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Use the key below to identify Festival streams Event time 6pm and look out for the free events. Title STEPHEN DUPONT: Literature DON’T LOOK AWAY

Description Against a backdrop of arresting The Agenda photographs and film footage, multi-award-winning war Live & Social photographer Stephen Dupont takes viewers on a powerful Children & Teens journey to the frontlines of Afghanistan, Rwanda, Vietnam Free events and more. The haunting visual presentation is followed by a conversation with Dupont and accompanied by a photographic exhibition.

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and future, MWF will interrogate literature and change, there is the biggest issues of the day. something for everyone who reads.

We’re thrilled to present visionary This year will mark my final year international voices Amani Al- as director of Melbourne Writers Khatahtbeh, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Festival. It has been an honour Robert Fisk, Janet Mock, Joyce – and so much fun – to bring the Carol Oates, Shashi Tharoor, Festival to life over the past five Angie Thomas and Micah White, years. I have fond memories of so as well as preeminent Australian many insightful and provocative In 2017 Melbourne Writers thinkers Yassmin Abdel-Magied, conversations and performances Festival will celebrate Julian Burnside, Stan Grant, that I believe could not happen revolutionary ideas. Tony Jones, Shireen Morris and in any place other than at MWF Kim Scott, who will deliver the – so to the writers and readers of When systems fall into crisis and Festival’s opening address. Melbourne in particular, I thank you. we are entrenched in the politics Join the writers, activists and I look forward to welcoming of despair, literature becomes a thinkers leading the resistance to you to the Festival in August! platform for revolution. Informed explore ideas for a more hopeful by social and political movements Lisa Dempster future. With more than 300 events and revolutions past, present Festival Director / CEO exploring activism, identity, politics,

We respectfully acknowledge that Melbourne Writers Festival takes place on the traditional lands of the Kulin Nation, in particular the Wurundjeri Writers have long been partners Immerse yourself in a world of and Boonwurrung and prophets of revolution. words at the 2017 Melbourne people. We pay Melbourne Writers Festival Writers Festival. During what respects to Elders continues this tradition by providing is undeniably a highlight of past and present, a forum for discussion and debate Melbourne’s cultural calendar, and to the Elders and a platform for diverse voices. MWF is a place for readers of all I encourage you to dive into this kinds to explore stories that are of all communities program, be inspired by new important to Melbourne. As a and cultures perspectives, and encounter an UNESCO City of Literature, the City across Australia. exciting array of writers from our of Melbourne is proud to support City of Literature and beyond. Australia’s premier writing festival. Viva la Melbourne Writers Festival! Robert Doyle AC The Hon Martin Foley MP Lord Mayor Minister for Creative Industries

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Kim Scott

OPENING NIGHT GALA

Fri 25 Aug, 6.30pm until late Deakin Edge, Fed Square $50 | Code 1001

Throughout his award-winning literary career, Kim Scott has reconstructed narratives of Aboriginal experience while interrogating the archives of history. In his powerful opening address, Scott explores how writing yourself into history can challenge Australian identity and transform our connection to language and land. The Mission Songs Project present a dynamic musical performance of Indigenous song, casting light on the history and resilience of our Indigenous communities. Then join us for a drink as we kick off the Festival! DJ Sovereign Trax brings a playlist of the best music from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists as we reflect on the collective stories, identities and resistance of the First Nations. Ticket price includes event and opening party. Supported by the Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne

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Writers are not only storytellers – they are Joyce Carol Oates also witnesses to the world around them, reflecting and critiquing it through their BEARING WITNESS imagined worlds. Iconic American author Joyce Carol Oates (A Book of American Sat 26 Aug, 6.15pm (75 minutes) Martyrs) delves into ethics, empathy and Deakin Edge, Fed Square bearing witness as a novelist, and how $45/$35 | Code 1306 fiction gives both readers and writers the opportunity to explore and understand both sides of complex, multifaceted issues. Supported by the US Consulate General

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Angie Thomas

YA & ACTIVISM

Sun 27 Aug, 4pm (75 minutes) Deakin Edge, Fed Square $25 | Code 1406

Giving voice to young black Americans and chronicling their experiences of racism, The Hate U Give is the year’s most outstanding YA novel. Hear from author Angie Thomas as she argues for writing that can turn the political into the deeply personal as a way to inspire action and speak truth to power. Be inspired by this young, outspoken writer who is ready to hit three truths home: that life fuels art, art mirrors life, and books can change lives.

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MWF’s sharpest minds deliver an A Better invigorating evening of polemics. This gala event will see writers including Tomorrow Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Jane Caro, Stan Grant, Tony Jones and Omar Musa POLEMICS GALA make individual cases against values and institutions, provoking new possibilities Thu 31 Aug, 6pm (75 minutes) for a better society. Nothing is off-limits Deakin Edge, Fed Square for these bold, outspoken thinkers $45/$35 | Code 1002 – come and hear their visions for a brighter, more equal tomorrow. With a performance by host Clare Bowditch.

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Janet Mock

VISIBILITY & VOICE

Thu 31 Aug, 8.30pm (75 minutes) Deakin Edge, Fed Square $45/$35 | Code 1003

Meet internationally acclaimed transgender rights activist Janet Mock, author of Redefining Realness and Surpassing Certainty – memoirs that share her experiences of growing up poor, multiracial and trans in America, and her journey into the highly competitive New York media. Mock draws on her experience as a journalist and prominent trans woman to speak about the power of storytelling in media and popular culture, the history of trans women in feminist, LGBTI and social justice movements, and the importance of visibility and voice.

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The West has long fought its wars Robert Fisk on foreign soil. From his experience covering wars in Syria, Iraq, Algeria, CLOSING NIGHT ADDRESS Afghanistan and Lebanon, The Independent’s renowned Middle Sun 3 Sep, 6.30pm (75 minutes) Eastern correspondent Robert Fisk Deakin Edge, Fed Square explains why foreign adventures no $45/$35 | Code 1004 longer come free of charge – because we are no longer safe at home.

12 mwf.com.au Deakin Edge comes to life every night of MWF with an exclusive pop-up bar, open half an hour before every evening session. Enjoy food by Beer DeLuxe and drinks from Hargreaves Hill Brewing Co., Kooks Social Winery and The Melbourne Gin Company. The City of Melbourne is proud to support major and emerging What is arts organisations through their 2015–17 Triennial Arts Grants the role of Program. Aphids Arts Access Victoria Australian Centre for the artist Contemporary Art Blindside Artist Run Space Chamber Made Opera in a creative Circus Oz Craft Emerging Writers’ Festival Ilbijerri Theatre city? Koorie Heritage Trust La Mama Little Big Shots Lucy Guerin Inc. Melbourne Festival Melbourne Fringe Melbourne International Comedy Festival “To disrupt, enliven Melbourne International Film Festival and enrich by taking Melbourne International Jazz Festival creative risks and Melbourne Queer Film Festival Melbourne Symphony Orchestra pursuing excellence Melbourne WebFest Melbourne Writers Festival in all its forms” Multicultural Arts Victoria Next Wave Festival Polyglot Theatre Poppy Seed Songlines Aboriginal Music Speak Percussion Lisa Dempster Festival Director / CEO The Wheeler Centre Melbourne Writers Festival West Space Wild@heART Community Arts

melbourne.vic.gov.au/triennialarts Events Friday 25 August

10am Walks ABC BOOKS & Experience Melbourne like never before by ARTS LIVE going for an MWF walk! Join David Astle for Kick off your MWF with ABC RN word game fun, uncover the Yarra River’s Books and Arts’s live broadcast history with Tony Birch, discover Kyo Maclear’s from the Festival. Get a taste for favourite birds, and explore the Melbourne grid the discussions to come as Michael with Nadia Rhook. Afternoon tea included. Cathcart is joined in conversation Visit mwf.com.au for full details. by exciting Festival guests. Supported by ABC RN

Deakin Edge, Fed Square

Book Launches

From well-known The Door Because of You publications to emerging Garcia Sisters Pip Harry writers, check out the Sat 26 Aug, 11.30am Sat 2 Sep, 11.30am future of Australian The Vandemonian War Wish You Were Here writing at a free Festival Nick Brodie Sheridan Jobbins book launch at Beer Sat 26 Aug, 1pm Sat 2 Sep, 1pm DeLuxe, Fed Square. Culinary Journey Through Aukati: Boundary Lines Visit mwf.com.au Silk Road: Taste of Afghanistan Michalia Arathimos for full details. Laila and Roya Khalil Sat 2 Sep, 2.30pm Sat 26 Aug, 2.30pm Poets and Painters: A Führer for a Father Celebrating the Big Punchbowl Jim Davidson Tasmanian Land Conservancy Sun 27 Aug, 11.30am Sun 3 Sep, 11.30am Secret Shores A New England Affair Ella Carey Steven Carroll Sun 27 Aug, 1pm Sun 3 Sep, 1pm Siren Hot Off the (Small) Press Rachel Matthews Small Press Network Sun 27 Aug, 2.30pm Sun 3 Sep, 2.30pm And Fire Came Down Hippy Days, Arabian Nights Emma Viskic Katherine Boland Sun 27 Aug, 4pm Sun 3 Sep, 4pm Just Another Week in Suburbia Les Zig Sat 2 Sep, 10am

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10am 11.30am 11.30am MEET MEGAN ABBOTT CLIMATE CHANGE GABI MARTÍNEZ: ACTIVISM IN THE LAND OF GIANTS Exploring the dark, often violent inner lives of young suburban What are the different factions of One of Spain’s most dynamic women, Megan Abbott is one climate change activism, and how voices, Gabi Martínez breathes of the world’s most exciting do they come together in cohesive new life into the literary travel domestic noir writers. Join the action? Anna Krien (The Climate genre. In the Land of Giants award-winning US author as she Deadlock) and Indigenous climate sees him trace the footsteps of discusses her work, including her activist Amelia Telford discuss the traveller Jordi Magraner, who latest novel, You Will Know Me. current state of climate change was mysteriously murdered in activism, and where it’s heading. 2002. How did this nomadic ACMI Cinema 1 man live – and die? $22/$19 | Code 3301 ACMI The Cube Supported by Acción THE PERILS Cultural Española OF POPULISM DEATH IN THE ACMI Studio 1 DIGITAL AGE $22/$19 | Code 4302 The world is in grip of profound political and social change, and In an age where the dead can leaders are promising to respond be resurrected as holograms, ROBERT DESSAIX: to the voice of the people. What technology is changing our ON LEISURE does populism mean for the new understanding of both death In today’s busy world, leisure world order? Dennis Altman, and reality. Michael Arnold, time is more vital than ever, but Sanaz Fotouhi and Michael Simon Longstaff and Elizabeth technology is eroding our work– Winkler discuss with The Griffith Tan explore the technological life balance. Robert Dessaix Review’s Julianne Schultz. anxiety and ethical implications (Pleasures of Leisure) makes the behind these innovations. Deakin Edge, Fed Square case for taking leisure seriously $22/$19 | Code 1301 Supported by the Faculty of Arts, – and how taking time off can The University of Melbourne deepen our understanding of who we are as human beings. WOMEN WRITERS ACMI Cinema 1 IN THE CITY $22/$19 | Code 3302 Deakin Edge, Fed Square $22/$19 | Code 1302 Walking, reading, writing – the actions we take in public space hold specific resonances for women. Essayists Sophie Cunningham, Rebecca Harkins-Cross and Illustrator in Residence Emily Witt explore the relationships In these three-hour sessions, between geography and gender. see leading illustrators work live ACMI Studio 1 from 12pm in the Fed Square Atrium. $22/$19 | Code 4301 Visit mwf.com.au for full details.

Atrium, Fed Square Sat 26 & Sun 27 Aug, Fri 1, Sat 2 & Sun 3 Sep

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1pm 1pm 2.30pm BINGE CULTURE SAMI SHAH: AUSTRALIAN CENTRE GOD DAMN IT LITERARY AWARDS In the age of Netflix, TV shows are ready-made for bingeing. How What is the importance of Join the Australian Centre and has this changed screenwriting free speech in writing? From The University of Melbourne’s methods? Reach for the acts of blasphemy in religious Faculty of Arts in congratulating the popcorn with Megan Abbott communities to political dissidence winners of this year’s literary awards. (The Deuce), Brodie Lancaster in democracy and the rise of satire Prizes are awarded to biography, (No Way! Okay, Fine) and in journalism, Sami Shah explores poetry and best stage play by an Benjamin Law (The Family Law) the power of offence – and how it’s Indigenous artist. Hosted by Ken as they explore the influence of never as simple as we think it is. Gelder and Denise Varney, co- viewer trends on television. directors of the Australian Centre. Supported by PEN Melbourne Supported by Victoria University Supported by the Faculty of Arts, ACMI The Cube The University of Melbourne ACMI Studio 1 $22/$19 | Code 4303 ACMI The Cube WOMEN OF SUBSTANCES FEMINIST LIT: THEN & NOW Drawing together neuroscientific DECONSTRUCTING research and memoir, journalist HEALTH Join Natalie Kon-yu, Melissa Jenny Valentish charts the Lucashenko and Emily Maguire world of substance abuse What can we learn about medicine for a discussion of feminist writing in her new book, Woman and wellbeing through writing? Kate past, present and future. How has of Substances. Join her as Cole-Adams (Anaesthesia) and feminist writing changed over she explores the gendered Kate Grenville (The Case Against time? As our understanding of experience of drug and alcohol Fragrance) discuss what drew them intersectionality deepens, do classic addiction. With Kate Holden. to writing about science and health – texts hold up? And where to next? and what they learnt along the way. Deakin Edge, Fed Square Supported by Feminist $22/$19 | Code 1303 ACMI Cinema 1 Writers Festival $22/$19 | Code 3304 ACMI Cinema 1 $22/$19 | Code 3303 JENNIFER ACKERMAN: THE GENIUS OF BIRDS

Did you know that some species of The Empty Chair by PEN Melbourne birds can store up to 2000 songs in a brain a thousand times smaller The PEN Empty Chair is acknowledged at Melbourne Writers than a human’s? Acclaimed writer Festival to represent a writer who is not present because they Jennifer Ackerman (The Genius have been detained, imprisoned, tortured, forced into exile or in of Birds) delves into the highly other ways silenced for the peaceful practice of their profession intelligent avian world, revealing and in violation of their right to freedom of expression. the sophisticated science behind More information is available at penmelbourne.org. birds’ brains and behaviours. Deakin Edge, Fed Square $22/$19 | Code 1304

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2.30pm 4pm 4pm LONELINESS & BEYOND CLICHÉS: SHEILA FITZPATRICK: CONNECTIVITY WOMEN, RELIGION MISCHKA’S WAR & CULTURE In this technological age, we’re Through diary entries, more connected than ever – How do women explore identity, Mischka’s War follows one man’s but does that solve the great religion and culture? Amal Awad journey as a displaced person in human condition of loneliness? (Beyond Veiled Cliches) and Susan WWII Germany, from surviving Does more choice help or hinder Carland (Fighting Hislam) share wartime to starting anew. As both us? Elizabeth Tan and Emily Witt their stories and research, discussing historian and wife to the late discuss technology’s role in shaping the ways in which Muslim and Arab subject, author Sheila Fitzpatrick our connections with each other. women experience the world. unpacks this incredible true story.

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4pm GEORGIA BLAIN: 5.30pm ABORIGINAL THE MUSEUM OF WORDS MY PLACE IN LITERATURE NOW Celebrate the life and work of late MELBOURNE novelist Georgia Blain at this special Hear from some of Australia’s most Study Melbourne invites the memorial event and book launch. brilliant writers. Claire Coleman international students of Victoria Guests Sophie Cunningham, explores colonialism from a to reflect on their time and Erik Jensen, Chris Healy and different perspective in her experience in Australia in either Katrina Sedgwick will perform dystopian novel Terra Nullius, visual or written form. Join us as we readings of the beloved Australian Jane Harrison’s Becoming Kirrali announce this year’s competition author’s work. Afterwards Blain’s Lewis shares a new story from the winners over afternoon tea. partner Andrew Taylor will launch Stolen Generations, and Kim Scott’s her last book, The Museum of Words. Supported by Study Melbourne Taboo follows a young woman cast into the drama of Australian history. ACMI The Cube ACMI The Cube

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Let’s Get in Formation From musicians and writers to activists and mothers, women have led political actions in countless ways. Join some of the Festival’s most fearless women, including Clementine Ford and Nayuka Gorrie, for a lively evening of performance celebrating revolutionary women. Hosted by Namila Benson.

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Big Ideas presented by The Monthly

Sean McMeekin Shireen Morris

Explore the day’s THE RUSSIAN CONSTITUTIONAL biggest issues with REVOLUTION RECOGNITION prominent literary and academic thinkers. How did the Russian The Australian Constitution From constitutional Revolution transform distributes power, but it recognition to legal and the world forever? says nothing in relation social systems around Historian Sean McMeekin’s to Aboriginal and Torres the world, experts Julian The Russian Revolution Strait Islander peoples. Burnside, Nancy MacLean, sheds new light on the great How might recognition Sean McMeekin, Shireen turning point of the 20th empower the First Nations Morris and Shashi Tharoor century, examining Russia’s to take their rightful place present new perspectives irreversible metamorphosis, in Australia’s constitutional on our society’s most the main players who led arrangements? And what pressing challenges. the charge, and the global about a treaty? Shireen powers affected by the Morris draws on her expertise Supported by The Monthly chaos over two turbulent as a lawyer, constitutional decades. Join McMeekin as reform fellow and editor of he explores this fascinating A Rightful Place: A Road Map period of world history – and to Recognition to explore its ongoing implications. Indigenous constitutional recognition, the Uluru Sun 27 Aug, 6.15pm Statement From the Heart (75 minutes) and creating an Australia Deakin Edge, Fed Square that is fair for all Australians. $30/$27 | Code 1407 Mon 28 Aug, 6pm (75 minutes) Deakin Edge, Fed Square $30/$27 | Code 1505

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Nancy MacLean Shashi Tharoor Julian Burnside

ALAN MISSEN COLONIALISM INJUSTICE ORATION: IN INDIA From legal aid and class DEMOCRACY actions to assisted dying, In 1947, India regained asylum seeker rights and IN CHAINS independence after almost counter-terrorism, the law Discover the hidden 200 years of British rule in Australia has immense backstory of the American – a period that was both reach – but it also has its radical right’s political culturally and economically shortcomings. Delving into agenda. Nancy MacLean damning, with almost 35 the chequered history of the (Democracy in Chains) million Indians dead from Australian legal and justice exposes the six-decade- British acts of commission system, and drawing on long strategy spearheaded and omission, and an his extensive professional by economist James McGill unprecedented plunge into experience, barrister and Buchanan in the 1950s to abject poverty. Join Indian former Liberty Victoria disempower democracy and author and politician Shashi president Julian Burnside entrench corporate control Tharoor (Inglorious Empire: (Watching Out) presents – and how it is undermining What the British Did to an eloquent defence of the power of voters in a India) as he explores the civil society and makes a country founded on the disastrous consequences of compelling case for legal principle ‘We the people’. colonialism, and how India liberalism in Australia. continues to rebuild since Supported by Liberty the colonisation that has Sun 3 Sep, 4pm (75 minutes) Victoria and the Alan been called ‘the greatest Deakin Edge, Fed Square Missen Foundation crime in all history’. $30/$27 | Code 1115 Fri 1 Sep, 6.15pm Sat 2 Sep, 6.15pm (75 minutes) (75 minutes) Deakin Edge, Fed Square Deakin Edge, Fed Square $30/$27 | Code 1906 $30/$27 | Code 1106

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10am 11.30am 1pm CREATIVE WOMEN REALITY & FANTASY AI: TOWARDS WORKLESSNESS Across long careers, Kate Grenville, Claire Coleman, Garth Nix, Sami Judy Horacek and Leah Purcell Shah and Samantha Shannon all With the rapid evolution of have excelled in their fields of use and explore different aspects artificial intelligence, will humans literature, political cartoons and of the real world in their novels. become redundant in the playwriting. Meet these brilliant They discuss how fantasy and workplace? Rutger Bregman, creative women and discover how dystopian fiction can reflect, Simon Longstaff, Toby Walsh and they have pushed their creative interpret and examine our reality. Ally Watson discuss the future of boundaries to continue redefining worklessness, and its implications ACMI Studio 1 career success over time. for class and social equality. $22/$19 | Code 4402 Deakin Edge, Fed Square ACMI Studio 1 $22/$19 | Code 1401 RUSSIA TODAY $22/$19 | Code 4403

HISTORY OF The relationship between Russia DAVID GRANN: KILLERS NEUROSCIENCE and Western powers has long been fraught, perhaps never OF THE FLOWER MOON Discover the fascinating history more so than now. Go behind the Dive into one of the FBI’s first major of neuroscience with Charles G headlines with Tony Kevin and homicide investigations in Killers Gross, one of the field’s leading Sean McMeekin as they provide of the Flower Moon – a gripping figures. From Leonardo da Vinci to different perspectives on Russia exploration of a series of murders present practitioners, Gross traces today, from the past to present. in 1920s Oklahoma. Investigative the development of neuroscience ACMI Cinema 1 journalist and New Yorker staff writer over time to show how it evolved $22/$19 | Code 3402 David Grann cracks open the case. into its modern incarnation. Deakin Edge, Fed Square Supported by Cosmos SOFIE LAGUNA: $22/$19 | Code 1403 ACMI Cinema 1 THE CHOKE $22/$19 | Code 3401 EMILY WITT: FUTURE SEX Join Miles Franklin winner Sofie Laguna to discuss her How have technological advances MEET ELIZABETH new novel, The Choke – a shaped the way we pursue KOSTOVA haunting and claustrophobic connections and pleasure in the vision of a child in danger and modern age? From online dating to The Shadow Land takes us to a society in deep trouble. orgasmic meditation, Emily Witt politically-charged Bulgaria, where delves into the ins and outs of this a mourning sister makes a startling Deakin Edge, Fed Square brave new world in Future Sex. discovery against a historically rich $22/$19 | Code 1402 landscape. Join bestselling author ACMI Cinema 1 Elizabeth Kostova (The Historian) $22/$19 | Code 3403 as she discusses finding hope in the aftermath of loss.

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Feminism Plus F+ takes the conversation around feminism further. Reni Eddo-Lodge, Clementine Ford, Meena Kandasamy, Laurie Penny, Jenny Valentish and more will unpack contemporary feminist discourse, discussing the movement’s past, present and future. Supported by Queen Victoria Women’s Centre

RAPE CULTURE

As feminism gains mainstream prominence, the concept of rape culture has become more widely recognised – but has this recognition actually changed anything? Lee-Ann Tjunypa Buckskin, Meena Kandasamy, Patricia Lockwood and Laurie Penny unpack the insidious phenomenon, from women’s day-to-day lives to cultural and institutional enablement.

Sat 2 Sep, 11.30am ACMI Cinema 1 $22/$19 | Code 3102

SEXISM AS A MENTAL ARE MEN RUINING DECOLONISING HEALTH CRISIS FEMINISM? FEMINISM

Facing relentless discrimination, More men are starting to What does a truly intersectional social stigma and violence, identify as feminists – but is approach to feminism women are expected to their involvement helping the look like? Reni Eddo-Lodge, succeed in a system that movement, or is it self-serving? Nayuka Gorrie and actively works against them. What does an effective ally look Ruby Hamad examine Anni Hine Moana, Zoë Morrison like? Upulie Divisekera, Clementine the whiteness of modern and Jenny Valentish explore Ford and Jane Gilmore deconstruct feminism and discuss how to the patriarchal structures the man’s role in modern feminism. decolonise the movement. exacerbating women’s Wed 30 Aug, 6pm Sat 2 Sep, 2.30pm mental ill-health. Queen Victoria Women’s Centre, ACMI Studio 1 Tue 29 Aug, 6pm Victoria Room $22/$19 | Code 4104 Queen Victoria Women’s $22/$19 | Code 9703 Centre, Victoria Room $22/$19 | Code 9601

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2.30pm 2.30pm FACT TO FICTION THE DARK SIDE OF Protest WOMANHOOD From politics to the page, & Persist journalists Tony Jones (The There is a growing interest in Enlisting a diverse range of Twentieth Man) and Dirk depictions of the dark, complicated speakers, activists and writers, Kurbjuweit (Fear) have both interior lives of women. How do this free all-day event at used their news desk experience writers approach these narratives, ACMI’s The Cube will provide to write thrillers. They discuss how and what are their literary you with a social advocacy the real world inspires and informs and cinematic predecessors? toolkit to tackle issues their gripping works of fiction. Megan Abbott and Joyce Carol around systemic oppression, Oates shed light on writing the injustice and inequality. Supported by Goethe-Institut dark side of womanhood. Join Jax Jacki Brown, Deakin Edge, Fed Square ACMI Cinema 1 Upulie Divisekera, Jane $22/$19 | Code 1404 $22/$19 | Code 3404 Gilmore, Nayuka Gorrie, Ruby Hamad and more THE BONE SEASON 4pm special guests to deconstruct She’s been called the next today’s hot-button topics, INVESTIGATIVE including identity politics JK Rowling for her bestselling JOURNALISM fantasy series, The Bone Season and the exploitation of culture, and get practical – the first book of which was How does investigative tips on keeping up the fight published when she was just 21. journalism fit into the current in the face of resistance. Now three novels in, British media landscape of 24-hour author Samantha Shannon news and infotainment? Visit mwf.com.au invites you into her dystopic world. New Yorker writer David Grann for full details. and Buzzfeed’s Christine ACMI Studio 1 Kenneally examine longform’s Presented in partnership $22/$19 | Code 4404 function, future and funding. with Right Now

ACMI Studio 1 10am – 6pm $22/$19 | Code 4405 ACMI The Cube

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4pm 8pm THE ART OF LIFE Ned Kelly UTOPIA FOR REALISTS

Why is art important to Awards Exciting concepts like universal everyday life? Elizabeth Kostova The annual Ned Kelly basic income and a 15-hour work (The Shadow Land) and winner of Awards are back! Hosted by week have long been utopian the 2017 Stella Prize Heather Rose Jane Clifton, the awards dreams – but can we make them (The Museum of Modern Love) celebrate Australia’s finest a reality? And why would we? discuss the significance of art in crime writing in a range of Dutch historian Rutger Bregman their novels, as well as how the categories. The night will makes the case for transforming Balkan region informs their work. feature storytelling, prizes, the way we live and work. laughter and more – join us Supported by The Stella Prize Deakin Edge, Fed Square for a criminally good time!

ACMI Cinema 1 Doors and bar open 6pm. $22/$19 | Code 3405 18+ event, ID may be requested.

Supported by Australian Crime Writers Association

6.30pm The Toff in Town

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Discover the Festival MOLESKINE COFFEE & CREATE

Club at ACMI Café + Bar Sun 27 Aug & 3 Sep, 9.30am – the meeting place for Festival Club readers, writers and Festivalgoers. Catch up on Start your day with a shot of caffeine and your reading over a coffee, a dose of creativity! Join Madeleine Dore unwind with an MWF and special Festival guests as they reveal the tricks that help their creative lives cocktail, and fuel your flourish. Get the insight and inspiration Festival with great food. you need to design your creative life – from journaling tips to sparking creativity. Present your MWF ticket for a 10% discount Supported by Moleskine on drinks and food at the Festival Club. Visit mwf.com.au for full details.

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Against a backdrop of arresting Stephen Dupont photographs and film footage, multi-award-winning war photographer DON’T LOOK AWAY Stephen Dupont takes viewers on a powerful journey to the frontlines of Wed 30 Aug, 6pm (180 minutes) Afghanistan, Rwanda, Vietnam and more. Deakin Edge, Fed Square The haunting visual presentation is followed $22/$19 | Code 1705 by a conversation with Dupont and accompanied by a photographic exhibition. 18+ event, ID may be requested. Supported by Canon

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Osamah Sami Writer Comedian Failed cricketer Daggy dad Creative Victorian

Catch Osamah at Melbourne Writers Festival or see true stories from his award-winning memoir Good Muslim Boy in the film Ali’s Wedding.

Find out how the Victorian Government is supporting creative Victorians at creative.vic.gov.au

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Monday 8pm Tuesday 6pm Tuesday 7.30pm LIVE HACK: SARAH FERGUSON: FUTURE OF THE UNDERSTANDING JOHN BUTTON ORATION WRITTEN WORD METADATA Respected Australian journalist As technology develops, writing Digital Rights Watch presents a Sarah Ferguson (Four Corners, and the way we consume it live hack event: how secure is your The Killing Season, 7.30) dissects constantly changes form – but personal information? A panel of the role of the media in a rapidly will it ever die out, or continue privacy experts demonstrate how transforming national and evolving in new, exciting ways? easy it is to derive sensitive facts global political environment. Ben Birchall, Amy Gray and from the digital traces we leave on Adam Pugh imagine the Supported by the John the open web. Learn more about future of the written word. Button Fund, Melbourne metadata retention and what School of Government, Deakin Edge, Fed Square you can do to protect yourself. The University of Melbourne Deakin Edge, Fed Square Deakin Edge, Fed Square

$22/$19 | Code 1605 Wednesday 6.30pm DEFIANT EARTH

In Defiant Earth, Clive Hamilton ruminates on humankind’s Victorian Archives Centre undeniable impact on the Supported by Ancestry.com.au and Public Record Office Victoria planet, and makes the case for a new kind of anthropocentrism. He is joined by Stephen Ames Pop in to these lunchtime sessions to explore and Ghassan Hage to discuss the intricacies of researching and the best ways in which archiving our literary histories. humans should respond to challenges facing the Earth. WRITING FAMILY ARCHIVING LIVING St Paul’s Cathedral HISTORIES WRITERS $12 | Code 6704 What are the ethical challenges Bernadette Brennan chronicles in writing about the people Helen Garner’s life and closest to us – and ourselves? work in A Writing Life, while Sheila Fitzpatrick, Bram Rachel Buchanan is the curator Presser and Henry Rosenbloom of The University of Melbourne’s share the intricacies of extensive Germaine Greer researching and writing their Archive. They discuss the personal family histories. process and challenges of researching and archiving Tues 29 Aug, 1pm these prolific living writers. Victorian Archives Centre $22/$19 | Code 6600 Wed 30 Aug, 1pm Victorian Archives Centre $22/$19 | Code 6700

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10am 11.30am 1pm COLD WAR GAMES ALZHEIMER’S POLITICIANS AS IN FICTION PERSONALITIES How do politics play out on the sporting field? Exploring the How is the experience of What’s more important in politics: 1956 Melbourne Olympics, Alzheimer’s disease – as patient, personality or policy? Judith Harry Blutstein (Cold War Games) carer or onlooker – reflected in Brett (Robert Menzies’ Forgotten reveals how East–West tensions fiction?Rachel Khong (Goodbye, People), Rebecca Huntley (Still and propaganda manifested in Vitamin) and Harriet McKnight Lucky) and Laura Tingle (In sport during the Cold War – and (Rain Birds) explore the condition’s Search of Good Government) how governments used Olympic effect on family, friends and discuss what makes a great enthusiasm to their advantage. loved ones in their debut novels. politician – and what happens when personal ambition is put ACMI Studio 1 ACMI Studio 1 ahead of party priorities. $22/$19 | Code 4901 $22/$19 | Code 4902 Deakin Edge, Fed Square IN SEARCH OF GOOD REVOLUTIONARY $22/$19 | Code 1903 GOVERNANCE WOMEN THE FIFTH ESTATE: How did Australian politics Joan of Arc, Queen Victoria: two HINDU NATIONALISM get to its current demoralised women who radically changed IN INDIA state? What needs to the course of history. What change for good governance can we learn about them by Hindu Nationalism is on the to return? Join journalists looking at their stories anew? rise in India today. How does it George Megalogenis and Ali Alizadeh (The Last Days of impact Hindus, religious minorities Laura Tingle as they explore Jeanne d’Arc) and Julia Baird in India and other countries the past, present and future (Victoria: The Queen) discuss. in the region? Join authors of Australian politics. Barkha Dutt, Meena Kandasamy ACMI Cinema 1 and Shashi Tharoor as they Deakin Edge, Fed Square $22/$19 | Code 3902 $22/$19 | Code 1901 talk politics and religion in the world’s largest democracy. 1pm Hosted by Sally Warhaft. SECOND-GENERATION NIR BARAM: A LAND NARRATIVES Supported by the Wheeler Centre WITHOUT BORDERS The second-generation Australian ACMI Cinema 1 Over his 18-month journey experience is reflected in many $22/$19 | Code 3903 around the West Bank and East new works of literature. How does Jerusalem, Nir Baram witnessed an understanding of place, home the region’s complicated and and family inform storytelling – ongoing conflict – and the lives and increase understanding about entangled in it. Join the Israeli migration? Randa Abdel-Fattah, journalist as he uncovers difficult Maxine Beneba Clarke, AS truths about life during civil war. Patrić and Alice Pung explore. ACMI Studio 1 ACMI Cinema 1 $22/$19 | Code 4903 $22/$19 | Code 3901

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Reni Eddo-Lodge

ON RACE

Fri 1 Sep, 11.30am Deakin Edge, Fed Square $22/$19 | Code 1902

British journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge (Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race) explores the issues surrounding white supremacy, feminism, class and race through her lived experience as a black woman. How can those who’ve never personally experienced racism acknowledge and help fight it, while not speaking over marginalised voices?

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2.30pm 2.30pm 4pm HISTORY & PLACE WILL DEMOCRACY WIN? HAPPY ENDINGS

Stories about the interior lives of Is the resurgence of populist and What is the enduring appeal of women have resonated with readers right-wing, nationalist demagoguery happy endings in love stories? for centuries. How do contemporary a threat to democracy? Join Tony Maggie Alderson (The Scent of writers evoke such tales through Birch, Jeff Sparrow and Micah You), Mel Campbell and Anthony history and place – and why are White as they discuss whether our Morris (co-authors of The Hot they so enduring? Award-winning system of government can survive Guy), and Fiona Lowe (Daughter writers Tracy Chevalier (At the these attacks to its integrity. Are of Mine) explore this common Edge of the Orchard) and Hannah we still convinced that democracy trope and reveal their approaches Kent (The Good People) discuss. will spread around the globe? towards happily ever after.

Deakin Edge, Fed Square Supported by Overland ACMI Studio 1 $22/$19 | Code 1904 $22/$19 | Code 4905 ACMI Studio 1 $22/$19 | Code 4904 HOUSING THE FIFTH ESTATE: AFFORDABILITY 4pm AMERICAN POWER IN THE MIDDLE EAST Housing has become favoured MEDIA & SOCIETY for investment over shelter, As Syria endures its seventh year with Australians accumulating A civilised democracy needs vibrant of conflict, joinIndependent larger amounts of debt to public interest journalism. Join pillars correspondent Robert Fisk purchase property. What stress of the industry Julia Baird, to examine foreign political is this placing on the economy, Eric Beecher and Jamila Rizvi involvement in the region. How and what is the effect on for a rigorous discussion on the are the interventions of world and homelessness and other inequality? state of Australian media and regional powers intensifying conflict, Lyn Craig, Glyn Davis and its role – and responsibility – in and are we witnessing the collapse George Megalogenis investigate. the shaping of our society. of American power in the Middle East? Hosted by Sally Warhaft. Supported by the Faculty of Arts, Supported by Australian The University of Melbourne Communities Foundation Supported by the Wheeler Centre

ACMI Cinema 1 Deakin Edge, Fed Square ACMI Cinema 1 $22/$19 | Code 3904 $22/$19 | Code 1905 $22/$19 | Code 3905

Asia What? What are the ‘authentic’ stories of Asians and ‘Asian-ness’? How are Asian narratives crafted, and as settlers what are their relationships with Indigenous peoples? Explore these provocations with the writing community through a day of free discussion, performances, workshops and reflection at ACMI’s The Cube. Visit mwf.com.au for full details. Presented in partnership with the Asian Australian Democracy Caucus

10am – 4pm ACMI The Cube

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4.30pm WRITERS ACROSS TEX BORDERS From The Cruel Sea to Beasts Enjoy an immersive intercultural of Bourbon, Tex Perkins is exchange with writers from a prolific force in Australian Vietnam, the Philippines, music. The rock icon discusses Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. his life and career as chronicled Through live performance, in his memoir, TEX – then puts David Carlin, Daryll Delgado, his musical prowess on show Francesca Rendle-Short, Nhã with a live performance. Thuyên, Christos Tsiolkas, Ellen Supported by 3RRR 102.7FM and van Neerven and others showcase The Melbourne Gin Company their work with the WrICE program. 8.30pm (90 minutes) Supported by WrICE Deakin Edge, Fed Square ACMI The Cube (90 minutes) $30/$27 | Code 1907

MWF at Dandenong Express yourself through words and storytelling. MWF celebrates the cultural richness of the Dandenong community with this series of free activities and events to inspire readers and writers of all backgrounds. Supported by the City of Greater Dandenong

LOCAL LIBRARIES: LOCAL LIBRARIES: STORYTELLING LIVE: OSAMAH SAMI MEG & TOM KENEALLY TOMORROW

Join writer, director, comedian Enjoy a light lunch, meet fellow From dreams to fears, humour and spoken word artist bookworms and go behind the to heartbreak, the concept Osamah Sami in this special scenes of the Monsarrat series of Tomorrow means different event for City of Greater with authors Meg and Tom things to different people. Dandenong students and Keneally. The father–daughter Join us for an entertaining young adults. Sami presents writing duo will discuss Australia’s night of storytelling, as some insights into his extraordinary convict history, and how it has of MWF’s finest artists share life experiences and writing influenced and inspired their work. their thoughts, ideas and stories across books, film and TV. on what comes after today. Sat 2 Sep, 12.30pm (90 minutes) Fri 1 Sep, 11am Dandenong Library Sat 2 Sep, 6.30pm Dandenong Library Free, bookings required Walker Street Gallery Free, bookings required Code 0101 & Arts Centre Code 0901 Free, bookings required Code 0102

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10am 10am 11.30am MEET WU MING-YI TRAVEL BAGGAGE SARAH SCHMIDT: SEE WHAT I HAVE DONE With comparisons to Atwood Can travelling help us find hope and Murakami, award-winning during the darkest times of our Lizzie Borden took an axe. Or did author Wu Ming-Yi is one of lives? Lisa Dempster (Neon she? Discover Sarah Schmidt’s Taiwan’s finest writers. The prolific Pilgrim) and Sheridan Jobbins startling debut, See What I Have author showcases his impressive (Wish You Were Here) recount Done, and journey into the eerie body of work, including his their adventures – and how world she has created to share latest novel, the enigmatic and packing their bags helped them a new take on the life of one of moving The Stolen Bicycle. put themselves back together. America’s most infamous women.

ACMI Studio 1 NGV Australia, Theatre NGV Australia, Theatre $22/$19 | Code 4101 $22/$19 | Code 6100 $22/$19 | Code 6103

THE CULTURAL 11.30am 1pm REVOLUTION BRIAN CASTRO: LIVING IN TRUMP’S With unprecedented access BLINDNESS & RAGE AMERICA to previously classified party In Blindness and Rage, Patrick What is the experience of minorities documents, historian Frank White Award winner Brian Castro living in Trump’s America? Dikötter’s The Cultural Revolution asks questions of literary fate and How do people survive and sheds new light on the Chinese authorship. Join the esteemed resist when they live in a country Cultural Revolution. What was it Australian writer as he peels with an antagonistic leader? like to live through this period of back the layers of his challenging Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, Min Jin national upheaval, and how did it new allegorical verse novel. Lee and Micah White report in. change the face of China forever? ACMI Studio 1 Deakin Edge, Fed Square Deakin Edge, Fed Square $22/$19 | Code 4102 $22/$19 | Code 1103 $22/$19 | Code 1101 INTERGENERATIONAL TOWARDS INCLUSIVITY MEET MAGGIE WARFARE ALDERSON In an often racist world, how do From housing affordability and we fight intense hatred both Stop and smell the roses with workplace security to education, individually and as communities Maggie Alderson, one of the millennials are faced with unique – and keep hope alive? Amani Al- world’s bestselling writers, as she challenges – but is it worse than Khatahtbeh, Reni Eddo-Lodge and discusses her latest novel, The Scent what previous generations Sami Shah speak up, and suggest of You – a heady exploration of went through, or just different? ways to move towards inclusivity. love, loss and forgiveness through Mark Davis, Rebecca Huntley, the eyes of a perfume blogger. ACMI Cinema 1 and Jamila Rizvi explore. $22/$19 | Code 3101 ACMI Studio 1 Deakin Edge, Fed Square $22/$19 | Code 4103 $22/$19 | Code 1102

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1pm 1pm 2.30pm THIS UNQUIET LAND: TIM FLANNERY: KYO MACLEAR: STORIES FROM INDIA’S SUNLIGHT & SEAWEED BIRDS ART LIFE FAULT LINES Discover the new – and existing What can bird-watching teach Contemporary India embodies – technologies that could save us about life? Birds Art Life is a multiple – and often uncomfortable our planet. From innovative meditation on how inspiration, – intersections of culture, religion, renewable power sources to the beauty and solace can be growth and tradition, and possibilities of kelp as a carbon found in the natural world, frequently sends out shockwaves reducer, acclaimed scientist based on a year in author as it changes. Hear from leading Tim Flannery makes a compelling Kyo Maclear’s life. Join her as Indian journalist Barkha Dutt case for an optimistic future. she shares her discoveries. (This Unquiet Land: Stories ACMI Cinema 1 ACMI Cinema 1 From India’s Fault Lines) who $22/$19 | Code 3103 $22/$19 | Code 3104 has spent over two decades mapping these tremors.

NGV Australia, Theatre $22/$19 | Code 6104

Readings Recommends Celebrate the very best in new Australian fiction with Readings. Free in The Cube at ACMI. Supported by Readings

FAMILY & GRIEF DYSTOPIAN FICTION YA BOOK PRIZE Join Melanie Joosten Discover speculative Meet the winner of the (Gravity Well) and Eliza fiction writers Sally Abbott inaugural Readings Young Henry-Jones (Ache) to discuss (Closing Down) and Jane Adult Book Prize. their work’s themes of grief, Rawson (From the Wreck). 4pm trauma and family. 1pm SHORT STORIES 10am AUSTRALIAN CRIME Hear from Melanie Cheng READINGS PRIZE SHORTLIST Uncover brilliant local crime (Australia Day), Jennifer Down This session features two writers Sarah Bailey (The (Pulse Points) and Ryan O’Neill authors shortlisted for the Dark Lake) and Mark Brandi (Their Brilliant Careers), who will 2017 Readings Prize. (Wimmera). each read a short story from 11.30am 2.30pm their collections. 5.30pm

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2.30pm 4pm RISE OF THE MEET SAM DASTYARI Louder RIGHT WING In literature as in life, Together From Pauline Hanson to the Sam Dastyari’s memoir is Writers resist! Join United Patriots Front, Australian unexpected and unorthodox. the Festival’s most right-wing extremism is Meet the man behind the exciting poets and flourishing. How did we get here media portrayal, and discover thinkers, including – and what’s next? Go behind the One Halal of a Story – a no- Meena Kandasamy, headlines with Anna Broinowski, holds-barred look at the good Jeff Sparrow, Nhã Stan Grant and David Marr to and bad of family, politics and Thuyên and Ellen discover more about the rise being Sam. With John Safran. van Neerven, for an of conservatism in Australia. ACMI Cinema 1 explosive and energising performance event Deakin Edge, Fed Square $22/$19 | Code 3105 exploring solidarity and $22/$19 | Code 1104 collectivism – because POP CULTURE we’re louder together. STEVEN CARROLL: & FEMINISM Hosted by Omar Musa. A NEW ENGLAND AFFAIR How does pop culture help 8pm Join one of Australia’s best young women make sense Deakin Edge, contemporary authors of their place in the world? Fed Square Steven Carroll to discuss A New Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, Hera England Affair, the third book Lindsay Bird, Brodie Lancaster of his acclaimed Eliot Quartet. and Patricia Lockwood talk An intense account of a love that representation, diversity and online never finds the right moment, be support networks – and how TV, swept away by the romantic story music and the internet are shaping of TS Eliot’s muse, Emily Hale. the next generation of feminists.

NGV Australia, Theatre Deakin Edge, Fed Square $22/$19 | Code 6105 $22/$19 | Code 1105

4pm THE END OF PROTEST FILM ESSAYS From the Women’s March to Occupy and Standing Rock, we Discover the film essay genre have entered a new wave of with two leading artists. Director activism – but is protest working? and producer Santilla Chingaipe Celeste Liddle, Laurie Penny and writer–director John Hughes and Micah White discuss the share their insights, passions need for innovation in activism and industry experience on to enact real political change. telling documentary stories. ACMI Studio 1 Supported by Victoria University $22/$19 | Code 4105 NGV Australia, Theatre $22/$19 | Code 6106

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Industry Insights Ready to take your writing to the next level? Learn the craft from the creators of the world’s best literature. From masterclasses to seminars, these hands-on events at The University of Melbourne will educate and inspire writers, publishers and editors at all career stages. Visit mwf.com.au for full details. Supported by the Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne

SEMINAR: JOURNALISM

Gain insight into the art and craft of writing longform narrative journalism with The New Yorker’s David Grann.

Mon 28 Aug, 6pm (90 minutes) $50/$40 | Code 7503

SEMINAR: SERIAL STORYTELLING Webseries creator MASTERCLASS: SEMINAR: WRITING Hayley Adams (i can’t TRANSLATION ANOTHER even) and TV producer and showrunner Tony Ayres Learn the process of Anosh Irani (The Parcel) (The Family Law, The Slap) translation – including its and Kevin Kwan (Rich People give advice for writers working challenges – as Taiwanese Problems) lead this seminar within these mediums. author Wu Ming-Yi discusses on how to write diverse his novel, The Stolen Bicycle. characters without speaking Tue 29 Aug, 6pm (90 minutes) over real-life identities. $50/$40 | Code 7001 Fri 1 Sep, 10am (180 minutes) $140/$120 | Code 7902 Fri 1 Sep, 6pm (90 minutes) SEMINAR: PUBLISHING $50/$40 | Code 7901 GRATTAN STREET PRESS MASTERCLASS: CREATIVE NONFICTION Meet the students and academics behind the Kyo Maclear (Birds Art Life) new Grattan Street Press leads a masterclass on the art of and hear more about their creative and narrative nonfiction, publishing processes. offering tips and tricks.

Thu 31 Aug, 5pm (90 minutes) Fri 1 Sep, 2pm (180 minutes) $50/$40 | Code 7602 $140/$120 | Code 7903

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Local Libraries REBECCA LIM TONY KEVIN Don’t miss international Uncover the art of writing YA Part travel memoir, part historical and local Festival guests fiction with Rebecca Lim. The portrait, Return to Moscow explores at a library near you. acclaimed author of Afterlight Russia’s complex history from and The Astrologer’s Daughter the perspective of a former Cold will reveal the process behind her War diplomat revisiting for the GABI MARTÍNEZ creative writing practice – and first time in decades. Discover the give you some tricks and tips great nation through the eyes of Meet Gabi Martínez, one of to help you refine your own. Australian writer Tony Kevin. Spain’s most unique and prolific literary writers, as he discusses Sun 27 Aug, 2pm Mon 28 Aug, 7pm his body of work, including Carnegie Library and Glen Eira Town Hall Theatrette his most recent book, In the Community Centre Free, bookings required Land of Giants – part travel Free, bookings required Code 9501 memoir, part murder mystery. Code 6402 Sat 26 Aug, 3pm HEATHER ROSE Preston Library SIMON LONGSTAFF The winner of the 2017 Stella Free, bookings required Whether social or moral, huge or Prize, The Museum of Modern Code 6307 relatively inconsequential, ethical Love is a unique novel about the quandaries present themselves way art touches and connects MEGAN ABBOTT to us daily. Director of The Ethics ordinary people’s lives. Author Centre Simon Longstaff (Everyday Heather Rose discusses the 11-year What makes a great crime Ethics) reflects on and discusses the process behind writing the book. novel? How do authors importance of all of our choices, no conjure suspense and intrigue, Tue 29 Aug, 7pm matter how small they may be. while delicately crafting the Sam Merrifield Library dark worlds of victims and Sun 27 Aug, 3.30pm Free, bookings required perpetrators? Award-winning St Kilda Library Code 6604 American author Megan Abbott Free, bookings required (You Will Know Me) gives an Code 9403 intimate insight into the art CREATING CHARACTERS of crafting crime fiction. DENNIS GLOVER What do literary characters tell us about who we are? Short Sat 26 Aug, 3.30pm Explore the life of George Orwell story writers Tony Birch and St Kilda Library – and his last and greatest novel, Melanie Cheng discuss creating Free, bookings required Nineteen Eighty-Four – with characters – and how it can be a Code 9303 acclaimed Australian writer Dennis powerful tool in revealing truths Glover, who has reimagined the about countries and cultures. classic novelist’s final years through Wed 30 Aug, 6.30pm fiction inThe Last Man in Europe. Bargoonga Nganjin, Mon 28 Aug, 6.30pm North Fitzroy Library Newport Community Hub Free, bookings required Free, bookings required Code 6605 Code 6504

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HANNAH KENT OSAMAH SAMI ZOË MORRISON

Award-winning Australian novelist See page 33 for details. Exploring themes of violence Hannah Kent discusses her and survival through the Fri 1 Sep, 11am atmospheric and intriguing new transformative lens of music, Dandenong Library novel, The Good People. Set in 19th- Music and Freedom is a powerful Free, bookings required century Ireland, the novel centres and affecting read. Join author Code 0901 around three women who are brought and musician Zoë Morrison as together by strange and troubling she peels back the layers of her events – and the superstitions MEENA KANDASAMY Readings Prize–winning novel. that illuminate their journey. Meet feminist writer Sat 2 Sep, 1pm Thu 31 Aug, 6pm Meena Kandasamy as she Frankston Library Camberwell Library peels back the layers on her Free, bookings required Free, bookings required courageous autofiction novel Code 9102 Code 6806 When I Hit You – an exploration of love, domestic violence, SOFIE LAGUNA AS PATRIĆ and the pitfalls of traditional wedlock in modern India. Sofie Laguna (The Eye of the The winner of the 2016 Miles Sheep) is back with The Choke, Fri 1 Sep, 7pm Franklin prize, Black Rock White a novel narrated by a child Geelong Library and City is an essential look into the navigating a dark and uncaring Heritage Centre refugee experience, and how it world of violence. Join the Miles Free, bookings required affects generations, in suburban Franklin–winning author as she Code 6201 Australia. Author AS Patrić discusses her gripping new book. unpacks his acclaimed novel. MEG & TOM KENEALLY Sat 2 Sep, 2.30pm Thu 31 Aug, 6.30pm Beaumaris Library Realm (Ringwood Library) See page 33 for details. Free, bookings required Free, bookings required Code 9103 Sat 2 Sep, 12:30pm (90 minutes) Code 6804 Dandenong Library Free, bookings required JULIA BAIRD TIM FLANNERY Code 0101 One of Australia’s leading Acclaimed scientist Tim Flannery journalists, Julia Baird explores (Sunlight and Seaweed) explores the extraordinary story of the new – and existing – technologies Queen Victoria in her new book, that could save the planet. From Victoria: The Queen, painting innovative renewable power sources the revolutionary ruler in a new to the potential in kelp to reduce light. Join her as she reveals a carbon, discover the range of fascinating, provocative life. possibilities already on earth that Sat 2 Sep, 6pm point towards a brighter future. Doncaster Library Thu 31 Aug, 7pm Free, bookings required Monash Gallery of Art Code 6109 Free, bookings required Code 6805

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10am 10am 11.30am ANOSH IRANI: ROBERT DREWE: WOMEN & SUCCESS THE PARCEL WHIPBIRD How can women overcome sexism A gripping literary page-turner, What happens when a to succeed in male-dominated The Parcel follows a transgender dysfunctional family tries to industries? Drawing on research sex worker in Bombay who is given put tensions aside to celebrate and personal experience, an unexpected task. Join critically- a milestone? Beloved author seasoned feminists and journalists acclaimed Indian–Canadian Robert Drewe discusses his Jamila Rizvi (Not Just Lucky) author Anosh Irani to discuss exhilarating new novel, Whipbird and Tracey Spicer (The Good his novel’s themes of identity, – a classic family saga told in Girl Stripped Bare) discuss the gender, choice and redemption. a uniquely Australian way. structural barriers facing women of all ages in the workplace. ACMI Cinema 1 Deakin Edge, Fed Square $22/$19 | Code 2111 $22/$19 | Code 1111 Deakin Edge, Fed Square $22/$19 | Code 1112 MUSLIM GIRL 11.30am 1pm She founded muslimgirl.com MEDIA STORM at just 17, and is now a leading MIN JIN LEE: PACHINKO How have technological advances international feminist and activist. changed the way we talk about An epic tale spanning four Amani Al-Khatahtbeh discusses the weather? In Media Storm, generations of a family, taking growing up Muslim in post-9/11 journalist Lawrie Zion explores them from Korea to Japan, America, and how she turned the role of the internet and media Pachinko explores themes of hardship into a revolution for in reframing our relationship with love, death and survival. Author young women just like her. weather, as well as shaping our Min Jin Lee discusses her sprawling ACMI The Cube understanding of climate change. new novel, and how it ties into her own heritage and identity. ACMI Studio 1 $22/$19 | Code 4112 ACMI Cinema 1 REIMAGINING $22/$19 | Code 2113 LITERARY FIGURES MEG & TOM KENEALLY: Dennis Glover (The Last Man THE UNMOURNED MARK BAKER: in Europe), Ryan O’Neill (Their THIRTY DAYS In the depths of the Parramatta Brilliant Careers) and Marija Female Factory, the latest mystery After his wife of 32 years died Peričić (The Lost Pages) explore unravels. Join Australian literary of stomach cancer, Mark Baker the lives and motivations of greats Meg and Tom Keneally sought to bring her back to life literary figures real and imagined. as they discuss their latest through the magic of memory. From Kafka to Orwell, discover the Monsarrat novel, The Unmourned. He reflects on love, intimacy, appeal – and sometimes absurdity grief and the mysteries of life – of writers writing about writers. ACMI Cinema 1 and death in Thirty Days. $22/$19 | Code 2112 ACMI Studio 1 ACMI Studio 1 $22/$19 | Code 4111 $22/$19 | Code 4113

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Join our #MicroReview competition for your chance to win an exclusive MWF Moleskine notebook pack. Summarise a book into a tweet and we’ll select the most creative entry every day of the Festival.

Digital Storytellers Experience more of MWF with our Digital Storytellers. Go behind the scenes of the Festival, get recaps and reviews of sessions and maybe catch an interview with MWF guests! Join Booktubers Rebecca from BeccatheBookReviewer and Chami from ReadLikeWildfire, and bloggers Rebecca Gough, Kate Lloyd (Lillytales) and Joyce Watts (TOT: HOT OR NOT) as they share their Festival adventures. Visit mwf.com.au for more details.

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1pm 2.30pm 2.30pm UNDERSTANDING DISSENT WITHIN ON REVOLUTION EXTREMISM What happens when your beliefs As MWF draws to a close, eleven What drives people towards go against the majority of those brilliant writers will share their political and religious radicalism? within your religion, culture or take on the Festival’s theme From US Republicans to ISIS minority group? From pro-queer of revolution. Featuring Daryll supporters and the Ku Klux Klan, Christians to a pro-Palestine Delgado, Christos Tsiolkas, Nir Baram, Nancy MacLean and Jewish academic, hear from Ellen van Neerven, Martin John Safran explore the factors Na’ama Carlin, Tim Kroenert Villanueva, Steven Winduo at play in, and the psychology and Angus McLeay as they and leading writers from across behind, extremism today. discuss the tensions between Australia and the Asia Pacific. belonging and belief. Sit back and enjoy a chorus Deakin Edge, Fed Square of voices and perspectives. $22/$19 | Code 1113 Supported by Eureka Street Deakin Edge, Fed Square ACMI Cinema 1 $22/$19 | Code 1114 2.30pm $22/$19 | Code 2114

NEW SHOOTS: A 4pm GARDEN OF POEMS MEET KEVIN KWAN MEET TRACY CHEVALIER Unearth the poetic inspiration of Kevin Kwan’s satirical novel plants and place with Australian Crazy Rich Asians became an Meet bestselling author Tracy poets. Join Bonny Cassidy, international bestseller in 2013 Chevalier to discuss her expansive Elena Gomez, Duncan Hose, and is now being made into body of work over two decades, Carissa Lee, Cameron Lowe, a major motion picture. Meet including Girl with a Pearl Bruce Pascoe, Ryan Prehn, the man behind the hit and Earring and her latest novels, Autumn Royal, Maria Takolander discover his latest novel, Rich New Boy and At the Edge of and Chris Wallace-Crabbe People Problems, which is as the Orchard – and hear how art for a poetic tour of the brilliantly abundant in drama and history inspire her writing. and glitz as his previous works. Royal Botanic Gardens. ACMI Cinema 1 Supported by Australian Poetry, ACMI Studio 1 $22/$19 | Code 2115 Red Room Poetry and Royal $22/$19 | Code 4114 Botanic Gardens Victoria LIA HILLS: THE Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria CRYING PLACE (90 minutes) Journeying into the heart of Free, bookings required the Australian desert, The Code 6111 Crying Place is a haunting novel about love, grief and country. Author Lia Hills is interviewed by Tony Birch about her new novel and its exploration of the transformative power of place.

ACMI Studio 1 $22/$19 | Code 4115

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5pm 7.30pm till late QUEER LITERARY SALON CLOSING NIGHT PARTY

MWF’s beloved Queer Literary We’ve had a huge two Salon is back for another weeks of thought-provoking year! Join Hera Lindsay Bird, discussion, laughter and Norman Pasaribu, Laurie Penny, social events – what a Raina Peterson and Omar Sakr Festival! Now it’s time to for a celebratory evening of shake it all off with drinks revelry, revelation and revolution, and dancing, to farewell yet all centred around the world’s another stellar MWF in style. best queer literary voices. The Toff in Town Hosted by Karen From Finance.

Doors and bar open 4.30pm. Limited seating with plenty of standing room available. 18+ event, ID may be requested.

Supported by Star Observer

The Toff in Town (150 minutes) $30/$27 | Code 6101

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There’s something for kids of all ages at MWF. Hands-on workshops will delight and educate the little ones, while Teens at Signal young adult literature takes centre stage with #LoveOzYA. Meet beloved writers and illustrators at free Fed Square Emerging creative? events, and take part in a magical, all-day celebration of Look no further than 20 years of Harry Potter. For kids who love to read, there’s Signal for a host of no better place to be. great free events over two days, with 11am – 4pm 1pm podcasting tips, creative writing workshops and SMART STORIES KYO MACLEAR & SHAUN a chance to ask your TAN: IMAGINATION favourite YA novelists Let the power of your imagination about their work. take you on a journey to a world of Hear beloved children’s author wonder. Hear from award-winning Kyo Maclear (Virginia Wolf) and Visit mwf.com.au children’s authors and take part Australian legend Shaun Tan for full details. in fun storytelling sessions. (The Singing Bones) share their

storytelling process and how they Presented as part of ACMI’s inspire imagination in young readers. Free Family Sundays WORKSHOP: ACMI The Cube ACMI A SEAT AT THE TABLE

Still Nomads 2.30pm Sat 26 Aug, 11am 11.30am YA AMA BRUCE PASCOE: #LOVEOZYA FOG A DOX Celebrate local YA with the best Danielle Binks, Melissa Keil, in the biz! #LoveOzYA authors Angie Thomas Bruce Pascoe discusses his Prime Amie Kaufman, Melissa Keil, Sun 27 Aug, 11am Minister’s Literary Award–winning Ellie Marney and Alice Pung discuss young adult classic, Fog a Dox. the importance of representation, WORKSHOP: This story of courage, acceptance telling Australian stories and why WEBSERIES and respect integrates Indigenous YA is important for teens and Hayley Adams cultural knowledge and awareness adults alike. With Danielle Binks. Sat 26 Aug, 3pm in finely crafted storytelling. ACMI The Cube ACMI The Cube LIVE PODCAST:

STARVING ARTIST Honor Eastly, Brodie Lancaster, Celeste Mountjoy, Activities at Artplay TextaQueen Sun 27 Aug, 3pm Let your creativity loose at ArtPlay! From hands- on journal workshops to games, poetry classes and music, these sessions are designed for children aged 5 to 12, encouraging and fostering a love of writing, art and imagination. Visit mwf.com.au for full details.

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Harry Potter Day

Sun 3 Sep, 10am – 3pm Fed Square

Accio good times! Whether you’re a Muggle, wizard or Squib, join us for a free all-ages celebration of 20 years of the boy who lived. With live performances, a Sorting Hat, story time and more, share in the magic of the wizarding world with Professor Frankie Falconette. Wear your Hogwarts robes for a chance to win prizes. Mischief managed! Visit mwf.com.au for full details.

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Megan Abbott 16, 17, 24, 38 Mel Campbell 32 Else Fitzgerald mwf.com.au Sally Abbott 35 Ella Carey 15 Sheila Fitzpatrick 18, 29 Randa Abdel-Fattah 30 Susan Carland 18 Tim Flannery 36, 39 Yassmin Abdel-Magied 10 David Carlin 33 Clementine Ford 18, 23 Jennifer Ackerman 17 Na’ama Carlin 42 Sanaz Fotouhi 16 Hayley Adams 37, 44 Jane Caro 10 Garcia Sisters 15 Maggie Alderson 32, 34 Steven Carroll 15, 36 Ken Gelder 17 Ali Alizadeh 30 Bonny Cassidy 42 Jane Gilmore 23, 24 Amani Al-Khatahtbeh 34, 36, 40 Brian Castro 34 Dennis Glover 38, 40 Dennis Altman 16 Michael Cathcart 15 Elena Gomez 42 Stephen Ames 29 Melanie Cheng 35, 38 Nayuka Gorrie 18, 23, 24 Michalia Arathimos 15 Tracy Chevalier 32, 42 David Grann 22, 24, 37 Michael Arnold 16 Santilla Chingaipe 36 Stan Grant 10, 36 Amal Awad 18 Maxine Beneba Clarke 30 Amy Gray 29 Tony Ayres 37 Jane Clifton 25 Kate Grenville 17, 22 Sarah Bailey 35 Kate Cole-Adams 17 Charles G Gross 22 Julia Baird 30, 32, 39 Claire Coleman 18, 22 Ghassan Hage 29 Mark Baker 40 Lyn Craig 32 Ruby Hamad 23, 24 Nir Baram 30, 42 Sophie Cunningham 16, 18 Clive Hamilton 29 Eric Beecher 32 Sam Dastyari 36 Rebecca Harkins-Cross 16 Namila Benson 18 Jim Davidson 15 Jane Harrison 18 Danielle Binks 44 Mark Davis 34 Pip Harry 15 Tony Birch 15, 32, 38, 42 Glyn Davis 32 Chris Healy 18 Ben Birchall 29 Daryll Delgado 33, 42 Eliza Henry-Jones 35 Hera Lindsay Bird 36, 43 Lisa Dempster 34 Lia Hills 42 Harry Blutstein 30 Robert Dessaix 16 Anni Hine Moana 23 Katherine Boland 15 Frank Dikötter 34 Kate Holden 17 Clare Bowditch 10 Upulie Divisekera 23 Judy Horacek 22 Mark Brandi 35 Madeleine Dore 26 Duncan Hose 42 Rutger Bregman 22, 25 Jennifer Down 35 John Hughes 36 Bernadette Brennan 29 Robert Drewe 40 Rebecca Huntley 30, 34 Judith Brett 30 Stephen Dupont 27 Anosh Irani 37, 40 Nick Brodie 15 Barkha Dutt 30, 35 Erik Jensen 18 Anna Broinowski 36 Honor Eastly 44 Sheridan Jobbins 15, 34 Jax Jacki Brown 24 Reni Eddo-Lodge 23, 31, 34 Tony Jones 10, 24 Rachel Buchanan 21, 29 Professor Frankie Falconette 45 Melanie Joosten 35 Lee-Ann Tjunypa Buckskin 23 Sarah Ferguson 29 Meena Kandasamy 23, 30, 36, 39 Julian Burnside 21 Robert Fisk 12, 32 Karen From Finance 43

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Amie Kaufman 44 Sean McMeekin 20, 22 Julianne Schultz 16 Melissa Keil 44 George Megalogenis 30, 32 Kim Scott 7, 18 Meg Keneally 33, 40 Wu Ming-Yi 34 Katrina Sedgwick 18 Tom Keneally 33, 40 Mission Songs Project 7 Sami Shah 17, 22, 34 Christine Kenneally 24 Janet Mock 11 Samantha Shannon 22, 24 Hannah Kent 32, 39 Shireen Morris 20 Sovereign Trax 7 Tony Kevin 22, 38 Anthony Morris 32 JeffSparrow 32, 36 Laila Khalil 15 Zoë Morrison 23, 39 Tracey Spicer 40 Roya Khalil 15 Celeste Mountjoy 44 Still Nomads 44 Sukhjit Khalsa mwf.com.au Omar Musa 10, 36 Maria Takolander 42 Rachel Khong 30 Garth Nix 22 Elizabeth Tan 16, 18 Natalie Kon-yu 17 Ryan O’Neill 35, 40 Shaun Tan 44 Elizabeth Kostova 22, 25 Joyce Carol Oates 8, 24 Andrew Taylor 18 Anna Krien 16 Norman Pasaribu 43 Amelia Telford 16 Tim Kroenert 42 Bruce Pascoe 42, 44 TextaQueen 44 Dirk Kurbjuweit 24 AS Patrić 30, 39 Shashi Tharoor 21, 30 Kevin Kwan 37, 42 Laurie Penny 23, 36, 43 Susie Thatcher mwf.com.au SofieLaguna 22, 39 Marija Peričić 40 Angie Thomas 9, 44 Brodie Lancaster 17, 36, 44 Tex Perkins 33 Nhã Thuyên 33, 36 Benjamin Law 17 Raina Peterson 43 Laura Tingle 30 Min Jin Lee 34, 40 Levi Pinfold mwf.com.au Christos Tsiolkas 33, 42 Carissa Lee 42 Jennifer Porter mwf.com.au Jenny Valentish 17, 23 Celeste Liddle 36 Ryan Prehn 42 Ellen van Neerven 33, 36, 42 Rebecca Lim 38 Bram Presser 29 Denise Varney 17 Patricia Lockwood 23, 36 Adam Pugh 29 Martin Villanueva 42 Simon Longstaff 16, 22, 38 Alice Pung 30, 44 Emma Viskic 15 Cameron Lowe 42 Leah Purcell 22 Chris Wallace-Crabbe 42 Fiona Lowe 32 Jane Rawson 35 Toby Walsh 22 Melissa Lucashenko 17 Francesca Rendle-Short 33 Sally Warhaft 30, 32 Nancy MacLean 21, 42 Nadia Rhook 15 Ally Watson 22 Kyo Maclear 15, 35, 37, 44 Jamila Rizvi 32, 34, 40 Micah White 32, 34, 36 Emily Maguire 17 Heather Rose 25, 38 Steven Winduo 42 Ellie Marney 44 Henry Rosenbloom 29 Michael Winkler 16 David Marr 36 Autumn Royal 42 Emily Witt 16, 18, 22 Gabi Martínez 16, 38 John Safran 36, 42 Les Zig 15 Rachel Matthews 15 Omar Sakr 43 Lawrie Zion 40 Harriet McKnight 30 Osamah Sami 34 Angus McLeay 42 Sarah Schmidt 34

47 Essential Information

ACCESSIBILITY LARGER TEXT PROGRAM MWF is committed to making the Festival If you’d like a large text version accessible for all. We provide a range of accessible services and facilities so that all of this program, please booklovers have access to the Festival. contact us on 03 9999 1199 or If you’re buying tickets online, please enter any [email protected] and we access requirements when prompted at checkout. will email or post a copy to you. Alternatively, call the MWF box office on 03 9999 1199 or email [email protected].

Service Animals MWF is excited to partner with Vision Australia Trained guide, hearing and assistance dogs Radio. They will be offering a range of programs are welcome at all Festival venues. that feature book readings and podcasts of past MWF highlights plus interviews with Wheelchair Access some of this year’s most interesting writers. Wheelchair access is available in all Fed Square venues. Find out more at radio.visionaustralia.org. For details about the easiest entry points, and location of accessible toilets, visit mwf.com.au/accessibility. Companion Card HOW TO BOOK MWF supports and accepts the Companion Card. You can book in person at our box office, by phone The easiest way to buy tickets is online at mwf.com.au on 03 9999 1199, or email [email protected]. or through the free MWF App for iOS or Android. A copy of your valid Companion Card is required. Browse the program, purchase tickets, then show your tickets on screen at the door – no printing required! Assistive Listening Hearing loops are available in Fed Square including You can also book over the phone or The Atrium, Deakin Edge and ACMI. For more information in person at the box office. about each venue, visit mwf.com.au/accessibility. Phone AUSLAN Interpreters 03 9999 1199 (10am – 5pm, Monday to Friday) AUSLAN is available by request for any session in the Advance box office program. Visit mwf.com.au/accessibility to make a 21 July – 24 August request or alternatively call the MWF box office on Level 1, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne 03 9999 1199 or email [email protected]. (10am – 5pm, Monday to Friday) Low Vision Festival box office Reserved seating is available for patrons with 25 August – 3 September low vision. When buying tickets online, enter Atrium Entrance, Fed Square, Flinders Street, Melbourne your request when prompted at the checkout, (9am – 30 minutes after last session commences, daily) or call 03 9999 1199 to arrange these seats. Visit mwf.com.au or call 03 9999 1199 Different Formats Available for booking terms and conditions. An audio version of Festival highlights and a text version of the program are available at mwf.com.au/accessibility. A printed plain EVENT TIMES text version is available on request. Festival events are one hour in duration, unless otherwise stated.

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PASSES GETTING TO THE FESTIVAL 5 Pass Fed Square is easily reached by public transport. The closest train station is Flinders Street. Tram Save 19% on five standard Festival events. routes 1, 3, 3A, 5, 6, 8, 16, 64, 67 and 72 go to stop 13 $89/$79 on Swanston Street (Flinders Street Station); 10 Pass 35, 70 and 75 go to stops 5 (Flinders Street Station) and 6 (Russell Street) on Flinders Street, near Fed Save 23% on 10 standard Festival events. Square. Timetable information is available from $169/$159 Public Transport Victoria by calling 1800 800 007 or visiting ptv.vic.gov.au. Free bike racks are available GROUP BOOKINGS in and around Fed Square. Public car parking is available at Fed Square and in Flinders Lane. A taxi Save 15% when you book in a group of six or more. rank is located outside Flinders Street station.

< To Immigration Museum, 1km Take 70, 75 or St Paul’s VENUES IN FED SQUARE tram stops City Circle tram Cathedral 70, 75, City circle

BUS LOADING ZONE Entrance Flinders FLINDERS STREET Street Toilets Box EXT. Station T ATM ACMI ACMI Office tram stops Visitor The Cube 1, 3/3a, 5, Centre

6, 8, 16, 64, Readings STREE

67, 72 Bookshop ACMI ACMI Studio 1 Cinemas 1+2 Atrium RUSSELL Entrance The Ian STREET Potter Centre: PLAZA NGV Australia Entrance

Lift ZONE LOADING BUS Big Screen SWANSTON Deakin Edge pedestrian access Princes Bridge River Terrace to carpark

to ArtPlay, Birrarung Marr 100m

Yarra River

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FESTIVAL PRINCIPAL MELBOURNE SUPPORTERS PATRON WRITERS Ancestry.com.au The Hart Line Fund attributed to the FESTIVAL BOARD Australian Communities Foundation Bloomsbury Publishing John Jerome Myers (Chair) Cinema Nova PATRONS Jayne Dullard (Vice Chair) City of Greater Dandenong Fahim Ahad (Treasurer) Cosmos Maria & Allan J Myers AO QC Jill Campbell (Secretary) Creative Legal Karen Monaghan Evan Evans AMBASSADOR Jamila Rizvi Faber Writing Academy John Jerome Myers Bob Sessions AM Hargreaves Hill Brewing Co. Jane Smith Kooks Social Winery CHAMPIONS Michael Webster Liberty Victoria 6A Foundation Moleskine BB & A Miller Fund attributed to the SPECIAL THANKS Australian Communities Foundation PEN Melbourne Our very special thanks go to Public Record Office Victoria Caroline Cornish CPR Communications & Public The Alan Missen Foundation Kate & Stephen Shelmerdine Relations; Festival videographer Family Foundation Alessandro Frosali, photography The Melbourne Gin Company stylist Rosanna West, John Leg Up Foundation The Wheeler Centre Paxinos and Associates; the Dr George & Rosa Morstyn WrICE MWF Programming and The Myer Foundation Schools’ Programming Advisory Committees; our Audience GUARDIANS Advocates; plus each and every Support Us one of the wonderful staff and Malcolm Broomhead volunteers who are essential to MWF is a not-for-profit Ann & Michael Cohn the success of the Festival. organisation dedicated Dominic & Natalie Dirupo to producing Victoria’s Creative direction and design: premier, annual literary Jayne Dullard Sweet Creative event. Ongoing support Irene Kearsey is vital to ensure MWF Bernard Marin AM continues to deliver excellent programming Jamila Rizvi and offer free entry to Mark Rubbo OAM at least a quarter of McLeod Family Foundation Festival events. Nick Ruskin MWF makes every effort to ensure that all details are correct at time Donate now: Sally Browne Fund attributed to the of printing. Any unforeseen late mwf.com.au/join-us/donate Australian Communities Foundation program changes will be listed Jane Smith on our website and ticketholders Michael Webster will be notified via email.

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