macquarie Street, Sydney House and Sydney Town Hall. Hickson Road from 6.15-11.30pm nightly. As this is a charter service, one-way Sydney Dance Café (capacity 80) Macleay Museum, University of Sydney Buses run approximately every 20 minutes tickets, Travel10s, concession cards and Philharmonia Studio (capacity 100) Gosper Lane (off Science Road), ENQUIRIES (EXCLUDING BOOKINGS) during these times and there’s a bus stop pensioner day tickets will not be accepted. Wharf Theatre 2 (capacity 200) University of Sydney For general Festival enquiries, please outside Pier 4/5. The Bar at the End of The Wharf (capacity 100) The Rocks Square contact Sydney Writers’ Festival either Route 998 runs from 9pm to 4.30am BICYCLES Pier 2/3 Playfair Street, The Rocks by phone on 9252 7729, or by email on every Friday and Saturday night linking Bicycle parking is provided under the Hickson Road, Walsh Bay The Green Room Lounge [email protected] Hickson Road with Town Hall Station via awning on Pier 2. Main Stage (capacity 400) 156 Enmore Road, Enmore

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We not only think about culture, we create culture: we are home to Giramondo Publishing, a major independent publisher of Australian poetry and fiction, and to the Sydney Review of Books, Australia’s premier literary review site.

We are pleased to continue our long-standing association with the Sydney Writers’ Festival.

For further information please visit www.uws.edu.au/writing or www.uws.edu.au/hca

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