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16-22 May

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1HERSA1 S002 Welcome SWF 2016 3 swf.org.au A Message from the Artistic Director Contents

arly one morning, I happened upon an issues we’re facing today in a thought-provoking City & article by Ceridwen Dovey in The New series called Thinking Globally. Are we witnessing Walsh Bay 4-16 Yorker, ‘Can Reading Make You Happier?’ the end of Europe? Should there be a universal Ceridwen’s piece explored the ancient right to migration? Just how big is Big Brother? In 5 concept of bibliotherapy, and spoke about another fascinating series, Writers Talk Politics, we Guest Curators Eliterature’s meditative and restorative focus on France, America, China, Ireland and India, effects in terms of , and unearth each country’s cultural and political City and Walsh Bay improved relationships and the ability to empathise preoccupations through writers who know the with others. I liked where this was going. Books terrain intimately. Event Liftout are indeed places we can lose ourselves and at the Hear from Yeonmi Park, who escaped the 12-13 same time find the answers to whatever we might brutality of the North Korean regime; Xu Zhiyuan, be searching for, even if we don’t quite know what the man described by Ai Weiwei as ‘the most that is. A good festival, like a good book, should important Chinese intellectual of his generation’, Thinking Globally 14 bring real-life benefits – joy, solace and a new and Emma Sky, who exposes what went wrong in understanding of the world. Iraq in her acclaimed book, The Unravelling. 15 Sydney Writers’ Festival is a week-long The charismatic Yanis Varoufakis, former Nights at the Wharf extravaganza of ideas and literature. In 2016 we finance minister of Greece, opens up about his have an exhilarating array of authors bringing new book and his recently launched pan-European The Curiosity their wisdom, knowledge and imaginative whimsy political movement. Oxford scholar Peter 17 to Sydney. Frankopan gives a dazzling alternate view of Lecture Series Opening this year’s Festival is wunderkind Kate world history as seen through the Silk Roads, and Tempest, dubbed a young Patti Smith, and one of the Jean-Christophe Rufin, co-founder of Médecins Workshops 18 most spectacular performers I’ve seen. After award- Sans Frontières, walks another route, the Camino winning books of poetry and a critically acclaimed Another one of Australia’s most celebrated de Santiago. album, Kate has a new novel that’s defined by the writers, , interviews Pulitzer Prize- Nights at the Wharf are irresistible this Children's & searing truth she’s known for. Her work is electric. winning poet and poetry editor at The New Yorker, year. Don’t miss speaking with Young Adult 19 Jonathan Franzen speaks with Paul Muldoon. This will be an incredible meeting gravitational wave expert, astrophysicist Janna about Purity, his compelling, amusing and sharply of minds. Levin. See People of Letters, Night of the Nerds satirical portrait of relationships and family Hear inspiring personal stories across the and Rebecca Vaughan who gives a dramatic Suburban & dysfunction. We also have a whole session devoted Festival week. Zelda la Grange, Nelson Mandela’s interpretation of Austen’s Women, performed most 20-21 to Jonathan’s rich, varied and often unexpected private secretary, remembers her life by his side. evenings. Catch the Festival’s most uninhibited Regional reading life. Richard Glover, Magda Szubanski and New York conversations with an intriguing range of writers Feminist icon, writer and activist Gloria Times columnist Roger Cohen share stories of their at the Late Night Salon. One guest is Business Bites 21 Steinem returns to Australia for the first time since lives and upbringing that are brave and surprising. sensation, , previously of This the 1980s to share stories about life, travel and Drusilla Modjeska talks books, friends and lovers American Life, now the host of . 21 adventure. In another session at the Wharf she’ll in Second Half First. Julia Leigh opens up about her In the Children's and Young Adult program we Live and Local convince you why women should rule the world. memoir, which speaks of her gruelling experience launch Best of the Fest, our new venture with the An epic novel about the attempted assassination with IVF and the dreams we have for our lives. Board of Studies, with events for students featuring Participants 22 of Bob Marley was a brilliant choice for last year’s In today’s cultural and political landscape, some of the Festival’s most dynamic thinkers. Man Booker Prize, and we welcome its Jamaican- Grant is an essential voice. His new book There’s also our School Days Program, with born author Marlon James. is a powerful meditation on race, culture and luminaries such as Michael Grant, Claire Zorn, Venues & The great Julian Barnes, who also won the Man Australian identity. Judith Rossell and Liz Pichon. Jon Klassen, Bookings 23 Booker Prize for The Sense of an Ending, speaks At Parramatta’s Riverside Theatres Kerry author of I Want My Hat Back, and John Boyne, about The Noise of Time, an immersive parable O’Brien gives the lowdown on , Bob who wrote The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, also WEBSITE VISIT SWF.ORG.AU about power, art and control, which fictionalises Brown shares his optimism, and Suad Amiry feature in both the children and adult programs. On TO CATCH UP ON ALL THE the life of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. revisits home through Palestinian stories. Sunday May 22, kids and teens take over Pier 4/5 FESTIVAL NEWS. Beloved British novelist William Boyd discusses James Rebanks, the Herdwick Shepherd, hails for the first time ever, as we run four free venues, his new book Sweet Caress, and shares his insights from the Lake District in England, where his family all with their own brand of mischief and mayhem. GET THE LATEST into screenwriting in an exclusive masterclass. has lived for over 600 years. His bestselling book Our closing address goes directly to the heart UPDATES AND JOIN THE Jeanette Winterson brings The Gap of Time, about the rituals of life on the land will make you of the relationship between a writer and her CONVERSATION USING #SYDNEYWRITERSFESTIVAL a modern take on The Winter’s Tale with all the dream of returning to a more simple life. reader. Hanya Yanagihara is one of this year’s grandeur of Shakespeare and her own particular In contrast, Vivian Gornick lives and breathes most anticipated guests, with her Man Booker- FACEBOOK VISIT US AT lyricism. Jeanette is a wildly imaginative storyteller the streets of New York, with all of their chance shortlisted novel A Little Life both inspiring FACEBOOK.COM/SYD- who has no peer. Her talks are extraordinary. She’s encounters. Her book, The Odd Woman and the City, adulation and polarising critics across the world. WRITERSFEST not to be missed. is a paean to literature and friendship. Both James This is a book that gets under everyone’s skin. In an INSTAGRAM SEE THE BEST Elena Ferrante’s novels have been some of the and Vivian are utterly charming and insightful. address called ‘The Conversations Between Words’, PICS FROM THE FESTIVAL most loved and obsessively read books of the past This year for the first time we have three guest Hanya asks if a writer owes her reader anything AND SHARE YOURS USING year. While the author herself remains anonymous, curators: Susie Orbach, George Megalogenis and more than a compelling story. #SYDNEYWRITERSFESTIVAL we are fortunate to hear directly from her gifted Anna Funder, who bring vision and flair to the Sydney will transform in May with authors and translator, Ann Goldstein. Join us for a forensic program. Look for their events in the following pages. ideas flooding the city. Bringing fresh perspectives SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES TO STREAM discussion of Ferrante’s novels at Sydney Town Hall. Our favourite writers tell us about the book from all corners of the world, these writers SYDNEY WRITERS' FESTIVAL The Girl on the Train has also transfixed millions that saved them in a gala event at Sydney Town enhance our community with their stories, humour, PODCASTS of readers around the world, and we welcome its Hall. There’s also a series of live psychoanalytic creativity and vision. This is something to celebrate, author Paula Hawkins. interviews with Susie Orbach, revealing a side to and celebrate we will. PRODUCED BY THE SMH, There is a rare chance to hear from Elizabeth writers you don’t usually see. And book in to see Have a great Festival! Harrower, the Australian writer whose work has our bibliotherapist-in-residence, Susan Elderkin, ADVERTISING 9282 1783 been praised by Christina Stead and . who shares a lifetime of literary remedies. Jemma Birrell READERLINK 9282 1569 READERLINK@ SMH.COM.AU This will be only her second public interview. Take a fresh look at some of the most pressing Artistic Director

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MONDAY, MAY 16 as they champion the importance of being informed about scientific research and 1 NSW PREMIER’S LITERARY climate change policy in light of today’s AWARDS PRESENTATION AND critical environmental situation. With COCKTAIL RECEPTION Bianca Nogrady. May 16, 6–9.30pm $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 State Library of NSW, The Galleries roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf A glittering celebration of excellence in Australian writing held on the Festival’s first 6 Kate 32 MODERN LOVE: JOHN AND night. With prizes totalling $305,000, the SUNDAY REED awards are among the nation’s richest and Tempest May 19, 11.30am–12.30pm most prestigious. Pier 4/5 The Waterfront $60/$55 Bookings 9273 1770 Revisit Australia’s mid-century art scene sl.nsw.gov.au as Kendrah Morgan and Lesley Harding share revelatory stories about the 2 PHILIP PARSONS LECTURE unconventional lives of legendary art BY KATE MULVANY: ACT WELL patrons, bohemians and bon vivants John YOUR PART and Sunday Reed. With ABC RN’s Cassie May 16, 6.30–7.30pm McCullagh. Belvoir, Upstairs Theatre $15 Bookings 9250 1988 Welcome to the Australian theatrical house. In roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf this lecture by Kate Mulvany, the house will be exorcised. Prepare for some tough love from 33 ACROSS GENERATIONS: a resident artist who thinks the Australian AND ALICE PUNG theatre house needs a radical renovation. May 19, 11.30am–12.30pm $10 Bookings 9699 3444 Richard Wherrett Studio belvoir.com.au Festival Highlight Sofie Laguna and Alice Pung have written for readers of varying ages. Does writing 3 AUSTEN’S WOMEN from a young person’s perspective require May 16, 7–8.10pm, Wharf 2 Theatre 6 2016 OPENING ADDRESS: KATE TEMPEST a stronger imagination? The authors SEE EVENT HIGHLIGHT, Page 6 May 17, 6.30–7.30pm discuss with James Tierney what it means to create an authentic voice. 4 LITTLE FICTIONS The stories we tell, tell us who we are. Kate Tempest, dubbed $15 Bookings 9250 1988 May 16, 7–8.30pm, Knox St Bar a young Patti Smith, is one of the most spectacular performers today. roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf These short tales, read to you by actors, Kate recites her poems and talks about how the stories we choose define us. reveal the many faces of Sydney. Set in one Includes opening formalities. 34 JULIAN BARNES: SOME OF MY of Chippendale’s grooviest venues, Little Premium $45, A Reserve $35/$25 BEST FRIENDS ARE BIOGRAPHERS Fictions reinvigorates the simple pleasure Bookings 9250 1988, roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf May 19, 11.30am–12.30pm of being read to. Roslyn Packer Theatre $15, tickets at the door SEE GUEST CURATORS, Page 5 colour it in and share with: #whatliftsyou 19 SPORT: THE GREAT DISTRACTOR? 25 NEW AUSTRALIAN VOICES #sydneywritersfestival May 19, 10–11am May 19, 10.30–11.30am, The Theatre 35 CHRIS BOWEN: THE TUESDAY, MAY 17 Free, no bookings Pier 4/5 The Waterfront Bar at the End of the Wharf MONEY MEN 5 CRAIG MUNRO: UNDER COVER Is sport more powerful than governments Discover three of Australia’s best emerging May 19, 11.30am–12.30pm May 17, 12.30–1.30pm 13 COFFEE AND PAPERS WITH THE in bringing about social change? Or is it the writers as they read from and discuss their Sydney Dance 1 State Library of NSW, Metcalfe SMH, ALEKSANDAR HEMON AND opiate of the people? Martin Flanagan, Erin work. Featuring Josephine Rowe (A Loving, Join former treasurer and current Auditorium MADELINE GLEESON Riley and discuss the systemic Faithful Animal), Miles Allinson (Fever of Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen for a Craig Munro speaks about his 30 years of May 19, 9–10am, The Theatre Bar at racial and cultural tensions plaguing Animals) and Antonia Hayes (Relativity) in revealing discussion with Margot Saville audacious and inspiring adventures in the the End of the Wharf Australian sport today. With Sam Mostyn. conversation with Meredith Jaffé. about his book, The Money Men, an publishing industry, editing a lively cast of Join Sydney Morning Herald editorJudith $15 Bookings 9250 1988 Free, no bookings insider’s perspective on the 12 most Australia’s most influential authors, from Whelan, SMH journalists and special guests roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf notable men to have held the office of to Patrick White. Aleksandar Hemon and Madeline Gleeson to CUR 26 JEAN-FRANÇOIS VERNAY: Australian treasurer. Free, no bookings hear their take on what’s making headlines 20 GHOSTWRITING: THE A FRENCH VIEW ON AUSTRALIAN Free, no bookings today, and the changing nature of journalism. UNTOLD STORY NOVELS 6 2016 OPENING ADDRESS: Supported by The Sydney Morning Herald. May 19, 10–11am May 19, 11–11.40am 36 THE UNDERBELLY OF SYDNEY KATE TEMPEST Free, no bookings Richard Wherrett Studio Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage May 19, 11.30am–12.30pm May 17, 6.30–7.30pm Bryce Corbett, Felicity McLean and Michael SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 Sydney Dance 2 Roslyn Packer Theatre CUR 14 TIM GRIFFITHS: FRANK Visontay are among the best ghostwriters Local authors Peter Doyle, Eleanor SEE EVENT HIGHLIGHT, Page 4 HURLEY, SHACKLETON AND THE in the business. They open up about the 27 THE BOOK CLUB Limprecht and Anna Westbrook join END OF THE HEROIC AGE joys (and pitfalls) of being someone else’s May 19, 11.15am–1pm Tom Wright to share true tales of the 7 AUSTEN’S WOMEN May 19, 10–10.40am voice, with John M. Green. ABC Studios colourful characters who shaped May 17, 7–8.10pm, Wharf 2 Theatre Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage $15 Bookings 9250 1988 Join Jennifer Byrne with regular panellists Sydney’s sordid past. SEE EVENT HIGHLIGHT, Page 6 SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf and Jason Steger, plus Free, no bookings exciting Festival guests, for a taping of a 15 SOUND AND SILENCE 21 ZELDA LA GRANGE: GOOD special Sydney Writers’ Festival edition of 37 SESSIONS WITH SUSIE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 18 May 19, 10–11am MORNING, MR MANDELA ABC TV’s The Book Club. FIONA WRIGHT 8 A LOVE AFFAIR WITH Philharmonia Studio May 19, 10–11am Free, bookings essential. Phone 8333 May 19, 11.30am–12.30pm SHAKESPEARE Award-winning novelists Mireille Juchau Roslyn Packer Theatre 3644 or email [email protected] Wharf 2 Theatre May 18, 6–7pm, State Library of NSW, and Anna Smaill explore the power of For 16 years Zelda la Grange was Nelson SEE GUEST CURATORS, Page 5 Metcalfe Auditorium sound, the threat of silence and the way Mandela’s closest confidant. This is a rare 28 GOING HOME: BELONGING, The Library commemorates 400 years both silence and noise can be revealed with opportunity to hear the intimate stories of FAMILY AND FOOD CUR 38 CATRIONA MENZIES-PIKE: since Shakespeare’s death. Join this words. They talk to Felicity Plunkett. life with a man who left an indelible mark May 19, 11.30am–12.30pm WHY I’VE LOST EVERY MARATHON Shakespeare-loving panel as they discuss $15 Bookings 9250 1988 on the world. Zelda speaks to David Leser. Philharmonia Studio I’VE EVER RUN what keeps them coming back to the Bard. roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 Debut novelist Debra Jopson and May 19, 12–12.40pm $20/$15 Bookings 9273 1770 roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf memoirists Beth Yahp and Adam Aitken Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage sl.nsw.gov.au/whats-on 16 SUSAN ELDERKIN: speak with Joy Lawn about existing SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 THE NOVEL CURE 22 THE SECRET WEAPONS OF between two worlds, and the complicated 9 AUSTEN’S WOMEN May 19, 10–11am, Pier 2/3 Club Stage INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS relationship between heritage, family 39 DAMON YOUNG: THE ART May 18, 7–8.10pm, Wharf 2 Theatre Is reading really the best medicine? Find May 19, 10–11am, Sydney Dance 1 and home. OF READING SEE EVENT HIGHLIGHT, Page 6 out when bibliotherapist Susan Elderkin Threats, intimidation and risk taking are $15 Bookings 9250 1988 May 19, 12.30–1.30pm, State Library takes the stage to reveal the secrets of a all in a day’s work for investigative roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf of NSW, Metcalfe Auditorium 10 CHASING ASYLUM: NSW good literary remedy. With Ceridwen Dovey. journalists and Walkley Award winners Damon Young’s new book, The Art of PREMIERE $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Caro Meldrum-Hanna, Steve Pennells and 29 WRITERS IN DANGER Reading, celebrates the power of reading to May 18, 7–9pm, Dendy Opera Quays roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Suzanne Smith. They share their stories May 19, 11.30am–12.30pm transform words into worlds. Join Damon Join us for the NSW premiere of Chasing with . Pier 2/3 Club Stage as he reveals the pleasures and adventures Asylum. This powerful and moving 17 : Free, no bookings SEE GUEST CURATORS, Page 5 that come with living a bookish life. documentary tells the story of Australia’s FOOD AND FRIENDS Free, no bookings offshore detention policies as told by May 19, 10–11am, Pier 2/3 Main Stage 23 HISTORICAL OBSESSIONS 30 PETER GARRETT: BIG BLUE SKY asylum seekers and whistleblowers. Annabel Crabb has cleverly segued the May 19, 10–11am, Sydney Dance 2 May 19, 11.30am–12.30pm CUR 40 ANTHONY BOND: THE $20 Bookings chasingasylum.com.au recipes she showcased on Kitchen Cabinet Winners of NSW Premier’s History Awards, Pier 2/3 Main Stage AWFUL TRUTH ABOUT CURATING into the delightful, delectable and eminently Alan Atkinson, Carolyn Holbrook and From life in Sydney’s suburbia to May 19, 1.30–2.10pm 11 INSIDERS LIVE AT SYDNEY practical cookbook, Special Delivery. She Babette Smith reveal to Caroline Butler- environmental activism, and from Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage WRITERS’ FESTIVAL dishes up her recipes and the stories Bowdon how and why they fell in love with frontman of iconic Aussie band SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 May 18, 7.30–9pm behind them. With Michael Williams. their subjects. Presented by the History Midnight Oil to Labor cabinet minister, Roslyn Packer Theatre $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Council of NSW. Peter Garrett has fascinating tales to tell. 41 THE POLITICS OF PAPERBACKS SEE GUEST CURATORS, Page 5 roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Free, no bookings He speaks to ABC RN’s May 19, 1.30–2.30pm about his new memoir. Philharmonia Studio 18 KEN DONE: A LIFE COLOURED IN 24 JANE CARO: A PERFECTLY Supported by Editor Group. Craig Munro edited David Malouf’s first THURSDAY, MAY 19 May 19, 10–11am, Pier 2/3 The Loft IMPERFECT LIFE $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 novel and championed Peter Carey. Stuart 12 WINGS ON THE WHARF Ken Done’s flamboyant artworks have May 19, 10–11am, Wharf 2 Theatre roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Kells unearthed the story of the Lane #WHATLIFTSYOU become synonymous with Australia. His In her new memoir Plain-Speaking Jane, brothers, who founded Penguin. Peek May 19–22, Pier 2/3 new memoir, A Life Coloured In, is a portrait Jane Caro talks about her life in advertising, 31 CLIMATE: KNOWLEDGE between the covers of the book industry as Famed for blending street art and social of his largely unknown personal life – and it her role as a mother and her battles with AND HOPE Craig and Stuart speak with Catherine Milne. media, Kelsey Montague creates a has certainly been a colourful journey. He anxiety. With . May 19, 11.30am–12.30pm $15 Bookings 9250 1988 whimsical large-scale mural outside Pier 2/3, speaks with Rachel Kent. $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Pier 2/3 The Loft roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Walsh Bay throughout the day. 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Guest Curators Anna Funder Festival Highlight Anna Funder is one This year’s program is enriched by three writers who have brought of Australia’s most their unique creative vision to the Festival. Susie Orbach hosts a series acclaimed and 224 JONATHAN FRANZEN: of psychoanalytic sessions with three intrepid authors. Anna Funder awarded writers. PURITY interviews Jonathan Franzen and, in another session, invites writers to May 21, 8.30–9.30pm share their tales of survival and resilience. George Megalogenis brings Sydney Town Hall some of the most incisive Australian and international minds together in Dazzling in its scope and stunning in its 29 WRITERS IN DANGER satire, Purity firmly positions Jonathan fresh and unexpected ways. Let this eclectic trio guide you through some May 19, 11.30am–12.30pm of the delights the program has to offer. Franzen as one of the greatest writers Pier 2/3 Club Stage of fiction working today. Jonathan joins Julian Burnside QC speaks to Chinese Anna Funder for a conversation as witty George Megalogenis intellectual Xu Zhiyuan, Indian authors and wide–ranging as the novel itself. Deepti Kapoor and Samanth Subramanian, Premium $45, A Reserve 35/$25 George Festival and North Korean escapee Yeonmi Park Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au or Megalogenis is about the perils of writing in repressive roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf an author and Highlight regimes. Introduced by ICORN ambassador journalist with Anna Funder. three decades' $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 as she chats with Jason Steger about her ANNA'S HIGHLIGHTS experience in roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf years in the US, coming home to Australia 34 JULIAN BARNES: SOME OF MY the media. and her poignant recent novella, The Girl BEST FRIENDS ARE BIOGRAPHERS 270 ANNA FUNDER: with the Dogs. May 19, 11.30am–12.30pm 11 INSIDERS LIVE AT SYDNEY COMING HOME $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Roslyn Packer Theatre WRITERS’ FESTIVAL May 22, 4.30–5.30pm roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Julian Barnes casts a sceptical eye on May 18, 7.30–9pm Pier 2/3 Main Stage some biographical principles and practices Roslyn Packer Theatre Catch award–winning author Anna Funder as inflicted upon Gustave Flaubert, Clara leads Niki Savva, David Schumann, Evelyn Waugh, Ian McEwan Marr, George Megalogenis and Annabel and, some time in the future, the author Crabb through the political highs and 162 WHY WOMEN SHOULD himself. With Susan Wyndham. lows of 2016. Mike Bowers conducts RULE THE WORLD Festival Highlight $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 Talking Pictures with David Rowe. May 21, 10–11am roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Premium $45, A Reserve Roslyn Packer Theatre 218 FERRANTE FEVER: A CELEBRATION OF $35/25, Bookings 9250 1988 How many female CEOs will ELENA FERRANTE’S NOVELS 128 INSIDE THE NEW YORKER roslynpackertheatre.com.au it take to change the world? May 21, 5.30–6.30pm May 20, 3–4pm Feminist icon Gloria Steinem, Sydney Town Hall Roslyn Packer Theatre 55 GEORGE MEGALOGENIS: Indian activist Ira Trivedi and Elena Ferrante inspires evangelical fervour. Join Discover the perks and challenges of AUSTRALIA’S SECOND CHANCE journalist talk this forensic discussion about the lure of Ferrante’s working for one of the world’s greatest May 19, 3–4pm candidly to George Megalogenis feisty Neapolitan novels with her translator Ann publications, The New Yorker, from three Pier 2/3 Main Stage about women at the top. Goldstein, Benjamin Law, and of its most influential insiders. Editors Ann George Megalogenis offers fresh insight Supported by the City of Sydney Drusilla Modjeska, speaking with Susan Wyndham. Goldstein and Paul Muldoon speak to into the Australian mindset, diving deep $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 Premium $45, A Reserve $35/$25 Bookings former managing editor Amelia Lester. into history with Jamila Rizvi to find out roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf 9250 1988, swf.org.au or roslynpackertheatre. $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 whether Australia has what it takes to com.au/swf roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf maintain our winning streak. $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 217 YANIS VAROUFAKIS: AND roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf THE WEAK SUFFER WHAT THEY MUST? Susie Orbach body image in today’s society, where yet she examines her life with honesty 131 LEADERSHIP: May 21, 5–6pm selfies are king and the idea of perfection and wry humour. THEN AND NOW City Recital Hall Angel Place Susie Orbach is a is as narrow as ever. With Caroline Baum. $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 May 20, 3–4pm, Wharf 2 Theatre Yanis Varoufakis, economist and former psychotherapist, Supported by Bupa Health Foundation. roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf From Whitlam to Howard, Abbott to finance minister of Greece, talks about writer and $15 Bookings 9250 1988 Turnbull, what’s changed in Australian his new book, And the Weak Suffer What co-founder of The 101 SESSIONS WITH SUSIE: politics? Paul Kelly, They Must?, and outlines his plans for Women's Therapy ROGER COHEN and Niki Savva share their insights his pan-European political party. With Centres in London SESSIONS WITH SUSIE May 20, 11.30am–12.30pm with Margot Saville on how the top job George Megalogenis. Supported by The and New York. In a fascinating series of public Pier 2/3 The Loft ihas changed over time. Russell Mills Foundation. therapy forums, Susie puts three of New York Times columnist and author $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Premium $45, A Reserve $35/$25 68 THE DANGER OF IDEAS the Festival’s bravest writers on the Roger Cohen has a backstory you couldn’t roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Bookings 9250 1988 or 8256 May 19, 4.30–5.30pm couch to explore what’s on their minds. make up. His memoir recounts his Jewish 2222, roslynpackertheatre.com. Pier 2/3 The Loft These unique sessions live outside family’s exile and displacement and his 149 MAGDA SZUBANSKI AND au/swf or cityrecitalhall.com Marie Darrieussecq, writer for Charlie the traditional book interview, as the mother’s lifelong struggle with inner demons. GEORGE MEGALOGENIS: RATED Hebdo, author Tara Moss (Speaking Out) authors bring a particular personal or $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 PG (POLISH AND GREEK) 254 SARAH FERGUSON: and Tim Soutphommasane speak with creative dilemma to their session. This roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf May 20, 7.30–8.30pm THE KILLING SEASON UNCUT Susie Orbach about censorship and trigger is a rare chance to witness what makes Roslyn Packer Theatre May 22, 1.30–2.30pm warnings. Has political correctness gone too an author tick. 173 SESSIONS WITH SUSIE: Following the success of her recently Roslyn Packer Theatre far or not far enough? RICHARD GLOVER released memoir, Reckoning, Magda Sarah Ferguson’s ABC TV series The $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf May 21, 11.30am–12.30pm Szubanski swaps notes with George Killing Season captivated Australia with roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf 37 SESSIONS WITH SUSIE: Pier 2/3 The Loft Megalogenis on how the dorky its account of Labor’s implosion during FIONA WRIGHT Richard Glover’s mum ran off with his children of European migrants the Rudd–Gillard–Rudd years. Sarah 199 SUSIE ORBACH: FAT IS STILL May 19, 11.30am–12.30pm Tolkien–obsessed English teacher and his redefined Australian culture. Supported shares trade secrets of interviewing A FEMINIST ISSUE Wharf 2 Theatre dad was a distant alcoholic. Little wonder by the City of Sydney. prime ministers with fellow journalist May 21, 3–4pm Fiona Wright is a poet and critic then that Richard reckons he can win any Premium $45, A Reserve George Megalogenis. Pier 4/5 The Waterfront whose book of essays, Small Acts of game of ‘Who’s got the weirdest family?’ $35/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 Susie Orbach discusses her work as a Disappearance, describes her 10-year battle $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf psychotherapist and author. She examines with anorexia. Her journey is fraught, roslynpackertheatre.com.au

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42 LEISEL JONES: OUT OF collected a lifetime of stories and they THE POOL share a few of them with with ABC RN’s May 19, 1.30–2.30pm Natasha Mitchell. Pier 2/3 Club Stage $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 For Olympian Leisel Jones, life outside the roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf pool didn’t always go swimmingly. Leisel and ghostwriter Felicity McLean sit down 3 Austen’s 60 INDIA: WRITERS TALK POLITICS for a frank chat with Meredith Jaffé about May 19, 3–4pm, Sydney Dance 1 recreating Leisel’s experiences on paper. Women Join a lively discussion on the pressing $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 social and political issues facing India today. roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Christopher Kremmer speaks with novelist Deepti Kapoor, journalist 43 HUGH MACKAY: CAN WE FIND Samanth Subramanian and author and MEANING WITHOUT RELIGION? commentator Ira Trivedi. May 19, 1.30–2.30pm Free, no bookings Pier 2/3 Main Stage Social researcher Hugh Mackay explores 61 NEW AMERICAN POETRY the ways we find meaning and purpose May 19, 3–4pm, Sydney Dance 2 in a society where traditional religious faith Jamila Woods and Nate Marshall are gifted and practice are in sharp decline. With poets, keen educators, activists and leaders in . their communities. They perform their work $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 and speak with Poetry editor Don Share. roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Supported by the Poetry Foundation. Festival Highlight Free, no bookings 44 GREG SHERIDAN: POLITICAL SHENANIGANS 62 FORENSICS IN ART AND May 19, 1.30–2.30pm 3 AUSTEN’S WOMEN LITERATURE Pier 2/3 The Loft May 16, 7–8.10pm May 19, 3–4pm, Wharf 2 Theatre With a distinguished journalistic career and Wharf 2 Theatre Luc Sante explores off-beat crime scene a circle of friends that includes , Thirteen of Jane Austen’s heroines come to life in this bold portrayal of characters photos from 1930s New York and Peter and , Greg from some of literature’s most celebrated works. Rebecca Vaughan returns with Doyle delves into archival photos of Sydney Sheridan’s memoir is brimming with another celebrated one–woman show following her 2015 sell–out performances suburbia. They discuss the dark allure of the fascinating insights. Catch him in of Dalloway. Plays Monday May 16 – Sunday May 22 (excluding Friday). forensic photograph with Kate Rossmanith. conversation with Margot Saville. $36/$25 Bookings 9250 1988, roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Supported by . $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf 48 PHILANTHROPY: THE ART Free, bookings essential. Phone 8333 poet Paul Muldoon for an unforgettable 45 MARIE DARRIEUSSECQ: OF GIVING 3644 or email bookc|[email protected] hour of poetry, rumination and CUR 63 BETH YAHP: ON FICTION, FEMMES AND May 19, 1.30–2.30pm, Sydney Dance 1 conversation. Paul’s most recent collection EATING DIM SUM CHARLIE HEBDO Join two of Australia’s most remarkable CUR 52 MICHAEL SEXTON SC: ON is a masterful and multifarious volume, filled May 19, 3.30–4.10pm May 19, 1.30–2.30pm philanthropists, Penelope Seidler AM and THE EDGES OF HISTORY with linguistic hijinks. Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Pier 4/5 The Waterfront Phillip Keir, as they tell David Leser about May 19, 2.30–3.10pm Supported by Culture Ireland by SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 Internationally celebrated French author the motivation behind their acts of giving, Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage arrangement with Poetry Ireland. Marie Darrieussecq talks to Suzanne Leal and ask whether intention really matters. SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 CUR 64 FRANK BONGIORNO: WHY about passion, otherness and love in Presented with Philanthropy Australia and roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf WE CAN’T GET OVER THE EIGHTIES her latest book, Men, and describes Sydney Community Foundation. 53 FIONA McFARLANE SPEAKS May 19, 4.30–5.10pm her work with Charlie Hebdo after the Free, no bookings WITH 57 ANIMATING HISTORY Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage tragedy of 2015. May 19, 3–4pm, Philharmonia Studio May 19, 3–4pm SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 $15 Bookings 9250 1988 49 NSW PREMIER’S AWARDS: Fiona McFarlane’s new story collection, The Pier 4/5 The Waterfront roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf MEET THE WRITERS High Places, explores those moments when Jami Attenberg, David Dyer and Sulari 65 FINANCE AND FICTION May 19, 1.30–2.30pm we confront the strangeness and mystery of Gentill share the joys of bringing the past May 19, 4.30–5.30pm 46 THE WRITER WHO CHANGED Sydney Dance 2 our lives. Fiona speaks with Michelle de Kretser. to life through fiction with Michael Williams. Philharmonia Studio ME: TEGAN BENNETT DAYLIGHT Be the first to hear from the winners of $15 Bookings 9250 1988 Their new novels range in subject from the Why do we have an enduring fascination ON S.J. PERELMAN the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Titanic to the Jazz Age. with financial folly and gr eed? Novelists May 19, 1.30–2.30pm representing the best in new Australian $15 Bookings 9250 1988 Richard McHugh, Paul Murray and Jane Richard Wherrett Studio literature across a variety of genres. 54 WENDY WHITELEY: SAVING roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Messer talk to John M. Green about why Tegan Bennett Daylight talks about S.J. Free, no bookings A SECRET GARDEN they revel in the drama of high finance. Perelman, the Marx Brothers’ scriptwriter May 19, 3–4pm, Pier 2/3 Club Stage 58 ART AND LIFE $15 Bookings 9250 1988 and New Yorker essayist whose meticulous 50 ADAM FORD: MY LIFE IN RUINS Wendy Whiteley spent 20 years May 19, 3–4pm roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf wit and erudition have been a lifelong May 19, 1.30–2.30pm transforming a huge dump of railway land Richard Wherrett Studio influence on her work. With Ailsa Piper. Wharf 2 Theatre into a glorious guerrilla garden. Wendy Kendrah Morgan, Lesley Harding, Mark 66 GAIL AND JULIETTE O’BRIEN: $15 Bookings 9250 1988 From burials in Barbados to Bronze Age and Janet Hawley speak about their book O’Flynn and Suzanne Falkiner speak to AFTER CATASTROPHE roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf cities on the Euphrates, Adam Ford has Wendy Whiteley and the Secret Garden. Rachel Kent about the Australian literary May 19, 4.30–5.30pm dug, dived, abseiled and trekked his way With Wayne Tunnicliffe. and artistic lives that have captured their Pier 2/3 Club Stage 47 EMMA SKY: HIGH HOPES AND into history. He gives a talk then speaks $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 attention, from to Eve How do you carry on after devastating MISSED OPPORTUNITIES IN IRAQ to Richard Miles about his memoir, roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Langley and John and Sunday Reed. tragedies? Gail O’Brien, wife of the late May 19, 1.30–2.30pm My Life in Ruins. $15 Bookings 9250 1988 surgeon Chris O’Brien, and their daughter Roslyn Packer Theatre $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 55 GEORGE MEGALOGENIS: roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Juliette, talk to Caroline Overington about The Unravelling is the memoir of Emma roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf AUSTRALIA’S SECOND CHANCE their new book, This is Gail. Sky, a civilian, pacifist and liberal Brit who May 19, 3–4pm, Pier 2/3 Main Stage 59 ON THE ROAD $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 became chief adviser to the US military in 51 THE BOOK CLUB SEE GUEST CURATORS, Page 5 May 19, 3–4pm roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf the combat zones of Iraq. Emma speaks to May 19, 2–3.45pm. ABC Studios Roslyn Packer Theatre James Brown. Join Jennifer Byrne with regular panellists 56 PAUL MULDOON: ONE Feminist icon Gloria Steinem, Indigenous 67 FOR THE LOVE OF ANIMALS $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger, plus THOUSAND THINGS WORTH poet Ali Cobby Eckermann and French May 19, 4.30–5.30pm roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf exciting Festival guests, for a taping of a KNOWING author Jean-Christophe Rufin, who Pier 2/3 Main Stage special Sydney Writers’ Festival edition of May 19, 3–4pm, Pier 2/3 The Loft walked the Camino de Santiago, all A playful and thoughtful chat with writers ABC TV’s The Book Club. David Malouf joins Pulitzer Prize–winning Irish have travel in their blood. This trio has whose creative work reflects their abiding

1HERSA1 S006 City & Walsh Bay THURS MAY 19 - FRI MAY 20 7 swf.org.au connection with animals. Shepherd James 72 ONE LIFE, MANY WORLDS 81 NIGHT OF THE NERDS Rebanks, cartoonist First Dog on the Moon May 19, 4.30–5.30pm May 19, 8–9.30pm and writer Ceridwen Dovey join ABC RN’s Sydney Dance 1 Roslyn Packer Theatre Ellen Fanning. Nelson Mandela’s private secretary Zelda la SEE NIGHTS AT THE WHARF, Page 15 $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Grange, Bosnian refugee turned American roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf literary star Aleksandar Hemon and the 82 HANYA YANAGIHARA: winner of the 2016 Finch Memoir Prize A LITTLE LIFE 68 THE DANGER OF IDEAS speak with Louise Adler about the turning May 19, 8.15–9.15pm May 19, 4.30–5.30pm points that have shaped their lives. 77 Jeanette City Recital Hall Angel Place Pier 2/3 The Loft Free, no bookings SEE EVENT HIGHLIGHT, Page 8 SEE GUEST CURATORS, Page 5 Winterson 73 CREATING WORLDS 83 LATE NIGHT SALON 69 CARMEN AGUIRRE: MEMOIRS May 19, 4.30–5.30pm May 19, 9.30–11pm OF A REVOLUTIONARY DAUGHTER Sydney Dance 2 Pier 2/3 Hemingway Bar May 19, 4.30–5.30pm Anna Smaill, James Bradley and Lynette SEE NIGHTS AT THE WHARF, Page 15 Pier 4/5 The Waterfront Noni speak to David Henley about finding Carmen Aguirre is a Chilean refugee, the right balance between grounded reality revolutionary dissident, actress and now and glorious imagination when it comes to FRIDAY, MAY 20 a bestselling writer. She speaks to Linda creating new universes in fiction. 84 COFFEE AND PAPERS WITH Jaivin about her life, as told in her memoir. Free, no bookings THE SMH, XU ZHIYUAN AND Supported by the Consulate General of SATYAJIT DAS Canada, Sydney. 74 TAMMY AND LESLEY WILLIAMS: May 20, 9–10am, The Theatre Bar at $15 Bookings 9250 1988 NOT JUST BLACK AND WHITE the End of the Wharf roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf May 19, 4.30–5.30pm Join Sydney Morning Herald editor Judith Wharf 2 Theatre Festival Highlight Whelan, SMH journalists and special guests 70 THINGS FALL APART Lesley Williams’s fight to reclaim stolen Xu Zhiyuan and Satyajit Das to hear their May 19, 4.30–5.30pm wages led to the Queensland government’s take on what’s making headlines today Richard Wherrett Studio historic $55.4 million reparations package. 77 JEANETTE WINTERSON: THE GAP OF TIME and the changing nature of journalism. What do you do when your world Hear Lesley and daughter Tammy talk to May 19, 6.15–7.15pm Supported by The Sydney Morning Herald. implodes? Novelists Suzanne Leal, Eileen Baldry about growing up Indigenous City Recital Hall Angel Place Free, no bookings Josephine Rowe and Susan Johnson show and finding justice. Multi–award–winning writer Jeanette Winterson gives a special talk on her that no matter what the catastrophe, how $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 recent novel, The Gap of Time. A contemporary take on The Winter’s Tale, this CUR 85 SUSAN JOHNSON: NANCY we cope is what makes us human. They roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf is a story of love, jealousy and estrangement. Supported by the British Council. SINATRA’S BOOTS speak with Meredith Jaffé. Premium $45, A Reserve $35/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 or 8256 2222 May 20, 10–10.40am $15 Bookings 9250 1988 75 MICK TURNER AND PEGGY roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf or cityrecitalhall.com Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf FREW: LIVING, DREAMING, SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 MAKING 71 PETER FRANKOPAN: THE May 19, 6–7pm, Pier 2/3 Club Stage 77 JEANETTE WINTERSON: THE which unpicks Tony Abbott and Peta 86 ALEKSANDAR HEMON: SILK ROADS SEE NIGHTS AT THE WHARF, Page 15 GAP OF TIME Credlin’s political downfall. THE BOOK OF MY LIVES May 19, 4.30–5.30pm May 19, 6.15–7.15pm $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 May 20, 10–11am Roslyn Packer Theatre 76 JANNA LEVIN: BLACK HOLE City Recital Hall Angel Place roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Philharmonia Studio In his breathtaking book, The Silk Roads, Peter BLUES AND OTHER SONGS SEE EVENT HIGHLIGHT, Page 7 Aleksandar Hemon’s latest novel is The Frankopan has rewritten the history of the FROM OUTER SPACE (AKA 79 AUSTEN’S WOMEN Making of Zombie Wars, a story that tackles world from the ancient Eastern perspective THE RECENT DISCOVERY OF 278 NIKI SAVVA: THE ROAD May 19, 7–8.10pm, Wharf 2 Theatre love, violence, unhinged landlords and of the Silk Roads, where civilisation began, GRAVITATIONAL WAVES) TO RUIN SEE EVENT HIGHLIGHT, Page 6 cinematic zombies. He speaks to ABC religions were born, and goods, disease and May 19, 6–7pm May 19, 6.30–7.30pm RN’s Sarah Kanowski about his fiction and ideas flowed. With Richard Miles. Roslyn Packer Theatre Pier 2/3 Main Stage 80 SARAH KAY AND PHIL KAYE acclaimed memoir, The Book of My Lives. $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 SEE NIGHTS AT THE WHARF, Page 15 Political commentator Niki Savva speaks to May 19, 7.30–9pm, Pier 2/3 Club Stage $15 Bookings 9250 1988 roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf David Marr about her explosive new book, SEE NIGHTS AT THE WHARF, Page 15 roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf

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87 IRELAND: WRITERS TALK CUR 98 MARTIN FLANAGAN: ON $15 Bookings 9250 1988 POLITICS LISTENING roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf May 20, 10–11am, Pier 2/3 Main Stage May 20, 11–11.40am Join a lively discussion on the pressing Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage 103 JAMI ATTENBERG: SAINT issues facing Ireland today. John Boyne, SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 MAZIE AND THE JAZZ AGE Paul Muldoon and Paul Murray share May 20, 11.30am–12.30pm ideas on their homeland’s turbulent and 99 STORIES BUILDINGS TELL Richard Wherrett Studio surprising social and political landscape. 82 Hanya May 20, 11.30am–12.30pm Join Leah Kaminsky and Jami Attenberg to Hosted by Marian Wilkinson. Supported by Philharmonia Studio discuss Jami’s latest novel, Saint Mazie, set the Consulate General of Ireland, Sydney. Join archaeologist and writer Adam Ford, in Jazz Age New York and featuring a feisty $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Yanagihara Palestinian architect Suad Amiry and heroine with a heart as big as the city. roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf urban policy expert Jane Jose as they $15 Bookings 9250 1988 delve into the human stories behind the roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf 88 NAPOLEON: THE INTRIGUES OF architecture and buildings that surround us. AN EMPEROR With Sophie Lieberman. 104 JONATHAN FRANZEN: MY May 20, 10–11am, Pier 2/3 The Loft $15 Bookings 9250 1988 READING LIFE Get set for eye-opening revelations on roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf May 20, 11.30am–12.30pm the secret machinations of Napoleon, one Roslyn Packer Theatre of history’s greatest public figures, with 100 YEONMI PARK: From Wallace and Alice authors and historians Anne Whitehead, ESCAPING NORTH KOREA Munro to Don DeLillo and Franz Kafka, Philip Dwyer and Tom Keneally, who speak Festival Highlight May 20, 11.30am–12.30pm Jonathan Franzen’s reading life is rich, with ABC RN’s . Pier 2/3 Main Stage varied and often unexpected. Jonathan $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Human rights activist and North Korean chats to Tegan Bennett Daylight about roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf 82 HANYA YANAGIHARA: A LITTLE LIFE defector Yeonmi Park talks to Suzanne Leal his favourite books. Supported by the May 19, 8.15–9.15pm about her memoir In Order to Live, which U.S. Consulate General, Sydney. 89 ‘DIFFICULT’ WOMEN City Recital Hall Angel Place recounts her extraordinary escape from the $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 May 20, 10–11am Hanya Yanagihara’s Man Booker-shortlisted A Little Life is one of the most world’s most secretive regime. roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Pier 4/5 The Waterfront talked-about books of recent times. Hanya speaks with Benjamin Law about her Supported by UNSW Arts & Social Sciences. Why are women so often labelled dark, beautiful depiction of heartbreak and friendship in New York City. Supported $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 105 HAVE WE REACHED troublemakers for being unconventional or by the U.S. Consulate General, Sydney. roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf PEAK INTERNET? challenging the status quo? Paula Hawkins, Premium $45, A Reserve $35/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 or 8256 2222 May 20, 11.30am–12.30pm Charlotte Wood and Petina Gappah explore roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf or cityrecitalhall.com 101 SESSIONS WITH SUSIE: Sydney Dance 1 the role of ‘difficult’ women in fiction and in ROGER COHEN One futurist, one Google creative director life, with Ashley Hay. May 20, 11.30am–12.30pm and one podcast host explore the infinite $15 Bookings 9250 1988 Pier 2/3 The Loft possibilities of technology in the future. roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf and disturbed by war. Samanth speaks to 97 NEW AUSTRALIAN VOICES SEE GUEST CURATORS, Page 5 Richard Watson, T.L. Uglow and PJ Vogt Michael Williams. May 20, 10.30–11.30am, The Theatre speak to Jamila Rizvi. 90 DAMON YOUNG: THE ART Free, no bookings Bar at the End of the Wharf 102 DRUSILLA MODJESKA: THE Free, no bookings OF READING Discover Australia’s best emerging FRIENDS, THE LOVERS, THE BOOKS May 20, 10–11am 94 : CROSSWORDS IN writers as they read from and discuss May 20, 11.30am–12.30pm 106 IT’S THE STORY THAT Richard Wherrett Studio THE MORNING their work. Featuring novelist Peggy Frew, Pier 4/5 The Waterfront BINDS US Join Damon Young alongside Jane May 20, 10–11am Indigenous poet Maggie Walsh and short- Drusilla Modjeska speaks about her fearless May 20, 11.30am–12.30pm Gleeson-White as he reveals the pleasures Sydney Dance Lounge story writer Abigail Ulman in conversation memoir, which explores love, friendship Sydney Dance 2 and adventures that come with living a Do you love the smell of anagrams in the with Jill Eddington. and home. It’s also a portrait of literary Indigenous performance artists and writers bookish life. morning? Professional wordsmith David Free, no bookings SydneyDrusilla speaks to Felicity Plunkett. Celestine Rowe and Alexis West, and poet $15 Bookings 9250 1988 Astle takes you through insider tips that Dorothea Smartt of Barbadian heritage roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf will put you on the path towards linguistic come together with Rhoda Roberts for enlightenment. an hour of readings and stories about the 91 WILLIAM BOYD AND JULIAN Free, no bookings genesis of their work. BARNES: HISTORY AND FICTION Free, no bookings May 20, 10–11am 95 JOHN CANTWELL: LEADERSHIP Roslyn Packer Theatre IN ACTION 107 THE SHADOW OF 1975 Join two of Britain’s greatest novelists May 20, 10–11am, Wharf 2 Theatre May 20, 11.30am–12.30pm and masters of their craft, Julian Barnes Major-General John Cantwell commanded 147 William Wharf 2 Theatre (The Noise of Time) and William Boyd forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and was Boyd Paul Kelly and Troy Bramston (The (Sweet Caress), as they ask whether fiction deputy chief of the Australian Army. His Dismissal), and Whitlam’s biographer Jenny goes where history fears to tread. With new book explains how the leadership skills Hocking join David Marr to talk about one Amelia Lester. he learned on the frontline also apply to of the most dramatic years in Australian $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 everyday life. With Ross Coulthart. political history. roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf 92 FIXING THE SYSTEM May 20, 10–11am, Sydney Dance 1 96 ABC MORNING: ABC RN’S CUR 108 JOHN BIRMINGHAM: Peter van Onselen, Anne Tiernan, Andrew BOOKS AND ARTS DAILY AND DEATH SPIRAL – THE FUTURE OF Fowler and Griffith Review editor Julianne ABC RADIO’S CONVERSATIONS MEDIA AND PUBLISHING Schultz discuss how our institutions both LIVE BROADCAST May 20, 12–12.40pm support and fail us, and what we can do May 20, 10am–12pm Festival Highlight Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage about it. Pier 2/3 Club Stage SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 Free, no bookings Michael Cathcart, presenter of ABC RN’s Books and Arts, hosts a live broadcast from 147 WILLIAM BOYD: THE MANY LIVES OF AMORY CLAY 109 MADNESS AND 93 SRI LANKA: THIS DIVIDED 10am featuring conversations with top May 20, 6.30–7.30pm MALEVOLENCE: HISTORY ISLAND Festival guests. At 11am draws City Recital Hall Angel Place THROUGH FICTION May 20, 10–11am, Sydney Dance 2 you into a fascinating real-life story for ABC One of Britain’s best-loved storytellers, William Boyd, speaks to Catherine Keenan May 20, 1–2pm, Pier 2/3 Club Stage Indian author Samanth Subramanian’s Radio’s Conversations. about history, love and artistic expression. William’s new novel, Sweet Caress, is a Is truth really stranger than fiction? new book This Divided Island traverses Free, no bookings vivid tale of the life of a female war photographer. Supported by Editor Group. Novelists Marlon James, Nir Baram and war-ravaged Sri Lanka, using personal Premium $45, A Reserve $35/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 or 8256 2222 Álvaro Enrigue each have decidedly stories to reveal a country exhausted roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf or cityrecitalhall.com idiosyncratic takes on history. They fi lm Image: Stll from AFTRS student Problems with a Girl and Unicorn Problems

1HERSA1 S008 City & Walsh Bay FRIDAY MAY 20 9 swf.org.au speak to ABC RN’s Kate Evans about 141 CHOOSING YOUR WORDS incorporating the past into stories. May 20, 4.30–5.30pm $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Sydney Dance 1 roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Language is one of the most powerful tools we have to influence and disempower. 110 THE LITERARY HEALING ROOM Writer and novelist Anna Smaill May 20, 1–5pm, Pier 2/3 Foyer 151 SWF Gala speak to Linda Jaivin about why language is Bibliotherapist Susan Elderkin (The Novel our greatest gift and our greatest weapon. Cure: An A-Z of Literary Remedies) will be Free, no bookings offering 10-minute consultations – come and be cured with a novel. 142 UTS 2016 ANTHOLOGY Drop in to sign up in the Pier 2/3 foyer. LAUNCH: SEEDS AND SKELETONS May 20, 4.30–5.30pm CUR 111 CHRISTOPHER NEFF: THE Sydney Dance 2 SHARK ‘ATTACK’ MYTH Join us at the launch of the 2016 UTS May 20, 1.30–2.10pm Writers’ Anthology, Seeds and Skeletons, with Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage special guest speaker, Catherine Keenan. SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 Celebrate this exciting annual collection of work from emerging UTS writers. 112 DARK ENCHANTMENTS: Free, no bookings AN HOUR OF OLD-FASHIONED STORYTELLING Festival Highlight 143 STARLEE KINE: FROM May 20, 1.30–2.30pm TO Philharmonia Studio MYSTERY SHOW The best fairy tales are told only when 151 SWF GALA: THE BOOK THAT SAVED ME May 20, 4.30–5.30pm the children are asleep. Join seductive May 20, 8.15–9.45pm Wharf 2 Theatre storytellers Cat Weatherill and Kate Forsyth Sydney Town Hall Starlee Kine is a podcast icon. She speaks for two dangerously delicious fairy tales Some of the world’s most celebrated writers share the books that saved and defined to Benjamin Law about writing and from Old Europe. them. Featuring Jeanette Winterson, , Kate Tempest, Vivian Gornick, producing stories for This American Life $15 Bookings 9250 1988 Herman Koch and Marlon James. Hosted by 702 ABC Sydney’s Richard Glover. and now Mystery Show, where she solves roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Premium $55, A Reserve $45/$30 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au or compelling enigmas. Supported by the roslynpacker.com.au/swf U.S. Consulate General, Sydney. 113 VIVIAN GORNICK: THE ODD $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 WOMAN AND NEW YORK CITY roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf May 20, 1.30–2.30pm story? Three experts in suspense, crime emotional connection and getting the small 135 CRIMES, TRUE AND Pier 2/3 Main Stage writers Candice Fox, Graham Potts and details right, with John Purcell. 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ME: DEBRA ADELAIDE ON 129 THE REALITY OF WAR: roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Free, bookings essential, email EMILY BRONTË 122 TALES OF DISASTER AND RECONCILING TWO WORLDS [email protected] May 20, 1.30–2.30pm OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE May 20, 3–4pm, Sydney Dance 1 137 ROSALIE HAM: THE Pier 4/5 The Waterfront May 20, 2.30–3.30pm What’s it actually like to be in a war and DRESSMAKER, A MODERN 146 GLORIA STEINEM: LIFE Debra Adelaide’s latest novel references Pier 2/3 Club Stage what are the challenges of re-entering CLASSIC ON THE ROAD Wuthering Heights and its author in Join David Marr alongside journalist civilian life? James Brown speaks to Jamie May 20, 4.30–5.30pm May 20, 6.15–7.15pm unexpected ways. Debra discusses how Laura Tingle, politician Andrew Leigh Zimmerman, Major-General John Cantwell Pier 2/3 The Loft Sydney Town Hall Emily Brontë has shaped her reading and and biographer Paddy Manning for an and Mark Dapin about life on the frontline. 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Richard Wherrett Studio of the world’s most influential publishing Limited tickets available, A Reserve Stephanie Bishop (The Other Side of the 123 THE NEW AUSTRALIAN houses? James Gurbutt, Jenna Johnson 138 WORLD WAR II IN FICTION $45/$30 Bookings 9250 1988, swf. World) and Kirsten Tranter (Hold) speak POETRY and Anish Chandy join Michael Heyward May 20, 4.30–5.30pm org.au or roslynpacker.com.au/swf to Ashley Hay about their novels and the May 20, 3–4pm, Philharmonia Studio to reveal the trends and taboos of editorial Pier 4/5 The Waterfront loneliness, desire and art they capture so Don’t miss the launch of an exciting departments across the globe. Nir Baram, Leah Kaminsky and John Boyne 147 WILLIAM BOYD: THE MANY well in their books. and historic Australian issue of Poetry, Free, no bookings speak to Michaela Kalowski about how they LIVES OF AMORY CLAY $15 Bookings 9250 1988 edited by Robert Adamson. 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Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Richard Wherrett Studio Join STC’s artistic director Jonathan Church ranging discussion about our complex and May 20, 3–4pm, Pier 2/3 Main Stage SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 Ailsa Piper joins Suzanne Leal, Emily as he announces the winners of the 2015 contradictory relationship with nature. With SEE THINKING GLOBALLY, Page 14 Maguire and Mireille Juchau, writers Patrick White Playwrights’ Award and ABC RN’s Natasha Mitchell. 133 702 ABC SYDNEY DRIVE WITH preoccupied with what lies beneath our Fellowship. Following the announcement, $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 125 HAS ATHEISM HAD ITS DAY? RICHARD GLOVER, FEATURING social façades and collective taboos. STC artists will present a rehearsed reading roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf May 20, 3–4pm, Pier 2/3 The Loft THANK GOD IT’S FRIDAY $15 Bookings 9250 1988 of the award-winning play. 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Li Zhou speaks with writer and roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf but does it consider our quality of life? Roslyn Packer Theatre intellectual Xu Zhiyuan, novelist Ye Xin and CUR 134 PHILIP DWYER: A HISTORY Andrew Denton speaks to David Leser SEE GUEST CURATORS, Page 5 China Studies lecturer Dr Minglu Chen. 126 HEART AND SOUL: CREATING OF VIOLENCE about our assisted dying laws and his Free, no bookings CHARACTERS THAT MATTER May 20, 4.30–5.10pm podcast series, Better Off Dead. 150 GIANT DWARF PRESENTS THE May 20, 3–4pm Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 YARRAMADOON PUBLIC SCHOOL 119 RISING TENSION Pier 4/5 The Waterfront SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf DEBATE NIGHT May 20, 1.30–2.30pm Novelists Kelly Doust, Antonia Hayes and May 20, 7.30–9pm Sydney Dance 2 Inga Simpson each create characters Pier 2/3 Club Stage Have you ever sacrificed sleep to a good you can’t help caring about. They discuss SEE NIGHTS AT THE WHARF, Page 15

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151 SWF GALA: THE BOOK THAT contemporary literature. Dubbed Israel’s CUR 182 MARC FENNELL: WHY SAVED ME Dostoevsky, Nir speaks with Louise Adler PINOCCHIO WAS A SOCIOPATH May 20, 8.15–9.45pm about his latest novel, which brings AND ADVENTURES IN Sydney Town Hall together a young German Nazi and a WALT DISNEY SEE EVENT HIGHLIGHT, Page 9 Russian Stalinist to paint a sober view May 21, 1.30–2.10pm of humanity. Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage 152 THE END OF EUROPE? 176 James $15 Bookings 9250 1988 SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 May 20, 8.30–9.45pm roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf City Recital Hall Angel Place Rebanks 183 THE TRANSFORMATIVE SEE THINKING GLOBALLY, Page 14 175 MARK TEDESCHI: KIDNAPPED POWER OF ART May 21, 11.30am–12.30pm May 21, 1.30–2.30pm 153 LATE NIGHT SALON Richard Wherrett Studio Philharmonia Studio May 20, 9.30–11pm Katherine Biber speaks to Mark Tedeschi Kelsey Montague and Josh Yeldham Pier2/3 The Hemingway Bar AM QC about Australia’s most shocking talk about art’s power to heal and SEE NIGHTS AT THE WHARF, Page 15 kidnapping, the 1960 abduction of Graeme renew with ABC RN’s Cassie McCullagh. Thorne. In his astounding account of this Kelsey is known for her interactive true story, Mark tells of a country gripped angel-wing murals and Joshua is an SATURDAY, MAY 21 by fear. award-winning artist who works 154 COFFEE AND PAPERS WITH $15 Bookings 9250 1988 intimately with nature. THE SMH, EMMA SKY AND PETER Festival Highlight roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf $15 Bookings 9250 1988 DOHERTY roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf May 21, 9–10am, The Theatre Bar at 176 JAMES REBANKS: the End of the Wharf 176 JAMES REBANKS: A SHEPHERD’S LIFE A SHEPHERD’S LIFE 184 THE MAKING OF THE Join Sydney Morning Herald editor Judith May 21, 11.30am–12.30pm May 21, 11.30am–12.30pm DRESSMAKER Whelan, SMH journalists and special guests Roslyn Packer Theatre Roslyn Packer Theatre May 21, 1.30–2.30pm Peter Doherty and Emma Sky to hear their James Rebanks describes his unshakeable love for the UK’s Lake District, where SEE EVENT HIGHLIGHT, Page 10 Pier 2/3 Club Stage take on what’s making headlines today and his family has farmed for more than 600 years. He talks to ABC Radio’s Richard Join Rosalie Ham, Jocelyn Moorhouse the changing nature of journalism. 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CUR 155 MATTHEW CONDON: treachery of recollection. as they share new works on a walking tour Paul Murray’s latest book intertwines $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 HOW MURDERERS AND CRIMINAL $15 Bookings 9250 1988 of the Royal Botanic Gardens, followed the lives of an Irish banker and a dodgy roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf POND SCUM CHANGED MY LIFE roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf by drinks and conversation with The employer, a down-on-his-luck writer and May 21, 10–10.40am Planthunter and Tamryn Bennett. a beautiful waitress, to create a funny and 185 EXTRAORDINARY LIVES Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage 162 WHY WOMEN SHOULD RULE $18, Bookings new-shoots.event profound story of institutional folly. Paul May 21, 1.30–2.30pm SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 THE WORLD brite.com.au speaks with Rónán McDonald. Pier 2/3 Main Stage May 21, 10–11am Supported by Culture Ireland by Three extraordinary women, three 156 A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN Roslyn Packer Theatre 170 TEGAN BENNETT DAYLIGHT: arrangement with Poetry Ireland. extraordinary lives. Live vicariously May 21, 10–11am SEE GUEST CURATORS, Page 5 SIX BEDROOMS Free, no bookings through Magda Szubanski, Carmen Philharmonia Studio May 21, 11.30am–12.30pm Aguirre and Jane Caro as they let you in Join Drusilla Modjeska, Debra Adelaide and 163 WRITING LIVE SUBJECTS: THE Philharmonia Studio 178 MEET THE SMH BEST YOUNG on the triumphs, challenges and defining Kirsten Tranter in a thoughtful and lively PLEASURES AND PITFALLS OF Tegan Bennett Daylight is one of Australia’s NOVELISTS moments of their lives. With 702 ABC discussion with Elizabeth Johnstone BIOGRAPHY most astute chroniclers of the intensity of May 21, 11.30am–12.30pm Sydney’s James Valentine. about the depiction of women, art, May 21, 10–11am, Sydney Dance 1 youth. Tegan talks with Charlotte Wood Sydney Dance 2 $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 creativity and autonomy in their new Is it possible to write a full and impartial about her new collection of short stories, Each year The Sydney Morning Herald roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf works of fiction and memoir. account of a public figure who is still alive? Six Bedrooms. names the authors it considers to be the $15 Bookings 9250 1988 Martin Flanagan, Catharine Lumby and $15 Bookings 9250 1988 best young fiction writers in the country. 186 KATE TEMPEST: THE BRICKS roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Kerry O’Brien discuss the challenges, perks roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Susan Wyndham leads a discussion with THAT BUILT THE HOUSES and pitfalls of writing about the living, with the 2016 winners, including short readings. May 21, 1.30–2.30pm 157 THE BEAUTY OF TRUTH: Margot Saville. 171 SURVEILLANCE: HOW BIG IS Free, no bookings Pier 2/3 The Loft WRITING SCIENCE Free, no bookings BIG BROTHER? Londoner Kate Tempest, an award-winning May 21, 10–11am, Pier 2/3 Club Stage May 21, 11.30am–12.30pm 179 FIRST DOG ON THE MOON LIVE poet and rapper, has turned her prodigious Public conversation around key scientific 164 THE RISKY BUSINESS OF Pier 2/3 Club Stage May 21, 11.30am–12.30pm talents for song, spoken word and theatre issues is often hijacked by hype and BREAKING NEWS SEE THINKING GLOBALLY, Page 14 Wharf 2 Theatre into a dynamic debut novel. She takes to misinformation. Janna Levin, Wilson da May 21, 10–11am, Sydney Dance 2 Do you want to be a national treasure the stage with Michael Williams. Silva and Michael Slezak speak to Bianca In the social media age, stories unfold in 172 BEING ROSIE WATERLAND and save the Earth? Find out how from $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Nogrady about the importance of telling real time. , Michael Reid and May 21, 11.30am–12.30pm ’s much-loved cartoonist, roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf the full story. Claire Phipps chat to Walkley Award-winning Pier 2/3 Main Stage First Dog on the Moon, as he scampers $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 journalist Kate McClymont about the beauty A sad, funny and completely oversharing about in this fascinating theatre show, 187 THE WRITER WHO CHANGED roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf and frustrations of our 24-hour news cycle. conversation with Rosie Waterland about complete with Q&A session. Hosted by ME: DON WATSON ON GABRIEL Free, no bookings her laugh-till-you-cry memoir, The Anti-Cool Chris Endrey. GARCÍA MARQUÉZ 158 AMANDA KELLER: MY LIFE Girl. With her trademark humour and $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 May 21, 1.30–2.30pm AND OTHER PALAVER 165 DAVID ASTLE: CROSSWORDS red-raw honesty, Rosie talks to Zoe Norton roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Pier 4/5 The Waterfront May 21, 10–11am, Pier 2/3 Main Stage IN THE MORNING Lodge about coming to terms with her Don Watson first read Gabriel García Join broadcaster and radio star Amanda May 21, 10–11am past. CUR 180 MEGAN MACKENZIE: Marquéz around 1980, and although he has Keller and Tracey Spicer as they chat about Sydney Dance Lounge $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 DO WOMEN BELONG ON THE never written anything that resembles the Amanda’s daggy suburban childhood, her Do you love the smell of anagrams in the roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf FRONTLINE? Colombian writer’s tales, his influence left rise to fame and her unrepentant passion morning? Professional wordsmith David Astle May 21, 12–12.40pm its mark on many of Don’s big life decisions. for the great Barry Manilow. takes you through insider tips that will put you 173 SESSIONS WITH SUSIE: Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage With Delia Falconer. $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 on the path towards linguistic enlightenment. RICHARD GLOVER SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 $15 Bookings 9250 1988 roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Free, no bookings May 21, 11.30am–12.30pm roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Pier 2/3 The Loft 181 THE LITERARY HEALING ROOM 159 SOFIE LAGUNA: THE EYE OF 166 RUSSEL HOWCROFT: WHEN SEE GUEST CURATORS, Page 5 May 21, 1–5pm, Pier 2/3 Foyer 188 FILM TO FICTION: WHAT I THE SHEEP IT’S RIGHT TO BE WRONG Bibliotherapist Susan Elderkin (The Novel LEARNED FROM SCREENWRITING May 21, 10–11am May 21, 10–11am, Wharf 2 Theatre 174 NIR BARAM: GOOD PEOPLE Cure: An A-Z of Literary Remedies) will May 21, 1.30–2.30pm Pier 2/3 The Loft Adman Russel Howcroft has made a May 21, 11.30am–12.30pm be offering 10-minute consultations Richard Wherrett Studio Winner of the 2015 career out of getting results by doing the Pier 4/5 The Waterfront – come and be cured with a novel! Some of the most useful disciplines of novel Sofie Laguna talks to Ashley Hay about unexpected. 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Barrett and Tony Cavanaugh. maelstrom. $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 $15 Bookings 9250 1988 $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf 167 NEW AUSTRALIAN VOICES 189 MARLON JAMES: A BRIEF 160 VALERIA LUISELLI: THE STORY May 21, 10.30–11.30am, The Theatre 194 Paula HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS OF MY TEETH Bar at the End of the Wharf May 21, 1.30–2.30pm May 21, 10–11am Discover Australia’s best emerging writers Hawkins Roslyn Packer Theatre Pier 4/5 The Waterfront as they read from and discuss their work. The winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize, Mexican essayist and novelist Valeria John Purcell speaks to poet and essayist A Brief History of Seven Killings, is a wild, Luiselli is one of the most talked-about Fiona Wright and debut novelists Stephanie imaginative feat, circling around the new voices on the New York literary Bishop and Lucy Treloar. attempted assassination of Bob Marley. scene, with her sharp, richly imaginative Free, no bookings ABC RN’s Michael Cathcart speaks to style. Valeria speaks with Kate Fagan. author Marlon James,. $15 Bookings 9250 1988 CUR 168 PAUL MULDOON: ON $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf SEAMUS HEANEY Festival Highlight roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf May 21, 11–11.40am 161 PETINA GAPPAH: THE BOOK Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage 190 THE MODERN FLANEUR OF MEMORY SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 194 PAULA HAWKINS: THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN May 21, 1.30–2.30pm May 21, 10–11am May 21, 3–4pm Sydney Dance 1 Richard Wherrett Studio 169 NEW SHOOTS: POEMS City Recital Hall Angel Place Contemporary urban wanderers Luc Sante, Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah talks INSPIRED BY PLANTS The Girl on the Train is a taut psychological thriller where nothing is as it seems. Valeria Luiselli and Gail Jones discuss the to ABC RN’s Kate Evans about her novel, May 21, 11am–12.30pm and 2–3.30pm Author Paula Hawkins talks to ABC RN’s Kate Evans about writing a worldwide art of being a flâneur, and the places that which traverses Zimbabwe’s dirt-poor Royal Botanic Gardens bestseller and the ingredients for a compulsive read. inspire them and infuse their writing, from townships and well-heeled suburbs in a Commencing at Lion’s Gate Lodge, join Premium $45, A Reserve $35/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 or 8256 2222 Paris to Mexico City. With Louise Adler. gripping tale of love, obsession and the poets Eileen Chong and Mark Tredinnick roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf or cityrecitalhall.com Free, no bookings

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191 LOVE, SEX AND LITERATURE: Father Frank Brennan, doctor and author 210 THE BIG READ WHO’S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED? Leah Kaminsky and novelist Cory Taylor May 21, 4.30–5.30pm May 21, 1.30–2.30pm via video link, to discuss the troubling Pier 2/3 The Loft Sydney Dance 2 issues around legalising euthanasia. This year, The Big Read features Deepti Kapoor, Toni Jordan and John With Rebecca Huntley. an extraordinary line-up of literary Purcell expose their least wholesome $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 luminaries including William Boyd, thoughts about love and desire in literature. roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf 201 Stan Petina Gappah, Paul Murray, Marlon Do we live in a world where sexuality is James and Carmen Aguirre. Hosted by accepted as fluid, or are we still restricted 199 SUSIE ORBACH: FAT IS STILL Grant Annette Shun Wah. by taboos? With Kate Forsyth. A FEMINIST ISSUE $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Free, no bookings May 21, 3–4pm roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Pier 4/5 The Waterfront 192 CHILDREN’S BOOKS BY DESIGN SEE GUEST CURATORS, Page 5 211 NICOLAS FARGUES: LOVE, WITH JON KLASSEN BETRAYAL AND LIFE IN FRANCE May 21, 1.30–2.30pm, Wharf 2 Theatre 200 XU ZHIYUAN: INSIDE THE May 21, 4.30–5.30pm Jon Klassen is one of the world’s most REAL CHINA Pier 4/5 The Waterfront exciting and awarded voices in children’s May 21, 3–4pm Nicolas Fargues’s fiction is lucid and bitterly picture books. Jon lifts the veil on his creative Richard Wherrett Studio funny. His autobiographical novel I Was process and demonstrates how his design Get an insider’s view of contemporary Behind You explores his stormy separation background informs his work. With Jeremy Chinese society with intellectual, writer Festival Highlight from his wife. In a tête-a-tête with Linda Wortsman. Perfect for budding picture-book and editor Xu Zhiyuan, who speaks with Jaivin, Nicolas discusses writing and being writers, illustrators and designers. Shuangyuan Shi. Paper Tiger: Inside the a modern man in France. $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Real China is a series of nostalgic, critical 201 STAN GRANT: TALKING TO MY COUNTRY $15 Bookings 9250 1988 roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf and intriguing personal essays about May 21, 3–4pm roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Zhiyuan’s home. Supported by Sherman Roslyn Packer Theatre CUR 193 ROBERT MANNE: WHO Contemporary Art Foundation. Following his speech that stopped the nation, Stan Grant urges all Australians to 212 ADRIAN MCKINTY: RAIN DOGS CREATED ISIS? THE ROLES OF $15 Bookings 9250 1988 think deeply about identity. In this special talk he offers a powerful meditation on May 21, 4.30–5.30pm GEORGE W. BUSH AND roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf race and how we choose to go forward. With Rhoda Roberts. 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Emma Alberici to discuss Europe’s Featuring Vogel winner Murray Middleton, true 225 LATE NIGHT SALON Thinking Globally is supported by troubled future, with Eleanor Hall. crime author Alecia Simmonds and memoirist May 21, 9.30–11pm UNSW Arts & Social Sciences. Premium $45, A Reserve $35/$25 Elspeth Muir. In conversation with Lex Hirst. Pier 2/3 Hemingway Bar Bookings 9250 1988 or 8256 2222 Free, no bookings SEE NIGHTS AT THE WHARF, Page 15 roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf or cityrecitalhall.com CUR 237 GAIL JONES: SPIRAL TIME, BISCUIT TINS, BUTTERFLIES: HOW SUNDAY, MAY 22 NABOKOV ENLIVENS US 226 COFFEE AND PAPERS WITH 124 MIGRATION: A WORLD 171 SURVEILLANCE: HOW BIG IS 240 EXTREMISM: THE UNTOLD May 22, 11–11.40am THE SMH, MARIE DARRIEUSSECQ WITHOUT BORDERS? BIG BROTHER? HISTORY Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage AND JULIA LEIGH May 20, 3–4pm, Pier 2/3 Main Stage May 21, 11.30am–12.30pm May 22, 11.30am–12.30pm SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 May 22, 9–10am, The Theatre Bar at Is migration a fundamental human Pier 2/3 Club Stage Pier 2/3 Main Stage the End of the Wharf right? Writer Aleksandar Hemon, Listen in on a deeply subversive What makes an extremist movement take 238 YE XIN: EDUCATED YOUTH Join Sydney Morning Herald editor Judith specialist in Middle Eastern politics conversation as , Chinese root? 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153 LATE NIGHT SALON Nights at the Wharf May 20, 9.30–11pm Pier 2/3 Hemingway Bar ’s Chris Taylor gets up close After sundown the Festival gets a little bibliofriendly. From the outra- and personal with iconic Sydney artist geously educational Night of the Nerds to an interview with the inimi- Ken Done, Australia’s most candid gold table Magda Szubanski and hilarious performances, poetry and discus- medallist Leisel Jones and your friendly 76 Janna neighbourhood philosopher Julian sions on the Club Stage, evenings are the time to let your hair down and Baggini. get some literary healing. And be sure to join us for the adults-only Late Levin Free, no bookings Night Salon in The Hemingway Bar for uninhibited conversations with our most intrepid Festival guests. SATURDAY MAY 21 220 MY FAMILY AND OTHER Doherty, linguistic mastermind David OBSTACLES THURSDAY MAY 19 Astle, YouTube star Natalie Tran and May 21, 6–7pm, Pier 2/3 Club Stage 75 MICK TURNER AND PEGGY podcaster PJ Vogt. Everyone’s family is crazy, but Adrian FREW: LIVING, DREAMING, Premium $45, A Reserve Simon, Rosie Waterland and Tim MAKING $35/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 Elliott’s families were off the charts. May 19, 6–7pm, Pier 2/3 Club Stage roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf They discuss growing up with some Writer and musician Peggy Frew, and pretty insane experiences and learning Mick Turner from the Dirty Three play 83 LATE NIGHT SALON to laugh about them, with fellow songs and chat candidly to Anwen May 19, 9.30–11pm memoirist 702 ABC Sydney's Richard Crawford about the intersections of Pier 2/3 Hemingway Bar Glover. music, writing, art and intimacy in their The Chaser’s Chris Taylor gets up close $15 Bookings 9250 1988 uniquely creative household. and personal with former Greek finance roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf $15 Bookings 9250 1988 minister Yanis Varoufakis, futurist and Festival Highlight roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf robot expert Richard Watson and 223 PEOPLE OF LETTERS podcaster extraordinaire Starlee Kine. May 21, 7.30–9pm 80 SARAH KAY AND PHIL KAYE Free, no bookings 76 JANNA LEVIN: BLACK HOLE BLUES AND OTHER SONGS FROM OUTER Pier 2/3 Club Stage May 19, 7.30–9pm, Pier 2/3 Club Stage SPACE (AKA THE RECENT DISCOVERY OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES) Join Women of Letters as they stage a Mixing metaphor and imagery with May 19, 6–7pm very rare, very co–ed People of Letters, powerful political insight, Sarah Kay FRIDAY MAY 20 Roslyn Packer Theatre where well–known Australians are and Phil Kaye will blow you away. 149 MAGDA SZUBANSKI AND In 1916, Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves. In 2016 scientists paired off and invited to write ‘a letter to See two of spoken word’s most significant GEORGE MEGALOGENIS: RATED PG announced that they had recorded the sound of the cosmos for the first time. my other half’. voices in their only full-length Festival show. (POLISH AND GREEK) Astrophysicist Janna Levin joins Adam Spencer to share the juicy details. $15 Bookings 9250 1988 Hosted by Phil Wilcox. May 20, 7.30–8.30pm Premium $45, A Reserve $35/$25 roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf $15 Bookings 9250 1988 Roslyn Packer Theatre Bookings 9250 1988, roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Following the success of her recently 225 LATE NIGHT SALON released memoir, Reckoning, Magda May 21, 9.30–11pm 81 NIGHT OF THE NERDS Szubanski swaps notes with George 150 GIANT DWARF PRESENTS THE semi- educational presentations and, Pier 2/3 Hemingway Bar May 19, 8–9.30pm Megalogenis on how the dorky children YARRAMADOON PUBLIC SCHOOL most importantly, a fierce debate over The Chaser’s Chris Taylor gets up close Roslyn Packer Theatre of European migrants redefined DEBATE NIGHT -old conflict: cats versus dogs. and personal with national treasure Magda The night of nights for nerds is back, Australian culture. May 20, 7.30–9pm $15 Bookings 9250 1988 Szubanski, Indian novelist and yoga more outrageously educational than Premium $45, A Reserve Pier 2/3 Club Stage roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf instructor Ira Trivedi and musician turned ever. Host Adam Spencer juggles ideas $35/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 A class of your favourite comedians politician turned memoirist Peter Garrett. with Nobel-winning scientist Peter roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf go back to (junior) school for a night of Free, no bookings

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239 PJ VOGT: REPLY ALL ABC RN’s Dr Norman Swan, and argue for 269 WHY WOMEN’S VOICES May 22, 11.30am–12.30pm an open and fair food system that allows MATTER TO MEN Pier 2/3 Club Stage people to make informed choices. May 22, 4.30–5.30pm PJ Vogt is co–host of Reply All, a hugely $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Pier 2/3 Club Stage popular American podcast about the roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Moderated by screen director and internet. PJ speaks to Julian Morrow about producer Samantha Lang, this panel the weird and wonderful stories he’s 261 JESSICA ROWE: IS THIS MY comprises US academic Dr Michael uncovered, and life in audio. 254 Sarah BEAUTIFUL LIFE? Kimmel, playwright Nakkiah Lui and Free, no bookings May 22, 3–4pm screenwriter Tom Holloway, as they Ferguson Pier 4/5 The Waterfront discuss recent films and TV miniseries 240 EXTREMISM: THE UNTOLD Beneath the shiny surface was a life that that put female voices in the spotlight. HISTORY was unravelling – Jessica Rowe talks to Supported by the Australian Film Television May 22, 11.30am–12.30pm Meredith Jaffé about her funny and and Radio School. Pier 2/3 Main Stage brutally honest memoir, which reveals her Free, no bookings SEE THINKING GLOBALLY, Page 14 intimate struggles with career, fertility and post–natal depression. 270 ANNA FUNDER: COMING 241 FRANCE: WRITERS TALK Festival Highlight $15 Bookings 9250 1988 HOME POLITICS roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf May 22, 4.30–5.30pm May 22, 11.30am–12.30pm Pier 2/3 Main Stage Pier 2/3 The Loft 254 SARAH FERGUSON: 262 SACRED PLACES SEE GUEST CURATORS, Page 5 Join a lively discussion on the pressing THE KILLING SEASON UNCUT May 22, 3–4pm social and political issues facing France. May 22, 1.30–2.30pm Richard Wherrett Studio 271 LADIES ONLINE Hosted by ABC RN’s Roslyn Packer Theatre There’s something special about certain May 22, 4.30–5.30pm with French writers Marie Darrieussecq, Sarah Ferguson’s ABC TV series The Killing Season captivated Australia places. Australian authors Tony Birch (Ghost Pier 2/3 The Loft Nicolas Fargues and former diplomat Jean- with its account of Labor’s implosion during the Rudd–Gillard–Rudd years. River) and Lucy Treloar (Salt Creek) discuss Join writers and online stars Tara Moss, Christophe Rufin. Also with special guest She shares trade secrets about interviewing prime ministers with fellow the profound influence of landscape on Natalie Tran and Rosie Waterland for French Ambassador Christophe Lecourtier. journalist, George Megalogenis. their novels with Ailsa Piper. a juicy discussion with Emma Jane about Supported by the Embassy of France in $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988, roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf $15 Bookings 9250 1988 the perils and privileges, the highs and Australia and Institut Français. roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf lows of internet fame. Supported by $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Macleay College. roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf 249 LAID BARE: LIFE STORIES world – you can glimpse this in their spoken 263 BOB BROWN: ON OPTIMISM $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 May 22, 1.30–2.30pm word and poetry. Presented by Elizabeth May 22, 3–4pm roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf 242 BACK TO THE FUTURE: Pier 2/3 Club Stage Wymarra with Maggie Walsh, Lionel Roslyn Packer Theatre WOMEN WRITERS THEN AND NOW Discover the terror and liberation of being Fogarty and more. SEE EVENT HIGHLIGHT. Page 16 272 LUC SANTE: OUTCASTS, May 22, 11.30am–12.30pm honest about yourself on the page in this $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 CRIMINALS AND BOHEMIAN PARIS Pier 4/5 The Waterfront conversation between writers who are roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf 264 SATYAJIT DAS: May 22, 4.30–5.30pm Ceridwen Dovey, Paddy O’Reilly and the the subjects of their own work. Catriona GENERATIONAL WARFARE Pier 4/5 The Waterfront 2016 Stella Prize winner discuss how their Menzies-Pike, Fiona Wright and Elspeth CUR 256 DAVID DYER: TITANIC May 22, 3–4pm, Wharf 2 Theatre Paris, the City of Light, is also the city of writing has been shaped by their gender, Muir speak to Annette Shun Wah. AND THE SUFFRAGETTES We’re living through a period of prosperity the outcast, the criminal, the eccentric, the and the current state of women’s writing in Free, no bookings May 22, 2.30–3.10pm based on a culture of excess – where will wilfully non–conforming. Luc Sante gives Australia. With Delia Falconer. Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage it end? Economist Satyajit Das argues we us a panoramic view of the flipside of Paris. $15 Bookings 9250 1988 250 GEORGIA BLAIN: BETWEEN SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 are running out of resources, and it’s our With Caroline Baum. roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf A WOLF AND A DOG children who will suffer. With John McDuling. $15 Bookings 9250 1988 May 22, 1.30–2.30pm 257 MYSTERIOUS WAYS: POETRY $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf 243 DISTORTED HISTORIES Pier 2/3 Main Stage AND PUBLISHING roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf May 22, 11.30am–12.30pm One of Australia’s most versatile and May 22, 3–4pm, Philharmonia Studio 273 ANDREW FOWLER: DR DARK Richard Wherrett Studio beloved authors, Georgia Blain explores Poets work in mysterious ways. Join Kent 265 ME, MYSELF AND ANNE MEMORIAL LECTURE – GOOD The winner takes all – including the history. the big questions in her beautiful and MacCarter, Kate Lilley and Michelle Cahill as May 22, 3–4.15pm NEWS, BAD NEWS Join and Anna Clark provocative novel Between a Wolf and a they read their poetry and discuss how it Sydney Jewish Museum May 22, 4.30–5.30pm with Michelle Arrow for a myth–exploding Dog. In conversation with Charlotte Wood. works (and how they work) with Ivor Indyk. A number of well–known Australian authors Richard Wherrett Studio conversation that reveals how forgotten $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 $15 Bookings 9250 1988 read excerpts from The Diary of Anne Andrew Fowler (The War on Journalism) voices can change the way we understand roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Frank, a moving and poignant reminder of interrogates the current state of the our past and present. the brilliance of a young girl’s words. press, the rise of ‘thin journalism’ and its $15 Bookings 9250 1988 251 ANN GOLDSTEIN: 258 SEEKING ASYLUM $15 Bookings 9360 7999 implications for a democratic society. With roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf TRANSLATING PRIMO LEVI AND May 22, 3–4pm, Pier 2/3 Club Stage [email protected] Quentin Dempster. ELENA FERRANTE Can Australia maintain its harsh asylum- $15 Bookings 9250 1988 244 ANNABEL CRABB AND LEIGH May 22, 1.30–2.30pm seeker policies? This robust session looks CUR 266 LUCINDA HOLDFORTH: roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf SALES: OUR READING YEAR Pier 2/3 The Loft at one of the most troubling challenges of ON THE AARON SORKIN EFFECT May 22, 11.30am–12.30pm Elena Ferrante’s novels are enjoying our time. Join David Marr, Robert Manne, May 22, 3.30–4.10pm 274 PAUL KELLY: SEVEN SONNETS Roslyn Packer Theatre international success. Their translator Ann Madeline Gleeson and Eva Orner to discuss Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage & A SONG Leigh Sales and Annabel Crabb muse over Goldstein speaks about the nuanced art the issues. SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 May 22, 4.30–5.30pm the books that have delighted, surprised, of translation and how to stay true to an Free, no bookings Roslyn Packer Theatre inspired and frustrated them in the past year. author (especially an anonymous one) and CUR 267 MICHAEL ROBOTHAM: Shakespeare has had a deep influence on $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 their text. With ABC RN’s Sarah Kanowski. 259 HERMAN KOCH: PSYCHOLOGY THE PSYCHOLOGY OF OBSESSION Paul Kelly’s work and now finds form in his roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 AND DECEIT May 22, 4.30–5.10pm stunning new album, Seven Sonnets & A roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf May 22, 3–4pm, Pier 2/3 Main Stage Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Song. Paul speaks with Bell Shakespeare 245 THE LEGACY OF FAMILY Dutch author Herman Koch’s savage satire SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 Intersticia Fellow Kate Mulvany. Supported May 22, 11.30am–12.30pm 252 WRITERS OF INFLUENCE The Dinner was a global sensation. Catch by the British Council. Wharf 2 Theatre May 22, 1.30–2.30pm Koch with ABC RN’s Kate Evans discussing 268 ECCENTRICS, ODDBALLS $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 Debbie Whitmont talks to New York Times Pier 4/5 The Waterfront his work, including his latest novel, Summer AND MISFITS roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf columnist Roger Cohen (The Girl From Writers Vivian Gornick, Valeria Luiselli and House with Swimming Pool. Supported by May 22, 4.30–5.30pm Human Street) and Tim Elliott (Farewell to Drusilla Modjeska weave literary criticism the Dutch Foundation for Literature. Philharmonia Studio 275 JOHN BOYNE: A HISTORY OF the Father) about their moving memoirs, and history through memoir and fiction, $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Join authors Paddy O’Reilly, Mark Dapin LONELINESS families, identity and mental illness. showing that from Petrarch to Gissing to roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf and Fiona McFarlane for a chat with May 22, 4.30–5.30pm Supported by the New Israel Fund Woolf, our forebears are with us in every Sunil Badami about crafting idiosyncratic Wharf 2 Theatre Australia Foundation. word. With Louise Adler. 260 THE POLITICS OF FOOD, characters who don’t quite fit, and yet seem John Boyne is one of Ireland’s finest $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 $15 Bookings 9250 1988 DISEASE AND WELLNESS ready to step off the page. contemporary writers. He speaks with roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf May 22, 3–4pm, Pier 2/3 The Loft $15 Bookings 9250 1988 Chris Bowen about his novel A History Julian Baggini, Damon Gameau and Indira roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf of Loneliness, which takes savage aim at CUR 246 ANDREW HUNTER 253 THE WRITER WHO CHANGED Naidoo sort food fact from fiction with the Irish Catholic Church, and his moving AND HAL CRAWFORD: THE ME: FRANK MOORHOUSE ON collection of short stories, Beneath the FACEBOOK TIMES GEORGE ELIOT Earth. Supported by Culture Ireland by May 22, 12–12.40pm May 22, 1.30–2.30pm arrangement with Poetry Ireland. Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Richard Wherrett Studio $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 According to Frank Moorhouse, the novel roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf is the most creative and infinite form we CUR 247 ANNA BROINOWSKI: have invented, and George Eliot is one 276 2016 CLOSING ADDRESS KIM JONG IL AND THE ART OF of its unparalleled masters. Hear why 263 Bob HANYA YANAGIHARA: PROPAGANDA Frank continues to be inspired by this THE CONVERSATIONS May 22, 1.30–2.10pm groundbreaking 19th-century writer. With Brown BETWEEN WORDS Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Elizabeth Johnstone. May 22, 6–6.50pm SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 17 $15 Bookings 9250 1988 Roslyn Packer Theatre roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf As a writer, is there a limit to what you 248 OUR FOOD HISTORY: IN BLACK can expect from your reader? The author AND WHITE 254 SARAH FERGUSON: THE of one of the most–talked–about and May 22, 1.30–2.30pm KILLING SEASON UNCUT provocative books of the year, A Little Life, Philharmonia Studio May 22, 1.30–2.30pm asks whether an author owes her reader Join John Newton and Jacqui Newling Roslyn Packer Theatre Festival Highlight anything more than a compelling story. as they kickstart a food revolution, digging SEE GUEST CURATORS, Page 5 Premium $45, A Reserve into the recipe books of colonial and $35/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 Indigenous cooks, and redefining our 255 CONNECTION AND 263 BOB BROWN: ON OPTIMISM roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf understanding of Australian food and truly BELONGING: INDIGENOUS POETRY May 22, 3-4pm local produce. With 702 ABC Sydney’s AND PERFORMANCE Roslyn Packer Theatre 277 AUSTEN’S WOMEN . May 22, 1.30–2.30pm Bob Brown’s memoir and new photographic book is proof that even politics can’t May 22, 7–8.10pm, Wharf 2 Theatre $15 Bookings 9250 1988 Wharf 2 Theatre jade him or diminish his passion, activism or wit. He shares his love of Australia, SEE EVENT HIGHLIGHT, Page 6 roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf Australia’s First Nation writers connect and nature and his belief in people power with ABC RN’s Ellen Fanning. belong to the oldest living culture in the $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988, roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf

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Perfect for hungry minds and open hearts, The Curiosity Lecture Series CUR 227 ANTONIA HAYES: is back and bigger than ever in 2016, running all day from Thursday to A UNIVERSE OF ONE’S OWN May 22, 10–10.40am Sunday on the Curiosity Stage. The Curiosity Lecture Series is supported Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage by the University of Sydney. Hosted by Sahar Amer, Sunil Badami, Peter While much has changed for women Chen, Dalia Nassar, Aaron Nyerges, Juanita Ruys and Glenda Sluga. writers over the last century, the scales All events are free, no bookings. are still unbalanced. Antonia Hayes tells us why she is full of hope that we can dare to disturb the universe before Virginia Woolf’s CUR 14 TIM GRIFFITHS: FRANK CUR 108 JOHN BIRMINGHAM: A Room of One's Own turns 100. HURLEY, SHACKLETON AND THE DEATH SPIRAL – THE FUTURE OF Free, no bookings END OF THE HEROIC AGE MEDIA AND PUBLISHING May 19, 10–10.40am May 20, 12–12.40pm CUR 237 GAIL JONES: SPIRAL TIME, Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage CUR168 Paul BISCUIT TINS, BUTTERFLIES: HOW One hundred years ago, Ernest John Birmingham, bestselling author NABAKOV ENLIVENS US Shackleton’s ship Endurance was crushed of He Died With a Falafel in His Hand, Muldoon May 22, 11–11.40am by Antarctic ice. Tim Griffiths tells the story surveys the dire state of media and Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage of Frank Hurley’s role in one of the most publishing, projects forward to their SEE EVENT HIGHLIGHT, Page 17 dramatic rescues in history. grim futures, and finds a ray of hope in emerging alternatives. CUR 246 ANDREW HUNTER CUR 26 JEAN-FRANÇOIS VERNAY: AND HAL CRAWFORD: THE A FRENCH VIEW ON AUSTRALIAN CUR 111 CHRISTOPHER NEFF: FACEBOOK TIMES NOVELS THE SHARK ‘ATTACK’ MYTH May 22, 12–12.40pm May 19, 11–11.40am May 20, 1.30–2.10pm Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage What makes online news shareable? Can an outsider have a clearer view of It seems we are transfixed by a perceived To answer this, Andrew Hunter and Hal Australian literature than a local? French threat of sharks on our shores, but we Crawford created software that tracked literary critic and author Jean–François are more likely to be struck by lightning the sharing of millions of news stories Vernay asks whether it’s ever possible to than taken by one. Dr Christopher Neff across the globe. They reveal their objectively view Australian novels from an sheds light on an ever–emotive aspect of Festival Highlight surprising findings. insider’s perspective. public policy. CUR 247 ANNA BROINOWSKI: CUR 38 CATRIONA MENZIES-PIKE: CUR 121 JAMES ARVANITAKIS: CUR 168 PAUL MULDOON: ON SEAMUS HEANEY KIM JONG IL AND THE ART OF WHY I’VE LOST EVERY MARATHON ON HOPE May 21, 11–11.40am PROPAGANDA I’VE EVER RUN May 20, 2.30–3.10pm Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage May 22, 1.30–2.10pm May 19, 12–12.40pm Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Paul Muldoon has described Seamus Heaney as a man who had a singular Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage How can we respond to the sense of ability to make us feel connected to one another. Paul reads his favourite Heaney Join filmmaker Anna Broinowski for an Was every marathon runner born a despair that follows acts of terrorism or the poems and speaks about what makes his work so special. immersive and revealing journey inside keen and gifted athlete? Hardly. Catriona displacement of millions? James Arvanitakis the North Korean film industry, one of the Menzies-Pike reflects on being a clumsy most secretive and powerful propaganda runner, performance anxiety and the CUR 193 ROBERT MANNE: WHO machines on the planet. pleasures of running slowly. CREATED ISIS? THE ROLES OF GEORGE W. BUSH AND CUR 256 DAVID DYER: TITANIC CUR 40 ANTHONY BOND: THE AL ZARQAWI AND THE SUFFRAGETTES AWFUL TRUTH ABOUT CURATING May 21, 2.30-3.10pm May 22, 2.30–3.10pm May 19, 1.30–2.10pm Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Robert Manne explores how the George W. Novelist David Dyer explores the Join former Art Gallery of NSW curatorial Bush–led invasion of Iraq and the ruthless implications of the Titanic for suffragettes. director Anthony Bond as he tries to make CUR 132 Indira political genius of Abu Musab al Zarqawi Should women who wanted the vote have sense of all the stuff out there loosely combined to give birth to the unimaginably gotten into lifeboats ahead of men? described as art. Naidoo cruel and ideologically fanatical Islamic State. CUR 266 LUCINDA HOLDFORTH: CUR 52 MICHAEL SEXTON SC: CUR 205 JANNA LEVIN: WHAT’S ON THE AARON SORKIN EFFECT ON THE EDGES OF HISTORY NEW IN COSMOLOGY May 22, 3.30–4.10pm May 19, 2.30–3.10pm May 21, 3.30–4.10pm Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Lucinda Holdforth gives a funny, insightful Michael Sexton SC has witnessed and What goes on in black holes? How much and original take on Aaron Sorkin’s work, recorded some of the great post–war do we know about the space–time the speechwriter’s craft and the power of dramas, from the Vietnam War to continuum? And what does the new writing to change the world. the Dismissal. He writes about these gravitational wave discovery mean? experiences in his memoir and explains Astrophysicist and writer Janna Levin seeks CUR 267 MICHAEL ROBOTHAM: why it’s so important to preserve history. to answer the big questions. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF OBSESSION May 22, 4.30–5.10pm CUR 63 BETH YAHP: ON EATING Festival Highlight CUR 206 T.L. UGLOW: ON DOUBT – Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage DIM SUM FROM MONTAIGNE TO MINCHIN Writers are known to be obsessive people. May 19, 3.30–4.10pm CUR 132 INDIRA NAIDOO: ON BEING BROWN May 21, 4.30–5.10pm Jonathan Swift didn’t talk to anyone for a Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage May 20, 3.30–4.10pm Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage year and Voltaire got rid of boring guests Known as ‘dim sum’ (‘point’ and ‘heart’ in Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage T.L. Uglow looks at how writers across by pretending to faint. Award–winning Cantonese), the stories behind yum cha In a country with one of the highest skin cancer rates in the world, why is having the ages have tackled indecision and crime writer Michael Robotham talks about range from a Chinese general’s gratitude a tan still so socially desirable? Indira Naidoo asks what our obsession with brown uncertainty. Doubt is the indubitable baddie the psychology of obsession. to a warning for chefs. For Beth Yahp, it’s skin says about us, and shares her experiences growing up in Australia. mouthfuls of memory in bite sizes.

CUR 64 FRANK BONGIORNO: WHY argues that a way forward is through acts CUR 168 PAUL MULDOON: WE CAN’T GET OVER THE EIGHTIES of kindness and by embracing an active ON SEAMUS HEANEY May 19, 4.30–5.10pm hope that emerges through our actions. May 21, 11–11.40am Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage From TV miniseries to FM radio, the CUR 132 INDIRA NAIDOO: SEE EVENT HIGHLIGHT, Page 17 1980s seem to be everywhere these days. ON BEING BROWN CUR 237 Gail So just how did the decade of big hair May 20, 3.30–4.10pm CUR 180 MEGAN MACKENZIE: and synthesised pop become so hot Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage DO WOMEN BELONG ON THE Jones again in Australia? SEE EVENT HIGHLIGHT, Page 17 FRONTLINE? May 21, 12–12.40pm CUR 134 PHILIP DWYER: A HISTORY Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage CUR 85 SUSAN JOHNSON: NANCY OF VIOLENCE Do women belong on the frontlines of SINATRA’S BOOTS May 20, 4.30–5.10pm war or do they drag male soldiers down May 20, 10–10.40am, Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage and distract them from their jobs? Megan Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage How can an act of violence be considered MacKenzie explores the myths about Can a pop song set a template for a lifetime intolerable in one part of the world and female soldiers and the band of brothers. of walking away? Susan Johnson explores acceptable in another? Philip Dwyer how being an eight–year–old girl listening reflects on the difficulties of writing a CUR 182 MARC FENNELL: WHY to Nancy Sinatra might have contributed to history of violence. PINOCCHIO WAS A SOCIOPATH everything that followed. AND ADVENTURES IN CUR 155 MATTHEW CONDON: WALT DISNEY Festival Highlight CUR 98 MARTIN FLANAGAN: HOW MURDERERS AND CRIMINAL May 21, 1.30–2.10pm ON LISTENING POND SCUM CHANGED MY LIFE Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage May 20, 11–11.40am May 21, 10–10.40am Marc Fennell, and SBS’s movie guru, CUR 237 GAIL JONES: SPIRAL TIME, BISCUIT TINS, Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage takes you on a twisted journey through BUTTERFLIES: HOW NABOKOV ENLIVENS US If you’re quiet enough, quiet as a tree, people True crime writer and journalist Matthew the history of the House of Mouse to learn May 22, 11–11.40am will camp beneath your branches and tell Condon reflects on the chance meeting things you never knew (and maybe never Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage you stories. Martin Flanagan shares how with corrupt former Queensland police wanted to know) about Disney. This talk examines Vladimir Nabokov’s idiosyncratic ideas: his philosophy listening has been an essential part of his life. commissioner Terry Lewis that led of time, delight in objects and obsession with butterflies. Art is for life’s him down the dark rabbit hole of his sake; it ought to enliven us. state’s criminal underbelly.

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Australia. It brings together writers, W24 ANNA SMAILL: Dystopian Workshops publishers and industry representatives to Fiction – the Beginning of the End Festival discuss prospects for authors in 2016. May 21, 1.30–4.30pm Presented with the NSW Writers’ Centre. Science House Whether you’re percolating an idea or have a manuscript in Highlight $80/$55 Bookings 9555 9757 Explore the craft behind the first few pages search of a publisher, there’s an SWF workshop to help you through. nswwc.org.au/whats-on of the dystopian novel. Award-winning Our expert writers teach practical skills as well as the secrets to author Anna Smaill unpacks how voice, creativity. This year, alongside our regular workshops, we have a W15 SOFIE LAGUNA: Creating W18 DAMON YOUNG: Everyday landscape and plot are established in some selection of exclusive masterclasses. Workshops run from Compelling Characters Philosophy classic dystopian openings, and helps you May 20, 10am–4.30pm May 20, 1.30–4.30pm focus on your own. Saturday May 14 to Sunday May 22. With thanks to NYU, Sydney. Science House Science House $100/$80 Bookings 9256 4200, swf.org.au, unless otherwise stated. Sofie Laguna, winner of the What is philosophy? And how can we Miles Franklin Award, teaches exercise it in everyday life? Join noted public W25 TONY BIRCH: The Work of you to consider characters in intellectual and author Damon Young for a Fiction W1 FIONA WRIGHT: the secrets behind plotting fast-paced, unexpected ways and deepen your hands-on philosophy workshop, with lively May 21, 1.30–4.30pm, Science House Writing from Life compelling crime fiction. Candice Fox understanding of their stories. readings, discussion and writing exercises. This workshop focuses on the business May 14, 9.30am–12.30pm shares tips for the aspiring crime writer. Learn why the answers to the $100/$80 of writing fiction, both long and short. Science House $100/$80 challenges of plot, tone, structure Acclaimed author Tony Birch covers a range Poet, essayist and editor Fiona Wright and style often lie in character. W19 MASTERCLASS WITH JOHN of skills and craft practice, including sketching explores ways in which you can craft W7 JANE MESSER: Ways into $185/$160 BIRMINGHAM: How to Self-Publish character, place, landscape and plot. compelling writing, in any form, from raw Writing Creatively Without Embarrassing Yourself $100/$80 experience. Find and build captivating May 15, 1.30–4.30pm May 20, 6–7.30pm narrative from the anecdotes and detail of Science House W12 KATE FORSYTH: Diagnosing Science House W26 ELEANOR LIMPRECHT: everyday life. This workshop is ideal for kickstarting a Your Story’s Problems Bestselling author John Birmingham gives Research and Writing – The Truth $100/$80 new work or reviving an existing piece. May 19, 1.30–4.30pm, Science House a short, practical masterclass that will help is in the Detail Novelist and creative writing teacher Jane Sometimes we are so close to our stories participants navigate a smooth, successful May 22, 9.30am–12.30pm W2 CAT WEATHERILL: How to Make Messer unpacks the rule that you should it's hard to see what’s working and what’s route towards being a self-published author. Science House People Listen to You write what you know and shares key not. Bestselling author Kate Forsyth $60/$55 Novelist Eleanor Limprecht demonstrates May 14, 10am–4.30pm writing strategies and exercises. teaches you the most common writing how research can help you discover the Science House $100/$80 problems and how to fix them. W20 LEAH KAMINSKY: Writing the detail to improve your fiction or non-fiction Want to be compelling in front of any $100/$80 Body project and reveals the best research tools audience? One of Europe’s leading W8 BIANCA NOGRADY: How to Be May 21, 9.30am–12.30pm for a writer. performance storytellers for adults reveals a Successful Freelancer W13 ALECIA SIMMONDS: Creative Science House $100/$80 the tricks of the trade, from interviews to May 15, 1.30-4.30pm Non-fiction Anatole Broyard wrote that stories are performing on stage. Science House May 19, 1.30–4.30pm antibodies against illness and pain. Doctor W27 TONI JORDAN: Plotting $185/$160 Led by experienced journalist and Science House and author Leah Kaminsky helps writers May 22, 10am–4.30pm broadcaster Bianca Nogrady, this practical Whether you’re writing an essay, feature, draw on experiences of illness and health Science House W3 CLAIRE SCOBIE: Creating a workshop teaches you everything you need memoir or book, this course will help as gateways to narrative, and as a means of A good plot interconnects with theme Believable Story World to know about how to build a freelance animate your non-fiction through expressing both their courage and fear. and character development. If you’ve May 14, 10am–4.30pm writing business that is flexible and fruitful. storytelling principles such as plot, scene- $100/$80 ever struggled with what happens next Science House $100/$80 setting, point of view and voice. in your work-in-progress, this practical Setting is more than just the landscape of $100/$80 W21 ANTONIA PESENTI AND workshop will have your characters your story. Claire Scobie reveals everything W9 MASTERCLASS WITH JAMI HILARY BELL: Creating a Unique twisting and turning. you need to make a world so real it exists ATTENBERG: Setting the Stakes, W14 INGA SIMPSON: Crafting Children’s Book $185/$160 long after your reader has put down the Hooking the Reader Beautiful Sentences May 21, 9.30am–12.30pm book. May 18, 6–7.30pm May 20, 9.30am–12.30pm Science House W28 TONY CAVANAUGH: Peeling $185/$160 Science House Science House The creators of bestsellers Alphabetical the Onion Screenwriting Workshop Setting the stakes can hook your reader (or Inga Simpson’s range of practical exercises Sydney and Numerical Street discuss May 22, 10am–4.30pm W4 SULARI GENTILL: Genre an agent or editor) immediately. So what does and examples will teach you how to wield friendship and collaboration; finding beauty Science House Blending it take to get a reader instantly invested in commas and semicolons, write descriptions in the everyday and translating it into books A thorough examination of the scriptwriting May 14, 10am–4.30pm your story? American novelist Jami Attenberg that climb off the page and create more that both adults and children love. process with bestselling author and Science House reveals all in this special masterclass. beautiful sentences. $100/$80 screenwriter Tony Cavanaugh, exploring This workshop will look at the processes, $60/$55 $100/$80 the many interlinking layers that combine approaches and inspirations involved in W22 MASTERCLASS WITH SARAH to make a screenplay work. effectively blending genres to produce a W10 KATHRYN HEYMAN: Diving W15 SOFIE LAGUNA: Creating KAY AND PHIL KAYE: The Spoken $185/$160 hybrid species that doesn’t read like an In – Discovering Your Story Compelling Characters Word Crash Course experiment gone wrong. May 19, 10am–4.30pm May 20, 10am–4.30pm May 21, 10am–12pm W29 MASTERCLASS WITH $185/$160 Science House Science House Science House WILLIAM BOYD: Adapting Novels This inspiring class, led by acclaimed SEE EVENT HIGHLIGHT, P18 In this intimate and hands-on masterclass, for the Screen W5 DAVID DYER: Researching and novelist Kathryn Heyman, will help you dive international spoken word stars Sarah Kay May 22, 10.30am–12pm Writing Historical Fiction into your novel, discover your characters W16 JACQUELINE HARVEY: So You and Phil Kaye equip you with the tools you Science House May 14, 1.30–4.30pm and understand the structure you need to Want to Be a Children’s Author? need to begin writing and performing your Award-winning British writer William Boyd Science House stop procrastinating and write on with joy. 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May 20, 10am–4.30pm, State Library reach its potential. and the importance of journeying to Science House $185/$160 of NSW, Metcalfe Auditorium $185/$160 the corners of the mind where creative Examine the forensic science behind crime Forest for the Trees is a one-day seminar navigation hums. scenes, the psychology behind killers and looking at the state of publishing in $100/$80

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story and they need your help! Drop in to Glowtopia give them your best ideas and watch the story unfold before your eyes. Welcome to Glowtopia, where kids on the southernmost tip and teens reign supreme. Situated oof Glowtopia, is popular CYA23 STORY BOX LIBRARY PRESENTS... along the entire length of Pier 4/5, wwith anyone of any age May 22, 2.30–4pm Glowtopia’s distinctive glittering wwho enjoys craft, bookish CYA3 Frank Watch a selection of Australia’s most loved landscape is home to more bestselling activities, bookish film clips, children’s authors on the biggish screen. children’s authors and illustrators live storytelling, crafty workshops Woodley Learn how they come up with their stories, than you can count on many hands. and made-up nonsense. The Royal then watch as their characters are brought This star-studded population is very Institute of All Day YA is open to all, to life by some of our best storytellers, from friendly, although visitors to Glowtopia but most commonly draws an older Nick Cave to Claire Bowditch. are warned to beware of spontaneous and more sophisticated crowd, many outbreaks of storytelling, live drawing of whom have a voracious appetite ROYAL INSTITUTE and excessive entertaining by for YA books of all genres and their Glowtopia’s citizens. superstar authors. OF ALL DAY YA There are four unique regions Overseeing the entire glowing within Glowtopia, all offering their own metropolis is mascot and much-loved PIER 4/5 ROYAL INSTITUTE OF ALL brand of mischief and mayhem. The mobile book exchange, Russ the DAY YA (SYDNEY DANCE 2) Ministry of Noise caters to visitors Story Bus. Hosted by Will Kostakis. of all ages, who often find themselves Look out for roving kid reporters All ages welcome, but unable to resist toe-tapping, or from Crinkling News. If they stop and Festival Highlight even shimmying, to the Ministry’s ask you about your favourite authors recommended for 13+. Tickets continuous flow of disco beats and and Festival highlights, you might just for TeenCon 2016 are available for purchase online ahead of the musical storytelling. The Department end up in the news! CYA3 FRANK WOODLEY'S KIZMET! event. All visitors must have a free of Stuff and Nonsense tends to And don’t forget to have your photo May 22, 10–10.45am ticket for the other sessions to gain attract the 7+ crowd, who can’t get taken with one of your favourite book An hour with Frank Woodley is never predictable! Come along for the entry. Free tickets can be found at enough of seeing their favourite characters. Grug will be strolling the ride as Frank reads and performs from his hit series, Kizmet, shows off the Glowtopia Tourist Information authors doing ridiculously entertaining Glowtopia boardwalk, along with Maisy, his illustrating prowess and does a bit of comedy business. Booth on the eastern side of Pier 4/5. things. The Bureau of Artistics, found Where’s Wally? and Geronimo Stilton. The Royal Institute of All Day YA is of English! Stop by the #Fictionary corner supported by Macquarie University. MINISTRY OF NOISE to submit your words to the newest PIER 4/5 THE MINISTRY OF NOISE dictionary in town. You might just find CYA9 TEENCON 1: CORNUCOPIA (SYDNEY DANCE 1 VIEWING your word featured in David Astle's next May 22, 10–11.30am LOUNGE) Wordplay column. (*amazing) TeenCon 2016 is where it's at for inside All ages are welcome and entry is free. info on new and upcoming YA books. CYA6 Liz CYA18 GIANT HARRY POTTER With swag bags, a Greatest YA Hero of CYA1 KINDERLING KIDS RADIO COLOURING MURAL All Time battle and the chance to win DISCO Pichon May 22, 10am–4pm the prize for Best One Line Summary of May 22, 10.30am–1.30pm Calling all muggles and wizards! We need a YA Book, you don't want to miss this. Kinderling Kids Radio brings its Regression your help colouring in our giant Harry $10 Bookings 9256 4200, swf.org.au Session Disco to the Festival! Join hosts Potter mural. Sign your name on the Barry Divola and DJ Lorna Clarkson as they contributor wall, pick your favourite colours CYA10 IS THIS JUST A FANTASY? mix up the tunes to get everyone, from and May 22, 12–12.45pm nannas to nippers, jumping to the beat. get busy. Why is fantasy so popular in young adult fiction? Is the line between CYA2 B’TUTTA! CYA19 COLOUR the real and the fantastical irrelevant May 22, 2.30–3.30pm AND CRAFT becauseb all books are magic? Michael Music and storytelling collide in this Festival Highlight DEPOT Grant,G Jack Heath, Jay Kristoff and Claire ‘striking’ session from hit percussion May 22, 10am–4pm ZornZ separate fact from fantasy. With Dr ensemble B’tutta! Conduct, perform and No need to stay betweenn VictoriaV Flanagan. improvise your own stories in time to the CYA6 THE (MOSTLY) TOTALLY BRILLIANT WORLD OF TOM GATES the lines at our colour andnd exciting rhythms and beats. Presented with May 22, 1.45–2.30pm craft depot. Kids of all agesges are CYA11CYA TOMMY WALLACH LIVE! Musica Viva. Join Liz Pichon, creator of the multi-award-winning Tom Gates books, in this encouraged to come along and let their May 22, 1.15–2pm session packed with doodles, fun and mayhem! Find out how Liz comes up with creativity run amok with coloured pencils, Brooklyn-based YA writer and indie DEPARTMENT OF her ideas and learn how to draw like Tom himself. paper, crayons, book activity sheets and musician Tommy Wallach reads from his crafty bits. work and performs original songs inspired STUFF AND NONSENSE by his books in this exclusive solo event. CYA8 BAJO & HEX: PIXEL RAIDERS CYA15 CASULA POWERHOUSE CYA20 MY STORY BOOTH PIER 4/5 DEPARTMENT OF STUFF May 22, 4.15-5pm JOURNEY MAKER STATION May 22, 10am–4pm CYA12 TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT AND NONSENSE (SYDNEY DANCE 1) Before online games there were books. Bajo May 22, 10am–4pm We need your stories! Sydney Writers’ YOU Hosted by Felice Arena. & Hex from ABC TV’s The Good Game talk Want to fly to the moon or row across Festival wants to hear about the everyday May 22, 2.30–3.15pm about their new book series Pixel Raiders an ice-cream ocean? Get yourself to the lives of children aged 5 to 18 from all From love triangles to smouldering bad All ages welcome, but and how games influenced their ideas and Journey Maker Station, where you can turn across Sydney. Spend some time at our boys, we ask why the same old YA clichés recommended for 7+. All visitors storytelling. recycled materials into a dream machine to writing station and pop your story into the keep cropping up. Audience participation is must have a free ticket for each take you to your imagined world. dropbox. Selected entries will be published strongly encouraged as Kirsty Eagar, Jordan session for entry. Free tickets can BUREAU OF ARTISTICS on the SWF My Story website after the Idiare, Will Kostakis, Alice Pung and Adele be found at the Glowtopia Tourist CYA16 BILLIE B. BROWN’S Festival. Walsh come up with the #Top10YAcliches. Information Booth on the western PIER 4/5 BUREAU OF ARTISTICS MYSTERY CLUB side of Pier 4/5. Tickets are limited (BANGARRA STUDIO THEATRE) May 22, 10am–4pm CYA21 PARROT CARROT BIG BOOK CYA13 TEENCON 2: ERILEA so get in quick! Break the code to join Billie B. Brown’s BONANZA May 22, 3.45–5.15pm All ages welcome. All events free, Secret Mystery Club! Once you’re in, help May 22, 10.15–11am TeenCon 2016 is where it's at for inside CYA3 FRANK WOODLEY’S KIZMET! no bookings. solve the mystery of the spooky house, Join in as Kate and Jol Temple don silly info on new and upcoming YA books. May 22, 10–10.45am meet Billie’s creator, Sally Rippin, and have hats and read silly rhymes from their With swag bags, a Greatest YA Hero of SEE EVENT HIGHLIGHT, Page 19 CYA14 STORYTIME CLUBHOUSE your photo taken with Billie and the gang. oversized picture books, while Jon Foye All Time battle and the chance to win May 22, 10am–4pm whips up silly illustrations of the crowd. the prize for Best One Line Summary of CYA4 ILLUSTRATOR BATTLE Pull up a beanbag and settle in as your CYA17 #FICTIONARY a YA Book, you don't want to miss this. ROUNDS favourite children’s authors and illustrators May 22, 10am–4pm CYA22 ON THE SPOT STORIES $10 Bookings, 9256 4200, swf.org.au May 22, 11.15am–12pm read you their stories. With a different Ever felt the itch to make up your own May 22, 12.15–2.15pm It’s pencils at 10 paces when Australia’s author dropping into the clubhouse every word for something? #Fictionary is your James O’Loghlin and Andrew Cranna have hottest children’s book illustrators go texta-to- half hour, you never know who you might delspricious* chance to dream up new only two hours to write and illustrate a Illustrations © Charles Santoso texta in the ultimate live drawing battle. Eight meet. words, creating your own original piece illustrators. Seven rounds. Only one winner! CYA5 AARON BLABEY: THE BAD School Days GUYS AND PIG THE PUG May 22, 12.30–1.15pm Festival Our School Days program is a fantastic opportunity for students to engage Bestselling author and illustrator Aaron with their favourite authors and discover exciting new voices. Throughout Blabey reveals how he makes his books, Highlight the week, eight bestselling authors talk about their craft, perform from their previews some new ones and draws a few CYA24 Russ the work and take questions from the audience. Primary School Days features of your favourite characters. You may even Jon Klassen, Liz Pichon, Tohby Riddle and Judith Rossell. Secondary School go home with an original drawing! Days includes John Boyne, Michael Grant, Vikki Wakefield and Claire Zorn. CYA24 RUSS THE STORY BUS Story School Days are supported by Western Sydney University, The Concourse CYA6 THE (MOSTLY) TOTALLY May 22, 10am–4pm, Pier 4/5 Bus Chatswood, and the City of Sydney. BRILLIANT WORLD OF TOM GATES Russ the Story Bus is no ordinary bus! His May 22, 1.45–2.30pm belly is full of books and his outsides are Best of the Fest SEE EVENT HIGHLIGHT, Page 19 covered in illustrations by Gus Gordon. Bring along a pre-loved book and swap it for a new We partner with the Board of Studies, Teaching and Educational Standards CYA7 WORDBURGER! favourite from inside Russ’s belly. Not sure what to pick? to present a day of events tailored to year 9-12 students. On Monday, May 16, May 22, 3–3.45pm Children’s book expert and bibliotherapist Susan Elderkin the biggest Festival stars speak on subjects linked to the NSW curriculum. In this snack-size Wordburger session, SBS’s will be there from 10am-noon to inspire and guide you. Mr Dictionary (David Astle) stirs up a storm Supported by The Pratt Foundation, The School Days and Best of the Fest sessions are for students only. of riddles and puzzles, puns and clues, Foundation, Crown Resorts Foundation and Western Schools can book tickets at swf.org.au giving new life to letters and language. Sydney University. Free, no bookings

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strives for perfection. SR26 KERRY O’BRIEN: KEATING ASHFIELD Free, bookings essential 9847 6614 May 21, 5.30–6.30pm SR1 ADRIAN McKINTY: RAIN DOGS trybooking.com/188485 Riverside Theatre, Parramatta May 19, 6.30–7.30pm Join veteran journalist Kerry O’Brien to Ashfield Town Hall hear his insider’s take on writing about the Join Adrian McKinty to discuss his latest HURSTVILLE formidable and remarkable former PM, Sean Duffy instalment, Rain Dogs, a classic SR19 GREG SHERIDAN: WHEN WE Paul Keating. With Eric Sidoti. Supported locked-room murder mystery which WERE YOUNG AND FOOLISH by Parramatta City Council and Western stretches the roguish detective to new and SR13 Magda May 19, 7–8pm Sydney University. dangerous limits. Hurstville Library $20/$15 Bookings 8839 3399 Free, bookings essential 9716 1810 Szubanski Join Greg Sheridan as he reflects on his riversideparramatta.com.au ashfieldlibrary.eventbrite.com.au formative years with a generation of politicians – including Tony Abbott as his best friend at SR27 BOB BROWN: OPTIMISM university – before they became household May 21, 7.30–8.30pm AUBURN names. Refreshments from 6.30pm. Riverside Theatre, Parramatta SR2 THE LAST BUS TO AUBURN Free, bookings essential, 9330 6111, Bob Brown’s Green Nomads and memoir May 22, 2–5pm www.trybooking.com/188524 Optimism are testament to his love for Auburn Train Station nature and belief in the power of people. Auburn Poets and Writers Group presents He gives a special talk, then speaks about The Last Bus to Auburn, a performative Festival Highlight KENSINGTON his life and passion for the environment bus tour of their city as it is now and as SR20 YEONMI PARK: THE YOUNG with James Arvanitakis. Supported by represented in the memories of local poets. NORTH KOREAN DEFECTOR Parramatta City Council and Western Supported by Western Sydney University. SR13 MAGDA SZUBANSKI: RECKONING CHANGING THE WORLD Sydney University. $15 Bookings 9735 1396, https:// May 18, 7–8pm May 19, 6.30–7.30pm $20/$15 Bookings 8839 3399 www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-last- The Concourse Concert Hall John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW riversideparramatta.com.au bus-to-auburntickets-21689075609 One of Australia’s best-loved comedians, Magda Szubanski, shares stories from her Human rights activist Yeonmi Park shares acclaimed memoir, Reckoning, in which she recounts her search for the truth about her her extraordinary story of survival and father’s secret wartime past and her own journey of self-discovery. With Tracey Spicer. escape. Now a university student, Yeonmi PENRITH BANKSTOWN Supported by The Concourse Chatswood. joins UNSW to inspire a new generation SR28 TOM AND MEG KENEALLY: SR3 MAY BANKSTOWN POETRY $25/$20 Bookings 1300 795 012, theconcourse.com.au/events of young world changers. Supported by THE SOLDIER’S CURSE SLAM FEATURING YASMINE LEWIS UNSW Arts & Social Sciences. May 20, 6.30–7.30pm May 18, 7–8.30pm Free, bookings essential Penrith City Library Bankstown Arts Centre Book of Memory, with Lisa Forrest. arts.unsw.edu.au/swf Tom Keneally has joined forces with his Bankstown Poetry Slam is the largest of $25 Bookings 4862 1634, shwf.com.au CASTLE HILL eldest daughter Meg to cook up a fast- its kind in Australia. Join us in welcoming SR12 HUGH MACKAY: BEYOND paced, gripping book about early colonial local talent Yasmine Lewis, as well as SR9 SWF IN THE SOUTHERN BELIEF KOGARAH New South Wales, with a dash of murder first-time poets, seasoned wordsmiths and HIGHLANDS WITH SHIRLEY May 18, 6.30–7.30pm SR21 JESSICA ROWE: IS THIS MY and deception for good measure. everyone in between. Supported by BYDS BARRETT Pioneer Room – Castle Hill Library BEAUTIFUL LIFE? Supported by Western Sydney University. and Western Sydney University. May 22, 2–3pm and Community Centre May 18, 7–8pm $5 including light refreshments Free, no bookings The Highlands School of the Social researcher and prolific writer Hugh Kogarah Library and Cultural Centre Bookings 4732 7891 Performing Arts Mackay’s latest book, Beyond Belief, Jessica Rowe imagined she would have a SR4 WHERE I LIVE An exclusive session with Shirley Barrett, explores the ways we find meaning and fairy tale life. Her memoir tells of the reality May 19, 7–8.30pm speaking about her debut novel, Rush Oh!. purpose in today’s often secular world. behind the myth of having it all. Join Jessica RANDWICK Theatre Shirley is best known as a screenwriter and Free, bookings essential as she talks about the darkest days of her SR29 DEBRA ADELAIDE: THE Following an introduction by Bryan Brown, director, whose first film, Love Serenade, won thehills.nsw.gov.au/library life and learning to ask for help. WOMEN’S PAGES join a panel of emerging writers from the Caméra d’Or (Best First Feature) at Cannes. Free, bookings essential 9330 9527 May 18, 6.30–7.30pm Bankstown and other Sydney suburbs $25 Bookings 4862 1634, shwf.com.au kogarahlibrary.eventbrite.com.au Margaret Martin Library, Randwick for a lively discussion on where they live CHATSWOOD Debra Adelaide talks about her novel, The and how ideas of place and community SR13 MAGDA SZUBANSKI: Women’s Pages, which draws inspiration shape their creative expression. CAMDEN RECKONING PARRAMATTA from Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Supported by Western Sydney University. SR10 LEISEL JONES: BODY May 18, 7–8pm SR22 GETTING PUBLISHED: follows Dove, who is consumed with writing Free, bookings essential LENGTHS The Concourse Concert Hall WORDS TO THE WISE a novel about an ordinary woman with whereilivexswf.eventbrite.com.au May 18, 6.30–7.30pm SEE EVENT HIGHLIGHT, Page 20 May 18, 6–7pm secrets and regrets. Camden Civic Centre Auditorium, Parramatta Campus Free, bookings essential 9399 8352 SR5 CONNECTION AND Leisel Jones talks about depression, SR14 YE XIN: EDUCATED YOUTH Western Sydney University randwick.nsw.gov.au/library BELONGING: INDIGENOUS POETRY bullying in the Australian swim team, May 19, 1–2pm This expert panel of authors and industry AND PERFORMANCE growing up in the spotlight with the hopes Chatswood Library on the professionals sets about demystifying May 20, 7–8pm of the nation on her shoulders, and her new Concourse the opaque world of book publishing. Author RYDE Bankstown Arts Centre life beyond the pool. Supported by Western Educated Youth explores the far-reaching Rosie Waterland and publishers Lex Hirst and SR30 RICHARD GLOVER: FLESH Australia’s First Nation writers connect and Sydney University. consequences of the 1960s Chinese Robert Watkins speak to James Arvanitakis. WOUNDS belong to the world's oldest living culture – $10 Bookings library.camden.nsw. government policy of sending city high- Supported by Western Sydney University. May 18, 7.15–8.15pm you can glimpse this in their spoken word gov.au/bookings school leavers to the countryside. Join Ye Free, no bookings Ryde Library and poetry. Featuring Maggie Walsh, Lionel Xin to unravel a previously untold story of 702 ABC Sydney’s Richard Glover has Fogarty, Brothablack and more. Supported China during the Cultural Revolution. SR23 WORDS FROM THE WEST always played ‘Who’s Got the Weirdest by BYDS and Western Sydney University. CAMPBELLTOWN Supported by The Concourse Chatswood. May 19, 6.30–8pm Parents?’ with self-assurance. His memoir Free, no bookings SR11 MATTHEW CONDON: ALL Free, bookings essential 9777 7900 Parramatta Artists Studios Flesh Wounds dives deeper, revealing FALL DOWN willoughby.nsw.gov.au/library From the west of Melbourne to the west uncomfortable truths. Join him as he May 19, 2.30–3.30pm of Sydney, join Alice Pung and Sheila dissects the highs and lows of his family. BELROSE Campbelltown HJ Daley SR15 STUART KELLS: PENGUIN Pham, Maryam Azam and Peter Polites, $5 Bookings (02) 9952 8352 SR6 INGA SIMPSON: WHERE THE Central Library AND THE LANE BROTHERS recipients of The CAL WestWords Western ryde.nsw.gov.au/RichardGlover TREES WERE Matthew Condon talks about researching May 20, 12.30–1.30pm Sydney Emerging Writers’ Fellowship, for May 19, 11.30am–12.30pm All Fall Down, his explosive conclusion to Chatswood Library on the storytelling, conversation and provocation. Glen Street Theatre The Three Crooked Kings true crime trilogy, Concourse Supported by Parramatta Artists Studios, WETHERILL PARK Inga Simpson talks about her novel, Where which delivers unprecedented insights into Join Stuart Kells to learn how three Parramatta City Council, WestWords and SR31 LARISSA BEHRENDT: the Trees Were, a rich examination of the corruption during one of Queensland’s entrepreneurial brothers brought literary Western Sydney University. FINDING ELIZA innocence of youth and the childhood most turbulent periods. Supported by giants like Agatha Christie and Virginia Free, bookings essential, drinks May 19, 6.30–7.30pm scars that can stay with you for life. Western Sydney University. Woolf to the masses, and changed the and supper included 9687 6090 Wetherill Park Library $10 Bookings 9975 1455 Free, bookings essential 4645 4444 course of publishing forever. 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Supported Speaking Jane, a witty, unflinching Supported by Parramatta City Council and featuring Christine Paice and Kathleen Elegy for Easterly heralded her as a major by the University of Sydney. reflection on her career, family and Western Sydney University. Bleakley, plus a three-minute open mic new voice in fiction. The Zimbabwean Free, bookings essential personal struggles, and what it means $20/$15 Bookings 8839 3399 section. With host Linda Godfrey. author speaks about her new novel, The sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas to be an imperfect woman in a world that riversideparramatta.com.au Free, no bookings 1HERSA1 S020 Suburban & Regional SATURDAY MAY 14 - SUNDAY MAY 22 21 swf.org.au

District for more than 600 years. He speaks Blue Mountains with Kate Fagan about his bestselling memoir, The Shepherd’s Life. Business Bites The Blue Mountains program is presented with Varuna, the National MONDAY MAY 16 – FRIDAY MAY 20 SR43 MAGDA SZUBANSKI: A Writers House and Sydney Writers’ Festival. Day passes and two-day TENDER RECKONING passes are available for Monday May 16 and Tuesday May 17. May 17, 1.30–2.30pm Single sessions $15 at the door, subject to availability. Carrington Hotel, Katoomba Bookings 4782 5674, varuna.com.au, unless otherwise stated. One of Australia’s most-loved performers, Magda Szubanski talks to Alison Manning SR34 MODERN ART PROJECTS SR38 DICTIONARY OF SYDNEY about searching for skeletons in the family BB5 John AND VARUNA PRESENT: May 16, 3–4pm closet and her fearless journey of self- WANTANGANURA Carrington Hotel, Katoomba discovery, chronicled in Reckoning. Cantwell May 15, 1–4pm Find out about the online Dictionary of Varuna, The National Writers House Sydney and those commissioned to write SR44 LIFE IN THE HIVE Wantanganura/Skyworld features about Blue Mountains’ icons for the site. May 17, 3–4pm installations by Aboriginal artists Featuring Julian Leatherdale, Naomi Parry, Carrington Hotel, Katoomba accompanied by artist talks, ceremony John Low and Delia Falconer talking Mireille Juchau (The World Without Us) and and the opportunity to meet artists during with Lisa Murray. Supported by the Blue Peggy Frew (Hope Farm) talk with Tegan a fire-circle chat. Mountains City of the Arts Cultural Trust. Bennett Daylight about their elegiac and Free, bookings essential gripping novels of lost childhoods and modernartprojects.org SR39 CHARLOTTE WOOD: THE broken families. Festival Highlight NATURAL WAY OF THINGS SR35 NOT JUST BLACK AND May 16, 4.30–5.30pm SR45 THE WRITER’S MIND BB5 JOHN CANTWELL: ADAPTING WHITE: ABORIGINAL HISTORIES Carrington Hotel, Katoomba May 17, 4.30–5.30pm COMBAT LEADERSHIP TO BUSINESS REVEALED Charlotte Wood talks about her latest book, Carrington Hotel, Katoomba May 19, 12.30–1.30pm May 16, 10.10–11am The Natural Way of Things, a dystopian Sylvia Martin and Mark O’Flynn have Coleman Greig boardroom, Parramatta Carrington Hotel, Katoomba allegory of power and misogyny set both written poignant tales of writers In this practical and inspiring talk, Major-General John Cantwell draws on Murri elder Lesley Williams talks to Heidi in the Australian bush. With Tegan struggling with their sanity. They talk to 40 years of experience in the Australian Army to describe the skills needed Norman about the pursuit of justice for Bennett Daylight. Barbara Brooks about creativity, madness to build the loyalty, teamwork and decisiveness vital to successful leadership. Aboriginal workers, a nine-year quest that and the sometimes thin line between With James Arvanitakis. took Lesley and her daughter, Tammy, from SR40 THE DR DARK MEMORIAL history and fiction. Cherbourg mission in Queensland to the LECTURE: GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS United Nations. May 16, 6–7pm SR46 SELF-PUBLISHING: THE Our business-themed lunchtime Journalist and biographer Paddy Carrington Hotel, Katoomba TOOLS OF THE TRADE events, Business Bites, will be Manning speaks with Jessica Irvine about SR36 SIX BEDROOMS: SHORT In the 2016 Dr Dark Memorial Lecture, May 21, 10am–1pm presented in both Circular Quay the business skills and strategies that STORIES AND THE AUSTRALIAN award-winning journalist Andrew Fowler Blue Mountains Cultural Centre helped Malcolm Turnbull ascend to the IMAGINATION interrogates the state of the media, the rise Local authors share their self-publishing and Parramatta in 2016. job he was destined for. May 16, 11.30am–12.20pm of ‘thin journalism’ and its implications for a journeys and career professionals reveal Carrington Hotel, Katoomba democratic society. the tricks of the trade. A half-day forum of All tickets $40 including light BB4 BUSINESS BITES: RUSSEL Tegan Bennett Daylight skilfully crafts short $15/$10 insights into how to take your writing to lunch. Bookings 9256 4200 HOWCROFT AND JANE CARO stories in her new collection Six Bedrooms. SR41 TRAVELLING HOME: DEBUT the next stage. swf.org.au. – HOW TO SELL ANYTHING She talks to Kate Fagan about creating FICTION $15 Bookings library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au May 20, 12.30–1.30pm stories and characters who are volatile, May 17, 10–11am Customs House, Barnet Long Room memorable and distinctively Australian. Carrington Hotel, Katoomba SR47 THE MICE WHO ROARED: THE CITY Industry veterans Jane Caro and Russel Leah Kaminsky and Miles Allinson have INDEPENDENT POETRY PRESS Supported by The Sydney Morning Howcroft talk all things advertising with SR37 VIVIAN GORNICK: THE ODD each written debut novels about troubled May 21, 2–3pm Herald BusinessDay. Elizabeth Knight, from best and worst ads WOMAN AND THE CITY Australians on a quest in their forebears' Varuna, The National Writers House to industry gossip and tips on how to sell May 16, 1.30–2.30pm country. They speak with Carol Major about How do you fit a poet in your pocket? Join BB1 BUSINESS BITES: SATYAJIT ice to Eskimos. Carrington Hotel, Katoomba the psychology of memory and guilt. us at Varuna as we celebrate Ginninderra DAS – DESPERATELY SEEKING Native New Yorker and writer Vivian Press’s 20th anniversary and the success of INNOVATION Gornick speaks to Leah Kaminsky about SR42 JAMES REBANKS: THE GOOD Ginninderra pocket chapbooks. May 16, 12.30–1.30pm PARRAMATTA The Odd Woman and the City, a memoir of SHEPHERD Free, no bookings Customs House, Barnet Long Room Supported by The Sydney Morning self-discovery and friendship told through May 17, 11.30am–12.30pm Is the fervent belief that innovation Herald BusinessDay and Parramatta City conversations, sharp observations and Carrington Hotel, Katoomba SR48 POETRY PARTY will solve our problems founded in Council. A Parramatta Smart City initiative. poetic vignettes of New York street life. James Rebanks is the Herdwick shepherd, May 21, 3.30–4.30pm reality or faith? Leading global financial whose family has farmed in England’s Lake Varuna, The National Writers House expert Satyajit Das asks what we really BB5 BUSINESS BITES: JOHN Gather around the fire in the gardens mean when we declare that innovation CANTWELL – ADAPTING COMBAT of Varuna to hear local poets read is the solution. With John McDuling. LEADERSHIP TO BUSINESS their work. Poets include Deb Westbury, May 19, 12.30–1.30pm Live and Local Ignatius McGovern, Ron Pretty and BB2 BUSINESS BITES: RICHARD Coleman Greig boardroom, Stephen Matthews. WATSON – DIGITAL VS HUMAN Parramatta Sydney Writers’ Festival continues to expand its horizons Free, no bookings May 17, 12.30–1.30pm SEE EVENT HIGHLIGHT, Page 21 with Live and Local, our digital Customs House, Barnet Long Room live-streaming project, going national in 2016. We SR49 WORKSHOP: BESPOKE Futurist and internationally bestselling BB6 BUSINESS BITES: STORY have partnered with local arts centres, libraries and BOOKMAKING author Richard Watson speaks to SELLING – NEWS, FACEBOOK writers’ groups across the country to host events with May 22, 10am–1pm Elizabeth Knight about disruptive AND THE SECRETS OF VIRAL a selection of sessions from the Festival program. Varuna, The National Writers House technologies and their possible effect CONTENT Audiences at these venues have the opportunity to A handcrafted book always has a on the lives we’ll lead at work and May 20, 12.30–1.30pm ask questions of the guest authors in Sydney via a live story to tell. Write a poem or pen a home. How will we live, love and UNE Lecture Room, Parramatta feed. This year, Live and Local will reach audiences in vision with Deb Westbury at a workshop think in the future? Hal Crawford, Andrew Hunter and Adelaide, Albury, Alice Springs, Armidale, Bathurst, dedicated to the people’s press and the Dom Filipovic have built an engine that Brisbane, Broken Hill, Byron Bay, , Coffs Harbour, art of bespoke bookmaking. BB3 BUSINESS BITES: PADDY tracks the sharing of millions of stories Darwin, Frankston, Horsham, Port Macquarie, Tamworth, $60/$55 MANNING – BORN TO RULE from more than 100 news sources. Now Taree, Toowoomba, and Wollongong. 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See swf.org.au for all C Jane Gleeson-White 90 Friederike Krishnabhakdi- Heidi Norman SR35 Emmett Stinson W17 participant biographies. Michelle Cahill 257 Richard Glover 133, 151, 173, 220, Vasilakis SR32 Zoe Norton Lodge 172, SR4 Elana Stone 223 John Cantwell 95, 129, BB5 SR30 Jay KristoffCYA10 Aaron Nyerges CUR182, CUR193, Yael Stone 223 KEY Jane Caro 24, 185, 215, BB4, SR18 Linda Godfrey SR33 CUR205, CUR206 Story Box Library CYA23 BB: Business Bites Ber Carroll W17 „ Ann Goldstein 128, 218 ,251 L „ Samanth Subramanian BOS: BOSTES Days a.j. carruthers 219 Elena Gomez 219 „ Zelda la Grange 21, 72 O 29, 60, 93, 240 CUR: Curiosity Lectures Kit Carstairs SR46 David Gonski AC 144 Sofie Laguna 33, 159, W15 Gail O’Brien 66 Norman Swan 260 CYA: Children & Young Adult Barrie Cassidy 11 Gus Gordon CYA4, CYA14 Samantha Lang 269 Juliette O’Brien 66 Magda Szubanski 149, 185, 225, PSD: Primary School Days Michael Cathcart 96, 189 „ Vivian Gornick 113, 151, 213, Benjamin Law 82, 143, 218 Kerry O’Brien 163, 234, SR26 SR13, SR43 SR: Suburban and Regional Tony Cavanaugh 135, 188, W28 252, SR37 Joy Lawn 28, 228, SSD1, SSD2, Mark O’Flynn 58, SR45 SSD: Secondary School Days „ Anish Chandy 130 Lisa Gorton 123 SSD3 James O’Loghlin CYA22 T W: Workshops Minglu Chen 118 „ Michael Grant CYA10, Johannes Leak CYA4 Paddy O’Reilly 242, 268 Chris Taylor 83, 153, 225 „ International writer Peter Chen CUR227, CUR237, SSD1, SSD2, SSD3 Suzanne Leal 45, 70, 100, 139 „ Susie Orbach 37, 68, 101, 173, Cory Taylor 198 CUR246 Stan Grant 19, 201, BOS3 Julian Leatherdale SR38 199 Mark Tedeschi,QC 175, 231 Eileen Chong 169 Ross Grayson Bell 49, 188, W29 Christophe Lecourtier 241 Eva Orner 10, 258, BOS3 „ Kate Tempest 6, 151, 186 A Anna Clark 243 John M. Green 20, 65 Alexandra Lee 150 Cheryl Orsini CYA4, CYA14 Jol Temple CYA21 Patrick Abboud 120 Maxine Beneba Clarke W17 Tim GriffithsCUR14 Jody Lee SR46 Caroline Overington 66, 135 Anne Tiernan 92 Randa Abdel-Fattah SR25 Aoife Clifford119 Billy Gruner SR34 Geoffrey Lehmann195 James Tierney 33 Phillip Adams 88, 125 „ Roger Cohen 101, 152, 213, 245 „ James Gurbutt 130 Andrew Leigh 122 P Laura Tingle 122, 162 Robert Adamson 123 Matthew Condon Julia Leigh 136, 216, 226 Christine Paice SR33 Natalie Tran 81, 271 Debra Adelaide 115, 156, SR29 35, 231, CUR155, SR11 H David Leser 21, 48, 140 „ Yeonmi Park 29, 100, SR20 Kirsten Tranter 116, 156 Louise Adler 72, 174, 190, 252 Bryce Corbett 20 Eleanor Hall 43, 152 Amelia Lester 91, 128, 213 Naomi Parry SR38 Mark Tredinnick 169 „ Carmen Aguirre 69, 185, 210 Ross Coulthart 95 Rosalie Ham 137, 184 „ Janna Levin 76, 157, CUR205 Steve Pennells 22 Lucy Treloar 167, 262 Adam Aitken 28 Jesse Cox 196 Lesley Harding 32, 58 Yasmine Lewis SR4 , SR3 Antonia Pesenti W21 Gillian Triggs 202 Emma Alberici 152, 218 CPAC Youth CYA15 Marieke Hardy 27, 51, 223 Sophie Lieberman 99 Sheila Pham SR23 „ Ira Trivedi 60, 162, 225, 232 Emma Allen CYA14 Annabel Crabb 11, 17, 216, 244 Elizabeth Harrower 197 Kate Lilley 195, 257 Claire Phipps 164 Wayne Tunnicliffe54 Miles Allinson 25, SR41 Andrew Cranna CYA4, CYA22 Jacqueline Harvey W16 Eleanor Limprecht 36, W26 „ Liz Pichon CYA6, PSD1, PSD2, Mick Turner 75 Sahar Amer CUR155, CUR168, Anwen Crawford 75 „ Paula Hawkins 89, 194, 231 Astrid Lorange 219 PSD3, PSD4, PSD5 CUR180 Hal Crawford BB6, CUR246 Janet Hawley 54 John Low SR38 Ailsa Piper 46, 139, 209, 262 U „ Suad Amiry 99, 120, SR25 Ashley Hay 89, 116, 159 Nakkiah Lui 269, SR4 Felicity Plunkett 15, 102 T.L. Uglow 105, 229, CUR206, W17 Felice Arena CYA3, CYA4, D Antonia Hayes 25, 126, CUR227 „ Valeria Luiselli 160, 190, 252 Peter Polites SR23 Abigail Ulman 97 PSD1, PSD2, PSD3, PSD4, PSD5 Wilson da Silva 157 Jack Heath CYA10 Catharine Lumby 163 Graham Potts 119 David Uren 127, BOS4 Michelle Arrow 243 Mark Dapin 129, 268 „ Aleksandar Hemon 13, 72, Ron Pretty SR47, SR48 James Arvanitakis BB5, „ Marie Darrieussecq 86, 124, 213 M Alice Pung 33, BOS3, CYA12, V CUR121, SR22, SR27 45, 68, 226, 241 David M. Henley 73 Kent MacCarter 219, 257 SR23 James Valentine 185 David Astle 81, 94, 165, CYA7, Satyajit Das 84, 264, BB1 Steven Herrick SR46 Hugh Mackay 43, 125, SR12 John Purcell 126, 167, 191 Felicity Vallence CYA13 CYA17 Zoe Dattner W17 John Hewson 127 Megan Mackenzie CUR180 Peter van Onselen 92, 131 Alan Atkinson 23 Graham Davis King SR34 Hex CYA8 Dougal MacPherson CYA14 R „ Yanis Varoufakis 83, 152, 217 „ Jami Attenberg 57, 103, W9 Michelle de Kretser 53 Kathryn Heyman W10 Emily Maguire 139, 207 Chris Reason 164 „ Rebecca Vaughan Auburn Poets and Writers Rowan Dean 166 Michael Heyward 130, 197 Carol Major SR41 „ James Rebanks 67, 117, 176, 3, 7, 9, 79, 222, 277 Group SR2 Quentin Dempster 22, 273 Amanda Hickie SR46 David Malouf 56, 123 SR42 „ Jean-François Vernay CUR26 Maryam Azam SR23 Andrew Denton 140, 151, 198 Michael Hing 150 Robert Manne 258, CUR193 Georgina Reid 169 Michael Visontay 20 Peter Doherty 31, 81, 154, BOS5 Lex Hirst 236, SR22 Alison Manning SR43 Michael Reid 164 „ PJ Vogt 81, 105, 196, 239 B Ken Done 18, 153 Bernie Hobbs 214 Paddy Manning 122, BB3 Eliza Reilly 150 B’tutta CYA2 Geraldine Doogue 241, 265 Jenny Hocking 107 Simon Marnie 248 Hannah Reilly 150 W Sunil Badami 268, CUR85, Kelly Doust 126 Carolyn Holbrook 23 David Marr 11, 107, 122, 258, 278 Tohby Riddle PSD1, PSD2, PSD3, Vikki Wakefield SD1, SSD2, SSD3 CUR98, CUR108, CUR111, CUR121, Ceridwen Dovey 16, 67, 242 Lucinda Holdforth 113, 235, „ Nate Marshall 61, 208, SR24 PSD4, PSD5 Ian Walker W17 CUR132, CUR134 Peter Doyle 36, 62 CUR266 Sylvia Martin SR45 Erin Riley 19 „ Tommy Wallach CYA11 „ Julian Baggini 153, 171, Philip Dwyer 88, CUR134 Tom Holloway 269 Stephen Matthews SR47, SR48 Sally Rippin CYA16 Adele Walsh CYA12 230, 260, SR51 David Dyer 57, CUR256, W5 Sacha Horler 184 Kate McClymont 164 Jamila Rizvi 55, 105 Maggie Walsh 97, 255, SR5 Julia Baird 125 Russel Howcroft 166, BB4 Cassie McCullagh 32, 183 Rhoda Roberts 106, 201 Jessica Walton CYA14 Bajo CYA8 E David Hunt W17 Rónán McDonald 177 Michael Robotham 223, CUR267 Rosie Waterland 172, 220, Eileen Baldry 74 Kirsty Eagar CYA12 Andrew Hunter BB6, CUR246 John McDuling 264, BB1 Vivien Robotham 223 271, SR22, W17 Bankstown Poetry Slam 203, „ Katharina Ebinger W17 Rebecca Huntley 198 Fiona McFarlane 53, 268 Judith Rossell PSD1, PSD2, Robert Watkins SR22 SR3 Ali Cobby Eckermann 59, 123, Alyce McGovern 207 PSD3, PSD4, PSD5 Don Watson 141, 187 „ Nir Baram 109, 138, 174 204 I Ignatius McGovern SR47, SR48 Kate Rossmanith 62 Richard Watson 83, 105, BB2, „ Julian Barnes 34 91 221 Jill Eddington 97 Jordan Idiare CYA12 Michaela McGuire 223 Aedenn Rowan SR34 BOS4 J.D. Barrett 188 „ Susan Elderkin 16, 110, 181, Ivor Indyk 257 Richard McHugh 65 Celestine Rowe 106, 204 Frances Watts CYA14 Shirley Barrett 188, 215, SR9 CYA24 Jessica Irvine BB3 Adrian McKinty 135, 212, SR1 David Rowe 11 „ Cat Weatherill 112, W2 Nigel Bartlett 119 Tim Elliott 220, 245 Mark Isaacs SR4 Felicity McLean 20, 42, SR4 Jessica Rowe 261, SR21 Nerrilee Weir W17 Linda Bartolomei 124 Chris Endrey 179 „ Britt Iverson 229 George Megalogenis Josephine Rowe 25, 70 Alexis West 106, 204 Rosie Batty 114, 145 „ Álvaro Enrigue 109, 215, 233 11, 55, 149, 162, 217, 254 „ Jean-Christophe Rufin Kylie Westaway CYA14 Caroline Baum 199, 221, 272 Kate Evans 109, 161, 194, 233, 259 J Caro Meldrum-Hanna 22 59, 124, 209, 241 Anna Westbrook 36, 207 Larissa Behrendt 243, SR31 Peter Evans BOS1 Meredith Jaffé 25, 42, 70, 261 Catriona Menzies-Pike 249, Lesley Russell 265 Deborah Westbury SR47, SR48, Hilary Bell CYA14, W21 Linda Jaivin 69, 141, 211, 238 CUR38 Juanita Ruys CUR247, CUR256, SR49 Tamryn Bennett 169 F „ Marlon James 109, 151, 189, 210 Miles Merrill 208, SR24, W17 CUR266, CUR267 Judith Whelan 13, 84, 154, 226 Tegan Bennett Daylight 46, Kate Fagan 160, 219, SR36, SR42 Emma Jane 271 Jane Messer 65, W7 Anne Whitehead 88 104, 170, SR36, SR39, SR44 Delia Falconer 187, 242, SR38 „ Jenna Johnson 130 Mahalya Middlemist SR34 S Wendy Whiteley 54 Katherine Biber 175 Suzanne Falkiner 58 Lou Johnson W17 Murray Middleton 236 Kerri Sackville 265 Debbie Whitmont 245 Carla Billinghurst SR46 Ellen Fanning 30, 67, 234, 263 Susan Johnson 70, 115, CUR85 Richard Miles 50, 71 Leigh Sales 244 Phil Wilcox 80, SR24 Anthony Billingsley 240 Gabriel Farago SR46 Elizabeth Johnstone 156, 253 Sarah Mills SR46 „ Luc Sante 62, 190, 272 Marian Wilkinson 87 Tony Birch 228, 262, SR32, W25 „ Nicolas Fargues 136, 211, 241 Gail Jones 190, CUR237 Catherine Milne 41 Charles Santoso CYA4 Lesley Williams 74, SR35 John Birmingham CUR108, SR16, Marc Fennell CUR182 Leisel Jones 42, 153, BOS6, SR10 150 Lisa Miranda Sarzin CYA14 Michael Williams 17, 57, 93, 186 W19 Sarah Ferguson 254 Debra Jopson 28 Peter Minter 219, SR40 Margot Saville 35, 44, 131, 144, Tammy Williams 74 Stephanie Bishop 116, 167 Richard Fidler 96, 176 Toni Jordan 137, 191, 215, W27 Catriona Mitchell 232 163 Graham Wilson W17 Aaron Blabey CYA5 Dom Filipovic BB6 Jane Jose 99 Natasha Mitchell 59, 117 Niki Savva 11, 131, 278 „ Jeanette Winterson 77, Georgia Blain 250 Luke Fischer 195 Mireille Juchau 15, 139, SR44 Drusilla Modjeska 102, 156, 92 117, 151 Kathleen Bleakley SR33 Toby Fitch 219 218, 252 Claire Scobie W3 Ben Wood CYA14 Anthony Bond CUR40 Martin Flanagan 19, 163, CUR98 K „ Kelsey Montague 12, 183 Penelope Seidler 48 Charlotte Wood 89, 170, 235, Frank Bongiorno CUR64 Flanagan CYA10 Michaela Kalowski 138, 184 Frank Moorhouse 171, 253 Michael Sexton SC CUR52 250, SR39 Chris Bowen 35, 275 Tim Flannery 31, 117, 214 Leah Kaminsky 103, 138, 198, Jocelyn Moorhouse 184 „ Don Share 61, 123 Frank Woodley CYA3 Mike Bowers 11 Lionel Fogarty 123, 219, 255, SR5 SR37, SR41, W20 Kendrah Morgan 32, 58 Greg Sheridan 44, SR19 „ Jamila Woods 61, 208, SR24 „ William Boyd 91, 147, 210, Adam Ford 50, 99 Sarah Kanowski 86, 136, 251 Julian Morrow 239 Shuangyuan Shi 200 Jeremy Wortsman 192 W29 Kate Forsyth 112, 191, W12 „ Deepti Kapoor 29, 60, 191, Jenny Mosher SR46 Annette Shun Wah 210, 249 Fiona Wright 37, 167, 249, W1 „ John Boyne 87, 138, 275, Andrew Fowler 92, 171, 273, 232 Tara Moss 68, 145, 271 Eric Sidoti SR26 Tom Wright 36 SSD1, SSD2, SSD3 SR40 Fiona Katauskas CYA4, CYA14 Sam Mostyn 19 „ Ira Silverberg W17 Edwina Wyatt CYA14 James Bradley 73 Candice Fox 119, 212, W6, W17 Sarah Kay 80, 208, SR24, W22 Elspeth Muir 236, 249 Alecia Simmonds 207, 236, W13 Elizabeth Wymarra 255 Troy Bramston 107 Jon Foye CYA4, CYA21 Phil Kaye 80, 208, SR24, W22 „ Paul Muldoon 56, 87, 128, Adrian Simon 220 Susan Wyndham 34, 178, 218 Frank Brennan 198 First Dog on the Moon 67, 179 Catherine Keenan 114, 142, 147 208, CUR168 „ Emma Sky 47, 124, 154, 240 Anna Broinowski CUR247 „ Peter Frankopan 71, 152, 240 Phillip Keir 48 Kate Mulvany 2, 274 Inga Simpson 126, 228, SR6, W14 X Brothablack SR5 „ Jonathan Franzen 104, 224 Amanda Keller 158 Craig Munro 5, 41 Michael Slezak 157 „ Ye Xin 118, 238, SR14 Bob Brown 114, 263, SR27 Mia Freedman 265 Stuart Kells 41, SR15 Lisa Murray SR38 Glenda Sluga CUR40, CUR52, Bryan Brown SR4 Jackie French 265 Paul Kelly 107, 131 „ Paul Murray 65, 87, 177, 210 CUR63, CUR64 Y James Brown 47, 129 Peggy Frew 75, 97, SR44 Paul Kelly 274, BOS1 „ Anna Smaill 15, 73, 141, W24 Beth Yahp 28, CUR63, SR7 Pam Brown 219 Anna Funder 29, 224, 270 Meg Keneally 223, SR28 N „ Dorothea Smartt 106, 208, W11 „ Hanya Yanagihara 82, 136, Thomas Brown SR34 88, 223, Alexandra Nahlous W23 Babette Smith 23 276, SR17 John Muk Muk Burke SR32 G BOS2, SR28 Indira Naidoo 260, CUR132 David Smith 213 Joshua Yeldham 183, W30 joanne burns 219 Matthew Gain W17 Rachel Kent 18, 58 Dalia Nassar CUR14, CUR26, Suzanne Smith 22 Damon Young 39, 90, W18 Julian Burnside QC 29 Damon Gameau 260 Kinderling Kids Radio CYA1 CUR38 Hannah Sommerville CYA14 Kate Burt CYA21 „ Petina Gappah 89, 161, 210, Michael Kimmel 269 Christopher NeffCUR111 Tim Soutphommasane 68 Z Caroline Butler-Bowdon 23 SR8 „ Starlee Kine 83, 143, 196 Jacqui Newling 248 Adam Spencer 76, 81 „ Xu Zhiyuan 29, 84, 118, 171, 200 Jennifer Byrne 27, 51, 146 Peter Garrett 30, 114, 225 „ Jon Klassen 192, PSD1, PSD2, John Newton 248 Tracey Spicer 24, 158, SR13 Li Zhou 118 Sarah Gates W17 PSD3, PSD4, PSD5 Barbara Nicholson SR32 Beck Stanton CYA14 Jamie Zimmermann 129 Joe Gelonesi 230 Elizabeth Knight BB2, BB4 Garth Nix W17 Matt Stanton CYA4, CYA14 Claire Zorn CYA10, SSD1, SSD2, Sulari Gentill 57, W4 „ Herman Koch 151, 231, 259 Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd 150 Jason Steger 27, 51, 270 SSD3 „ Anna Gerber 229 Will Kostakis CYA9, CYA12 Bianca Nogrady 31, 157, W8 „ Gloria Steinem 59, 146, 162 Madeline Gleeson 13, 258 Christopher Kremmer 60 Lynette Noni 73 Amanda Stewart 219 1HERSA1 S022 Venues & Bookings FESTIVAL INFORMATION 23 swf.org.au

BOOKINGS ACCESSIBILITY Walsh Bay. The 431 and 433 buses ROAD CLOSURES OTHER CITY VENUES All venues are wheelchair accessible. previously terminating in Walsh Bay In 2016, the light rail construction Sydney Writers’ Festival presents The following venues are fitted with will now terminate at Martin Place and scheme along George Street will ABC TV Studios both free and ticketed events. a hearing loop system: Roslyn Packer Central Station respectively. impact journeys to the Sydney CBD 700 Harris Street, Ultimo The majority of ticketed events Theatre, Wharf 2 Theatre, City Recital and Walsh Bay. Please visit mysydney. can be booked through the Roslyn Hall, and Sydney Town Hall. SYDNEY WRITERS’ nsw.gov.au for the latest information City Recital Hall Angel Place Packer Theatre box office, either Events 146 Gloria Steinem: Life FESTIVAL SHUTTLE BUS and to plan your trip. Angel Place, Sydney online at roslynpackertheatre.com. on the Road and 221 Julian Barnes: From Thursday May 19 to Sunday au/swf, by phone on 9250 1988 or The Noise of Time will be AUSLAN May 22, a Sydney Writers’ Festival Customs House, Barnet Long in person at 22 Hickson Road, Walsh interpreted. shuttle bus will run a return service WALSH BAY Room Bay. All events at the Roslyn Packer from Circular Quay to the Festival PRECINCT VENUES 31 Alfred Street, Sydney Seats cannot be booked for free Theatre on Saturday May 21 and precinct at Walsh Bay. events in the Walsh Bay Precinct, Sunday May 22 will be closed Buses depart approximately every Roslyn Packer Theatre Dendy Opera Quays except for select events at the captioned. 15 minutes between 9am and 6.15pm 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay 2 East Circular Quay, Sydney Children’s and YA Precinct on Sunday Tickets for AUSLAN-interpreted and from the First Fleet Park stop on Roslyn Packer Theatre May 22 (refer to page 19). Free events captioned events can be purchased George Street, near Circular Quay. Richard Wherrett Studio Knox St Bar fill quickly and we recommend you directly through the Roslyn Packer Alternate buses will be wheelchair 21 Shepherd Street, Chippendale arrive early. In most instances, venues Theatre box office. accessible. Pier 4/5 must be vacated at the end of each After the Festival, some events will The first stop is opposite Roslyn Hickson Road, Walsh Bay Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney event. be made available as audio podcasts Packer Theatre, and the second Bangarra Studio Theatre Mrs Macquaries Road Sydney NSW Box offices will also operate at on our iTunes channel or as video on stop is outside Pier 4/5. Buses then Sydney Dance 1 2000 Pier 2/3, Pier 4/5, City Recital Hall our YouTube channel. return directly to Circular Quay. The Sydney Dance 2 and Sydney Town Hall for ticket last scheduled service returning to Sydney Dance Viewing Lounge Science House, NYU Sydney purchases on event days. Circular Quay departs from Walsh Sydney Dance Lounge 157-161 Gloucester Street, Sydney For events not ticketed by the TRAVELLING TO THE Bay at 6.15pm. Philharmonia Studio Roslyn Packer Theatre box office, WALSH BAY PRECINCT The cost is $1 one-way on the SWF The Theatre Bar at the End of the State Library of NSW please refer to individual event shuttle bus. As this is a charter service, Wharf Macquarie Street, Sydney listings in the program. TRAIN AND FERRY MyBus tickets, TravelTen tickets, Opal Wharf 2 Theatre Concessions apply for children The closest train station and ferry Cards, concession cards and pensioner The Waterfront Sydney Jewish Museum under 16, full-time students and terminal is Circular Quay, about a day tickets are not accepted. 148 Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst Australian 15-minute walk from the Walsh Bay Pier 2/3 Health Care Card or Centrelink precinct. From Circular Quay, walk BICYCLES Hickson Road, Walsh Bay Sydney Town Hall pension cardholders. Transaction down George Street and turn right on Bicycle parking is provided under the Main Stage 483 George Street, Sydney fees may apply for all bookings. Hickson Road. Follow Hickson Road awning on Pier 2. Club Stage under the Harbour Bridge and around The Loft ENQUIRIES (excluding MY PERFECT FESTIVAL past the hotel, Pier One Sydney PARKING Curiosity Stage bookings) TICKET PACKAGES Harbour, to the Festival precinct. While on-street metered parking The Hemingway Bar For any general enquiries, please Enjoy a selection of the Artistic is available in Walsh Bay, we contact Sydney Writers’ Festival either Director’s Festival highlights and relax BUS recommend parking at Bond Store by phone on 9252 7729 or by email between events at our private lounge The 311 bus stops at Towns Place and One, 26 Hickson Road Walsh Bay or on [email protected]. at Walsh Bay. My Perfect Festival ticket Hickson Road, Walsh Bay. The 324 and Barangaroo Point Car Park (entry via packages are available at swf.org.au. 325 buses terminate in Hickson Road, Hickson Rd) at Walsh Bay.

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