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The Great Festival Read, Sunday 10am. BATHURST POETS: 2019 ANTHOLOGY Readers and book groups are invited to read the book To be launched Saturday 4th @ 5.45pm and come along to The ‘Great Festival Read’ session on Sunday to hear a panel discussion and participate in an audience Q&A, Many thanks to our local supporters of the Festival followed by author Trevor Shearston in conversation with Sarina Gale from Scribe Publishers at 10.45am. Scribe | Books Plus Bathurst City Life Copies available from Books Plus Regional Arts Fund | Keppel St Books Ben & Martha Gelin | Joan Phillip & Rod Allan Jo Reid & Bill Green = SWF Live & Local = Sydney Writers’ Festival live stream FRIDAY 3 MAY SWF LIVE & LOCAL Jenny Erpenbeck: Go, Went, Gone. The Guardian has praised Jenny Erpenbeck as “Europe’s outstanding literary seer”. She 9am Secondary Schools Creative Writing Workshops with authors Jack Heath and Erin 3pm - 4pm City Hall Wattle Foyer joins Michelle de Kretser to discuss Go, Went, Gone, Jenny’s masterful new novel which -2.30pm Gough. Students to meet in City Hall at 9am for Workshop Introduction. explores the response to the current refugee crisis. SWF LIVE & LOCAL Leigh Sales: Any Ordinary Day. SWF LIVE & LOCAL Boys to Men: The Masculinity Crisis. In a special event, Walkley Award-Winning anchor of ABC’s 7.30 Leigh Sales sheds light 10am -11am City Hall 4.30pm – Jan Fran talks to Clementine Ford (Boys Will Be Boys) and chef and writer Adam Liaw on Any Ordinary Day, her layered exploration of how ordinary people endure unthinkable City Hall 5.30pm about the harm toxic masculinity inflicts on men and women, the progress we’re making tragedy. to counteract it, and how we can raise our boys to be better men. SWF LIVE & LOCAL Tom Switzer and Graeme Gill: Is Russia The Enemy We’ve Come 2019 Bathurst Poetry Anthology Launch To Believe? 5.45pm - 11.30am – City Hall Come and celebrate the launch of the 2019 Bathurst Poets Anthology, the first City Hall In our hurry to decry Putin, are we fuelling hatred and fostering misunderstanding? 6.30pm 12.30pm publication of works from this local poets group. Political adviser Tom Switzer and Emeritus Professor Graeme Gill debate the legitimacy of the Russian threat, in conversation with former Russian Correspondent Monica Attard. Poetry Launch. Autobiochemistry by Tricia Dearborn SWF LIVE & LOCAL Can You Spot A Liar Hear Tricia Dearborn reading from her work and in-conversation about her latest poetry 6.30pm – collection, Autobiochemistry. Tricia grew up in Bathurst and her work has been widely We lie to protect ourselves or others or just because we can. Chris Taylor talks to three City Hall 1.30pm – people who detect lies for a living – crime and corruption reporter Matthew Condon, Gold 7.30pm published in Australian literary journals and throughout the world. She is the author of City Hall 2.30pm Walkley–award winning investigative journalist Kate McClymont and forensic psychiatrist two previous collections of poetry. Come along and celebrate the launch of her stunning Dr Calum Smith. They reflect on the crimes they’ve solved, the scandals they’ve new book. exposed and discoveries they’ve made about the inner workings of the deceitful mind. SWF LIVE & LOCAL Ben Quilty: Home Archibald prize-winning artist Ben Quilty has assembled a heartbreaking and awe - SUNDAY 5 MAY 3pm – 4pm City Hall inspiring collection of artworks by the most vulnerable victims of a brutal civil war in 10am - City Hall Great Festival Read. Home: Drawings by Syrian Children. Ben talks with Julian Burnside QC about the book 10.45am Join Panellists Tracy Sorensen, Peter Wilson, Lesley Wade, Lauren O’Brien and Dave and his experiences collating it in refugee camps across Europe. Rankine to discuss Hare’s Fur by Blue Mountains based writer Trevor Shearston, and join SWF LIVE & LOCAL David Marr: My Country in the audience Q & A. 4.30pm – City Hall One of Australia’s finest Journalists and public intellectuals, David Marr talks about his 10.45am - City Hall Trevor Shearston: Hare’s Fur. 5.30pm definitive collection and illuminating chronicle of our times, My Country, with Sally Warhaft. 11.30am Trevor Shearston in conversation with Sarina Gale from Scribe, the independent Official Opening by Mayor Graeme Hanger OAM, followed by author/journalist James Australian Publishing house who published Hare’s Fur. Hear more about this beautiful 5.45pm - City Hall Knight speaking about his new book, Back On Track, the story of Bernie Shakeshaft’s book and the journey it took to publication. Trevor will also be available to sign copies of 7pm BackTrack Youthworks Program. his book for readers at the end of the session. 11.30am - City Hall SWF LIVE & LOCAL Meg Wolitzer: The Female Persuasion SATURDAY 4 MAY 12.30pm One of America’s most astute novelists,bestselling author Meg Wolitzer (The Wife), sits Storytelling workshop with Adverse Camber, Welsh storytellers down with Angela Ledgerwood to discuss Meg’s timely, witty and on- target novel The Alongside their BMEC performances and Central West tour Adverse Camber are offering Female Persuasion, which charts the course of women’s lives from the 1970s to now in 9:30am – City Hall workshops for any audiences. Based in an oral tradition the focus is storytelling for an expansive consideration of feminism and the intersection of the personal and political. 11:30am performance, sharing and exchanging knowledge amongst attendees. 12.30pm - Conference Live Words: Hearing Voices Workshop with Playwright and Theatre-maker Fiona Green. Tickets available on facebook or through Arts OutWest 6338 4657. Cost $20. 1.30pm Room 3 & 4 A fun and dynamic approach to creating character and dialogue. To loosen your creative SWF LIVE & LOCAL The Kingdom and the Power - Saudi Arabia juices- you’ll work from the spoken word to the page. Using improvising actors, this Four Corners reporter Sophie McNeill joins Australian-based Saudi Manal al-Sharif – workshop is designed to help prose writers create characters with motivation and depth. 11.30am – founder of the #WomenToDrive movement and author of Daring To Drive– and street Bookings essential through BooksPlus 6331 5994. Cost $5.00 City Hall 12.30pm artist, PhD candidate and creator of #IAmMyOwnGuardian, Ms Saffaa, to discuss the 1.30pm - City Hall SWF LIVE & LOCAL Simon Schama Belonging: The Story of the Jews situation under the rule of crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, women’s and queer 2.30pm One of the world’s most popular and prolific historians, Simon Schama, talks about rights in Saudi Arabia, self-exile and hopes for the future. his towering achievement, Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900, with revered Great Books you might have missed! interviewer Paul Holdengräber. 12.45pm – City Hall Jenny Barry and Cade Turner-Mann chat about some of the great books you may have 3pm - 4pm City Hall SWF LIVE & LOCAL Andrew Sean Greer: Less 1.30pm missed in the last year and some to keep an eye out for. Literary sensation Andrew Sean Greer discusses Less, his Pulitzer Prize–winning satire SWF LIVE & LOCAL Whose ABC? Featuring Mark Scott, Jonathon Holmes, Marc of the literary world, love and the midlife crisis, in conversation with David Marr. Fennel, Margaret Simons, Sally Warhaft. 4.30pm - City Hall SWF LIVE & LOCAL “I Do Not Want to See This in Print” 1.30pm – Sally Warhaft discusses the future of the ABC with former ABC managing director Mark 5.30pm Annabel Crabb discusses the fraught and sensitive relationship between politicians and City Hall 2.30pm Scott (On Us), On Aunty author and former Media Watch host Jonathan Holmes, host the press with Walkley Award winner Sharri Markson, veteran political reporter Samantha of ABC’s Download This Show and SBS VICELAND’s The Feed Marc Fennell and Maiden and The Australian columnist Niki Savva. journalist Margaret Simons. 6pm - 7pm City Hall SWF LIVE & LOCAL Closing Address: Fatima Bhutto Poetry Slam Workshop. When internationally lauded Pakistani writer Fatima Bhutto last appeared at the Sydney Join local poets and Australian Poetry Slam finalists Sophie Meredith and Alice Writers’ Festival, she said her country was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Eight 2.30pm - Conference Blackwood as they explore what makes a slam poem, discuss poetry writing and years later, The Runaways author returns to deliver an unmissable closing address about 3.30pm Room 1& 2 performance skills and ways to make a spoken word poem pop! A fun workshop for how that turbulence has seemingly spread far beyond her homeland’s borders. She beginners through to experienced poets with time for listening, writing and performing if reflects on the tectonic shifts that are occurring not just in global politics in a post-truth you like. Bookings essential through BooksPlus 6331 5994. Cost $5. age, but also in relation to ideas of race, sexuality and gender.

This schedule is correct at time of publication. Check website and social media regularly for updates All sessions are FREE to attend, Workshops $5.