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THE LIFTED BROW Welcome 3 SWF 2017 swf.org.au A Message from the Artistic Director Contents

eading can be a mixed blessing. For In a special event, writer and photographer 4-15 anyone who has had the misfortune Bill Hayes talks to Slate’s Stephen Metcalf about City & Walsh Bay to glance at the headlines recently, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me, an the last few months have felt like a intimate love letter to New York and his late Guest Curators 4 long fever dream, for reasons that partner, beloved writer and neurologist extend far beyond the outcome of the Oliver Sacks. R Bernadette Brennan has delved into 7 US Presidential election or Brexit. Nights at Walsh Bay More than 20 million refugees are on the move the career of one of ’s most adept and another 40 million people are displaced in and admired authors, Helen Garner, with Thinking Globally 11 their own countries, in the largest worldwide A Writing Life. An all-star cast of Garner humanitarian crisis since 1945. admirers – Annabel Crabb, Scientists announced that the Earth reached and Fiona McFarlane – will join Bernadette City & Walsh Bay its highest temperatures in 2016 – for the third in conversation with Rebecca Giggs about year in a row. Millions more people have been Garner’s influence. Event Liftout 12-13 left in reduced and uncertain circumstances, and In Parramatta’s Riverside Theatres, Jimmy feel that nobody is listening. Barnes will discuss his extraordinary memoir In times like these, we have a choice. We can Working Class Boy. The Curiosity give in to the rising zeitgeist of insular thought We’re thrilled to be presenting a full day 16 and intellectual suspicion or we can look for of YA programming in Parramatta for the Lecture Series ways to fight it. first time, with international stars Jennifer Specifically, in this Festival, we look to books, Niven and Mariko Tamaki headlining a Family Day 17 to literature, to new forms of writing, where packed program of award-winning Australian some of the world’s finest minds have started At 19, Hisham Matar’s Libyan father was authors including Amie Kaufman and Garth 19 circling the wagons. Now, more than ever, I think kidnapped and held in a secret prison. Hisham Nix. Family Day will return to Walsh Bay, Workshops that readers will be turning to literature as a never saw his father again. Peter Carey called his with crowd favourites Lauren Child, Andy place of refuge. astonishing memoir The Return “a triumph of art Griffiths and Kate DiCamillo. All Day YA 19 In a recent speech at the Winter Institute, over tyranny”. This year, the Festival has three guest feminist writer and commentator Roxane Gay Award-winning podcast Slate’s Culture curators: Rebecca Huntley, Peter Polites and said: “Throughout my life books have been my Gabfest will record its first-ever show outside Ellen van Neerven, who have enriched the Suburban & Regional 20 best friends. In bookstores and with books I have of North America, live from Sydney Town program with their unique vision and interests. been able to forget the cruelties of the world. Hall. Beloved Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, You can find our local curators’ events on 21 I have been able to shield myself when I needed Dana Stevens and Julia Turner are like your Page 4 of this guide. Blue Mountains safety. I have been able to find solace and joy. smartest, funniest friends; friends who happen In the Darkroom is Pulitzer Prize-winning I have been able to find sanctuary – a consecrated to know the best in books, film and the arts from journalist Susan Faludi’s extraordinary Participants 22 place, a place of refuge and protection.” around the world before you do. inquiry into the meaning of identity in the Incidentally, Roxane will be a guest at this Elaine Welteroth, the woman who’s making modern world. Faludi will deliver our Closing 23 year’s Festival. over teen stereotypes as newly appointed editor Address, exploring the theme of refuge; from Venues & Bookings Across the 2017 Festival, some of the world’s of Teen Vogue, will talk about why the article the metaphorical shelter of books, to the basic most curious and compassionate, irreverent is Gaslighting America became physical safety that millions seek today. but respectful, intelligent and argumentative the most-read piece in a publication previously In a not-to-be-missed event, Susan will WEBSITE Our new website is your writers will be offering up their brilliant works known for its stories on dating and lipstick. bring her experience to bear on some of the essential guide to the 2017 Festival, as temporary respite, and interrogating the Sophie Black will discuss the politics of fear urgent questions of our age. When is refuge featuring up-to-the-minute information on forces that compel us to come together and with , whose new real, and when is it illusory? And who among the program, authors and events as well find sanctuary. The White Queen examines the peculiar power of us doesn’t seek it? as important details about venues, facilities, To open the Festival, three of the world’s most the fearful in our prosperous nation, and John In May, hundreds of inventive, audacious and accessibility and everything you need to celebrated literary figures will each deliver an Safran, whose new book Depends What You Mean inquisitive writers from all around the world plan a perfect Festival experience. address on the theme of refuge. by Extremist explores the mad world of misfits who will lead Sydney in a week-long conversation. swf.org.au Brit Bennett’s The Mothers is one of the most propelled the second coming of Pauline Hanson. We hope you’ll be a part of it. We hope you find refuge with us. SOCIAL CHANNELS Join the conversation dazzling debuts of the past year, a luminous and Witness a rare and revealing conversation on Twitter and Instagram using wise story of young love and friendship, and a big with two giants of crime fiction – Scotland’s Ian #SydneyWritersFestival secret in a small town. Rankin of Inspector Rebus fame and Australia’s Michaela McGuire Anne Enright won the Man Booker Prize for own Michael Robotham. Ian will also appear in Artistic Director Follow our Facebook page for all the latest The Gathering, and her latest offering, The Green conversation in Parramatta with New York Times Festival news and offers. Road, is as characteristically bleak, funny and bestselling author Candice Fox. sentimental as the best of her work. In a centrepiece event of the Festival, our EMAIL NEWSLETTER Sign up to our email The singular George Saunders, the writer for own panel of ‘Nasty Women’ – Brit Bennett, newsletter at swf.org.au to receive the our time, makes his first visit to Australia with Durga Chew-Bose, Viola Di Grado, Anita Heiss, latest Festival news, first access to limited- his incendiary first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo. Chris Kraus and Nadja Spiegelman – take to the release tickets and special offers from our This year’s Festival is an embarrassment of stage to share cautionary tales, life lessons and friends and partners. riches, and this is only the first event. good advice. PODCASTS Visit our podcast channel, Colson Whitehead discusses his 2016 Literary luminaries Robert Dessaix, Hannah accessible on our website or via iTunes, and National Book Award-winning novel, the furious Kent, Hisham Matar, Ian Rankin and Joy explore highlights from past Festivals in our and wildly inventive The Underground Railroad, Williams will reveal the books that made them extensive archives. Selected 2017 Festival with the editor of The New York Times Book want to become writers, offering an insight into events will be released as podcasts from Review, Pamela Paul. what shaped them, and informed some of today’s June onwards. Cult writer Chris Kraus will discuss her most important works. provocative body of work with Krissy Kneen, Celebrated UK neurosurgeon Henry Marsh PRODUCED BY THE SMH, including the controversial auto-fiction I Love will discuss his new memoir Admissions, in ADVERTISING 9282 1783 Dick, which has been adapted for television by which he reflects deeply on his 40 years of READERLINK 9282 1569 Transparent’s creator Jill Soloway. experience operating on the surgical frontline. [email protected]

“I never took myself seriously as a writer until I studied at Macquarie.” LIANE MORIARTY MACQUARIE GRADUATE AND BEST-SELLING AUTHOR

Studying the Master of Creative Writing put Liane on track to topping the New York Times best-seller list – twice. Her book is now a hit TV series on HBO. See where Macquarie can take you. mq.edu.au/creative-writing

PHOTO: uber photography CRICOS Provider 00002J | FOA2765 4 swf.org.au City & Walsh Bay MONDAY MAY 22 – THURSDAY MAY 25

Winter is here, and escapism is the name of TUESDAY, MAY 2 the game. Durga Chew-Bose, Tom Griffiths, 1 SWEARING IN: VEEP’S ARMANDO Guest Curators Eliza Henry-Jones and C.S. Pacat discuss IANNUCCI ON SPIN AND SATIRE which fictional world they’d prefer to be in. May 2, 6–7pm This year’s program is enriched by three writers who have brought their unique creative vision to the Festival. With ABC RN’s Michael Cathcart. Sydney Town Hall Rebecca Huntley has framed a series of events around optimism, examining why Australians are Still Lucky. $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 In this very special event, satirist, writer and Peter Polites examines borders: geographical borders and how they refine our minds, borders of the queer body, swf.org.au creator of Veep and The Thick of It, Armando and the borders of our writing. Ellen van Neerven contemplates sacrifice – what are we willing to do to survive Iannucci, talks to Benjamin Law about and help others to survive? We’re thrilled to have these three fine minds guiding the program. CUR20 LAWRENCE KRAUSS: ON comedy and politics in a post-truth world. HIDDEN REALITIES Supported by the City of Sydney. May 25, 10–10.40am $55/$45/$30 Bookings 9250 1988 Rebecca Huntley Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage swf.org.au SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 249 STILL LUCKY SUNDAY, MAY 21 33 WHO THE BLOODY HELL ARE WE? 21 ANUK ARUDPRAGASAM: THE 47 ON ARRIVAL STORY OF A BRIEF MARRIAGE 2 MCA ZINE FAIR 2017 250 YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG May 25, 10–11am May 21, 10.30am–4.30pm Pier 2/3 The Loft Museum of Contemporary Art Join Sri Lankan-born novelists Anuk The MCA Zine Fair showcases zines, small- Arudpragasam and Rajith Savanadasa as press publications, prints and comics from Peter Polites Ellen van Neerven they discuss the power of the human spirit, around the country. Come and discover the captured in Anuk’s acclaimed debut novel alternative, experimental and emerging at 148 MAXINE BENEBA CLARK: THE 113 FIRST NATIONS: VOICES OF THE The Story of a Brief Marriage. this one-day DIY art extravaganza. HATE RACE MATRIARCHY $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Presented with the Museum of 173 PETER POLITES: DOWN THE 128 WRITING RACE swf.org.au Contemporary Art. HUME 193 NOT WAVING, DROWNING Free, no bookings 192 BORDERS OF THE QUEER BODY 229 ELLEN VAN NEERVEN: 23 STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS 237 BORDERS OF OUR WRITING COMFORT FOOD May 25, 10–11am 3 GRATEFULLY YOURS 239 THE BIG BLACK THING 242 TOUGH LOVE: WRITING Richard Wherrett Studio May 21, 2.30–4pm COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS Kathryn Heyman, Zoë Morrison and Laura Sydney Jewish Museum Elizabeth Woollett talk to Bianca Fileborn Ordinary people read letters of gratitude about the challenges and nuances of written to thank the everyday heroes of bringing complex female characters World War II Europe who saw others in 10 LITTLE 14 INSIDERS LIVE AT SYDNEY Irish Novel of the Year. She sits down with to the page. need and courageously saved their lives. May 23, 7–10pm WRITERS’ FESTIVAL Annabel Crabb to discuss her body of work. $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au $15 Bookings 9360 7999 Knox St Bar May 24, 7.30–9pm Supported by Consulate General of Ireland, [email protected] Let Little Fictions take you on a literary Sydney. 24 THE ART OF BIOGRAPHY road trip. Join host Adam Norris with leads David Marr, Niki Savva $45/$35/$25 Bookings 8256 2222 May 25, 10–11am performers Kate Fraser, Joel Horwood and and Lenore Taylor through the political swf.org.au Roslyn Packer Theatre MONDAY, MAY 22 Eleni Schumacher for a great night of short highs and lows of the year to date. Mike Four accomplished biographers – Julia 4 NSW PREMIER’S LITERARY stories on stage. Bowers hosts a Talking Pictures segment Baird, Troy Bramston, David Marr and A.N. AWARDS PRESENTATION AND $15 Bookings eventbrite.com with Fiona Katauskas. THURSDAY, MAY 25 Wilson – have tackled the lives of influential COCKTAIL RECEPTION $45/$35/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 17 COFFEE AND PAPERS WITH THE figures. Join them as they share their May 22, 6–9pm swf.org.au SMH: NORMAN OHLER insights into personality and power. State Library of NSW, The Galleries WEDNESDAY, MAY 24 May 25, 9–10am, The Theatre Bar at $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 Join us for a glittering celebration of 11 MICHAEL SALA: THE RESTORER 15 KICK ON FOR LITERACY: the End of the Wharf swf.org.au excellence in Australian writing. With prizes May 24, 12.30–1.30pm A FUNDRAISER FOR THE Coffee and conversation are worth getting totalling $310,000, the awards are among State Library of NSW, INDIGENOUS LITERACY up early for. Join The Sydney Morning 25 THE WRITER’S HABITAT the nation’s richest and most prestigious. Metcalfe Auditorium FOUNDATION Herald editors and journalists, and special May 25, 10–11am $60/$55 Bookings 9273 1770 Join celebrated author Michael Sala as he May 24, 7.30–9.30pm guest Norman Ohler, to hear what’s Sydney Dance 1 sl.nsw.gov.au discusses his latest novel, The Restorer, in Pier 2/3 Hemingway Bar making headlines. What happens to a writer’s work when they which an uneasy family peace is ruptured Prestigious Festival guests face off in a Supported by The Sydney Morning Herald. leave their homeland for another? The 5 JANE EYRE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY with devastating consequences. With debate that has long divided us: is the book Free, no bookings ABC’s Michaela Kalowski invites authors May 22, 7–8.30pm Stephen Romei. better than the ball? Join us for a special Caroline Brothers, Jenevieve Chang, Sara Wharf 2 Theatre Presented with the State Library of NSW. event that features auctions, raffles and a 18 BEING A HISTORIAN IN THE Foster and David Francis to share their Festival favourite Rebecca Vaughan Free, no bookings performance by Play School’s Justine Clarke. DIGITAL AGE stories of writing abroad. (Austen’s Women, Dalloway) returns in Dyad Hosted by the Epic Good Foundation. May 25, 10–11am Supported by . Productions’ radical solo adaptation of Jane 12 SWF GALA: ORIGIN STORY $35 Bookings 9256 4200, swf.org.au Philharmonia Studio Free, no bookings Eyre, Charlotte Brontë’s classic study of May 24, 6–7pm They’ve dusted off historical events, now duty, class and convention. City Recital Hall 16 ANNE ENRIGHT: WHAT hear historians Nick Brodie, Tom Griffiths and 26 HUGH MACKAY: SELLING THE $35.50/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 SEE FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT, Page 5 YOU HAVE TO DO IS NOT LEAVE Mark McKenna talk to Jürgen Tampke about DREAM swf.org.au THE HOUSE how history is changing. May 25, 10–11am 13 JANE EYRE: AN May 24, 8–9pm $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au Sydney Dance 2 AUTOBIOGRAPHY City Recital Hall Join social researcher and author Hugh TUESDAY, MAY 23 May 24, 7–8.30pm Irish writer Anne Enright won the Man 19 THROUGH THE WARDROBE Mackay as he talks to Ailsa Piper about 6 LUCY CLARK: BEAUTIFUL Wharf 2 Theatre Booker Prize for The Gathering. Her most May 25, 10–11am his new novel, Selling the Dream, and the FAILURES SEE EVENT 5 FOR DETAILS recent book, The Green Road, was named Pier 2/3 Club Stage insider perspective that helped him craft May 23, 12.30–1.30pm such an authentic satire. State Library of NSW, Free, no bookings Metcalfe Auditorium Lucy Clark’s Beautiful Failures is a 27 SECRET CITY personal and journalistic investigation May 25, 10–11am of a broken education system that places Wharf 2 Theatre too much pressure on kids, and fails so Join political reporters Steve Lewis and many. Lucy challenges the accepted Chris Uhlmann as they talk to Louise Adler wisdoms and questions the purpose of about plot twists, intrigue and turning their education and childhood. 8 Opening professional lives into fodder for . Presented with the State Library of NSW. $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Free, no bookings Address swf.org.au

7 WOMEN IN THE SPOTLIGHT: 34 DI MORRISSEY: A DISTANT STILL LOOKING FOR A ROOM OF JOURNEY ONE’S OWN May 25, 10–11am May 23, 6–7pm Pier 2/3 Main Stage State Library of NSW, One of Australia’s favourite authors, Di Metcalfe Auditorium Morrissey, talks to Anne Summers about In 2016, the State Library presented the A Distant Journey, the story of an American inaugural Mona Brand Award for Australian girl seeking love on a sheep station. female stage or screen writers. Join Tracey $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Spicer and a panel of distinguished female swf.org.au writers as they discuss the reality of being a writer today. CUR28 SARAH BAKEWELL: ON $20/$15 for Friends of the Library. BAMBI AS AN EXISTENTIALIST Bookings 9273 1770, sl.nsw.gov.au HERO May 25, 11–11.40am 8 2017 OPENING NIGHT: BRIT Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage BENNETT, ANNE ENRIGHT AND Festival Highlight SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 GEORGE SAUNDERS May 23, 6.30–7.30pm 22 BREXIT Roslyn Packer Theatre 8 2017 OPENING ADDRESS: BRIT BENNETT, ANNE ENRIGHT AND May 25, 11.30am–12.30pm SEE FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT, Page 4 GEORGE SAUNDERS Roslyn Packer Theatre May 23, 6.30–7.30pm SEE THINKING GLOBALLY, Page 11 9 JANE EYRE: AN Roslyn Packer Theatre AUTOBIOGRAPHY Three of the world’s most celebrated literary figures open Sydney Writers’ Festival, each 29 GROUP TEXT May 23, 7–8.30pm delivering an address on the Festival’s theme of refuge. With Brit Bennett, Anne Enright May 25, 11.30am–12.30pm Wharf 2 Theatre and George Saunders (pictured). Event includes Opening Night formalities. Philharmonia Studio SEE EVENT 5 FOR DETAILS $35/$25 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au Alice Campion is the pseudonym for four 5 City & Walsh Bay THURSDAY MAY 25 swf.org.au people who came together to create two Free, bookings essential, 8333 3644 successful novels. Learn more about their or email [email protected] to collaborative approach to novel writing. request tickets. Limit two per person. $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au CUR50 ROANNA GONSALVES: ON 30 WHY YOUR WRONG TO CARE LITERATURE AS SELFIE ABOUT GRAMMAR SWF Gala: May 25, 2.30–3.10pm May 25, 11.30am–12.30pm 12 Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Richard Wherrett Studio Origin Story SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 Join professor of linguistics Nick Enfield, writer Stephen Dando-Collins, journalist and 62 LAWRENCE KRAUSS: THE linguist Christine Kenneally, and the ABC’s GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD... SO language researcher, Tiger Webb, as they FAR discuss a new approach to grammar. May 25, 3–4pm $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au Pier 2/3 Club Stage Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss 31 NO MORE QUESTIONS (The Greatest Story Ever Told…So Far) has May 25, 11.30am–12.30pm retraced the story of how mankind came Pier 2/3 Main Stage to understand the universe. He talks to The editor of The New York Times Book astrophysicist Alan Duffy. Review, Pamela Paul, reflects on what $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 makes a compelling literary interview. Festival Highlight swf.org.au She appears in conversation with Michael Williams. 65 VIOLA DI GRADO: HOLLOW $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 12 SWF GALA: ORIGIN STORY HEART swf.org.au May 24, 6–7pm May 25, 3–4pm City Recital Hall Philharmonia Studio 52 JULIA BAIRD: THE Some of the Festival’s most celebrated guests reveal the books that made them want to Lex Hirst talks to Italy’s rising literary star, QUEEN become writers. With Robert Dessaix, Hannah Kent (pictured), Hisham Matar, Ian Rankin 29-year-old Viola Di Grado. In her latest May 25, 11.30am-12.30pm and Joy Williams. Hosted by ABC RN’s Kate Evans. novel Hollow Heart, a girl’s ghost tells the Pier 2/3 Club Stage $45/$35/$25 Bookings 8256 2222, swf.org.au story of her life after her suicide. Author of Victoria: The Queen, Julia Baird, Supported by Istituto Italiano di Cultura, talks to Annabel Crabb about the robust Sydney. and sometimes controversial leader who inheritance? Join Caroline Baum, Jessica 42 QUESTION TIME Supported by Macquarie University. $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au was crowned at 18 and ruled over a quarter Friedmann and Nadja Spiegelman in May 25, 1.30–2.30pm Free, no bookings of the world. conversation with Louise Adler as they Pier 2/3 The Loft 53 : THE GOOD $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 unpick the complex relationships that bind No Australian prime minister has served 46 AND THE AWARD GOES TO... GIRL STRIPPED BARE swf.org.au mothers and their children. a full term in a decade – and that’s just the May 25, 1.30–2.30pm May 25, 3–4pm $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 beginning. Join some of Australia’s finest Sydney Dance 2 Pier 2/3 Main Stage 32 HISTORICAL FICTION: CHICK swf.org.au journalists as they attempt to explain our Be the first to hear from winners of the Tracey Spicer’s The Good Girl Stripped Bare LIT WITH WIMPLES? peculiar politics. Bridie Jabour speaks 2017 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. The is a ‘full-frontal femoir’ by one of Australia’s May 25, 11.30am–12.30pm CUR195 CHRIS RODLEY: ON HOW to Mark Di Stefano, Steve Lewis, Chris winners represent the best in new Australian best-loved journalists. Tracey joins Sarrah Pier 2/3 The Loft TO BUILD A NOVEL-WRITING Uhlmann and Jeff Sparrow. literature across a variety of genres. Le Marquand in a candid discussion. Led by Ashley Hay, writers Annabel Abbs, MACHINE $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Free, no bookings $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Melissa Ashley, Hannah Kent and Liam May 25, 12-12.40pm swf.org.au swf.org.au Pieper tackle the question: can we engage Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage 47 ON ARRIVAL with the present without revisiting the past? SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 43 ZOË MORRISON: MUSIC AND May 25, 1.30–2.30pm 54 KATE GRENVILLE: THE CASE $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 FREEDOM Pier 2/3 Club Stage AGAINST FRAGRANCE swf.org.au 39 HOMEMADE SHORTS: May 25, 1.30–2.30pm What happens to asylum seekers after their May 25, 3–4pm AUSTRALIAN STORIES Richard Wherrett Studio journey ends? Join guest curator Rebecca Pier 2/3 The Loft 35 WRITING THROUGH FENCES May 25, 1.30–2.30pm Zoë Morrison’s debut novel Music and Huntley as she explores the challenges of What chemicals are in perfume and how May 25, 11.30am–12.30pm Philharmonia Studio Freedom explores the dark terrain of resettlement with Deng Adut, Tim Costello, are they regulated? Can they lead to Sydney Dance 1 Australia’s most exciting short story writers violence and the transformative A.S. Patrić and Ruck Sar. asthma, hormone disruption and cancer? Go beyond the political rhetoric of discuss their form. Author Margo Lanagan powers of music and love. Zoë is in $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Kate Grenville follows her nose to make detention centres and ‘boat people’ to hear talks with Julie Koh (Portable Curiosities), conversation with Maxine McKew. swf.org.au The Case Against Fragrance. Please note: powerful personal stories from Hani Abdile, Sue Woolfe (Do You Love Me or What?) $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au we ask all attendees to refrain from wearing Kaveh Arya and Amjad Hussain, with and Laura Elizabeth Woollett (The Love of 48 OUTSIDER LOOKING IN: perfume, cologne and other fragrances to moderator Eunice Andrada. a Bad Man). 44 LIANE MORIARTY: TRULY REPORTING ON TRUE CRIME this event. Supported by Macquarie University. $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au MADLY GUILTY May 25, 1.30–2.30pm $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Free, no bookings May 25, 1.30–2.30pm Wharf 2 Theatre swf.org.au CUR40 MARK MCKENNA: ON Roslyn Packer Theatre Five-time Walkley Award-winning 36 NEW AUSTRALIAN VOICES MUSIC AND WRITING Last year, Liane Moriarty had three novels investigative journalist Kate McClymont, 55 THE GOOD BOOK? THE BIBLE IN May 25, 11.30am–12.30pm May 25, 1.30–2.10pm on The New York Times bestseller list. former criminal barrister Bill Hosking AUSTRALIAN CULTURE TODAY Sydney Dance 2 Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage She speaks to Helen McCabe about the (Justice Denied) and former policeman May 25, 3–4pm Four of Australia’s most exciting emerging SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 international success of her latest novel Duncan McNab (Getting Away With Richard Wherrett Studio writers – Meredith Jaffé The( Fence), Julie Truly Madly Guilty. Murder) discuss the impacts of probing into In the 200th year of the Bible Society in Koh (Portable Curiosities), Isabelle Li (A 41 NATALIE HAYNES: THE $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 tragedies with Candice Fox. Australia, a panel of experts explores the Chinese Affair) and Sarah Schmidt (See CHILDREN OF JOCASTA swf.org.au $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 ongoing contribution of ‘The Good Book’. What I Have Done) – read and discuss their May 25, 1.30–2.30pm swf.org.au Supported by The Bible Society work with Jill Eddington. Pier 2/3 Main Stage 45 IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au Free, no bookings Comedian and classics scholar Natalie WORLD: VISIONS OF DYSTOPIA 49 THE BOOK CLUB Haynes talks to Stephanie Russo about her May 25, 1.30–2.30pm May 25, 1.30–3pm 56 THE BEST OF THE FESTIVAL: 37 DO WE ALL TURN INTO OUR novel The Children of Jocasta, a retelling Sydney Dance 1 ABC Studios POETRY AND PERFORMANCE MOTHERS? of the Oedipus and Antigone myths that Authors Sally Abbott (Closing Down), James Join and regular panellists May 25, 3–4pm May 25, 11.30am–12.30pm offers a new angle on the ancient story. Bradley (The Silent Invasion) and Briohny and Jason Steger for a Roslyn Packer Theatre Wharf 2 Theatre $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Doyle (The Island Will Sink) talk about the special edition of ABC TV’s The Book Club This Festival highlight brings together five Can we ever escape our maternal swf.org.au power of dystopian fiction with Maria Lewis. featuring exciting Festival guests. celebrated figures in contemporary poetry 6 swf.org.au City & Walsh Bay THURSDAY MAY 25 – FRIDAY MAY 26 and . Hosted by Miles Merrill, Spiegelman mine their extraordinary family with readings from Hera Lindsay Bird, Ali FRIDAY, MAY 26 histories to create stirring works of memoir. Cobby Eckermann, Ivan Coyote, Carol Ann 80 COFFEE AND PAPERS WITH THE Join them in conversation with Michael Duffy and Rupi Kaur. SMH: JENNY VALENTISH Williams as they reveal what happens when $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 May 26, 9–10am, The Theatre Bar at writing gets personal. swf.org.au the End of the Wharf $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 136 Ian Coffee and conversation are worth swf.org.au 57 SCANDAL! getting up early for. Join The Sydney May 25, 3–4pm Rankin Morning Herald editors and journalists, 87 HA JIN: THE BOAT ROCKER Sydney Dance 1 and special guest Jenny Valentish, to hear May 26, 10–11am Hear Annabel Abbs, Carmel Bird and what’s making headlines. Sydney Dance 1 Alexandra Joel discuss their latest works on Supported by The Sydney Morning Herald. Chinese-born, US-based author Ha Jin the lives of women who transgressed the Free, no bookings takes a wickedly funny swing at corruption, social norms – and the shocking prices they journalism and integrity in the internet paid. With Helen Pringle. 81 THE ART OF RIVALRY: age in The Boat Rocker. Catch him in Free, no bookings FRIENDSHIPS, BETRAYALS, conversation with ABC RN’s Kate Evans. Festival Highlight AND BREAKTHROUGHS IN Supported by Macquarie University. 58 DOCUMENTING HARDSHIP MODERN ART Free, no bookings May 25, 3–4pm 136 IAN RANKIN: WHO SAYS CRIME DOESN’T PAY? May 26, 10–11am Sydney Dance 2 May 26, 6.30–7.30pm Philharmonia Studio 88 THE ATTACHMENT Three winners of the 2016 New South City Recital Hall Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Sebastian Smee May 26, 10–11am Wales Premier’s History Awards – Stuart Witness a rare and revealing conversation with two luminaries of crime fiction: Scotland’s recounts how four volatile friendships Sydney Dance 2 Macintyre, Ann McGrath and Tanya Evans – Ian Rankin (pictured), of Inspector Rebus fame, and Australia’s Michael Robotham. led to some of the most extraordinary One email from Sydney priest Tony reveal to Caroline Butler-Bowdon how they $45/$35/$25 Bookings 8256 2222, swf.org.au breakthroughs in modern art. Join him in Doherty to writer Ailsa Piper set explored topics like interracial relationships, conversation with Ashleigh Wilson. in motion a long-lasting correspondence. war and poverty in their work. $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au Their emails, collected in The Attachment, Free, no bookings 66 DEAR QUENTIN: LETTERS OF 73 BLERD CULTURE teach us all the art of conversation and the A GOVERNOR-GENERAL May 25, 6–7pm CUR82 NORMAN OHLER: ON NON- meaning of friendship. 101 CRIMES OF THE FATHER May 25, 4.30–5.30pm Pier 2/3 Club Stage ORTHODOX RESEARCH METHODS Free, no bookings May 25, 3–4pm Roslyn Packer Theatre SEE NIGHTS AT WALSH BAY, Page 7 IN BERLIN Wharf 2 Theatre In her six years as Governor-General, Dame May 26, 10–10.40am 89 MONDAY MORNING A powerful conversation about sexual abuse, Quentin Bryce (Dear Quentin) handwrote 74 JAMES STRONG ADDRESS: Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage COOKING CLUB: IT’S ALWAYS conscience and celibacy in the Catholic more than 50 letters a week. She talks to Ita THOMAS FRIEDMAN SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 ABOUT THE FOOD Church between authors Tom Keneally Buttrose about a life in letters. May 25, 6.30–7.30pm May 26, 10–11am (Crimes of the Father), David Marr (Quarterly $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 Pier 2/3 Main Stage 116 ROBERT DESSAIX: THE Sydney Dance Lounge Essay: The Prince) and James M. Miller (The swf.org.au New York Times columnist Thomas PLEASURES OF LEISURE Join Caroline Baum and The Monday Priests) with facilitator Louise Adler. Friedman delivers a special address to May 26, 10–11am Morning Cooking Club, talking about their $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 67 MICHAEL TRAILL: JUMPING honour and celebrate James Strong AO Pier 2/3 Main Stage third stunning cookbook, It’s Always About swf.org.au SHIP and his contribution to Australian arts Make time for Robert Dessaix’s The the Food, a collection of delicious recipes May 25, 4.30–5.30pm and business. Pleasures of Leisure. In this era of working and stories of the Jewish diaspora. 59 THE BOOK CLUB Sydney Dance 1 $100 (incl. signed book and longer hours, his witty and engaging book Free, no bookings May 25, 3.45–4.45pm Michael Traill’s memoir Jumping Ship post-event drinks with Thomas reminds us to take it easy. He joins David ABC Studios takes readers from Macquarie Bank, ‘the Friedman)/$35 (event only) Marr for a languid conversation. 90 NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE SEE EVENT 49 FOR DETAILS, Page 5 millionaire’s factory’ of corporate Australia, Bookings 9256 4200, swf.org.au $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 May 26, 10–11am to the heart of social investment. Michael swf.org.au Wharf 2 Theatre CUR71 TOM GRIFFITHS: ON Lynch talks to Michael Traill about his 75 THE POLITICS OF FEAR ABC’s Michaela Kalowski leads an ANTARCTICA critically acclaimed memoir. In partnership May 25, 6.30–7.30pm 84 REWORKING THE CLASSICS eye-opening discussion about dying May 25, 3.45–4.25pm with Philanthropy Australia and Sydney Roslyn Packer Theatre May 26, 10–11am and euthanasia with palliative care Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Community Foundation. SEE NIGHTS AT WALSH BAY, Page 7 Pier 2/3 The Loft nurse Steven Amsterdam, author Nikki SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 Supported by Macquarie University. Theatrical all-rounder Rebecca Vaughan Gemmell, neurosurgeon Henry Marsh Free, no bookings 76 JANE EYRE: AN and writer and comedian Natalie Haynes and euthanasia advocate Rodney Syme. 61 NO PLACE LIKE AUTOBIOGRAPHY turn the classics on their heads with their $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 May 25, 4.30–5.30pm 68 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW May 25, 7–8.30pm playful modern makeovers. They discuss swf.org.au Philharmonia Studio AND MAY HAVE MISSED Wharf 2 Theatre reinventing the classics with Alys Moody. Some of Australia’s most accomplished May 25, 4.30–5.30pm SEE EVENT 5 FOR DETAILS, Page 4 $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 91 ABC MORNING: ABC RN’S writers discuss place and setting in fiction. Sydney Dance 2 swf.org.au BOOKS AND ARTS DAILY AND Festival Highlight The ABC’s Michaela Kalowski talks to Eliza In conversation with host Mark McKenna, 77 THE FULL CATASTROPHE ABC RADIO’S CONVERSATIONS Henry-Jones (Ache), Di Morrissey (A Distant David Hunt, Nick Brodie, Bruce Pascoe May 25, 7.30–8.30pm 85 DECOLONISING AUSTRALIAN LIVE BROADCAST 140 NOT TO SCALE: NUMBERS AND THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE Journey), Sandra Leigh Price (The River and Jürgen Tampke blow the dust off Pier 2/3 Club Stage LITERATURE May 26, 10am–12pm May 25, 8.30–9.30pm Sings) and Michael Sala (The Restorer). the history books to share little-known SEE NIGHTS AT WALSH BAY, Page 7 May 26, 10–11am Pier 2/3 Club Stage Roslyn Packer Theatre $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au stories and surprising perspectives. You’re Richard Wherrett Studio Michael Cathcart, presenter of ABC RN’s The data editor of The Guardian US, Mona Chalabi (pictured), brings hard facts to the global guaranteed to learn something new. 140 NOT TO SCALE: NUMBERS AND Alison Whittaker talks to Indigenous literature Books and Arts, hosts a live broadcast immigration debate. In this illustrated talk, she helps us understand the actual risks migrants 33 WHO THE BLOODY HELL Free, no bookings THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE expert Evelyn Araluen Corr, Wiradjuri writer from 10am featuring conversations with pose, and their potential contributions to society. ARE WE? May 25, 8.30–9.30pm Hannah Donnelly and award-winning writer top Festival guests. At 11am $35/$25 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au May 25, 4.30–5.30pm 69 SUSPENSE: SETTING AND Roslyn Packer Theatre Bruce Pascoe about white-centric narratives draws you into a fascinating real-life story Pier 2/3 Club Stage MOOD SEE NIGHTS AT WALSH BAY, Page 7 in Australian literature. for ABC Radio’s Conversations. Don’t miss an illuminating conversation May 25, 4.30–5.30pm $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au Free, no bookings between two of Australia’s foremost social Sydney Dance Lounge 79 TALKING ’TIL LATE WITH CHRIS spies, George Megalogenis and guest Sara Foster (The Hidden Hours), David TAYLOR 86 A MURDERER IN THE FAMILY CUR92 DAVID FRANCIS: ON A curator Rebecca Huntley, on how our Francis (Wedding Bush Road) and Sarah May 25, 9.30–11pm May 26, 10–11am VERDICT, CURIOSITY AND A RIOT attitudes have shifted over the decades. Schmidt (See What I Have Done) talk about Pier 2/3 Hemingway Bar Roslyn Packer Theatre May 26, 11–11.40am $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 mood, setting and the art of suspense, with SEE NIGHTS AT WALSH BAY, Page 7 Susan Faludi, Hisham Matar and Nadja Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage swf.org.au John M. Green. SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 Free, no bookings 63 SEBASTIAN MALLABY: THE MAN 93 FICTIONAL TRUTHS WHO KNEW 70 ROBERT FORSTER: GRANT & I May 26, 11.30am–12.30pm May 25, 4.30–5.30pm May 25, 4.30–5.30pm Philharmonia Studio Pier 2/3 Main Stage Wharf 2 Theatre Chris Kraus, author of the forthcoming In conversation with Michael West, author The Go-Betweens’ Robert Forster talks The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula: A Sebastian Mallaby discusses the complex to ABC Radio Sydney’s 20th Century Fable, and Heather Rose (The legacy of former US Federal Reserve about Grant & I, his wise, witty story of 141 Roxane Museum of Modern Love) discuss blurring chairman Alan Greenspan, whose decisions friendship with musical collaborator the borders between fact and fiction. have been blamed for ushering in the Grant McLennan. Gay $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au global financial crisis. Supported by BDO. $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 swf.org.au 95 NORMAN OHLER: HIGH HITLER swf.org.au May 26, 11.30am–12.30pm CUR60 HENRY MARSH: ON Pier 2/3 Main Stage 64 PAMELA PAUL: BY THE BOOK HOSPITAL ARCHITECTURE AND Norman Ohler (Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi May 25, 4.30–5.30pm DESIGN Germany) and Liam Pieper lift the lid on the Pier 2/3 The Loft May 25, 4.45–5.25pm astonishing and largely untold story of the Join The New York Times Book Review Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Third Reich’s relationship with drugs. editor and author of My Life with Bob, SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 $20 /$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Pamela Paul, as she chats to Susan swf.org.au Wyndham about our complex relationships 72 A SIGNIFICANT DATE: 1967 with every book we read. REFERENDUM – 50 YEARS ON 117 A.N. WILSON: RESOLUTION $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 May 25, 6–7pm May 26, 11.30am–12.30pm swf.org.au State Library of NSW, Festival Highlight Pier 2/3 The Loft Metcalfe Auditorium Don’t miss a salty conversation with 51 TIM COSTELLO: ON FAITH ABC RN’s Daniel Browning hosts a panel writer A.N. Wilson on his latest novel, May 25, 4.30pm–5.30pm discussion on the impact of the 1967 federal 141 ROXANE GAY: DIFFICULT WOMEN Resolution: A Novel of Captain Cook, which Richard Wherrett Studio referendum and whether amendments to May 26, 8.30–9.30pm goes behind the scenes on the explorer’s Tim Costello, a leading voice on social Constitution affected real City Recital Hall famous Pacific voyages. With Nicole Abadee. justice and global poverty, discusses his change for Indigenous Australians. Durga Chew-Bose joins Roxane Gay (pictured) for an unmissable conversation about $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 book Faith, which considers the notion of $20/$15 for Friends of the Library. her new collection of stories, Difficult Women, and the strange detours that riddle her swf.org.au faith in our changing world. In conversation Bookings 9273 1770, sl.nsw.gov.au imaginary landscapes. with Tony Doherty. Supported by UNSW Arts & Social Sciences. $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au $45/$35/$25 Bookings 8256 2222, swf.org.au City & Walsh Bay 7 THURSDAY MAY 25 – SATURDAY MAY 27swf.org.au

198 BETOOTA ADVOCATE: Nights at Walsh Bay AUSTRALIA’S OLDEST AND FAVOURITE May 27, 6–7pm After sundown, some of the Festival’s most intriguing guests settle in for Pier 2/3 Club Stage revealing conversations. Catch Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth, Chris Lewis Hobba meets Clancy Overell and Kraus (I Love Dick), poets Hera Lindsay Bird and Rupi Kaur, and My Errol Parker, the men behind The Betoota Dad Wrote a Porno’s Jamie Morton at the Roslyn Packer Theatre. Over at Elaine Advocate – Australia’s most trustworthy 135 source of fake news. the Pier 2/3 Club Stage, Festival guests will take to the stage to celebrate $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au Blerd Culture; so-bad-it’s-good TV in Netflix and Chill; and share their queer Welteroth literary heroes in Gay for Page. From 9.30pm, Chris Taylor will be Talking 199 VIRAL AND VERSE: HERA ’Til Late in The Hemingway Bar, in a series of intimate, wine-fuelled chats. LINDSAY BIRD AND RUPI KAUR May 27, 6.30–7.30pm 73 BLERD CULTURE Roslyn Packer Theatre Roslyn Packer Theatre May 25, 6–7pm The data editor of The Guardian US, Mona Don’t miss poets Hera Lindsay Bird and Pier 2/3 Club Stage Chalabi, brings hard facts to the global Rupi Kaur as they talk about their dirty This all-star event celebrates the exciting immigration debate. In this illustrated work and the gloriously messy project of blerd – or black nerd – culture. Featuring talk, she helps us understand the actual challenging sanitised notions of femininity. Roxane Gay, Nayuka Gorrie, Miranda Tapsell risks migrants pose, and their potential $35/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 and Colson Whitehead, and hosted by contributions to society. swf.org.au Cleverman creator Ryan Griffen. $35/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 Festival Highlight $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au swf.org.au 201 PEOPLE OF LETTERS May 27, 7.30–8.30pm 75 THE POLITICS OF FEAR 79 TALKING ’TIL LATE WITH CHRIS 135 ELAINE WELTEROTH: ON EDITING TEEN VOGUE Pier 2/3 Club Stage May 25, 6.30–7.30pm TAYLOR May 26, 6–7pm In this rare People of Letters show, writers, Roslyn Packer Theatre May 25, 9.30–11pm Roslyn Packer Theatre performers and well-known Australians Sophie Black talks to journalist and social Pier 2/3 Hemingway Bar At 30, Elaine Welteroth (pictured) is the youngest ever editor of Teen Vogue and came to pair off to write ‘a letter to my other half’. commentator David Marr (Quarterly The Chaser’s Chris Taylor brings his prominence in the last US election campaign with her magazine’s hard-hitting articles $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au Essay: The White Queen), and satirist, inimitable, irreverent interview style to on Trump. She speaks with Slate editor-in-chief Julia Turner about why she showcases documentarian and writer the Festival’s late-night hub, with guests powerful stories on politics, women’s issues and more. 203 JAMIE MORTON: MY DAD (Depends What You Mean by Extremist) including Jamie Morton and C.S. Pacat. $35/$25 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au WROTE A PORNO about resentment and fear in Australia today. Free, no bookings May 27, 8.30–9.30pm $35/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 Roslyn Packer Theatre swf.org.au 134 SINCEREST FORM OF 78 I LOVE DICK vital discussion about queer literary heroes. Jamie Morton, creator of smash-hit FLATTERY May 26, 7.30-8.30pm The line-up includes Patrick Abboud, Ivan podcast My Dad Wrote a Porno talks 77 THE FULL CATASTROPHE May 26, 6.30–7.30pm Roslyn Packer Theatre Coyote, , Michael Farrell, Melissa to Ben Jenkins about the hilarious and May 25, 7.30–8.30pm Pier 2/3 Club Stage The Guardian called cult author Chris Hardie, C.S. Pacat and Alison Whittaker. horrific results of reading his father’s self- Pier 2/3 Club Stage The Festival’s most daring guests are tasked Kraus’ hit novel ‘the most important book Supported by the . published erotic novel to millions of fans. In a live show about when life was so bad, with writing and performing a piece in the about men and women written in the last $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au $35/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 it was funny, hosts Sarah Macdonald and style of a literary great. Hosted by Ben Jenkins century’. It has now been adapted for TV swf.org.au Rebecca Huntley welcome Desi Anwar, and starring Mark Di Stefano, Richard Fidler, by Transparent creator Jill Soloway. Chris 143 NETFLIX AND CHILL Susan Carland, Ivan Coyote, Clementine Rebecca Shaw and Jeff Sparrow. appears in conversation with Krissy Kneen. May 26, 9.30–10.30pm 205 TALKING ’TIL LATE WITH Ford and Frank Moorhouse. Presented with Giant Dwarf. $35/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 Pier 2/3 Hemingway Bar CHRIS TAYLOR Presented in association with $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au swf.org.au Six guilty Festival guests discuss their May 27, 9.30–11pm Giant Dwarf. favourite so-bad-it’s-good television Pier 2/3 Hemingway Bar $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au 135 ELAINE WELTEROTH: ON 139 GAY FOR PAGE shows. With Matt Ford (Pinky Beecroft), The Chaser’s Chris Taylor brings his EDITING TEEN VOGUE May 26, 8-9pm Hera Lindsay Bird, Brodie Lancaster, Liam inimitable, irreverent interview style to the 140 NOT TO SCALE: NUMBERS AND May 26, 6–7pm Pier 2/3 Club Stage Pieper and Dana Stevens. Hosted by Festival’s late-night hub with guests Henry THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE Roslyn Packer Theatre Eamon Flack welcomes some of the Benjamin Law. Marsh, Mikhail Zygar and Holly Throsby. May 26, 7.30–8.30pm SEE FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT, Page 7 Festival’s most distinguished guests in a Free, no bookings Free, no bookings

THE Mr BURNS ROVER APOST-ELECTRICPLAY 1 JULY – 6 AUGUST Written by Aphra Behn 19 MAY - 25 JUNE 'Downright brilliant' THE NEW YORK TIMES Director Eamon Flack

Written by Anne Washburn A critically acclaimed refl ection Toby Schmitz is back Director Imara Savage on ‘low' and 'high' art starring the in the classic 1677 utterly fabulous Mitchell Butel, battle of the sexes, by Esther Hannaford and Brent Hill. the fi rst professional woman playwright, Aphra Behn.

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96 A GATHERING STORM: THE RISE Ernest Hemingway warned, ‘The masters With Claudia Tazreiter. AND RISE OF CLI-FI of the short story come to no good end.’ Free, no bookings May 26, 11.30am–12.30pm Learn the secrets from modern masters Richard Wherrett Studio George Saunders, Joy Williams and Tara 111 RUSS RYMER: NOTES ON Sally Abbott (Closing Down), James Bradley June Winch. With Tegan Bennett Daylight. NONFICTION (Clade) and Wiradjuri writer Hannah $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 May 26, 1.30–2.30pm Donnelly share their visions of a world swf.org.au Sydney Dance 2 irrevocably altered by climate change with American Award-winning American journalist and acclaimed author Ashley Hay. 142 107 TRAGEDY PLUS TIME author Russ Rymer (Paris Twilight) talks $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au Carnage May 26, 1.30–2.30pm to Christine Kenneally about narrative Pier 2/3 The Loft non-fiction, and discusses the challenges 97 DENG ADUT: SONGS OF Michael Williams talks to Man Booker Prize- writers face. A WAR BOY winner Paul Beatty (The Sellout) and award- Free, no bookings May 26, 11.30am–12.30pm winning author and live-wire talent Roxane Roslyn Packer Theatre Gay (Difficult Women) about using humour 112 FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS: Raised as a Sudanese child soldier, today to write about the trauma of history. ANECDOTES FROM ABROAD Deng Adut is a lawyer, refugee advocate $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 May 26, 1.30–2.30pm and NSW Australian of the Year. He talks to swf.org.au Wharf 2 Theatre Suzanne Leal about his memoir Songs of Foreign correspondents reveal what it’s a War Boy. Festival Highlight 108 GET WELL SOON really like breaking stories abroad. Caroline $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 May 26, 1.30–2.30pm Brothers (The Memory Stones), Mark Colvin swf.org.au Richard Wherrett Studio (PM, ABC Radio), George Gittoes (artist and 142 AMERICAN CARNAGE Alyx Gorman talks to Brigid Delaney film-maker) and Rob Schmitz (Shanghai 120 CULTURAL CAPITAL May 26, 8.30–10pm (Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for correspondent for NPR) talk with ABC May 26, 11.30am–12.30pm Sydney Town Hall Wellness) and Jenny Valentish (Woman of Radio’s . Sydney Dance 1 Four months into Trump’s presidency, Slate’s editor-in-chief Julia Turner discusses the state Substances: A Journey into Addiction and $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Established and emerging writers discuss of play with The Guardian US data editor Mona Chalabi and authors George Saunders and Treatment) about the quest for wellness. swf.org.au the ongoing national conversation about Colson Whitehead (pictured). $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au the viability of art as a living. Beth Yahp talks $45/$35/$25 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au CUR114 CANDICE FOX: ON THE to Briohny Doyle, Frank Moorhouse and 109 JAMES SHAPIRO: THE YEAR IMPORTANCE OF REJECTION Fiona Wright. OF LEAR May 26, 2.30–3.10pm Free, no bookings researchers, Rebecca Huntley, as she talks $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 May 26, 1.30–2.30pm Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage to Jenny Valentish about her acclaimed swf.org.au Roslyn Packer Theatre SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 99 COLLABORATIVE JOURNALISM: book Still Lucky, which looks at who we are Shakespeare expert and fan James Shapiro SOURCES AND SECRETS and where we’re heading. 104 SYSTEM BREAKDOWN takes us back to 1606 in The Year of Lear 113 FIRST NATIONS: VOICES OF THE May 26, 11.30am–12.30pm $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 May 26, 1.30–2.30pm (and also the year of Macbeth and Antony MATRIARCHY Sydney Dance 2 swf.org.au Philharmonia Studio and Cleopatra) and the troubled times that May 26, 2.30–3.30pm The Panama Papers and The Nauru Files SEE THINKING GLOBALLY, Page 11 inspired the Great Bard. With Tom Wright. Pier 2/3 Club Stage were two of the biggest stories of 2016. CUR102 FIONA MCINTOSH: ON THE $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 An open conversation with the next wave Join Neil Chenoweth, Paul Farrell and IMPORTANCE OF BEING SELFISH CUR105 JOHN M. GREEN: ON WHY swf.org.au of First Nations women writers – Evelyn Marian Wilkinson as they discuss the May 26, 12–12.40pm WE SHOULD BE SCARED SHITLESS Araluen Corr, Hannah Donnelly, Nayuka changing ways that journalists are working Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage ABOUT NORTH KOREA 110 HUMAN BAGGAGE: THE HATE Gorrie and Alison Whittaker. Hosted by together. With Anne Davies. SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 May 26, 1.30–2.10pm POLITICS OF IMMIGRATION guest curator Ellen van Neerven. Presented in partnership with the Walkley Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage May 26, 1.30–2.30pm Supported by The Copyright Agency. Foundation. 103 CAROLINE BAUM: ONLY SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 Sydney Dance 1 $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Free, no bookings May 26, 1–2pm Join The Guardian US data editor Mona swf.org.au Pier 2/3 Club Stage 106 THIS WON’T END WELL: Chalabi, author Roanna Gonsalves, 249 STILL LUCKY Only is Caroline Baum’s memoir about SECRETS OF GREAT SHORT Palestinian-born Australian playwright 83 GRANT: THE AUSTRALIAN May 26, 11.30am–12.30pm being an only child in a very unusual family. STORYTELLING Samah Sabawi and Canadian playwright DREAM Wharf 2 Theatre Caroline discusses her acclaimed book with May 26, 1.30–2.30pm Stephen Orlov for a fearless conversation May 26, 3–4pm Don’t miss one of Australia’s foremost social Charlotte Wood. Pier 2/3 Main Stage about our anxieties around border control. Pier 2/3 Main Stage Don’t follow Orwell’s the story. dystopian future Be the story. is now

1984 BY GEORGE ORWELL TALK A NEW ADAPTATION CREATED BY ROBERT ICKE AND BY JONATHAN BIGGINS DUNCAN MACMILLAN 3 APR – 20 MAY 28 JUN – 22 JUL ROSLYN PACKER THEATRE

The charismatic John Waters is back at STC as a rogue radio host in a Orwell’s masterpiece has rocketed back into best seller lists in recent sharp and blisteringly topical take on modern journalism and the 24-hour months – for obvious reasons. Now, 1984 is re-examined in this news cycle. In a world where ‘alternative facts’ threaten to trump due radical, award-winning international theatrical blockbuster. This stage process, this laugh-out-loud new satire is sure to fi re up thoughtful and adaptation is a dynamic, political, technology-enhanced dive into vigorous debate. Orwell’s complex vision.

Nobody is Moscow’s quite what calling they seem

THREE SISTERS CLOUD NINE BY ANTON CHEKHOV BY CARYL CHURCHILL IN A NEW ADAPTATION BY ANDREW UPTON 1 JUL – 12 AUG WHARF 1 THEATRE 6 NOV – 16 DEC SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

Churchill is acclaimed as the world’s greatest living playwright, and This is a beautiful re-telling of Chekhov’s classic directed by Kip Williams. this unique masterpiece explores love, race, power, identity and gender. In a remote Russian town, three sisters yearn for Moscow. They dream of Beginning in 19th century Africa and ending in a century later, freedom, sex, work and romance. A stellar creative team will bring fresh Cloud Nine will make you question your pre-conceptions, it will make eyes to the play’s spirit of hope and change, and a contemporary sensibility you laugh and it will break your heart. to the lives of the Prozorova women.

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Award-winning journalist talks to and a reading of the award-winning play. Tom Keneally, Meg Keneally, Candice Fox Susan Carland about his Quarterly Essay, $5 Bookings 9250 1988 and shed light on writing The Australian Dream, in which he makes roslynpackertheatre.com.au about the shadowy world of crime. With the case for an Australian Dream that has a Guilia De Biase. place for all Indigenous people. 138 AUSTRALIAN BOOK DESIGN $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 AWARDS swf.org.au Henry May 26, 7–10.30pm 151 ALL THE GIRLS TO THE FRONT 170 Giant Dwarf May 27, 10–11am 250 YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG: A Marsh Winners of the 65th annual Book Design Roslyn Packer Theatre GUIDE TO MODERN PARENTING Awards will be announced at a party Jan Fran talks to those on the front line of May 26, 3–4pm celebrating the bravest and brightest, the feminist writing. Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Philharmonia Studio most original and most beautiful books Clementine Ford and Tracey Spicer discuss Don’t miss a tough-love conversation for published in Australia in 2016. taking action and writing for change. our times between guest curator Rebecca $75 members/$90 non-members $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 Huntley (Still Lucky), Lucy Clark (Beautiful from April 18, Bookings abda.com.au swf.org.au Failures), Chloe Shorten (Take Heart: A Story for Modern Stepfamilies) and The Chaser 78 I LOVE DICK 152 STELLA SPARKS: WOMEN Quarterly’s Charles Firth about the issues May 26, 7.30–8.30pm WRITERS ON INFLUENCE AND facing modern parents. Roslyn Packer Theatre INSPIRATION $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au SEE NIGHTS AT WALSH BAY, Page 7 May 27, 10–11am Sydney Dance 1 126 RICHARD FIDLER: GHOST Festival Highlight 139 GAY FOR PAGE Hannah Kent, Sandra Phillips and the EMPIRE May 26, 8–9pm 2017 Stella Prize winner share their May 26, 3–4pm Pier 2/3 Club Stage experiences as givers and recipients of Pier 2/3 The Loft 170 HENRY MARSH: ADMISSIONS – A LIFE IN BRAIN SURGERY SEE NIGHTS AT WALSH BAY, Page 7 support, advice and wisdom. They discuss Consummate interviewer Richard Fidler May 27, 1.30–2.30pm how this has shaped their craft and faces the other side of the microphone Roslyn Packer Theatre 141 ROXANE GAY: DIFFICULT creativity with Abigail Ulman. when he discusses his new book, Ghost Henry Marsh’s first book, Do No Harm, was lauded as a memoir of startling candour and WOMEN Supported by Macquarie University. Empire, a story of his adventures with his insight. In his new memoir Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery, he reflects deeply on his May 26, 8.30–9.30pm Free, no bookings son through the Byzantine Empire. With the 40 years of experience operating on the surgical frontline. Don’t miss Henry (pictured) in City Recital Hall ABC’s . conversation with Sofija Stefanovic. SEE FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT, Page 6 153 TRUST AND PERSISTENCE: $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au HOW INVESTIGATIVE swf.org.au JOURNALISTS CULTIVATE 142 AMERICAN CARNAGE SOURCES AND SHARE 118 HENRY LAWSON AND THE Festival’s literary stars, and again at 5pm Writers’ Anthology, And Watch The Whale May 26, 8.30–10pm THEIR STORIES DROVER’S WIFE for a special Festival edition of Thank God Explode, with guest speaker Fiona Wright. Sydney Town Hall May 27, 10–11am May 26, 3–4pm It’s Friday. Celebrate this exciting annual collection of SEE FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT, Page 8 Sydney Dance 2 Richard Wherrett Studio Free, no bookings work from emerging UTS writers. Walkley Award-winners Ben Doherty, A panel of bush-bard experts discuss the Free, no bookings 143 NETFLIX AND CHILL Sarah Ferguson, Debra Jopson and continued influence of Henry Lawson’s 115 CAROLINE BROTHERS: THE May 26, 9.30–10.30pm host Kate McClymont discuss the role The Drover’s Wife. Frank Moorhouse, Ryan MEMORY STONES 130 DESI ANWAR: LIFE, Pier 2/3 Hemingway Bar of the source, and ethical strategies and O’Neill and Kerrie Davies join Nicole Abadee. May 26, 4.30-5.30pm STRIFE AND THE PURSUIT OF SEE NIGHTS AT WALSH BAY, Page 7 best practices for protecting them while $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au Philharmonia Studio DEMOCRACY sharing their stories. Novelist and foreign correspondent May 26, 4.30–5.30pm Free, no bookings 119 SUSAN FALUDI: IN THE Caroline Brothers talks to ABC RN’s Kate Sydney Dance 1 SATURDAY, MAY 27 DARKROOM Evans about her new novel, The Memory Delve into the labyrinthine world of 144 COFFEE AND PAPERS WITH 154 JOY WILLIAMS: NINETY-NINE May 26, 3–4pm Stones, inspired by events surrounding ‘the Indonesian journalism and politics with ABC’s THE SMH: MIKHAIL ZYGAR STORIES OF GOD Roslyn Packer Theatre disappeared’ after Argentina’s 1976 coup. as she talks to distinguished May 27, 9–10am, The Theatre Bar at May 27, 10–11am Pulitzer Prize-winning author Susan Faludi $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au Indonesian journalist and author Desi Anwar. the End of the Wharf Wharf 2 Theatre came to international prominence with Supported by Macquarie University. Coffee and conversation are worth getting Joy Williams’ latest work, Ninety-Nine Stories her classic feminist text Backlash. She 94 FIGHTING HISLAM AND Free, no bookings up early for. Join The Sydney Morning of God, is a collection of micro fiction joins Sofija Stefanovic for an intimate BEYOND VEILED CLICHÉS Herald editors and journalists, and special exploring interactions with an ever elusive conversation about her unforgettable new May 26, 4.30–5.30pm 131 ON BRETT WHITELEY: ART, LIFE guest Mikhail Zygar, to hear what’s and arbitrary God. Joy is in conversation memoir, In the Darkroom. Pier 2/3 Main Stage AND THE OTHER THING making headlines. with ABC RN’s Kate Evans. Supported by the University of Sydney. Yassmin Abdel-Magied speaks to May 26, 4.30–5.30pm Supported by The Sydney Morning Herald. $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 journalist and author Amal Awad and Wharf 2 Theatre Free, no bookings swf.org.au swf.org.au academic and writer Susan Carland about Wendy Whiteley, artist, ‘goddess muse’ and the intersection of Islam and feminism. wife of the late artist Brett Whiteley, and his 145 TRANSFORMING MY COUNTRY CUR155 KIM MAHOOD: ON 98 IVAN COYOTE: TOMBOY $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 biographer Ashleigh Wilson (Art, Life and the May 27, 10–11am STILETTOS AND SALT LAKES SURVIVAL GUIDE swf.org.au Other Thing) discuss the intimate process of Philharmonia Studio May 27, 11–11.40am May 26, 3–4pm honouring a great artist with Anna Schwartz. Join contemporary Australian poets Hani Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Sydney Dance 1 125 NEXTNESS AND NEARNESS: $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Abdile, aj carruthers, Eileen Chong and SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 Catch celebrated storyteller Ivan Coyote BILL HAYES ON OLIVER SACKS swf.org.au Ali Cobby Eckermann as they respond to in full flight as they chat to Amelia Lush May 26, 4.30–5.30pm Dorothea Mackellar’s classic Australian poem 166 LOST THE PLOT: WRITING about Tomboy Survival Guide, a warm and Pier 2/3 The Loft CUR132 RUSS RYMER: ON SAVING My Country with a new poem of their own. ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH winning memoir of growing up outside the ‘When Oliver Sacks died … the world lost THE MUSIC TREE $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au May 27, 11.30am–12.30pm usual gender labels. a beloved author and neurologist. I lost May 26, 4.45–5.25pm Philharmonia Studio Supported by the Consulate General of my partner,’ Bill Hayes says. In this special Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage 146 STOP THE WORLD, I WANT TO Join host Fiona Wright, Mia Freedman Canada, Sydney, and Macquarie University. event, Bill reflects on his life with Sacks. SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 GET OFF (Work Strife Balance), Jessica Friedmann Free, no bookings Supported by Rowena Danziger AM and May 27, 10–11am (Things That Helped), Nakkiah Lui and Ken Coles AM. 133 THOMAS FRIEDMAN: THE CASE Pier 2/3 Club Stage Tracey Spicer (The Good Girl Stripped 121 CLOSE TO HOME: THE WORK OF $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 FOR OPTIMISM SEE THINKING GLOBALLY, Page 11 Bare) for a discussion that explores GEORGIA BLAIN swf.org.au May 26, 6–7pm mental health in writing, and how May 26, 3–4pm Sydney Town Hall CUR147 ANNABEL ABBS: ON 1920S emotional states can change the Sydney Dance 2 127 ROB SCHMITZ: STREET OF Celebrated New York Times columnist PARIS nature of prose. In celebration of the late Georgia Blain’s ETERNAL HAPPINESS Thomas Friedman reassures us that all May 27, 10–10.40am $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au literary talent and sharp sense of humour, May 26, 4.30–5.30pm is not lost in these troubling times. In Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage her friends and fellow writers Tegan Richard Wherrett Studio conversation with George Megalogenis. SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 157 THE GREAT DIVIDE Bennett Daylight, James Bradley and Catch NPR’s Shanghai correspondent Rob Supported by New Israel Fund Australia May 27, 11.30am–12.30pm Charlotte Wood read from her work. Schmitz talking to Luigi Tomba about his Foundation. 148 MAXINE BENEBA CLARKE: THE Pier 2/3 Club Stage Free, no bookings provocative new book Street of Eternal $45/$35/$25 Bookings 9250 1988, HATE RACE Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Brigid Delaney, Happiness, which examines the lives of swf.org.au May 27, 10–11am Briohny Doyle and Jack Manning Bancroft 122 HELL AND HIGH WATER people on one street in China’s most Pier 2/3 Main Stage weigh in on the intergenerational cold war. May 26, 3–4pm exciting city. 135 ELAINE WELTEROTH: ON Maxine Beneba Clarke’s memoir The Hate Facilitated by Julianne Schultz. Wharf 2 Theatre Supported by Sherman Contemporary Art EDITING TEEN VOGUE Race is a powerful, funny and at times $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Dr and Professor Tim Foundation. May 26, 6–7pm devastating story about growing up black swf.org.au Flannery join Nick Rowley for a thought- $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au Roslyn Packer Theatre in a white middle-class Australia. Maxine provoking discussion on the likely effects of SEE NIGHTS AT WALSH BAY, Page 7 discusses her work with Peter Polites. 158 RESIST! climate change. 128 WRITING RACE $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 May 27, 11.30am–12.30pm Supported by the Bupa Health Foundation May 26, 4.30–5.30pm 134 SINCEREST FORM OF swf.org.au Pier 2/3 Main Stage and the University of Sydney. Roslyn Packer Theatre FLATTERY Slate’s movie critic Dana Stevens talks $20 /$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Writers discuss race in their work, and in May 26, 6.30-7.30pm 149 DOING IT! to Hisham Matar (The Return), Nadja swf.org.au today’s literary and cultural landscape. Pier 2/3 Club Stage May 27, 10–11am Spiegelman (I’m Supposed to Protect You Roanna Gonsalves leads a discussion with SEE NIGHTS AT WALSH BAY, Page 7 Pier 2/3 The Loft from All This) and Teen Vogue editor Elaine CUR123 JEFF SPARROW: ON PAUL Anuk Arudpragasam, Paul Beatty, Maxine Join Karen Pickering (editor of Doing It), Welteroth about resistance through art. ROBESON Beneba Clarke and guest curator Ellen van 136 IAN RANKIN: WHO SAYS CRIME Tilly Lawless, Maria Lewis and moderator Supported by Vanessa Megan Advanced May 26, 3.45–4.25pm Neerven. DOESN’T PAY? Krissy Kneen for a bold, explicit and Organic Skincare. Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Supported by The Copyright Agency. May 26, 6.30–7.30pm unapologetically feminist discussion $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 City Recital Hall about sex in all its exuberant and swf.org.au swf.org.au SEE FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT, Page 6 diverse incarnations. 124 DRIVE WITH RICHARD $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 180 PAUL BEATTY: THE SELLOUT GLOVER, FEATURING 129 UTS 2017 ANTHOLOGY 137 PATRICK WHITE PLAYWRIGHTS’ swf.org.au May 27, 11.30–12.30pm THANK GOD IT’S FRIDAY LAUNCH: AND WATCH THE WHALE AWARD AND FELLOWSHIP Pier 2/3 The Loft May 26, 4–6pm EXPLODE May 26, 7–9.30pm 150 SMOKING GUN: CRIME 2016 Man Booker Prize-winner Paul Beatty Pier 2/3 Club Stage May 26, 4.30–5.30pm Wharf 2 Theatre FICTION chats to ABC RN’s Michael Cathcart Join ABC Radio Sydney’s Richard Glover Sydney Dance 2 The announcement of the 2016 Patrick May 27, 10–11am about his savage satire on US race from 4–4.30pm as he speaks to three of the Join us at the launch of the 2017 UTS White Playwrights’ Award and Fellowship, Richard Wherrett Studio relations, The Sellout. City & Walsh Bay 11 SATURDAY MAY 27 swf.org.au

$20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Presented with The Sydney Morning Herald. Satirist, documentarian and writer John swf.org.au Free, no bookings Safran (Depends What You Mean by Extremist) talks to Sally Warhaft about his 160 I FEEL YOU 164 HANNAH KENT: THE GOOD adventures with nationalists, ISIS supporters May 27, 11.30am–12.30pm PEOPLE and anarchists, and the lessons he learned. Richard Wherrett Studio May 27, 11.30am–12.30pm $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Authors discuss how complex characters Wharf 2 Theatre swf.org.au and nuanced narratives allow readers In The Good People, her second novel, SWF Gala: to empathise with those different to Hannah Kent travels to Ireland in a time 204 173 PETER POLITES: DOWN THE themselves. Anuk Arudpragasam, Michelle of deep superstition and religious fervour. HUME Cahill, Margo Lanagan and Graeme Simsion She speaks to Ashley Hay about the art of Nasty May 27, 1.30–2.30pm talk with Grace Menary-Winefield. bringing place and time to life. Sydney Dance 1 $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Women Peter Polites’ debut novel Down the Hume swf.org.au is celebrated for its powerful insights into 161 DREAMS OF HER REAL SELF: individual and national identity. He talks WRITERS ON HELEN GARNER CUR165 ROBERT DESSAIX: ON to Ronnie Scott about his queer Western May 27, 11.30am–12.30pm KISSING, HUGGING AND SAYING Sydney noir. Roslyn Packer Theatre ‘I LOVE YOU’ Supported by Macquarie University. Both celebrated and controversial, May 27, 12–12.40pm Free, no bookings Helen Garner’s 40-year career has been Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage distinguished by a trademark candidness. SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 174 AUSTRALIAN READERS AND Garner fans Bernadette Brennan, Annabel THEIR HABITS Crabb, Benjamin Law and Fiona McFarlane 156 MEMOIR: A SLIPPERY ART May 27, 1.30–2.30pm speak to Rebecca Giggs about her influence. May 27, 1.30pm–2.30pm Festival Highlight Sydney Dance 2 $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 Philharmonia Studio Australia prides itself on being a reading swf.org.au Memoirists discuss their revealing art form. nation, but who’s reading what? The Brentley Frazer (Scoundrel Days), Graeme 204 SWF GALA: ADVICE FROM NASTY WOMEN Australian’s literary editor Stephen Romei 162 TOO MUCH AND NOT THE Innes (Finding a Way) and Kim Mahood May 27, 8.30–10pm joins publisher Meredith Curnow, author MOOD (Position Doubtful) talk with Catherine Sydney Town Hall Melissa Lucashenko, bookseller Fiona Stager May 27, 11.30am–12.30pm Eccles. In a centrepiece event of the Festival, luminaries Brit Bennett (pictured), Durga Chew-Bose, and David Throsby to discuss a recent Sydney Dance 1 $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au Viola Di Grado, Anita Heiss, Chris Kraus and Nadja Spiegelman share cautionary tales, survey of Australian readers. Cultural critic Durga Chew-Bose speaks life lessons, wisdom and good advice. Hosted by Sophie Black. Free, no bookings with Maria Tumarkin about her piercingly 167 HOW DEEP CAN YOU GO? Supported by the City of Sydney. insightful debut collection of essays, Too May 27, 1.30–2.30pm $45/$35/$25 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au 175 THEY CANNOT TAKE THE SKY: Much and Not The Mood, exploring identity Pier 2/3 Club Stage STORIES FROM DETENTION and culture. How close does a journalist need to get May 27, 1.30–2.30pm Supported by Macquarie University. to the story? How do they separate the SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 Richard Wherrett Studio Wharf 2 Theatre Free, no bookings personal and professional? Join Madeline Peter Godfrey-Smith’s Other Minds casts a They Cannot Take the Sky is an important Gleeson, Christine Kenneally and Caro 170 HENRY MARSH: ADMISSIONS – new light on the mind of the octopus, and and urgent story collection from those 163 MEET THE SMH BEST YOUNG Meldrum-Hanna with Rebecca Johinke. A LIFE IN BRAIN SURGERY on our own. Krissy Kneen talks to Peter seeking asylum and being detained by the NOVELISTS Supported by the University of Sydney. May 27, 1.30–2.30pm about the intelligence of cephalopods and . Through audio, May 27, 11.30am–12.30pm $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Roslyn Packer Theatre their fascinating evolutionary lineage. video and live storytelling, three narrators Sydney Dance 2 swf.org.au SEE EVENT HIGHLIGHT, Page 10 $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au share their stories. Each year, The Sydney Morning Herald $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 names the authors it considers to be the CUR168 KAREN PICKERING: ON 171 OTHER MINDS: THE OCTOPUS, 172 JOHN SAFRAN: DEPENDS swf.org.au best young fiction writers in the country. SHARK WEEK AND THE EVOLUTION OF WHAT YOU MEAN BY EXTREMIST Linda Morris leads a discussion with the May 27, 1.30–2.10pm INTELLIGENT LIFE May 27, 1.30–2.30pm 169 GLOBALISATION & 2017 winners, including short readings. Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage May 27, 1.30–2.30pm Pier 2/3 The Loft INEQUALITY IN OF TRUMP May 27, 1.30–2.30pm Pier 2/3 Main Stage Thinking Globally SEE THINKING GLOBALLY, Page 11. CUR38 LYNNE KELLY: ON HOW Take a fresh look at some of the most 22 BREXIT $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf. Writer Thomas Friedman, economist MEMORY TRAINING CHANGED pressing issues facing the world today. May 25, 11.30am–12.30pm org.au Richard Holden, Sebastian Mallaby MY THINKING What does Britain’s exit from the Roslyn Packer Theatre and ACTU President Ged Kearney May 27, 2.30-3.10pm European Union mean for employment, The Guardian US data editor Mona 146 STOP THE WORLD, I WANT discuss globalisation and inequality Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Chalabi, Man Booker Prize-winner TO GET OFF in a new world of walls, trade barriers SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 the economy, immigration and art? What Anne Enright, Washington Post May 27, 10–11am and immigration control. Moderated does the legacy of 1917 mean for Russia columnist and leading economist Pier 2/3 Club Stage by ABC’s Emma Alberici. 159 NEVERTHELESS, SHE a century on? In the world of the 24-hour Sebastian Mallaby and bestselling Burnt out by Brexit and Trump? Michael $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 PERSISTED news cycle, how much permission can author Ian Rankin talk to Anton Enus Williams joins Brigid Delaney, Rob swf.org.au May 27, 3–4pm you give yourself to tune out? Featuring about Brexit and its implications. Schmitz, Tara June Winch and John Pier 2/3 The Loft Russian journalist and author Mikhail $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 Zubrzycki to explore the benefits and 234 FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE Clementine Ford (Fight Like a Girl) and Zygar, The Guardian US data editor swf.org.au pitfalls of unplugging from the 24-hour May 28, 3–4pm Robert Jensen (The End of Patriarchy) news cycle. Pier 2/3 The Loft talk to Catherine Fox about the state of Mona Chalabi, leading economist 104 SYSTEM BREAKDOWN $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Mikhail Zygar and cultural historian patriarchy today, and why the future is Sebastian Mallaby, Shanghai May 26, 1.30–2.30pm swf.org.au and former Russia correspondent female. Correspondent for NPR Rob Schmitz Philharmonia Studio Norman Hermant join Sally Warhaft to $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 and bestselling author Thomas A panel of experts plot the societal 169 GLOBALISATION & discuss the legacy of the 1917 Russian swf.org.au Friedman. changes needed in our changing INEQUALITY IN THE AGE OF Revolution and what it means a world. With Tim Flannery, Robert TRUMP century on. 179 NADJA SPIEGELMAN: I’M Thinking Globally is supported by UNSW Jensen, Penny Griffin and Mark Moran. May 27, 1.30–2.30pm $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 SUPPOSED TO PROTECT YOU Arts & Social Sciences. Moderated by Melanie Joosten. Pier 2/3 Main Stage swf.org.au FROM ALL THIS May 27, 3–4pm Pier 2/3 Main Stage 12 swf.org.au City & Walsh Bay Event Liftout

THURSDAY MAY 25 SATURDAY MAY 27 ROSLYN PACKER RICHARD WHARF 2 THE THEATRE BAR PHILHARMONIA PIER 2/3 PIER 2/3 PIER 2/3 PIER 2/3 SYDNEY SYDNEY ROSLYN PACKER RICHARD WHARF 2 THE THEATRE BAR PHILHARMONIA PIER 2/3 PIER 2/3 PIER 2/3 PIER 2/3 SYDNEY SYDNEY THEATRE WHERRETT THEATRE AT THE END OF THE STUDIO MAIN STAGE CLUB STAGE THE LOFT CURIOSITY STAGE DANCE 1 DANCE 2 THEATRE WHERRETT THEATRE AT THE END OF THE STUDIO MAIN STAGE CLUB STAGE THE LOFT CURIOSITY DANCE 1 DANCE 2 STUDIO WHARF STUDIO WHARF STAGE 9am 9am 17 Coffee and Papers 9am 144 Coffee and Papers 9am with The SMH and with The SMH and 9.30am Norman Ohler 9.30am 9.30am Mikhail Zygar 9.30am 10am 24 The Art of 23 Strong Female 27 Secret City 18 Being a Historian 34 Di Morrissey: 19 Through the 21 Anuk Arudpragasam: CUR20 Lawrence Krauss: 25 The Writer's 26 Hugh Mackay: 10am 10am 151 All The Girls 150 Smoking Gun: 154 Joy Williams: 145 Transforming 148 Maxine 146 Stop the World, 149 Doing It! CUR147 Annabel Abbs: 152 Stella Sparks: 153 Trust and 10am Biography Characters in the Digital Age A Distant Journey Wardrobe The Story of a Hidden Habitat Selling the Dream To The Front Crime Fiction Ninety-Nine Stories My Country Beneba Clarke: I Want to Get Off 1920s Paris Women Writers Persistence: 10.30am Brief Marriage Realities 10.30am 10.30am of God The Hate Race On Influence Journalists and 10.30am and Inspiration Cultivating Sources 11am CUR28 Sarah Blakewell: 11am 11am CUR155 Kim Mahood: On 11am Bambi as Existentialist Hero Stilettos and Salt Lakes 11.30am 22 Brexit 30 Why Your Wrong 37 Do We All Turn 29 Group Text 31 No More Questions 52 Julia Baird: 32 Historical Fiction: 35 Writing Through 36 New Australian 11.30am 11.30am 161 Dreams of Her 160 I Feel You 164 Hannah Kent: 166 Lost the Plot: 158 Resist! 157 The Great Divide 180 Paul Beatty: 162 Too Much and 163 Meet the SMH 11.30am to Care About Into Our Mothers? Victoria Chick Lit with Fences Voices Real Self: Writers The Good People Writing About The Sellout Not The Mood Best Young Novelists Grammar the Queen Wimples? 12pm on Helen Garner Mental Health CUR165 Robert Dessaix: 12pm 12pm CUR195 Chris Radley: how 12pm On Kissing, Hugging and to Build a Novel-Writing 12.30pm Saying ‘I love you’ 12.30pm 12.30pm Machine 12.30pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1.30pm 170 Henry Marsh: 171 Other Minds: The 175 They Cannot 156 Memoir: 169 Globalisation & 167 How Deep 172 John Safran: CUR168 Karen Pickering: 173 Peter Polites: 174 Australian Readers 1.30pm 1.30pm 44 Liane Moriarty: 43 Zoë Morrison: 48 Outsider Looking 39 Homemade Shorts: 41 Natalie Haynes: 47 On Arrival 42 Question Time CUR40 Mark McKenna: 45 It's a Mad, Mad, 46 And The 1.30pm Admissions – A Life Octopus, and Take the Sky: Stories A Slippery Art Inequality in the Age Can You Go? Depends What You Shark Week Down the Hume and Their Habits Truly Music and Freedom In: Reporting On Australian Stories The Children of Jocasta Music and Writing Mad, Mad World: Award Goes To... 2pm in Brain Surgery the Evolution of from Detention of Trump Mean by Extremist 2pm 2pm Madly Guilty True Crime Visions of Dystopia 2pm Intelligent Life 2.30pm CUR38 Lynne Kelly: Memory 2.30pm 2.30pm CUR50 Roanna Gonsalves: 2.30pm Training Literature as Selfie 3pm 182 Hisham Matar: 181 Fake News and 185 Contemporary 177 Social Media As 179 Nadja Spiegelman: 188 Steven Amsterdam: 159 Nevertheless, 183 PEN Lecture: 184 Jacqueline Rose: 3pm 3pm 56 The Best of the 55 The Good Book? 101 Crimes of 65 Viola Di Grado: 53 Tracey Spicer: 62 Lawrence Krauss: 54 Kate Grenville: 57 Scandal! 58 Documenting 3pm The Return Alternative Facts Essay: Personal Art: An Indigenous I’m Supposed to Protect The Easy Way Out She Persisted The Threat to Women in Dark Times Festival: Poetry and The Bible in Australian the Father Hollow Heart The Good Girl Stripped The Greatest Story Ever The Case Against Hardship 3.30pm and Public Perspective You from All This Freedom of 3.30pm 3.30pm Performance Culture Today Bare Told ... So Far Fragrance 3.30pm CUR186 Desi Anwar: Expression CUR71 Tom Griffiths: 4pm Spiritual Encounters 4pm 4pm Antarctica 4pm 4.30pm 66 Dear Quentin: 51 Tim Costello: 70 Robert Forster: 61 No Place Like 63 Sebastian Mallaby: 33 Who the Bloody 64 Pamela Paul: 67 Michael Traill: 68 Things You 4.30pm 4.30pm 191 Annabel Crabb 100 A.S. Patrić: Black 251 AVANT GAGA 187 The Most Unlikely 189 Dear Science 178 Writing 190 Peter Corris: 192 Borders of 193 Not Waving, 4.30pm Letters of a Governor- On Faith Grant & I The Man Who Knew Hell Are We? By The Book Jumping Ship Need To Know and and : Our Rock White City of Places Perseverance: Win, Lose or Draw CUR176 Jacqueline Rose: the Queer Body Drowning CUR60 Henry Marsh: Reading Year Remarkable Memoirs 5pm General Hospital Architecture and May Have Missed 5pm 5pm Remarkable Women Design 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm

6pm 73 Blerd Culture 6pm 6pm 198 Betoota Advocate: 6pm Australia’s Oldest and Favourite Newspaper 6.30pm 75 The Politics of Fear 74 Thomas Friedman: 6.30pm 6.30pm 199 Viral and Verse: 6.30pm James Strong address Hera Lindsay Bird and 7pm 76 Jane Eyre: TONIGHT AT 7pm 7pm Rupi Kaur 200 Jane Eyre: An 7pm PIER 2/3 An Autobiography Autobiography 7.30pm THE HEMINGWAY 77 The Full Catastrophe 7.30pm 7.30pm 201 People of Letters 7.30pm BAR 8pm 9.30–11pm 8pm 8pm 8pm

8.30pm 140 Not to Scale: 79 Talking ’Til Late 8.30pm 8.30pm 203 Jamie Morton: My 8.30pm Immigration Debate with Chris Taylor Dad Wrote a Porno 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm

FRIDAY MAY 26 SUNDAY MAY 28 ROSLYN PACKER RICHARD WHARF 2 THE THEATRE BAR PHILHARMONIA PIER 2/3 PIER 2/3 PIER 2/3 PIER 2/3 SYDNEY SYDNEY ROSLYN PACKER RICHARD WHARF 2 THE THEATRE BAR PHILHARMONIA PIER 2/3 PIER 2/3 PIER 2/3 PIER 2/3 SYDNEY SYDNEY THEATRE WHERRETT THEATRE AT THE END OF THE STUDIO MAIN STAGE CLUB STAGE THE LOFT CURIOSITY STAGE DANCE 1 DANCE 2 THEATRE WHERRETT THEATRE AT THE END OF THE STUDIO MAIN STAGE CLUB STAGE THE LOFT CURIOSITY STAGE DANCE 1 DANCE 2 STUDIO WHARF STUDIO WHARF 9am 80 Coffee and Papers 9am 9am 206 Coffee and Papers 9am with The SMH and with the SMH and 9.30am Jenny Valentish 9.30am 9.30am Ruth Quibell 9.30am

10am 86 A Murderer 85 Decolonising 90 Near-Death 81 The Art of Rivalry: 116 Robert Dessaix: 91 ABC Morning: 84 Reworking CUR82 Norman Ohler: 87 Ha Jin: The Boat 88 The Attachment 10am 10am CHI1 Lauren Child’s 212 Krissy Kneen: 208 Sarah Bakewell: 207 The Big Read 210 Bill Hayes: 216 Mark Colvin: 211 Mikhail Zygar: CUR209 Lucy Clark: 10am in the Family Australian Experience Friendships, Betrayals, The Pleasures ABC RN’s Books the Classics Non-Orthodox Research Rocker Quirky Characters! An Uncertain Grace At the Existentialist Insomniac City Light and Shadow All the Kremlin’s Men Competition CHI2 Word Hunters 10.30am Literature and Breakthroughs of Leisure and Arts Daily and Methods in Berlin 10.30am 10.30am Café Exploration 10.30am in Modern Art ABC Radio’s 11am Conversations CUR92 David Francis: 11am Live Broadcast 11am CUR214 Ivan 11am A Verdict, Curiosity Coyote: Diversity and a Riot 11.30am 97 Deng Adut: 96 A Gathering 249 Still Lucky 93 Fictional Truths 95 Norman Ohler: High 117 A.N. Wilson: 120 Cultural Capital 99 Collaborative 11.30am 11.30am CHI5 Andy Griffiths: 219 Ashley Hay: 220 Turia Pitt: 239 The Big 243 Frank Moorhouse: 217 Brit Bennett: 218 25 Years of CHI3 How to Deal CHI4 The 11.30am Songs of a Storm: The Rise Hitler Resolution Journalism: Sources Are You Ready to Roll? A Hundred Small Unmasked Black Thing Is Writing Still a Way The Mothers Looking for Alibrandi: with Nasty, Horrible, Patchwork Bike 12pm War Boy and Rise of Cli-Fi CUR102 Fiona McIntosh: and Secrets 12pm Lessons of Life? Have a Say Day Terrible People (Roald 12pm CUR221 Natalie Haynes: Dahl) 12pm The Importance of Greek Myth and Harry 12.30pm Being Selfish 12.30pm Potter 12.30pm 12.30pm 1pm 103 Caroline Baum: Only 1pm 1pm 1pm 1.30pm 109 James Shapiro: 108 Get Well Soon 112 Foreign 104 System Breakdown 106 This Won't End Well: 107 Tragedy CUR105 John M. Green: 110 Human Baggage: 111 Russ Rymer: 1.30pm CHI7 Illustrator CHI6 Under the Love The Year of Lear Correspondents: Secrets of Great Short Plus Time Why We Should Be Scared The Hate Politics of Notes on Nonfiction 1.30pm 228 Lion: A Long 227 Holly Throsby: 229 Ellen van 222 Food and Water: 225 Do Bad Times Make 223 Bernadette Brennan: 226 Sex, Blood CUR224 Liam Battle Rounds Umbrella: How Do We 1.30pm 2pm Anecdotes from Storytelling Shitless About Immigration 2pm Way Home Goodwood Neerven: Fundamentals for Living For Great Art? Writing Helen Garner and Death Pieper: Taylor Swift Make a Picture Book? Abroad North Korea 2pm Comfort Food 2pm

2.30pm 113 First Nations: Voices CUR114 Candice Fox: 2.30pm 2.30pm CUR230 Hera CHI8 Kate DiCamillo: CHI9 Vikings and 2.30pm of the Matriarchy The Importance Lindsay Bird: Metaphor Connecting People Zombies and 3pm 119 Susan Faludi: 118 Henry Lawson 122 Hell and 250 You’re Doing It 88 Stan Grant: The 117 A.N. Wilson: of Rejection 98 Ivan Coyote: 121 Close to Home: 3pm Through Stories Robots, Oh My! In the Darkroom and The Drover's High Water Wrong: A Guide to Australian Dream Resolution Tomboy Survival The Work of 3pm 236 Clementine Ford: 235 Border Force 237 Borders of 231 Graeme Simsion: The 233 Sarah Wilson: First, 232 Bankstown 234 From Russia, 3pm 3.30pm Wife Modern Parenting Guide Georgia Blain 3.30pm Fight Like a Girl Our Writing Best of Adam Sharp We Make the Beast Poetry Slam With Love CUR123 Jeff Sparrow: 3.30pm Beautiful 3.30pm 4pm 124 Drive with Paul Robeson 4pm CUR238 Melanie Joosten: CHI10 Richard CHI11 Professor Richard Glover, 4pm Big Sisters Roxburgh’s Artie Frankie’s 4pm 4.30pm 128 Writing Race 127 Rob Schmitz: 131 On Brett Whiteley: 115 Caroline Brothers: 94 Fighting Hislam and featuring Thank 125 Nextness and 130 Desi Anwar: Life, 129 UTS 2017 4.30pm and the Grime Wave Harry Potter Street of Eternal Art, Life and the The Memory Stones Beyond Veiled Clichés God It’s Friday Nearness: Bill Hayes on CUR132 Russ Strife and the Pursuit Anthology Launch: 4.30pm 244 SWF Gala: 245 Poet Laureate 194 The Ancient Guide 215 Lingo: What 241 Deliberate and 240 Ali Cobby 242 Tough Love: 4.30pm 5pm Happiness Other Thing Oliver Sacks Rymer: Saving of Democracy And Watch the 5pm Maybe This Will Help Carol Ann Duffy to Modern Life is Lost When a Afraid of Nothing Eckermann: Little Writing Complex CUR246 Olivia Murphy: The the Music Tree Whale Explode 5pm Language Dies? Bit Long Time Relationships Problem with Austen 5pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 6pm 135 Elaine Welteroth: 6pm Editing Teen Vogue ALSO TONIGHT 6pm 247 2017 Closing 6pm 6.30pm 134 Sincerest Form 6.30pm Address: Susan Faludi of Flattery CITY RECITAL HALL 6.30pm 6.30pm 7pm 137 Patrick White 136 Ian Rankin: Who Says 7pm Playwrights' Award ALSO TONIGHT AT Crime Doesn't Pay? (6.30pm) 7pm 248 Jane Eyre: 7pm 7.30pm 78 I Love Dick and Fellowship PIER 2/3 7.30pm An Autobiography

THE HEMINGWAY 141 Roxane Gay: Difficult Women (8.30pm) 7.30pm 7.30pm BAR 8pm 139 Gay For Page SYDNEY TOWN HALL 8pm 8pm 8pm 9.30–10.30pm 133 Thomas Friedman: 8.30pm 8.30pm 8.30pm 8.30pm 143 Netflix and Chill The Case for Optimism (6pm) 9pm 9pm 142 American Carnage (8.30pm) 9pm 9pm

 Coffee and Papers  Curiosity Series  Thinking Globally  Late Night Salon  Family Day  Guest Curators 13 THURSDAY MAY 25 – SUNDAY MAY 28 swf.org.au

SATURDAY MAY 27 ROSLYN PACKER RICHARD WHARF 2 THE THEATRE BAR PHILHARMONIA PIER 2/3 PIER 2/3 PIER 2/3 PIER 2/3 SYDNEY SYDNEY THEATRE WHERRETT THEATRE AT THE END OF THE STUDIO MAIN STAGE CLUB STAGE THE LOFT CURIOSITY DANCE 1 DANCE 2 STUDIO WHARF STAGE 9am 144 Coffee and Papers 9am with The SMH and 9.30am Mikhail Zygar 9.30am

10am 151 All The Girls 150 Smoking Gun: 154 Joy Williams: 145 Transforming 148 Maxine 146 Stop the World, 149 Doing It! CUR147 Annabel Abbs: 152 Stella Sparks: 153 Trust and 10am To The Front Crime Fiction Ninety-Nine Stories My Country Beneba Clarke: I Want to Get Off 1920s Paris Women Writers Persistence: 10.30am of God The Hate Race On Influence Journalists and 10.30am and Inspiration Cultivating Sources 11am CUR155 Kim Mahood: On 11am Stilettos and Salt Lakes 11.30am 161 Dreams of Her 160 I Feel You 164 Hannah Kent: 166 Lost the Plot: 158 Resist! 157 The Great Divide 180 Paul Beatty: 162 Too Much and 163 Meet the SMH 11.30am Real Self: Writers The Good People Writing About The Sellout Not The Mood Best Young Novelists 12pm on Helen Garner Mental Health CUR165 Robert Dessaix: 12pm On Kissing, Hugging and 12.30pm Saying ‘I love you’ 12.30pm

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1.30pm 170 Henry Marsh: 171 Other Minds: The 175 They Cannot 156 Memoir: 169 Globalisation & 167 How Deep 172 John Safran: CUR168 Karen Pickering: 173 Peter Polites: 174 Australian Readers 1.30pm Admissions – A Life Octopus, and Take the Sky: Stories A Slippery Art Inequality in the Age Can You Go? Depends What You Shark Week Down the Hume and Their Habits 2pm in Brain Surgery the Evolution of from Detention of Trump Mean by Extremist 2pm Intelligent Life 2.30pm CUR38 Lynne Kelly: Memory 2.30pm Training 3pm 182 Hisham Matar: 181 Fake News and 185 Contemporary 177 Social Media As 179 Nadja Spiegelman: 188 Steven Amsterdam: 159 Nevertheless, 183 PEN Lecture: 184 Jacqueline Rose: 3pm The Return Alternative Facts Essay: Personal Art: An Indigenous I’m Supposed to Protect The Easy Way Out She Persisted The Threat to Women in Dark Times 3.30pm and Public Perspective You from All This Freedom of 3.30pm CUR186 Desi Anwar: Expression 4pm Spiritual Encounters 4pm

4.30pm 191 Annabel Crabb 100 A.S. Patrić: Black 251 AVANT GAGA 187 The Most Unlikely 189 Dear Science 178 Writing 190 Peter Corris: 192 Borders of 193 Not Waving, 4.30pm and Leigh Sales: Our Rock White City of Places Perseverance: Win, Lose or Draw CUR176 Jacqueline Rose: the Queer Body Drowning 5pm Reading Year Remarkable Memoirs Remarkable Women

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6pm 198 Betoota Advocate: 6pm Australia’s Oldest and ALSO TONIGHT 6.30pm 199 Viral and Verse: Favourite Newspaper 6.30pm Hera Lindsay Bird and CITY RECITAL HALL Rupi Kaur 7pm 200 Jane Eyre: An ALSO TONIGHT AT 196 The Singular George Saunders (6pm) 7pm Autobiography PIER 2/3 7.30pm 201 People of Letters 202 Colson Whitehead: 7.30pm THE HEMINGWAY The Underground Railroad (8.30pm) BAR 8pm 8pm 9.30–11pm SYDNEY TOWN HALL

8.30pm 203 Jamie Morton: My 205 Talking ’Til Late 197 Live from Sydney: 8.30pm Dad Wrote a Porno with Chris Taylor Slate’s Culture Gabfest (6pm) 9pm 204 SWF Gala: Advice from Nasty Women (8.30pm) 9pm SUNDAY MAY 28 ROSLYN PACKER RICHARD WHARF 2 THE THEATRE BAR PHILHARMONIA PIER 2/3 PIER 2/3 PIER 2/3 PIER 2/3 SYDNEY SYDNEY ROSLYN PACKER RICHARD WHARF 2 THE THEATRE BAR PHILHARMONIA PIER 2/3 PIER 2/3 PIER 2/3 PIER 2/3 SYDNEY SYDNEY THEATRE WHERRETT THEATRE AT THE END OF THE STUDIO MAIN STAGE CLUB STAGE THE LOFT CURIOSITY STAGE DANCE 1 DANCE 2 THEATRE WHERRETT THEATRE AT THE END OF THE STUDIO MAIN STAGE CLUB STAGE THE LOFT CURIOSITY STAGE DANCE 1 DANCE 2 STUDIO WHARF STUDIO WHARF 9am 80 Coffee and Papers 9am 9am 206 Coffee and Papers 9am with The SMH and with the SMH and 9.30am Jenny Valentish 9.30am 9.30am Ruth Quibell 9.30am

10am 86 A Murderer 85 Decolonising 90 Near-Death 81 The Art of Rivalry: 116 Robert Dessaix: 91 ABC Morning: 84 Reworking CUR82 Norman Ohler: 87 Ha Jin: The Boat 88 The Attachment 10am 10am CHI1 Lauren Child’s 212 Krissy Kneen: 208 Sarah Bakewell: 207 The Big Read 210 Bill Hayes: 216 Mark Colvin: 211 Mikhail Zygar: CUR209 Lucy Clark: 10am in the Family Australian Experience Friendships, Betrayals, The Pleasures ABC RN’s Books the Classics Non-Orthodox Research Rocker Quirky Characters! An Uncertain Grace At the Existentialist Insomniac City Light and Shadow All the Kremlin’s Men Competition CHI2 Word Hunters 10.30am Literature and Breakthroughs of Leisure and Arts Daily and Methods in Berlin 10.30am 10.30am Café Exploration 10.30am in Modern Art ABC Radio’s 11am Conversations CUR92 David Francis: 11am Live Broadcast 11am CUR214 Ivan 11am A Verdict, Curiosity Coyote: Diversity and a Riot 11.30am 97 Deng Adut: 96 A Gathering 249 Still Lucky 93 Fictional Truths 95 Norman Ohler: High 117 A.N. Wilson: 120 Cultural Capital 99 Collaborative 11.30am 11.30am CHI5 Andy Griffiths: 219 Ashley Hay: 220 Turia Pitt: 239 The Big 243 Frank Moorhouse: 217 Brit Bennett: 218 25 Years of CHI3 How to Deal CHI4 The 11.30am Songs of a Storm: The Rise Hitler Resolution Journalism: Sources Are You Ready to Roll? A Hundred Small Unmasked Black Thing Is Writing Still a Way The Mothers Looking for Alibrandi: with Nasty, Horrible, Patchwork Bike 12pm War Boy and Rise of Cli-Fi CUR102 Fiona McIntosh: and Secrets 12pm Lessons of Life? Have a Say Day Terrible People (Roald 12pm CUR221 Natalie Haynes: Dahl) 12pm The Importance of Greek Myth and Harry 12.30pm Being Selfish 12.30pm Potter 12.30pm 12.30pm 1pm 103 Caroline Baum: Only 1pm 1pm 1pm 1.30pm 109 James Shapiro: 108 Get Well Soon 112 Foreign 104 System Breakdown 106 This Won't End Well: 107 Tragedy CUR105 John M. Green: 110 Human Baggage: 111 Russ Rymer: 1.30pm CHI7 Illustrator CHI6 Under the Love The Year of Lear Correspondents: Secrets of Great Short Plus Time Why We Should Be Scared The Hate Politics of Notes on Nonfiction 1.30pm 228 Lion: A Long 227 Holly Throsby: 229 Ellen van 222 Food and Water: 225 Do Bad Times Make 223 Bernadette Brennan: 226 Sex, Blood CUR224 Liam Battle Rounds Umbrella: How Do We 1.30pm 2pm Anecdotes from Storytelling Shitless About Immigration 2pm Way Home Goodwood Neerven: Fundamentals for Living For Great Art? Writing Helen Garner and Death Pieper: Taylor Swift Make a Picture Book? Abroad North Korea 2pm Comfort Food 2pm

2.30pm 113 First Nations: Voices CUR114 Candice Fox: 2.30pm 2.30pm CUR230 Hera CHI8 Kate DiCamillo: CHI9 Vikings and 2.30pm of the Matriarchy The Importance Lindsay Bird: Metaphor Connecting People Zombies and 3pm 119 Susan Faludi: 118 Henry Lawson 122 Hell and 250 You’re Doing It 88 Stan Grant: The 117 A.N. Wilson: of Rejection 98 Ivan Coyote: 121 Close to Home: 3pm Through Stories Robots, Oh My! In the Darkroom and The Drover's High Water Wrong: A Guide to Australian Dream Resolution Tomboy Survival The Work of 3pm 236 Clementine Ford: 235 Border Force 237 Borders of 231 Graeme Simsion: The 233 Sarah Wilson: First, 232 Bankstown 234 From Russia, 3pm 3.30pm Wife Modern Parenting Guide Georgia Blain 3.30pm Fight Like a Girl Our Writing Best of Adam Sharp We Make the Beast Poetry Slam With Love CUR123 Jeff Sparrow: 3.30pm Beautiful 3.30pm 4pm 124 Drive with Paul Robeson 4pm CUR238 Melanie Joosten: CHI10 Richard CHI11 Professor Richard Glover, 4pm Big Sisters Roxburgh’s Artie Frankie’s 4pm 4.30pm 128 Writing Race 127 Rob Schmitz: 131 On Brett Whiteley: 115 Caroline Brothers: 94 Fighting Hislam and featuring Thank 125 Nextness and 130 Desi Anwar: Life, 129 UTS 2017 4.30pm and the Grime Wave Harry Potter Street of Eternal Art, Life and the The Memory Stones Beyond Veiled Clichés God It’s Friday Nearness: Bill Hayes on CUR132 Russ Strife and the Pursuit Anthology Launch: 4.30pm 244 SWF Gala: 245 Poet Laureate 194 The Ancient Guide 215 Lingo: What 241 Deliberate and 240 Ali Cobby 242 Tough Love: 4.30pm 5pm Happiness Other Thing Oliver Sacks Rymer: Saving of Democracy And Watch the 5pm Maybe This Will Help Carol Ann Duffy to Modern Life is Lost When a Afraid of Nothing Eckermann: Little Writing Complex CUR246 Olivia Murphy: The the Music Tree Whale Explode 5pm Language Dies? Bit Long Time Relationships Problem with Austen 5pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 6pm 135 Elaine Welteroth: 6pm Editing Teen Vogue 6pm 247 2017 Closing 6pm 6.30pm 134 Sincerest Form 6.30pm Address: Susan Faludi of Flattery 6.30pm 6.30pm 7pm 137 Patrick White 7pm Playwrights' Award 7pm 248 Jane Eyre: 7pm 7.30pm 78 I Love Dick and Fellowship 7.30pm An Autobiography 7.30pm 7.30pm

8pm 139 Gay For Page 8pm 8pm 8pm

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 Coffee and Papers  Curiosity Series  Thinking Globally  Late Night Salon  Family Day  Guest Curators 14 swf.org.au City & Walsh Bay SATURDAY MAY 27 – SUNDAY MAY 28

Nadja Spiegelman explores four (Maori Boy) and Ha Jin (The Boat Rocker). generations of women in her family in her Hosted by Patrick Abboud. memoir I’m Supposed to Protect You from $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au All This. It’s a search for truth among the misleading guideposts of memory. 208 SARAH BAKEWELL: AT THE $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 EXISTENTIALIST CAFÉ swf.org.au May 28, 10–11am 197 Slate’s Pier 2/3 Club Stage 177 SOCIAL MEDIA AS ART: AN Join award-winning writer Sarah Bakewell INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVE Culture and Louise Adler for a spirited discussion May 27, 3–4pm about Sarah’s book, At the Existentialist Philharmonia Studio Gabfest Café, and the lives and ideas of some Evelyn Araluen Corr and Nayuka Gorrie of the 20th century’s most influential talk to Alison Whittaker about Indigenous philosophers. participation in social media and activism, $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 and the art that comes from it. swf.org.au $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au 210 BILL HAYES: INSOMNIAC CITY 188 STEVEN AMSTERDAM: THE May 28, 10–11am EASY WAY OUT Pier 2/3 Main Stage May 27, 3–4pm Writer and photographer Bill Hayes talks Pier 2/3 Club Stage to Slate’s Stephen Metcalf about Insomniac The Easy Way Out, by award-winning Festival Highlight City: New York, Oliver, and Me, an intimate author Steven Amsterdam, challenges love letter to New York and his beloved late readers with the taboo dilemma: would partner, writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks. you help someone end their life? Steven, a 197 LIVE FROM SYDNEY: SLATE’S CULTURE GABFEST Supported by Rowena Danziger AM and writer and palliative care nurse, talks with May 27, 6–7pm Ken Coles AM. Margot Saville. Sydney Town Hall $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Award-winning podcast Slate’s Culture Gabfest is recorded live from Sydney Town Hall. swf.org.au swf.org.au Beloved Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner debate the week in culture, from highbrow to pop. 211 MIKHAIL ZYGAR: ALL THE 181 FAKE NEWS AND ALTERNATIVE $45/$35/$25 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au KREMLIN’S MEN FACTS May 28, 10–11am May 27, 3–4pm Pier 2/3 The Loft Richard Wherrett Studio Murder), Norman Ohler (Blitzed) and John 193 NOT WAVING, DROWNING 202 COLSON WHITEHEAD: THE Mikhail Zygar gives us a surprising look As the news becomes more unpredictable Zubrzycki (The Mysterious Mr Jacob: May 27, 4.30–5.30pm UNDERGROUND RAILROAD inside the workings of the Kremlin in – and indistinguishable from satire – Diamond Merchant, Magician, Spy). Sydney Dance 2 May 27, 8.30–9.30pm Russia’s bestselling All the Kremlin’s Men. comedians are faced with a challenge. Join $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au How should art respond to issues around City Recital Hall Jeff Sparrow finds out how this intrepid Charles Firth, Rebecca Shaw and Alexandra climate change, water rights and refugees? Colson Whitehead’s award-winning novel journalist got unprecedented interviews Lee as they find the punchlines in the 100 A.S. PATRIĆ: BLACK ROCK Join guest curator Ellen van Neerven, The Underground Railroad is a luminous, with insiders and lived to tell the tale. headlines. WHITE CITY Hannah Donnelly, Witi Ihimaera and furious exploration of the foundational $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au May 27, 4.30–5.30pm Virginia Marshall as they share their unique sins of America, and topped Obama’s final swf.org.au Richard Wherrett Studio insights. summer reading list as President. Colson 182 HISHAM MATAR: THE RETURN A.S. Patrić joins Stephen Romei to discuss Supported by The Copyright Agency. talks to Pamela Paul about his acclaimed 212 KRISSY KNEEN: AN UNCERTAIN May 27, 3–4pm his 2016 Miles Franklin Award–winning Free, no bookings novel. GRACE Roslyn Packer Theatre novel Black Rock White City, a story about $45/$35/$25 Bookings 8256 2222 May 28, 10–11am Hisham Matar’s memoir, The Return, recounts the damages of war, the limits of choice 251 AVANT GAGA swf.org.au Richard Wherrett Studio his search for his father who was kidnapped and the hope of love. May 27, 4.30–5.30pm Krissy Kneen has become one of Australia’s and taken to Libya more than two decades Free, no bookings Wharf 2 Theatre 203 JAMIE MORTON: MY DAD most accomplished and inventive writers. ago. Hisham talks to Jason Steger. Experience the latest in avant-garde WROTE A PORNO With An Uncertain Grace, Krissy artfully Supported by The British Council. 178 WRITING PERSEVERANCE: Australian poetry, featuring Michael Farrell, May 27, 8.30–9.30pm combines speculative fiction and sexuality. $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 REMARKABLE MEMOIRS Ali Cobby Eckermann, Jane Gibian, Aden Roslyn Packer Theatre In conversation with Ronnie Scott. swf.org.au May 27, 4.30–5.30pm Rolfe, Alison Whittaker, Holly Isemonger, SEE NIGHTS AT WALSH BAY, Page 7 $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au Pier 2/3 Club Stage Amelia Dale and Emily Stewart. Hosted by 183 PEN LECTURE: THE THREAT TO Deng Adut (Songs of a War Boy) and Toby Fitch. 204 SWF GALA: ADVICE FROM CUR214 IVAN COYOTE: ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION Graeme Innes (Finding a Way) talk to $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 NASTY WOMEN DIVERSITY May 27, 3–4pm Madeline Gleeson about their memoirs, and swf.org.au May 27, 8.30–10pm May 28, 11–11.40am Sydney Dance 1 discuss the art of writing perseverance and Sydney Town Hall Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Justin Gleeson, Solicitor-General of Australia the legacy of their stories. CUR176 JACQUELINE ROSE: ON SEE FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT, Page 10 SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 until his recent showdown with George $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au REMARKABLE WOMEN Brandis, delivers a lecture about freedom of May 27, 4.45–5.25pm 205 TALKING ’TIL LATE WITH 243 FRANK MOORHOUSE: IS expression. Current developments overseas 189 DEAR SCIENCE Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage CHRIS TAYLOR WRITING STILL A WAY OF LIFE? should make us worried, as governments May 27, 4.30–5.30pm SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 May 27, 9.30–11pm May 28, 11.30am–12.30pm and big business use power and the law to Pier 2/3 Main Stage Pier 2/3 Hemingway Bar Pier 2/3 Main Stage silence legitimate criticism. What happens when you take science 196 THE SINGULAR GEORGE SEE NIGHTS AT WALSH BAY, Page 7 Frank Moorhouse talks candidly to Linda Supported by Macquarie University. personally? Ashley Hay talks to James SAUNDERS Jaivin about making a living from the craft Free, no bookings Bradley (The Silent Invasion), neurosurgeon May 27, 6–7pm of writing, the state of Australia’s cultural Henry Marsh (Do No Harm), science City Recital Hall SUNDAY, MAY 28 landscape and an artist’s place in it. 184 JACQUELINE ROSE: WOMEN IN journalist Bianca Nogrady and environment Writers can be a jealous lot, but the literary 206 COFFEE AND PAPERS WITH $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 DARK TIMES reporter Michael Slezak about their work. world’s acclaim for American author THE SMH: RUTH QUIBELL swf.org.au May 27, 3–4pm $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 George Saunders is universal. Michael May 28, 9–10am Sydney Dance 2 swf.org.au Williams meets the author of Lincoln The Theatre Bar at the End of the 239 THE BIG BLACK THING ABC RN’s Sarah Kanowski talks to public in the Bardo and discovers the man Wharf May 28, 11.30am–12.30pm intellectual Jacqueline Rose about her 190 PETER CORRIS: WIN, LOSE behind the genius. Coffee and conversation are worth getting Philharmonia Studio book, Women in Dark Times, which offers OR DRAW $45/$35/$25 Bookings 8256 2222 up early for. Join The Sydney Morning Western Sydney literacy movement, fresh evidence that the work of feminism is May 27, 4.30–5.30pm swf.org.au Herald editors and journalists, and special Sweatshop, launches The Big Black Thing: far from done. Pier 2/3 The Loft guest Ruth Quibell, to hear what’s a new anthology by writers from migrant, Free, no bookings With more than 70 books to his name, 197 LIVE FROM SYDNEY: SLATE’S making headlines. refugee and Indigenous backgrounds. Peter Corris has mastered the art of the CULTURE GABFEST Supported by The Sydney Morning Herald. Free, no bookings 185 CONTEMPORARY ESSAY: page turner. He joins Graeme Blundell to May 27, 6–7pm Free, no bookings PERSONAL AND PUBLIC discuss his final novel, Win, Lose or Draw. Sydney Town Hall 217 BRIT BENNETT: THE MOTHERS May 27, 3–4pm $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 SEE FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT, Page 14 216 MARK COLVIN: LIGHT AND May 28, 11.30am–12.30pm Wharf 2 Theatre swf.org.au SHADOW Pier 2/3 Club Stage Australian writers conduct an in-depth 198 BETOOTA ADVOCATE: May 28, 10–11am Catch wunderkind US writer Brit Bennett examination of the contemporary essay. 191 ANNABEL CRABB AND LEIGH AUSTRALIA’S OLDEST AND Pier 2/3 Club Stage talking to Abigail Ulman about her New Rebecca Giggs talks to Jessica Friedmann SALES: OUR READING YEAR FAVOURITE NEWSPAPER Broadcasting legend Mark Colvin’s Light York Times bestselling debut novel The (Things That Helped), writer and cultural May 27, 4.30–5.30pm May 27, 6–7pm and Shadow is the story of his father’s Mothers – a surprising story about young historian Maria Tumarkin and Fiona Wright Roslyn Packer Theatre Pier 2/3 Club Stage secret war against communism. He love and big secrets. (Small Acts of Disappearance). Join acclaimed journalists Annabel Crabb SEE NIGHTS AT WALSH BAY, Page 7 discusses his father and his own career as a $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 and Leigh Sales for some bookish banter as foreign correspondent with Sarah Crichton. swf.org.au swf.org.au they take us through 12 months of reading 199 VIRAL AND VERSE: HERA $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 highs and lows. LINDSAY BIRD AND RUPI KAUR swf.org.au 218 25 YEARS OF LOOKING FOR CUR186 DESI ANWAR: ON $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 May 27, 6.30–7.30pm ALIBRANDI: HAVE A SAY DAY SPIRITUAL ENCOUNTERS swf.org.au Roslyn Packer Theatre CUR209 LUCY CLARK: ON May 28, 11.30am–12.30pm May 27, 3.45–4.25pm SEE NIGHTS AT WALSH BAY, Page 7 COMPETITION Pier 2/3 The Loft Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage 192 BORDERS OF THE QUEER BODY May 28, 10–10.40am As we celebrate 25 years of the classic SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 May 27, 4.30–5.30pm 200 JANE EYRE: AN Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Australian novel, Looking For Alibrandi, Sydney Dance 1 AUTOBIOGRAPHY SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 an all-star panel takes to the stage to 187 THE MOST UNLIKELY OF How is queer representation in literature May 27, 7–8.30pm unleash their inner Josie Alibrandi for PLACES changing? Benjamin Law hosts a Wharf 2 Theatre 207 THE BIG READ Have a Say Day. Hosted by Pia Miranda May 27, 4.30–5.30pm conversation with prominent writers Ivan SEE EVENT 5 FOR DETAILS, Page 4 May 28, 10–11am with guests including Melina Marchetta and Philharmonia Studio Coyote (Tomboy Survival Guide), C.S. Pacat Philharmonia Studio Buzzfeed’s Marc Di Stefano. Authors discuss the unorthodox research (Captive Prince trilogy) and Peter Polites 201 PEOPLE OF LETTERS Reading from their latest works are Annabel $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 methods they’ve undertaken for their (Down the Hume). May 27, 7.30–8.30pm Abbs (The Joyce Girl), Desi Anwar (Being swf.org.au art. ABC Radio Sydney’s James Valentine Supported by Macquarie University. Pier 2/3 Club Stage Indonesian), Anuk Arudpragasam (The talks to Fiona McIntosh (The Chocolate Free, no bookings SEE NIGHTS AT WALSH BAY, Page 7 Story of a Brief Marriage), Natalie Haynes 219 ASHLEY HAY: A HUNDRED Tin), Duncan McNab (Getting Away With (The Children of Jocasta), Witi Ihimaera SMALL LESSONS City & Walsh Bay 15 SUNDAY MAY 28 swf.org.au

May 28, 11.30am–12.30pm readers. Brit Bennett, Viola Di Grado and May 28, 4.30–5.30pm Richard Wherrett Studio Rupi Kaur take on taboos, revealing the Pier 2/3 Main Stage Bestselling author of The Railwayman’s humanity – and humour – within. Brit Bennett (The Mothers), Durga Chew- Wife, Ashley Hay, comes to the Festival $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Bose (Too Much and Not the Mood) and with her newest novel, A Hundred Small swf.org.au Teen Vogue’s editor Elaine Welteroth talk Lessons. ABC RN’s Kate Evans talks with to Yassmin Abdel-Magied about prioritising Ashley about her work and process. 227 HOLLY THROSBY: GOODWOOD difference, and using exclusivity of narrative $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au May 28, 1.30–2.30pm 247 Closing as a form of weaponry. Richard Wherrett Studio $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 220 TURIA PITT: UNMASKED Singer and musician Holly Throsby talks Address swf.org.au May 28, 11.30am–12.30pm to Amy Spangler about Goodwood, Wharf 2 Theatre her gripping debut novel about a small 242 TOUGH LOVE: WRITING In 2011, Turia Pitt suffered burns to 65 per community being torn apart after two COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS cent of her body. Her memoir Unmasked people mysteriously vanish. May 28, 4.30–5.30pm (written with Bryce Corbett) reveals the $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au Pier 2/3 The Loft woman behind the headlines. Turia talks Ellen van Neerven curates a panel with the ABC’s Michaela Kalowski. 228 LION: A LONG WAY HOME examining complex relationships in writing. $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 May 28, 1.30–2.30pm With Anuk Arudpragasam (The Story of a swf.org.au Roslyn Packer Theatre Brief Marriage), Rupi Kaur (Milk and Honey), Saroo Brierley’s A Long Way Home is a Peter Polites (Down the Hume) and Alison CUR221 NATALIE HAYNES: ON remarkable story of getting lost and finding Whittaker (Lemons in the Chicken Wire). GREEK MYTH AND HARRY POTTER home. In a very special event, Saroo and Supported by The Copyright Agency. May 28, 12–12.40pm his mother Sue Brierley speak to Janice $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage Petersen about his extraordinary life, the swf.org.au SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 story behind the award-winning movie Lion. $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 244 SWF GALA: MAYBE THIS WILL 222 FOOD AND WATER: swf.org.au Festival Highlight HELP FUNDAMENTALS FOR LIVING May 28, 4.30–5.30pm May 28, 1.30–2.30pm 229 ELLEN VAN NEERVEN: Roslyn Packer Theatre Philharmonia Studio COMFORT FOOD 247 2017 CLOSING ADDRESS: SUSAN FALUDI How do we keep calm in anxiety-inducing Experts consider the fundamentals: food May 28, 1.30–2.30pm May 28, 6–7pm times? Sofija Stefanovic talks to Bill Hayes, and water. Tess Lea talks to Chin Jou Wharf 2 Theatre Roslyn Packer Theatre Ivan Coyote, Jamie Morton, Pamela Paul (Supersizing America), Astrida Neimanis Join Stan Grant and award-winning Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Susan Faludi (In the Darkroom, Backlash) delivers the Festival’s and Ruth Quibell about remedies for chaos (Thinking with Water), Elspeth Probyn Indigenous writer and guest curator Ellen closing address. She explores the theme of refuge, from the metaphorical shelter of books – from chicken soup to Valium. (Eating the Ocean) and Beth Yahp (Eat First, van Neerven for an intriguing conversation to the basic physical safety that millions seek today. $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 Talk Later). on the themes of racism, history and climate $35/$25 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au swf.org.au Supported by the University of Sydney. change in her impressive body of work. $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au Supported by The Copyright Agency. 194 THE ANCIENT GUIDE TO $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 Savanadasa (Ruins) about their influences. MODERN LIFE 223 BERNADETTE BRENNAN: swf.org.au swf.org.au $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 May 28, 4.30–5.30pm WRITING HELEN GARNER swf.org.au Wharf 2 Theatre May 28, 1.30–2.30pm CUR230 HERA LINDSAY BIRD: ON 234 FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE Natalie Haynes uses her unique Pier 2/3 Club Stage METAPHOR May 28, 3–4pm CUR238 MELANIE JOOSTEN: ON combination of ancient history and stand- Bernadette Brennan has completed the first May 28, 2.30–3.10pm Pier 2/3 The Loft BIG SISTERS up comedy to reveal how the search for the full-length study of Helen Garner’s career Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage SEE THINKING GLOBALLY, Page 11 May 28, 3.45–4.25pm meaning of life has stood the test of time. in A Writing Life. Bernadette talks to Susan SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au Wyndham about what is left to explore 235 BORDER FORCE SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 that Helen Garner hasn’t already shared 231 GRAEME SIMSION: THE BEST May 28, 3–4pm 245 POET LAUREATE CAROL ANN about herself. OF ADAM SHARP Richard Wherrett Studio 240 ALI COBBY ECKERMANN: DUFFY $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 May 28, 3–4pm A panel on Australia’s immigration debate, LITTLE BIT LONG TIME May 28, 4.30–5.30pm swf.org.au Philharmonia Studio hosted by The Briefing’s Alex McKinnon. May 28, 4.30–5.30pm Richard Wherrett Studio Graeme Simsion’s new novel, The Best of Featuring The Guardian’s Ben Doherty, Pier 2/3 Club Stage Be charmed by the United Kingdom’s first CUR224 LIAM PIEPER: ON TAYLOR Adam Sharp, is a story of love, music and ABC’s Sarah Whyte and associate editor of This year, Yankunytjatjara/Kokatha poet female Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, SWIFT coming to terms with the past. Hear him in The Australian Caroline Overington. Ali Cobby Eckermann won the prestigious as she talks to ABC RN’s Sarah Kanowski May 28, 1.30–2.10pm conversation with Jon Page. $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au international Windham-Campbell Prize, about her life, her work and her uncanny Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au worth $215,000. Ali talks to Peter Minter ability to break down barriers in both SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 236 CLEMENTINE FORD: FIGHT about her work, her art and the changes poetry and her career. 232 BANKSTOWN POETRY SLAM LIKE A GIRL that global recognition brings. $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au 225 DO BAD TIMES MAKE FOR May 28, 3–4pm May 28, 3–4pm Supported by University of Sydney. GREAT ART? Pier 2/3 Club Stage Roslyn Packer Theatre $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 CUR246 OLIVIA MURPHY: ON THE May 28, 1.30–2.30pm Bankstown Poetry Slam showcases the ‘Don’t accept the status quo’, urges swf.org.au PROBLEM WITH AUSTEN Pier 2/3 Main Stage highest scoring poets from its fiercely Clementine Ford in her incendiary debut, May 28, 4.45–5.25pm A silver lining of current global politics could competitive annual Grand Slam. An inspiring Fight Like a Girl. She speaks to Jane Caro 215 LINGO: WHAT IS LOST WHEN A Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage be a political art renaissance. Anne Enright, and vibrant hour of exciting poetry. about her feminist manifesto, a call to arms LANGUAGE DIES? SEE CURIOSITY LECTURE SERIES, Page 16 Stephen Metcalf and Sebastian Smee $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 for feminists new, old and soon-to-be. May 28, 4.30–5.30pm consider whether this is this the fight art swf.org.au $30/$25 Bookings 9250 1988 Philharmonia Studio 247 2017 CLOSING ADDRESS: has been waiting for. With Emily Sexton. swf.org.au Globally, a language is lost every two weeks. SUSAN FALUDI Supported by the Russell Mills Foundation. 233 SARAH WILSON: FIRST, WE Nick Enfield talks with host of ABC RN’s May 28, 6–7pm $20/$15 Bookings 9250 1988 MAKE THE BEAST BEAUTIFUL 237 BORDERS OF OUR WRITING Awaye! Daniel Browning, Durag language Roslyn Packer Theatre swf.org.au May 28, 3–4pm May 28, 3–4pm teacher Joel Davison and journalist Russ SEE FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT, Page 15 Pier 2/3 Main Stage Wharf 2 Theatre Rymer about dying languages. 226 SEX, BLOOD AND DEATH The New York Times bestselling author of Some of Australia’s most celebrated Supported by the University of Sydney. 248 JANE EYRE: AN May 28, 1.30–2.30pm I Quit Sugar, Sarah Wilson, talks to Helen authors discuss the non-English traditions $15 Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au AUTOBIOGRAPHY Pier 2/3 The Loft McCabe about her newest offering,First, in their writing. Guest curator Peter Polites May 28, 7–8.30pm They define our lives and yet stories of sex We Make the Beast Beautiful, which tackles (Down the Hume) talks to writers Maxine 241 DELIBERATE AND AFRAID OF Wharf 2 Theatre and death still have the ability to shock anxiety with searing honesty and insight. Beneba Clarke (The Hate Race) and Rajith NOTHING SEE EVENT 5 FOR DETAILS, Page 4

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CNN Indonesia anchor Desi Anwar is The Curiosity Lecture Series known for her writing and philosophical Perfect for hungry minds and open hearts, The Curiosity Lecture Series is musings. Desi (Faces and Places) gives a behind-the-scenes look at some of her back and bigger than ever. It runs all day from Thursday to Sunday, and is favourite spiritual encounters. hosted by Luke Fischer, James Reilly, Juanita Ruys and Aaron Nyerges. The Curiosity Lecture Series is supported by the University of Sydney. CUR176 JACQUELINE ROSE: ON All events are at Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage and are free, no bookings. Robert REMARKABLE WOMEN CUR165 May 27, 4.45–5.25pm Dessaix Writer Jacqueline Rose (Women in CUR20 LAWRENCE KRAUSS: ON CUR82 NORMAN OHLER: ON NON- Dark Times) delivers a lecture on Rosa HIDDEN REALITIES ORTHODOX RESEARCH METHODS Luxemburg and Marilyn Monroe. May 25, 10–10.40am IN BERLIN Jacqueline discusses their lives and offers Theoretical physicist, cosmologist and May 26, 10–10.40am insights into the problems they faced, and bestselling author Lawrence Krauss (The Norman Ohler’s book Blitzed chronicles how they are relevant to feminism today. Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far) explores widespread drug-taking in the Third Reich. the hidden realities of our universe, and Norman talks about how he sourced his CUR209 LUCY CLARK: ON how its creation was an accident of information, and why historians didn’t COMPETITION circumstance. report on it earlier. May 28, 10–10.40am In this illuminating talk, Lucy Clark (Beautiful CUR28 SARAH BAKEWELL: ON CUR92 DAVID FRANCIS: ON A Failures: How the Quest for Success is BAMBI AS AN EXISTENTIALIST VERDICT, CURIOSITY AND A RIOT Harming Our Kids) examines whether it is HERO May 26, 11–11.40am in our nature to be competitive, or if we can May 25, 11–11.40am Celebrated author David Francis (Wedding move beyond it. Forget Disney’s version of Bambi. Bush Road) shares his unusual story about Bestselling author Sarah Bakewell explores leaving Australia, becoming lead tenor in CUR214 IVAN COYOTE: ON the story’s origins, its wide-ranging the oldest black choir in Los Angeles DIVERSITY interpretations – from animal rights and co-founding the organisation Horses May 28, 11–11.40am to Kafkaesque parable – and its in the Hood. Festival Highlight SEE FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT, Page 16 personal significance. CUR102 FIONA MCINTOSH: ON THE CUR221 NATALIE HAYNES: ON CUR195 CHRIS RODLEY: ON HOW IMPORTANCE OF BEING SELFISH CUR165 ROBERT DESSAIX: ON KISSING, HUGGING AND SAYING GREEK MYTH AND HARRY POTTER TO BUILD A NOVEL-WRITING May 26, 12–12.40pm ‘I LOVE YOU’ May 28, 12–12.40pm MACHINE Fiona McIntosh (The Chocolate Tin) May 27, 12–12.40pm Spanning areas including law, politics, May 25, 12–12.40pm argues for the importance of being selfish An orgy of kissing and hugging has broken out across the Western world. religion, philosophy and culture, Natalie Chris Rodley – whose projects include if you’re a woman today. Fiona recounts Robert Dessaix takes a stand. Haynes (The Children of Jocasta) explores the story generator @MagicRealismBot her experiences of corporate life, raising a how the modern world makes more sense and a novel that writes itself using social family and turning to writing at age 40. when refracted through the prism of the media content – explores what the rise of John M. Green discusses the political fears CUR155 KIM MAHOOD: ON ancient world. artificial intelligence means for the future CUR105 JOHN M. GREEN: ON WHY that drove him to write his latest thriller, The STILETTOS AND SALT LAKES of literature. WE SHOULD BE SCARED SHITLESS Tao Deception, and how fiction can send May 27, 11–11.40am CUR224 LIAM PIEPER: ON TAYLOR ABOUT NORTH KOREA powerful messages about the real world. Writer and artist Kim Mahood challenges SWIFT CUR40 MARK MCKENNA: ON May 26, 1.30–2.10pm understandings of Australia’s interior in her May 28, 1.30–2.10pm MUSIC AND WRITING CUR114 CANDICE FOX: ON THE with the late Pamela Lofts, Writer Liam Pieper (The Toymaker) argues May 25, 1.30–2.10pm IMPORTANCE OF REJECTION which led to the creation of desert alter ego that pop icon Taylor Swift is ‘Baudrillard’s For historian Mark McKenna (From the May 26, 2.30–3.10pm and adventurer Violet Sunset. hyperreality, made real’. Liam discusses the Edge: Australia’s Lost Histories) music and Festival Candice Fox (Crimson Lake) received work of philosopher Jean Baudrillard and writing are intimately connected. In this more than 200 rejections before her CUR165 ROBERT DESSAIX: ON the unstoppable marketing juggernaut lecture, Mark explores the relationship Highlight first novel was published. She talks about KISSING, HUGGING AND SAYING that is Swift. between music and the literary imagination. the importance of rejection to a writer’s ‘I LOVE YOU’ practice, and the rewards it can bring. May 27, 12–12.40pm CUR230 HERA LINDSAY BIRD: ON CUR50 ROANNA GONSALVES: ON SEE FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT, Page 16 METAPHOR LITERATURE AS SELFIE CUR123 JEFF SPARROW: ON PAUL May 28, 2.30–3.10pm May 25, 2.30–3.10pm ROBESON CUR168 KAREN PICKERING: ON Hera Lindsay Bird, New Zealand’s most In these troubling times, writer Roanna May 26, 3.45–4.25pm SHARK WEEK exciting young poet, discusses the use Gonsalves (The Permanent Resident) Jeff Sparrow’sNo Way But This: In Search May 27, 1.30–2.10pm of metaphor in her work as a ‘device to argues for the radical yet ancient need of Paul Robeson explores the life of the Writer, host of Cherchez la Femme and fuck up your personal life’, and why it’s people have to tell their own stories. scholar, footballer, singer, Hollywood actor unapologetic feminist Karen Pickering interesting in today’s political climate. and activist. Jeff tells Robeson’s story, delves into the menstrual taboo in Australia. CUR71 TOM GRIFFITHS: ON accompanied by recordings of his songs. Karen argues that negative perceptions of CUR238 MELANIE JOOSTEN: ON ANTARCTICA menstruation in our society are holding BIG SISTERS May 25, 3.45–4.25pm CUR132 RUSS RYMER: ON SAVING back important cultural change. May 28, 3.45–4.25pm Tom Griffiths The( Art of Time Travel) THE MUSIC TREE Writer Melanie Joosten (A Long Time talks about viewing Antarctica through a May 26, 4.45–5.25pm CUR38 LYNNE KELLY: ON HOW Coming: Essays on Old Age) believes it’s historian’s eyes, drawing on his own travels. Traditional violin bows can only be MEMORY TRAINING CHANGED MY time for younger feminists to fight for the CUR214 IVAN COYOTE: made of one material: the wood from THINKING rights of older women. She examines old CUR60 HENRY MARSH: ON ON DIVERSITY the pernambuco tree, which is facing May 27, 2.30–3.10pm age as a feminist cause. HOSPITAL ARCHITECTURE AND May 28, 11–11.40am extinction. Writer Russ Rymer delves into Lynne Kelly’s The Memory Code explores DESIGN Canadian writer, musician and storyteller the world of the endangered music tree. powerful memory techniques. She talks CUR246 OLIVIA MURPHY: ON THE May 25, 4.45–5.25pm Ivan Coyote tackles issues of diversity about how she used ancient training PROBLEM WITH AUSTEN Why do hospitals resemble prisons? in art, and expectations placed on artists, CUR147 ANNABEL ABBS: ON 1920S methods to improve her ‘pitiable’ memory, May 28, 4.45–5.25pm Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh (Admissions: especially those ‘who are not straight PARIS learning how to retain vast amounts This year marks 200 years since the death Life as a Brain Surgeon) discusses the white men’. May 27, 10–10.40am of information. of Jane Austen. Romantics scholar Olivia architecture and design of hospitals in Supported by the Consulate General of Annabel Abbs (The Joyce Girl) examines Murphy (Jane Austen the Reader), shares today’s changing world. Canada, Sydney, and the University of why art, literature, music and dance CUR186 DESI ANWAR: ON some of her latest insights into Austen’s Sydney. flourished in 1920s Paris. She asks: ‘What was SPIRITUAL ENCOUNTERS closest influences. the magic formula? And can we replicate it?’ May 27, 3.45–4.25pm

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Sure to delight booklovers big and small, Family Day is back on Sunday May 28 with a jam-packed program designed to celebrate creativity and storytelling. Our blockbuster line-up kicks off with universally adored authors Lauren Child and Andy Griffiths at the Roslyn Packer Theatre in Walsh Bay. The main Family Day Precinct is located on Pier 4/5 in Walsh Bay and has four unique spaces for little bookworms to explore. Overseeing the CHI5 Andy entire Precinct is our much-loved mobile book reading centre, Russ Griffiths the Story Bus, and there’s also an exhibition of Roald Dahl book covers from across the globe to discover. On the day, stop by the information booth at the front of Pier 4/5 for a map of the Family Day Precinct.

SYDNEY DANCE 1 CHI9 VIKINGS AND ZOMBIES AND ROBOTS, OH MY! WITH JAMES FOLEY SYDNEY DANCE 2 May 28, 2.30–3.15pm Sydney Dance 2 May 28, 10am-4.30pm Acclaimed author and illustrator Pier 4/5 James Foley explains how he went from drawing cartoons for the school There’s a full line-up of events to newspaper to creating LOL-worthy captivate the under-12 crowd at Sydney zombie bunnies, hairy Vikings and Dance 1 and 2. unstoppable lions. He’ll also help us invent the ultimate robot. Rec. 5+ Tickets for all events in Sydney Dance . 1 and Sydney Dance 2 are free, but CHI10 RICHARD ROXBURGH’S bookings are essential (maximum 4 ARTIE AND THE GRIME WAVE tickets per event per booking). May 28, 3.45–4.30pm 9256 4200, swf.org.au. Sydney Dance 1 Actor Richard Roxburgh has written Collect your pre-booked tickets for and illustrated his first book, Artie and events at these venues from the the Grime Wave. Learn how he brought information booth on Pier 4/5 on its cast to life. Pick up pen and paper to the day (all uncollected tickets create your own characters. Rec. 7+. will be released 15 minutes prior Festival Highlight to each session). CHI11 PROFESSOR FRANKIE’S HARRY POTTER CHI5 ANDY GRIFFITHS: ARE YOU READY TO ROLL? CHI2 WORD HUNTERS May 28, 3.45–4.30pm May 28, 11.30am–12.30pm EXPLORATION Sydney Dance 2 Roslyn Packer Theatre May 28, 10.15–11am Muggles and wizards are invited to join Rock-star author Andy Griffiths is back with his side-splitting antics and topsy-turvy Sydney Dance 2 Professor Frankie Falconette as she tales. Get ready for loads of laughs with the bestselling author of the Treehouse series. Hey word nerds: Nick Earls is here to brings to life characters, creatures and $25/$15/$70 (family ticket) Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au take you back in time. Become a hunter adventures from Harry Potter. It’ll be and help him track some common loads of fun for newcomers and fans words back to their origins. Words will alike. Rec. 9+. RUSS THE STORY BUS storytelling and craft workshops. All calling all budding reporters and never look the same again! Rec. 7+. ages are welcome and entry is free (no book reviewers! Spend some time CHI15 COVER TO COVER: ROALD May 28, 10am–4pm bookings required). at our writing station and pop a review CHI3 HOW TO DEAL WITH NASTY, DAHL INTERNATIONAL BOOK Pier 4/5 of a session you’ve seen or a book HORRIBLE, TERRIBLE PEOPLE COVERS Russ the Story Bus is no ordinary bus! STORYTIME CLUBHOUSE you’ve read into the box. Winning (WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM May 28, 10am–4.30pm His belly is full of books and his exterior 10am–4pm entries will be published in Crinkling ROALD DAHL) Sydney Dance Breezeway is covered with illustrations by Shaun Settle in as your favourite children’s News after the Festival. Make sure you May 28, 11.30am–12.15pm Calling all human-beans! Come and Tan. Come inside Russ the Story Bus authors and illustrators read you their keep an eye out for the roving junior Sydney Dance 1 see how Roald Dahl’s books have and find a great book to read and relax stories. With a different author dropping reporters at Family Day – you may Is it okay to hate a baddie? Using Roald been interpreted across the world with with. All ages are welcome and entry is by every half-hour, you never know even be interviewed by them! Dahl characters as a guide, tackle tricky Cover to Cover, an exhibition of Dahl’s free (no bookings required). who you might meet. questions with Carl Smith and Dr Matt book covers. From China to Poland, BIG BOOK BONANZA Beard from the ABC’s Short & Curly illustrators have depicted Dahl’s stories BANGARRA BACKYARD GIANT CHARLIE AND LOLA 10.15–11am podcast. Rec. 7+. in many marvellous and memorable COLOURING WALL Pull up a cushion and join us for ways that will delight fans of all ages. May 28, 10am–4pm 10am–4pm readings of storybooks created by CHI4 THE PATCHWORK BIKE Presented in association with Bangarra Studio Theatre We need your help colouring in our Indigenous communities. This special May 28, 11.30am–12.15pm WestWords. Just at the end of Pier 4/5, this drop-in giant Charlie and Lola colouring wall. event is presented by the Indigenous Sydney Dance 2 Free, no bookings required space will be popular with youngsters Sign your name as a contributor, pick Literacy Foundation. Take a journey to a special place where (particularly those aged 5 to 12) who your favourite colours and get busy. a bike can be made from anything with enjoy bookish activities, live drawing, ON THE SPOT STORIES The Patchwork Bike’s author Maxine CASULA POWERHOUSE’S 2.30–4pm Beneba Clarke and its artist/illustrator ROBOT LAB James O’Loghlin and Matthew Martin Van T. Rudd. Rec. 5+. 10am–4pm have less than two hours to write What kind of robot would you like to and illustrate a story and they need CHI6 UNDER THE LOVE UMBRELLA: invent? Come along and turn recycled your help! Drop in to give them your HOW DO WE MAKE A PICTURE materials into your own unique robot. best ideas and watch the story unfold BOOK? A special workshop session with before your eyes. May 28, 1.15–2pm robot expert James Foley (writer and Sydney Dance 2 illustrator of Brobot) will be held from How is a picture book made? Find out 10am–12pm. THE SYDNEY DANCE when creative duo Davina Bell and VIEWING LOUNGE Allison Colpoys take you through how THE TRAVEL BUG’S CLUB they made their beautiful book Under 10am–4pm May 28, 10.30am–4pm the Love Umbrella. Rec. 5+. Step into the picture-book world of Pier 4/5 The Travel Bug with author Benjamin The Sydney Dance Viewing Lounge CHI7 ILLUSTRATOR BATTLE CHI1 Lauren Gilmour and illustrator James Gulliver will delight those who often find ROUNDS Hancock. Create your own bug themselves unable to resist a May 28, 1.15–2pm Child diorama and add it to Travel Bug Land, continuous flow of musical beats and Sydney Dance 1 the perfect place for taking selfies. interactive storytelling. All ages are The ultimate live drawing battle is back. Come along to a Travel Bug workshop welcome and entry is free (no bookings Top children’s book illustrators take and find out how picture books are required). pencils to paper as they push each put together, including character and other to their drawing limits. Rec. 5+. page design, from 10.30–11.30am LUCAS PROUDFOOT and 2.30–3.30pm. 10.30am–1.30pm CHI8 KATE DICAMILLO: Listen to some tunes and hear some CONNECTING PEOPLE THROUGH THE COLOUR AND CRAFT DEPOT stories from author and musician Lucas STORIES 10am–4pm Proudfoot, who’ll get everyone, from May 28, 2.30–3.15pm No need to stay between the lines nippers to nannas, jumping to the beat. Sydney Dance 1 at our colour and craft depot. Kids Join the former US National are encouraged to let their creativity ZEEKO Ambassador for Young People’s run wild with coloured pencils, paper, 2.30–3.30pm Literature and best-selling author Kate Festival Highlight book activity sheets and crafty bits. Hear music inspired by butterflies, DiCamillo as she talks about finding Special sessions include: Under the frogs and chickens and help to inspiration in unlikely places, and Love Umbrella 10–10.30am, Doodle Cat create soundscapes of the natural connecting people through stories. CHI1 LAUREN CHILD’S QUIRKY CHARACTERS! 11–11.30am, Word Hunters 1–1.30pm. environment. Using music from Africa Rec. 7+. Supported by ARA. May 28, 10–11am to South America, Zeeko delivers a Roslyn Packer Theatre CRINKLING PRESS ROOM strong eco message and shows us our Award-winning writer and artist Lauren Child lifts the lid on her characters Clarice 10am–4pm connection to the natural world around Bean, Ruby Redfort, and Charlie and Lola. You'd be as silly as Sizzles to miss it! STOP THE PRESS! Crinkling News us. Presented with Musica Viva. $25/$15/$70 (family ticket) Bookings 9250 1988, swf.org.au and Sydney Writers’ Festival are 1300 233 305 www.aragroup.com.au 19 Workshops & All Day YA SATURDAY MAY 20 – SUNDAY MAY 28swf.org.au

Whether you’re a novice podcaster, have a manuscript you’re ready to edit or want to learn how to ask better questions, there’s a Sydney Writers’ Festival workshop to help you through. Our experts teach Festival All-Day YA practical skills, as well as the secrets to creativity. Workshops run from Saturday May 20 – Sunday May 28. With thanks to NYU Sydney. Highlight RIVERSIDE THEATRES, PARRAMATTA All workshops at Science House, The Rocks, bookings via 9256 4200 or swf.org.au, unless otherwise stated. SATURDAY MAY 27

W1 KIRK DOCKER: HOW TO ASK W11 C.S. PACAT: WRITING FANTASY We’re taking over Riverside Theatres, Parramatta, for a full day of THE HARD QUESTIONS May 23, 9.30am–4.30pm Young Adult (YA) programming hosted by our YA Ambassador May 20, 9.30am–12.30pm The best fantasy novels keep you Catriona Feeney (aka book vlogger Little Book Owl). The colossal In this workshop, Kirk Docker (the co- immersed until 3am – but how do you write line-up includes international YA superstars Sarah Crossan, Rupi creator of the ABC’s You Can’t Ask That and a great one? In this practical workshop, Kaur, Jennifer Niven and Mariko Tamaki, and local heroes Amie Hello Stranger) will explore the art of asking C.S. Pacat breaks down the most successful the hard questions during an interview techniques in popular fantasy. Kaufman, Garth Nix and James Bradley. to come away with answers that are real, $185/$160 Don’t miss the return of the ever-popular TeenCon (moderated compelling and unrehearsed. W27 MARIKO TAMAKI READING by Will Kostakis), and be sure to catch up with fellow YA fans $100/$80 W12 AMANDA HAMPSON: FIVE AND WORKSHOP in the courtyard – where you will find giant games, a photo booth SECRETS TO COMPELLING May 28, 4–5.30pm and food trucks. W2 CANDICE FOX: CRIMS, STORIES Customs House, Supported by the City of Parramatta. COPPERS AND CORPSES May 23, 9.30am–4.30pm The Reading Room May 20, 9.30am–4.30pm Whatever the genre, screenplay or Love graphic novels? Awesome author Candice Fox helps students assemble novel, there are five key elements of and international Festival guest Mariko $15 per event/$50 for five-event pass. Recommended for 12+. a toolbox of forensic, psychological and storytelling that need to interact to create Tamaki presents a special reading of Bookings 8839 3399, riversideparramatta.com.au artistic knowledge to write blockbusting a compelling read. A fast-paced workshop her work complete with live music and crime fiction. The course covers structure, with bestselling author and screenwriter, projections, before holding a workshop character development and the essentials Amanda Hampson. on graphic novels. to getting published in the genre. $185/$160 Presented by the City of Sydney Libraries $185/$160 and supported by the Consulate General W13 KERRIE DAVIES: MEMOIR – of Canada, Sydney. W3 ALICE CAMPION: HOW TO MORE THAN YOU Free, bookings essential (max. WRITE COLLABORATIVE FICTION May 24, 9.30am-12.30pm 4 tickets per booking) 9256 4200 May 20, 9.30am–4.30pm The irony of memoir is that it is more than swf.org.au Join the four women behind the pseudonym ‘me’; instead, personal experience is a YA8 Jennifer Alice Campion as you learn to collaborate in launch pad to explore a wider story. In this teams to create a work of genre fiction that practical workshop, Kerrie Davies explores Want to try your hand at podcasting? This Niven speaks with one voice. You will also learn how to connect with themes, emotions and practical workshop will take you through to share ideas, give feedback and manage issues that reach out to readers. planning, writing and recording a story your work (without coming to blows). $100/$80 that’s designed to be listened to. $185/$160 $185/$160 W14 THE DANGEROUS W4 KATHRYN HEYMAN: DIVING IN BORDERLANDS: TRUTH AND W21 GRAEME SIMSION: WHAT – GETTING STARTED ON FICTION FICTION IN MEMOIR NOVELISTS CAN LEARN FROM May 21, 1.30–4.30pm May 24, 9.30am–12.30pm SCREENWRITERS Led by acclaimed novelist Kathryn Is it possible to tell the truth and keep your May 26, 1.30–4.30pm Heyman, this inspiring class will help you family, friendships and dignity intact? Can Graeme Simsion will share principles, dive joyously into starting your novel by anything be ‘invented’ in memoir? Patti techniques and tips from screenwriting that discovering what you want to write about Miller offers creative guidance and writing every novelist can use. He will cover plot, and forming your characters. exercises about truth telling. character development, dialogue, editing $100/$80 $100/$80 and more. $100/$80 Festival Highlight W5 LEX HIRST: EDITING LIKE A W15 C.S. PACAT: WRITING FANTASY PRO – THE TRICKS OF THE TRADE (REPEAT EVENT) W22 AMIE KAUFMAN: GET YOUR May 21, 1.30–4.30pm May 24, 9.30am–4.30pm STORY STARTED (REPEAT EVENT) YA8 TALKING TOUGH TOPICS WITH JENNIFER NIVEN Penguin Random House Commissioning SEE EVENT W11, Page 19 May 26, 1.30–4.30pm May 27, 3–4pm Editor Lex Hirst will show you how to get SEE EVENT W18, Page 19 Bestselling author Jennifer Niven writes what she knows – no matter how the most out of the editing process. This W16 KERRIE DAVIES: SOCIAL hard that might be. She discusses transforming real-life struggles into practical workshop for writers will give you MEDIA: SHARING AND SLAMMING W23 JAMES FOLEY: WHERE stories and how the act of writing can be liberating. tips to help you edit your book effectively. May 24, 1.30–4.30pm Science House CHILDREN’S BOOK IDEAS $100/$80 Social media has been described as COME FROM today’s equivalent of Rome’s mob rule. In May 27, 9.30am–12.30pm YA1 LOVE OZ YA ANTHOLOGY: with writer Maria Lewis. W6 KATHRYN HEYMAN: THE this illuminating workshop, Kerrie Davies You have mountains of ideas, but how BEGIN, END, BEGIN Presented by the Consulate General of CARPENTRY OF MAKING FICTION explains the secrets of social media sharing, do you pull them together into a book? May 27, 10–11am Canada, Sydney. May 22, 9.30am–12.30pm slamming and truth seeking, and how to Children’s author and illustrator James Explore your own book backyard as top In this workshop for emerging fiction make an impact online. Foley looks at what it takes to get your Aussie YA authors Danielle Binks, Amie YA6 MORE THAN MEETS THE writers, acclaimed novelist Kathryn $100/$80 ideas on the page. Kaufman, Will Kostakis, Jaclyn Moriarty EYE: DIVERSITY IN YA FICTION Heyman will lead you through the crucial $100/$80 and Gabrielle Tozer talk about Begin, May 27, 1.30–2.30pm elements of structuring great fiction. W17 FOREST FOR THE TREES: End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology. What’s the deal with diversity in YA? $100/$80 WRITERS AND PUBLISHING IN 2017 W24 ROANNA GONSALVES: Four writers discuss how we can look May 25, 10am–4.30pm REWILDING YOUR SHORT STORY YA2 WRITING IN VERSE: SARAH beyond culture to family, class, gender W7 R.A. SPRATT’S WRITING State Library of NSW, Metcalfe May 27, 9.30am–12.30pm CROSSAN IN CONVERSATION and sexuality to create real portrayals of MASTERCLASS Auditorium How do you add oomph to your short May 27, 10–11am teenagers in Australian literature. May 22, 9.30am–12.30pm Forest for the Trees is a seminar that story? Get your hands dirty in this Sarah Crossan’s novels are honest, Learn how to plot, plan and complete a explores the current state of writing workshop with Roanna Gonsalves, who heartbreaking and original – and they’re YA7 DEFYING EXPECTATIONS: novel for children with award-winning and publishing in Australia. It brings will help you craft an engaging story using written in verse. What prompted her to HOW DO FEMALE WRITERS DEFY author and television writer R.A. Spratt together writers, publishers and industry techniques from world literatures. use poetry in her books, and how does STEREOTYPES (Friday Barnes and Nanny Piggins series). representatives to discuss what’s $185/$160 that affect her writing? May 27, 3–4pm $100/$80 happening in 2017. Award-winning authors J.C. Burke, Amie Presented with the NSW Writers’ Centre. W25 DAVINA BELL AND ALLISON YA3 EXPRESSING HERSELF: THE Kaufman and Mariko Tamaki tackle W8 CLAIRE SCOBIE: FROM TRAVEL $65/$45 concession/NSWWC COLPOYS: CREATING A UNIQUE BRILLIANT LIFE OF RUPI KAUR the impact of gender stereotypes on WRITING TO TRAVEL MEMOIR members, Bookings 9555 9757 CHILDREN’S BOOK May 27, 11.30am–12.30pm readers, writers and characters, and May 22, 9.30am–4.30pm nswwc.org.au May 27, 1.30–4.30pm Poet Rupi Kaur puts her heart on what it means to be female in the world The travel memoir holds timeless appeal Author Davina Bell and illustrator Allison paper – and into every other medium of YA literature. Presented with the Stella for the armchair traveller. Renowned author W18 AMIE KAUFMAN: GET YOUR Colpoys unpack the children's book market she works in, including photography, Schools Program. Claire Scobie guides you step by step in STORY STARTED and share what publishers are looking for. illustration and design. The author of creating a long piece of narrative work May 26, 9.30am–12.30pm They also take you through the illustration Milk and Honey talks to Sara Mansour. YA8 TALKING TOUGH TOPICS based on your adventures. New York Times bestselling YA author Amie process and provide tips on submitting Supported by the Consulate General of WITH JENNIFER NIVEN $185/$160 Kaufman takes you right back to the start. your manuscript. Canada, Sydney. May 27, 3–4pm Arrive with a blank page; leave with the $100/$80 SEE FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT, Page 19 W9 R.A. SPRATT’S WRITING beginnings of a story. YA4 KEEPING COMPANY: MASTERCLASS (REPEAT EVENT) $100/$80 W26 KIM MAHOOD: CREATIVE CHARACTERS ACROSS A SERIES YA9 FRESH VOICES FROM May 22, 1.30–4.30pm NON-FICTION – WHAT IS IT AND May 27, 11.30am–12.30pm WESTERN SYDNEY: A SHOWCASE SEE EVENT W7, Page 19 W19 SARA FOSTER: DISRUPT YOUR WHY WRITE IT? From Katniss Everdeen to Sabriel, OF REAL TALK CREATIVITY May 28, 9.30am–4.30pm we follow our favourite characters May 27, 4.30–5.30pm W10 S.D. GENTILL: MINING May 26, 9.30am–12.30pm Literary journalism, stream-of-consciousness from book to book. But what are the High school students from Western MYTHOLOGY Improve the content and originality of your rant, tell-all memoir, discursive essay – Kim challenges and rewards for writers who Sydney perform original spoken-word May 23, 9.30am–4.30pm ideas with bestselling author Sara Foster, Mahood’s workshop explores the techniques take characters on journeys across poetry. Fierce, funny and fresh, these are How do you take age-old myths and make and push the boundaries of plot, character, of one of the most dynamic forms of multiple books? the voices of the future. them relevant for today’s YA audience? setting and narrative. Come prepared to contemporary writing, creative non-fiction. Award-winning author S.D. Gentill explores share and leave inspired. $185/$160 YA5 MARIKO TAMAKI YA10 TEENCON 2017 the techniques used to transform legends $100/$80 TALKS THE TALK May 27, 4.30–6pm into new works. W27 MARIKO TAMAKI READING May 27, 1.30–2.30pm Want the inside scoop on YA new $185/$160 W20 HEIDI PETT AND JESS AND WORKSHOP It’s a talk-fest when award-winning writer releases? TeenCon is the place to get it. O’CALLAGHAN: WRITING TO BE May 28, 4–5.30pm Mariko Tamaki discusses the importance There are spot quizzes, great prizes and HEARD Customs House, The Reading Room of dialogue in graphic novels and comics a ‘Reworking the Classics’ competition. May 26, 9.30am–4.30pm SEE FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT, Page 19 20 swf.org.au Suburban & Regional MONDAY MAY 22 – SUNDAY MAY 28

SR21 IAN RANKIN: RATHER BE THE ASHFIELD CHATSWOOD DEVIL SR1 JOHN M. GREEN: THE TAO SR9 LIANE MORIARTY: TRULY May 27, 7.30–8.30pm DECEPTION MADLY GUILTY Riverside Theatres, Parramatta May 24, 6–7.30pm May 23, 6.30–7.30pm Ian Rankin is a bestselling crime writer Ashfield Town Hall The Concourse Concert Hall known for his Inspector Rebus novels. Ian Join John M. Green as he talks about his SEE FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT, Page 20. discusses his 21st instalment of the series, latest novel, The Tao Deception, and Rather Be the Devil, with award-winning the fascinating real-life inspiration behind SR10 DAVID HUNT: TRUE GIRT author Candice Fox. his fiction. May 24, 12.30–1.30pm Supported by the City of Parramatta. Free, bookings essential at Chatswood Library on the $20/$15 Bookings 8839 3399 ashfieldlibrary.eventbrite.com.au Concourse SR9 Liane riversideparramatta.com.au First there was Girt, now there’s... True Girt. In this side-splitting sequel, David Hunt Moriarty AUBURN takes us to the Australian frontier. Join PENRITH SR2 AUBURN POETS AND WRITERS David as he discusses his latest offering. SR22 ALEXANDRA JOEL: ROSETTA GROUP: GRANDMA’S BED Supported by Willoughby City Council. May 24, 6.30–7.30pm May 25, 7–8.30pm Free, bookings essential, 9777 7900 Penrith City Library Granville Town Hall willoughby.nsw.gov.au/library Rosetta: A Scandalous True Story is The Auburn Poets and Writers Group Alexandra Joel’s book about her great- remember stories told during childhood, SR11 STEPHEN DANDO-COLLINS: grandmother, who in 1905 deserted her often by grandmas. Drawing on those THE HERO MAKER husband and daughter for fortune teller stories and their diverse backgrounds, the May 25, 6.30–7.30pm Zeno the Magnificent. poets and their performances encompass Chatswood Library on the $5 Bookings 4732 7891 various styles and languages. Concourse $10 Bookings 9735 1396 Award-winning historian and biographer auburn.nsw.gov.au Stephen Dando-Collins discusses The Hero RANDWICK Maker: A Biography of Paul Brickhill, about SR23 ZOË MORRISON: MUSIC AND one of Australia’s most complex characters. FREEDOM BELROSE Supported by Willoughby City Council. Festival Highlight May 25, 6.30–7.30pm SR3 CARMEL BIRD: FAMILY Free, bookings essential, 9777 7900 Margaret Martin Library, Randwick SKELETON willoughby.nsw.gov.au/library Zoë Morrison discusses her acclaimed May 25, 11am–12pm SR9 LIANE MORIARTY: TRULY MADLY GUILTY debut novel Music and Freedom, which Glen Street Theatre May 23, 6.30–7.30pm follows a gifted pianist who learns about Join 2016 Patrick White Award-winner DOUBLE BAY The Concourse Concert Hall the dark terrain of violence and the Carmel Bird as she discusses Family SR12 CAROLINE BAUM: ONLY Liane Moriarty’s latest bestseller Truly Madly Guilty is a thrilling tale of marriage, sex, transformative powers of music and love. Skeleton, her deftly woven dark comedy May 23, 6–8pm parenthood and friendship. and Liane discuss Truly Madly Guilty on Free, bookings essential 9093 6400, about what secrets you might unearth if Woollahra Library the North Shore, the setting of choice for many of Liane’s books, including Big Little Lies, randwick.nsw.gov.au/library you dig deep enough in the family closet. Only is Caroline Baum’s moving memoir recently adapted into an HBO series starring and . $15 Bookings 9975 1455 about being an only child in a very Supported by Willoughby City Council. glenstreet.com.au unusual family. $25/$20 Bookings 8075 8111, theconcourse.com.au RYDE Free, bookings essential, 9391 7100 SR24 RICHARD FIDLER: GHOST woollahra.nsw.gov.au/events EMPIRE BLACKTOWN her life upside down to help unwanted May 24, 6.30–7.30pm SR4 KATHRYN HEYMAN: STORM Chinese babies. KOGARAH Ryde Library AND GRACE GORDON Free, bookings essential SR16 TRACEY SPICER: THE GOOD Richard Fidler’s Ghost Empire is the May 22, 7.30–8.30pm SR13 LIAM PIEPER: THE 9847 6614, trybooking.com/265298 GIRL STRIPPED BARE story of a journey with his son through Blacktown City Max Webber Library TOYMAKER May 22, 6–7.30pm Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Join Kathryn Heyman as she discusses May 22, 6.30–7.30pm Kogarah Library and Cultural Centre Richard brings empathy and insight to this her novel Storm and Grace, described by Ku-ring-gai Library HURSTVILLE Join one of Australia’s best-loved journalists beautifully written tale. The Saturday Paper as ‘a story that seduces Adam Kulakov has money, a loving SR15 TROY BRAMSTON: PAUL Tracey Spicer as she discusses The Good Gold-coin donation for light you, and a story that shocks you into critical family and as many mistresses as he can KEATING Girl Stripped Bare, the frank and funny refreshments. thinking’. reasonably hide. And he’s not the only one May 25, 6.30–8pm ‘femoir’ of her life, which encourages Free, bookings essential, 9839 6620 with secrets. Author Liam Pieper discusses Hurstville Library women to speak up. SR43 TOM GRIFFITHS: THE ART OF swf2017.eventbrite.com.au his award-winning novel The Toymaker. Join Troy Bramston as he discusses Free, bookings essential, 9330 6111 TIME TRAVEL Free, bookings essential Paul Keating: The Big-Picture Leader georgesriverlibraries.eventbrite. May 25, 6.30–7.30pm kmc.nsw.gov.au/swf – the definitive biography of Australia’s com.au Ryde Library BROOKVALE 24th prime minister, and the first that Landmark book The Art of Time Travel SR6 MEREDITH JAFFÉ: THE FENCE Keating has co-operated on in more is eminent historian and award-winning May 25, 6.30–7.30pm HORNSBY than two decades. MANLY author Tom Griffiths’ portrait of 14 historians. Warringah Mall Library SR14 JANE HUTCHEON: CHINA Free, bookings essential, 9330 6111 SR17 MELANIE JOOSTEN: GRAVITY Join Tom for a passionate conversation and Meredith Jaffé’sThe Fence is a funny look BABY LOVE georgesriverlibraries.eventbrite. WELL a renewed sense of the historian’s craft. at how tensions between can May 23, 6.30–7.30pm com.au May 26, 6–7pm Free, bookings essential escalate. Join her for a lively discussion Hornsby Central Library Manly Library cityofryde.eventbrite.com.au about privacy, boundaries, community Host of ABC TV’s One Plus One and former Gravity Well is the long-awaited second and whether good fences really do make China correspondent Jane Hutcheon novel from award-winning writer Melanie good neighbours. discusses China Baby Love, her book Joosten. Join Melanie for a conversation WINDSOR $5 Bookings 9942 2449 about Linda McCarthy Shum, who turned about the forces that drive families apart, SR25 SANDRA LEIGH PRICE: THE and those that tug them back together. RIVER SINGS $5 Bookings 9976 1747 May 24, 6–7pm CAMDEN melaniejoostenmanlylibrary. Hawkesbury Library SR5 ASHLEY HAY: A HUNDRED eventbrite.com.au Sandra Leigh Price’s The River Sings is SMALL LESSONS a glittering and gritty tale set in 1825 in May 25, 6–7.30pm London. Join Sandra for a conversation Camden Civic Centre PARRAMATTA about old worlds and new beginnings, and Join Ashley Hay as she discusses her SR18 WORDS FROM THE WEST the importance of taking a chance. lyrical novel A Hundred Small Lessons, May 25, 6.30–8pm Free, no bookings about two mothers from different Parramatta Artists Studios generations whose lives converge during Miles Franklin Literary Award-winner A.S. one hot, wet summer. Patrić and storytelling superstar Candy $15 Bookings 4654 7951 SR19 Jimmy Royalle will join the recipients of the CAL SR26 BLACK WALLABY WestWords Western Sydney Emerging INDIGENOUS WRITERS' NIGHT Barnes Writers’ Fellowships – Joseph Chebatte, May 25, 6–8.30pm CAMPBELLTOWN Tamar Chnorhokian and Eda Gunaydin – Wollongong Art Gallery SR7 CANDICE FOX: CRIMSON LAKE for a night of conversation and provocation. Enjoy readings from the anniversary May 24, 6–7.30pm Supported by the City of Parramatta. edition of Dreaming Inside – Voices from Campbelltown H.J. Daley Central Free, no bookings. Drinks and light Junee Correctional Centre, Volume 5, an Library supper included. anthology that contributes to the diversity Candice Fox discusses her New York Times of Aboriginal writing in Australia. bestselling thriller Crimson Lake, in which SR19 WORKING CLASS BOY: Q&A Entry is $5. All proceeds to the South Detective Ted Conkaffey is accused of a WITH JIMMY BARNES Coast Writers Centre’s Indigenous crime he didn’t commit. May 26, 7.30–8.30pm program. Tickets available at the door. Free, bookings essential, 4645 4444 Riverside Theatres, Parramatta SEE FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT, Page 20 SR27 ROCKET READINGS May 28, 1–3.30pm CASTLE HILL SR20 THE RUMBLE: YOUTH SLAM Wollongong Art Gallery SR8 HOLLY THROSBY: GOODWOOD Festival Highlight May 27, 6.30-8.30pm Linda Godfrey presents the annual Rocket May 24, 6.30–7.30pm Riverside Theatres, Lennox Theatre Readings poetry event, featuring Evelyn Pioneer Room – Castle Hill Library Sydney’s biggest annual youth poetry Araluen Corr and Garry McDougall. Get and Community Centre SR19 WORKING CLASS BOY: Q&A WITH JIMMY BARNES slam is back. Young poets spit words with your poems ready for the open mic. Singer and musician Holly Throsby’s May 26, 7.30–8.30pm eloquence and wit, representing their Entry is $5. All proceeds to the South Goodwood is a gripping debut novel Riverside Theatres, Parramatta communities in an all-out battle of spoken Coast Writers Centre’s Indigenous of secrets, small-town obsessions and a In his only Festival appearance, rock legend Jimmy Barnes talks to the ABC's Richard Glover word and hip hop. You can listen, perform program. Tickets available at the door. community torn apart. Join Holly as she about his memoir Working Class Boy, reflecting on his traumatic childhood and his dream or even be a judge. discusses all things Goodwood. to escape the suburbs by joining a band. Supported by the City of Parramatta. $7.50 Bookings 9761 4510 Supported by the City of Parramatta. Free, bookings essential, 8839 3399 thehills.nsw.gov.au $20/$15 Bookings 8839 3399, riversideparramatta.com.au riversideparramatta.com.au Blue Mountains 21 SATURDAY MAY 27 – TUESDAY MAY 30swf.org.au

The Blue Mountains program is presented with Varuna the National Writers’ House and Sydney Writers’ Festival. Day passes and two-day passes are available for events between Saturday May 27 – Tuesday May 30. Single sessions $20/$15, unless otherwise stated. Bookings 4782 5674, varuna.com.au/swf, unless otherwise stated.

SR39 WRITERS’ JOURNEYS: SR28 WOMEN IN THEIR PLACE AUTHORS’ PERSONAL May 29, 10–11am Witi REFLECTIONS ON WRITING AND Carrington Hotel, Katoomba SR30 PUBLISHING Both Karen Lamb and Marilla North have Ihimaera May 27, 10am–1pm published books about Australian female Blue Mountains Cultural Centre writers including Thea Astley, Dymphna A panel of Australian authors talk about Cusack, Miles Franklin and Florence James. the highs and lows of getting published. They talk about their attraction to these Featuring Lisa Chaplin, Catherine Cole, gifted authors. Craig Cormick and Malcolm Knox. $20 Bookings 4780 5750 SR29 GENERATION NEXT library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au May 29, 11.30am–12.30pm Carrington Hotel, Katoomba SR40 THE NATURAL WORLD OF Both James Bradley and Mardi McConnochie THE IMAGINATION have recently published books for young May 27, 10am–1pm adults. Michael Campbell, executive director Varuna the National Writers’ House of WestWords, talks to them about the Join local poet Vanessa Kirkpatrick to challenges of writing across genres. examine excerpts from published writers and generate new material for your own SR30 WITI IHIMAERA poetry or flash-fiction projects. May 29, 1.30–2.30pm $50/$40 Carrington Hotel, Katoomba SEE FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT, Page 21 SR41 HOPE STREET PRESS POETRY LAUNCH SR31 A CONVERSATION WITH Festival Highlight May 27, 2–3pm DI MORRISSEY Varuna the National Writers’ House May 29, 3–4pm Join four local poets to launch their latest Carrington Hotel, Katoomba SR30 WITI IHIMAERA books: Craig Billingham (Public Di Morrissey is one of Australia’s best-loved May 29, 1.30–2.30pm Transport), Vanessa Kirkpatrick (The and most prolific writers. Her latest book, Carrington Hotel, Katoomba Conversation of Trees), Mark O’Flynn A Distant Journey, moves from California Witi Ihimaera was New Zealand’s first published Maori novelist. (Shared Breath) and Deb Westbury to the Australian outback that Di loves and This session will review his many achievements and include clips (Winter in Stone Country). knows so well. Sandra Yates talks to her from Witi’s stage shows and movies, including the acclaimed Whale Rider. Free, bookings required about her work.

SR42 POETRY CIRCLE SR32 FROM FAR AWAY WE COME SR33 DR DARK MEMORIAL SR34 SINS OF THE PAST SR35 LOVE AND MUSIC May 27, 3–5pm May 29, 4.30–5.30pm LECTURE: CROSSING THE LINE May 30, 10-11am May 30, 11.30am–12.30pm Varuna the National Writers’ House Carrington Hotel, Katoomba – ACTIVISM AND ACADEMIC Carrington Hotel, Katoomba Carrington Hotel, Katoomba Join local poet Mark O’Flynn around the Libby Gleeson’s Mahtab’s Story and James BIOETHICS British writer Natalie Haynes’ book The Both Claire Corbett and Graeme Simsion fire pit in the Varuna garden. Bring your Roy’s One Thousand Hills demonstrate the May 29, 6–7pm Amber Fury explores a contemporary have written complex romances with a own poem to read, or simply sit, listen resilience of young people who are forced Carrington Hotel, Katoomba murder and its connections with ancient musical theme. They talk about their work and enjoy the friendly ambience of the to grow up in an unfamiliar (and sometimes Macquarie University's Professor Wendy Greek drama. Maggie Joel’s The Safest with Varuna Chair David White. Writers House. perplexing) world. Rogers’ research into the international Place in London is a 1940s wartime drama. Free, bookings required trade in human organs causes her to Both writers look at literary links between SR36 A FINE-FIGURED MAN WITH question the fine line between her work as past and present with chair Katherine A CAMERA a philosopher and her role as an activist. Johnson. May 30, 1.30–2.30pm Carrington Hotel, Katoomba Historian and author Joanna Sassoon gives an illustrated talk about 20th-century West Live and Local Australian photographer Ernest Mitchell, whom she wrote about in Agents of Empire.

Sydney Writers’ Festival offers dynamic access to the Festival to regional SR37 NEW VOICES audiences by streaming in arts centres, libraries and writers' groups across May 30, 3–4pm the country through the Live and Local program. Audiences at these venues Carrington Hotel, Katoomba are able to actively participate in the sessions by submitting questions to Winners of the 2016 Overland magazine the guest authors in Sydney via a live feed. Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous In our first year, Live and Local featured 10 streaming partners across Writers discuss their work with an Overland . This year, we're proud to have 30 partners on board editor and read from their entries. to deliver highlights from the 2017 program to every state and territory in Australia. In 2017, Live and Local will reach audiences in Albury, Alice SR38 THE LEGACY OF ELEANOR Springs, Armidale, Ballarat, Bathurst, Bega, Bermagui, Broken Hill, Burnside DARK (SA), Byron Bay, , , Coffs Harbour, Darwin, Dubbo, Frankston, May 30, 4.30–5.30pm , Griffith, Hobart, Mandurah, Moree District, Mudgee, Port Carrington Hotel, Katoomba Macquarie, Tamworth, Taree, Toowoomba, Townsville, and The first annual address honouring the Wollongong. work of Eleanor Dark will be presented by Learn more at swf.org.au/live. award-winning writer Delia Falconer, who will talk about nature and the environment in an age of loss.

VIVID SYDNEY AT CHATSWOOD 26 MAY – 17 JUNE Nightly from 5.30pm – 10.30pm Transport to a steam powered Chatswood Chase Sydney by day funky retro-futuristic smart city from 9.30am

Vivid Sydney at Chatswood Artist impression by The Electric Canvas 22 swf.org.au Participants A – Z See swf.org.au for participant biographies

KEY 201 Nikki Gemmell 90 Vanessa Kirkpatrick SR40, Belinda Nowell CHI13 EDU17 CUR: Curiosity Lecture Series Tamar Chnorhokian SR18 S.D. Gentill W10 SR41 Aaron Nyerges CUR230, Rebecca Shaw 134, 181 CHI: Children and Family Eileen Chong 145 Jane Gibian 251 Krissy Kneen 78, 149, 171, 212 CUR238, CUR246 Chloe Shorten 250 EDU: Education (Schools) Lucy Clark 6, 250, CUR209 Rebecca Giggs 161, 185 Malcolm Knox SR39 Graeme Simsion 15, SR: Suburban and Regional Greg Clarke 55 Benjamin Gilmour CHI13 Julie Koh 36, 39, W17 O 160, 201, 231, SR35, W21 W: Workshops Justine Clarke 15 Ross Gittins 74, EDU2, EDU13 Will Kostakis EDU9, EDU11, Connor Tomas O’Brien W17 Michael Slezak 189 YA: Young Adult Maxine Beneba Clarke George Gittoes 112 EDU20, YA1, YA6, YA10 Jess O’Callaghan W20 Sebastian Smee 81, 225  International writer 128, 148, 237, CHI4, CHI13 Justin Gleeson SC 183  Chris Kraus 78, 93, 204 Mark O’Flynn SR41, SR42 Carl Smith CHI3 Catherine Cole SR39 Libby Gleeson SR32  Lawrence Krauss James O’Loghlin CHI13  Amy Spangler 227 Allison Colpoys CHI6, Madeline Gleeson 167, 178 62, CUR20 Ryan O’Neill 118 Jeff Sparrow42, 134, 211, A CHI13, W25 Richard Glover 124, SR19 Friederike Krishnabhakdi-  Norman Ohler 17, 95, 187, CUR123 Nicole Abadee 117, 118 Mark Colvin 112, 201, 216 Linda Godfrey SR27 Vasilakis SR26 CUR82 Tracey Spicer 7, 53, 151, 166, Sally Abbott 45, 96 Rachael Coopes 7 Peter Godfrey-Smith 171 Dr Karl Kruszelnicki 122  Stephen Orlov 110 SR16 Patrick Abboud 139, 207 Claire Corbett SR35 Lisa Goldberg 89 Cheryl Orsini CHI7, CHI13  Nadja Spiegelman 37, 86,  Annabel Abbs 32, 57, 207, Craig Cormick SR39 Roanna Gonsalves 110, 128, L Clancy Overell 198 158, 179, 204 CUR147 Peter Corris 190 CUR50, W24 Meredith Lake 55 Caroline Overington 235 R.A. Spratt W7, W9 Randa Abdel-Fattah Tim Costello 47, 51 Gus Gordon CHI7, CHI13 Karen Lamb SR28 Jane St Vincent Welch 29, W3 EDU7, EDU18, YA6  Ivan Coyote 56, 77, 98, 139, Alyx Gorman 108 Margo Lanagan 39, 160 P Fiona Stager 174 Yassmin Abdel-Magied 192, 244, CUR214 Nayuka Gorrie 73, 113, 177 Brodie Lancaster 143, 218 C.S. Pacat 19, 79, 139, 192, W11, Matt Stanton CHI7, CHI10, 94, 151, 157, 218, 241, EDU7, Annabel Crabb 16, 52, 161, 191 Erin Gough YA6 Benjamin Law 1, 143, 161, 192 W15 EDU1, EDU8, EDU10, EDU12, EDU9, EDU11, EDU18, EDU20  Sarah Crichton 216, W17 Stan Grant 83, 229 Tilly Lawless 149 Jon Page 231 EDU19 Hani Abdile 35, 145, 175, SR20 Emily Crocker SR20 John M. Green 69, CUR105, SR1 Joy Lawn EDU3, EDU5, EDU7, Errol Parker 198  Sofija Stefanovic 119, 170, Louise Adler 27, 37, 101, 208 Jenny Crocker 29, W3 Jonathan Green W17 EDU14, EDU16, EDU18 Bruce Pascoe 68, 85, 226, 244 Deng Adut 47, 97, 178  Sarah Crossan Kate Grenville 54 David Lawrence 15 EDU4, EDU15 Jason Steger 49, 59, 182 Michael Mohammed EDU9, EDU11, EDU20, YA2 Ryan Griffen73 Shirley Le 239 A.S. Patrić47, 100, SR18  Dana Stevens 143, 158, 197 Ahmad 239, W17 Meredith Curnow 174 Penny Griffin104 Sarrah Le Marquand 53 Katherine Patrick CHI13 Emily Stewart 251 Emma Alberici 130, 169 Andy GriffithsCHI5 Tess Lea 222  Pamela Paul 31, 64, 202, Anne Summers 34 Jada Alberts 7 D Tom Griffiths18, CUR71, SR43 Suzanne Leal 29, 46, 97 244 Nadia Sunde CHI11 Steven Amsterdam 90, 188 Amelia Dale 251 Alice Grundy 93 Chris Leben 201 Alexandra Payne W17 Rodney Syme 90 Eunice Andrada 35, SR20 Stephen Dando-Collins 30, Eda Gunaydin SR18 Alexandra Lee 181 Chris Peken Seeking Refuge:  Desi Anwar 77, 130, 207, SR11 Maria Lewis 45, 149, YA5 Photo Projections T CUR186 Anne Davies 99 H Steve Lewis 27, 42 228  Mariko Tamaki W27, Evelyn Araluen Kerrie Davies 118, W13, W16 Eleanor Hall 112 Isabelle Li 36, 39 Heidi Pett W20 YA5, YA7 Corr 85, 113, 177, SR27 Joel Davison 215 Sophie Hamley W17 Melissa Lucashenko 174 Stephen Pham 239 Jürgen Tampke 18, 68 Samantha Armytage SR9  Giulia De Biase 150 James Gulliver Hancock CHI7, Nakkiah Lui 166 Sandra Phillips 152 Miranda Tapsell 73  Anuk Brigid Delaney 108, 146, 157 CHI13 Amelia Lush 98 Jodi Phillis 201 Denise Tart 29, W3 Arudpragasam 21, 128, 160, Matthia Dempsey W17 Andrea Hanke W17 Michael Lynch 67 Oliver Phommavanh EDU1, Chris Taylor 79, 205 207, 242 Robert Dessaix 12, 116, CUR165 Melissa Hardie 139 EDU8, EDU10, EDU12, EDU19 Lenore Taylor 14 Kaveh Arya 35, SR20  Viola Di Grado 65, 204, 226 Marieke Hardy 49, 59, 201 M Karen Pickering 149, CUR168 Claudia Tazreiter 110 Melissa Ashley 32 Mark Di Stefano 42, 134, 218 CHI13 Sarah Macdonald 77 Liam Pieper 32, 95, 143, David Throsby 174, W17 Auburn Poets and Writers  Kate DiCamillo CHI8, Angie Hart 201 Stuart Macintyre 58 CUR224, SR13 Holly Throsby 205, 227, SR8 Group SR2 EDU1, EDU8, EDU10, EDU12, Ashley Hay 32, 96, 164, 189, Hugh Mackay 26 Ailsa Piper 26, 88 Luigi Tomba 127 Amal Awad 94 EDU19 219, SR5 Kim Mahood 156, CUR155, W26 Turia Pitt 220 Gabrielle Tozer YA1 Sarah Ayoub YA6 Kirk Docker W1  Bill Hayes 125, 210, 244  Sebastian Mallaby Peter Polites 148, 173, 192, 237, Michael Traill 67 Maryam Azam 239 Ben Doherty 153, 235  Natalie Haynes 41, 84, 194, 22, 63, 169 239, 242 Maria Tumarkin 162, 185 Tony Doherty 51, 88 207, CUR221, EDU5, EDU16, Jack Manning Bancroft 157 Sandra Leigh Price 61, SR25  Julia Turner 135, 142, 197 B Hannah Donnelly SR34 Sara Mansour 232, YA3, YA9 Helen Pringle 57 Julia Baird 24, 52 85, 96, 113, 193 Jack Heath EDU1, EDU8, Melina Marchetta 150, 201, Elspeth Probyn 222 U  Sarah Bakewell Briohny Doyle 45, 120, 157 EDU10, EDU12, EDU19 218 Lucas Proudfoot CHI14 Chris Uhlmann 27, 42 208, CUR28 Alan Duffy62 Anita Heiss 15, 204, EDU3, David Marr 14, 24, 75, 101, 116 Abigail Ulman 152, 179, 217 Jimmy Barnes SR19  Carol Ann Duffy56, 245 EDU14  Lauren Marriott CHI7, Q Caroline Baum 37, 54, 89, 103,  Winnie Dunn 239 Fiona Henderson W17 CHI13 Ruth Quibell 206, 244 V SR12 Eliza Henry-Jones 19, 61  Henry Marsh 90, 170, 189, James Valentine 187, CHI7 Matt Beard CHI3 E Norman Hermant 234 205, CUR60 R Jenny Valentish 80, 108, 249  Paul Beatty 107, 128, 180 Nick Earls CHI2, CHI13 Kathryn Heyman 23, SR4, Virginia Marshall 193  Ian Rankin 12, 136, SR21 Ellen van Neerven 113, 128, Davina Bell CHI6, CHI13, W25  Catherine Eccles 156, W17 W4, W6 Matthew Martin CHI7, CHI13 Lorin Elizabeth Reid SR20 193, 229, 239, 242  Brit Bennett 8, 204, 217, Ali Cobby Eckermann Lex Hirst 65, W5  Hisham Matar 12, 86, 158, James Reilly CUR209, CUR214,  Rebecca Vaughan 5, 9, 13, 226, 241 56, 145, 240, 251 Lewis Hobba 198 182 CUR221, CUR224 76, 84, 200, 248 Tegan Bennett Daylight 106, Jill Eddington 36 Richard Holden 169 Helen McCabe 44, 233 Jane Richards 29, W3 Rachael Versace 129 121 Nick Enfield 30, 215 Joel Horwood 10 Kate McClymont 48, 153 Jamila Rizvi EDU2, EDU4, Craig Billingham SR41  Anne Enright 8, 16, 22, 225 Bill Hosking 48 Mardi McConnochie SR29 EDU6, EDU13, EDU15, EDU17 W Danielle Binks YA1 Anton Enus 22, 139 David Hunt 68, SR10 Garry Robert McDougall Michael Robotham 136 Sally Warhaft 172, 234 Carmel Bird 57, SR3 Natanya Eskin 89 Rebecca Huntley 33, 47, 77, SR27 Chris Rodley CUR195 Tiger Webb 30  Hera Lindsay Bird 56, 143, James Evans EDU6, EDU17 249, 250 Fiona McFarlane 161 Juliet Rogers W17  Elaine Welteroth 135, 158, 241 199, CUR230, W17 Kate Evans 12, 87, 115, 154, 219 Amjad Hussain 35, SR20 Ann McGrath 58 Wendy Rogers SR33 Michael West 63 Sophie Black 75, 181, 204 Tanya Evans 58 Jane Hutcheon SR14 Fiona McIntosh 187, CUR102 Aden Rolfe 251 Deborah Westbury SR41 Graeme Blundell 190 Mark McKenna 18, 68, CUR40 Stephen Romei 11, 100, 174 David White SR35 Mike Bowers 14 F I Maxine McKew 43 Heather Rose 93  Colson Whitehead 73, James Bradley 45, 96, 121, 189, Delia Falconer SR38  Armando Iannucci 1 Alex McKinnon 235  Jacqueline Rose 184, 142, 202 SR29, YA4  Susan Faludi 86, 119, 247  Witi Ihimaera 193, 207, Duncan McNab 48, 187 CUR176 Wendy Whiteley 131 Troy Bramston 24, SR15 Ellen Fanning 126 EDU3, EDU14, SR30 George Megalogenis 33, 133 Nicholas Rowley 122 Alison Whittaker Bernadette Brennan 161, 223 Michael Farrell 139, 251 Graeme Innes 156, 178 Caro Meldrum-Hanna 167 Richard Roxburgh CHI10 85, 113, 139, 177, 242, 251 Saroo Brierley 228 Paul Farrell 99 Holly Isemonger 251  Grace Menary-Winefield James Roy SR32 Sarah Whyte 235 Sue Brierley 228 Catriona Feeney YA4 160 Candy Royalle SR18 Marian Wilkinson 99 Nick Brodie 18, 68 Sarah Ferguson 153 J Miles Merrill 56 Van T Rudd CHI4, CHI13 Gabrielle Williams Caroline Brothers 25, 112, 115 Richard Fidler 91, 126, 134, SR24 Bridie Jabour 42  Stephen Metcalf 197, 210, Leila Rudge CHI7, CHI13 EDU9, EDU11, EDU20 Lachlan Brown 55 Bianca Fileborn 23 Meredith Jaffé36, SR6 225 Stephanie Russo 41  Joy Williams 12, 106, 154 Daniel Browning 72, 215 Charles Firth 181, 250 Linda Jaivin 243 James M. Miller 101 Juanita Roys CUR20, CUR28, Kip Williams 137 Dame Quentin Bryce AC 66 Luke Fischer CUR38, CUR147, Ben Jenkins 134, 203 Patti Miller W14 CUR40, CUR50, CUR60, CUR71, Michael Williams 31, 86, 107, Robbie Buck 70 CUR155, CUR165, CUR168,  Robert Jensen 104, 159 Peter Minter 240 CUR82, CUR92, CUR102, 146, 196 Anne Buist 201 CUR176, CUR186  Ha Jin 87, 207 Pia Miranda 201, 218 CUR105, CUR114, CUR123, Roy Williams 55 J. C. Burke YA7 Toby Fitch 145, 251 Alexandra Joel 57, SR22 Alys Moody 84 CUR132, CUR195  A.N. Wilson 24, 117 John Muk Muk Burke SR26 Eamon Flack 139 Maggie Joel SR34 Frank Moorhouse 77, 118,  Russ Rymer 111, 215, Ashleigh Wilson 81, 131 Caroline Butler-Bowdon 58 Victoria Flanagan YA8 Rebecca Johinke 167 120, 243 CUR132 Sarah Wilson 233 Ita Buttrose 66 Tim Flannery 104, 122, Katherine Johnson SR34 Mark Moran 104 Tara June Winch 106, 146 Jennifer Byrne 49, 59 EDU4, EDU15 Melanie Joosten 104, 201, Jaclyn Moriarty YA1 S Julie Winters W17 James Foley CHI9, CHI13, W23 CUR238, SR17 Liane Moriarty 44, SR9 Samah Sabawi 110 Gita Wolf W17 C Clementine Ford 77, 151, 159, Debra Jopson 153 Linda Morris 163 John Safran 75, 172 Troy Wong SR20 Michelle Cahill 160 236 Chin Jou 222 Zoë Morrison 23, 43, SR23 Michael Sala 11, 61 Charlotte Wood 103, 121 Michael Campbell SR29 Matt Ford 143 Di Morrissey 34, 61, SR31 Leigh Sales 191 Sue Woolfe 39 Susan Carland 77, 83, 94 Robert Forster 70 K  Jamie Morton 79, 203, 244 Ruck Sar 47 Laura Elizabeth Woollett Jane Caro 236 Sara Foster 25, 69, W19 Michaela Kalowski Olivia Murphy CUR246 Joanna Sassoon SR36 23, 39 aj carruthers 145 Candice Fox 48, 150, CUR114, 25, 61, 90, 220 Tommy Murphy 201  George Saunders 8, Fiona Wright 120, 129, 166, 185 Barrie Cassidy 14 SR7, SR21, W2 Sarah Kanowski 184, 245 Joanna Murray-Smith 7 106, 142, 196 Tom Wright 109 Felicity Castagna SR18 Catherine Fox 159 Fiona Katauskas 14, CHI7 Rajith Savanadasa 21, Susan Wyndham 64, 223 Michael Cathcart 19, 91, 180 Jan Fran 151 Amie Kaufman W18, W22, YA1, N 201, 218, 237  Mona Chalabi 22, 110, David Francis 25, 69, CUR92 YA4, YA7 Angelica Neville 175 Margot Saville 88, 188 Y 140, 142 Kate Fraser 10  Rupi Kaur 56, 199, 226, 242, Aunty Barbara Nicholson Niki Savva 14 Beth Yahp 120, 222 Merelyn Chalmers 89 Brentley Frazer 156 YA3 SR26 Sarah Schmidt 36, 69 Sandra Yates SR31 Jenevieve Chang 25 Mia Freedman 166 Bec Kavanagh W27, YA2, YA7 Astrida Niemanis 222  Rob Schmitz 112, 127, 146 Trish Young 201 Lisa Chaplin SR39 218 Ged Kearney 169  Jennifer Niven Julianne Schultz 157 Joseph Chebatte SR18  Thomas Friedman 74, Lynne Kelly CUR38 EDU9, EDU11, EDU20, YA8 Eleni Schumacher 10 Z Neil Chenoweth 99 133, 169 Meg Keneally 150 Garth Nix YA4 Anna Schwartz 131 Zeeko CHI14  Durga Chew-Bose 19, 141, Jessica Friedmann 37, 166, 185 Tom Keneally 101, 150 Bianca Nogrady 189 Claire Scobie W8 John Zubrzycki 146, 187 162, 204, 241 Christine Kenneally Lynette Noni YA4 Ronnie Scott 173, 212 Jan Zwar W17  Lauren Child CHI1, EDU1, G 30, 111, 167 Adam Norris 10 Emily Sexton 225  Mikhail Zygar 144, 205, EDU8, EDU10, EDU12, EDU19  Roxane Gay 73, 107, 141 Hannah Kent 12, 32, 152, 164 Marilla North SR28  James Shapiro 109, EDU6, 211, 234 Venues & Bookings 23 FESTIVAL INFORMATION swf.org.au

INFORMATION WALSH BAY

THEATRE BOOKINGS BAR AT THE PRECINCT VENUES END OF THE Sydney Writers’ Festival presents both WHARF 2 WHARF THEATRE BANGARRA free and ticketed events. STUDIO Roslyn Packer Theatre Ticketed events in Walsh Bay and the SYDNEY THEATRE 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay DANCE SYDNEY 2 City can be purchased via swf.org.au. DANCE Roslyn Packer Theatre 1 Roslyn Packer Theatre box office also VIEWING Richard Wherrett Studio SYDNEY LOUNGE WALSH BAY sells tickets for all events at Walsh Bay DANCE and Sydney Town Hall, either online LOUNGE UPSTAIRS WALKWAY PRECINCT Pier 4/5 GLEEBOOKS PIER 4/5 at roslynpackertheatre.com.au/swf, by Hickson Road, Walsh Bay phone on 9250 1988 or in person at L Bangarra Studio Theatre 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay. B Sydney Dance 1 i City Recital Hall box office also sells EVENT ENTRY Sydney Dance 2 tickets to events at their venue online ROSLYN PACKER THEATRE Sydney Dance Viewing Lounge PHILHARMONIA MAIN at cityrecitalhall.com, by phone on STUDIO Sydney Dance Lounge FOYER STAGE 8256 2222 or in person at 2–12 Angel PIER 2/3 GLEEBOOKS Philharmonia Studio CLUB FOOD & BEVERAGE Place, Sydney. LAWN LIBRARY The Theatre Bar at the End of i B STAGE Temporary box offices will operate at CURIOSITY the Wharf Pier 2/3 and Pier 4/5 in Walsh Bay, and STAGE & Wharf 2 Theatre THE LOFT THE HEMINGWAYBAR at Sydney Town Hall for ticket purchases EVENT ENTRY on event days. (UPSTAIRS)L Pier 2/3

BIKE Tickets for Family Day events at Pier PARK Hickson Road, Walsh Bay 4/5 are free, but advance bookings are B Box Office Main Stage essential and can be made at swf.org.au. $ ATM Club Stage For events presented outside of HICKSON ROAD i Information The Loft Walsh Bay and the City, please refer to Food outlet Curiosity Stage individual event listings in this guide for Bus Stop The Hemingway Bar booking information. Accessible toilet Public Toilets

Concessions apply for children PIER ONE HOTEL First Aid under the age of 16, full-time students L Lift CITY VENUES and Australian Health Care Card or Centrelink pension cardholders. ABC TV Studios Family tickets are available to select 700 Harris Street, Ultimo events and apply to two adults and Companion Card holders qualify two children. for a complimentary ticket for their FESTIVAL PRECINCT City Recital Hall Transaction fees apply for all companion. Please contact Sydney 2–12 Angel Place, Sydney bookings. Writers’ Festival directly on 9256 4207 to assist with your booking. Customs House TICKET PACKAGES After the Festival, selected events ROSLYN PACKER THEATRE 31 Alfred Street, Sydney PIER 2/3 Create your perfect Festival with our will be made available as podcasts on RICHARD WHERRETT STUDIO My Perfect Festival packages. Enjoy a our iTunes channel or as videos on our Giant Dwarf selection of the Artistic Director’s Festival YouTube channel. Sign up to our email PIER 4/5 199 Cleveland St, Redfern highlights and relax between events at our newsletter at swf.org.au to be alerted as PIER ONE private lounge in Walsh Bay. Available at new podcasts and videos are released. PIER 6/7 Knox St Bar swf.org.au/myperfectfestival 21 Shepherd Street, Chippendale

PIER 8/9 ACCESSIBILITY TRAVELLING TO THE Museum of Contemporary Art All venues are wheelchair accessible. 140 George Street, The Rocks The following venues are fitted with WALSH BAY PRECINCT a hearing loop system: Roslyn Packer Science House, NYU Sydney Theatre, Wharf 2 Theatre, City Recital TRAIN AND FERRY 157–161 Gloucester Street, Sydney Hall, Sydney Town Hall and Riverside The closest train station and ferry Theatres, Parramatta. terminal is , about a State Library of NSW Events 1 Swearing In: Veep’s Armando 15-minute walk from the Walsh Bay THEATRE Macquarie Street, Sydney Iannucci on Spin and Satire, 133 Thomas precinct. Friedman: The Case for Optimism From Circular Quay, walk down from Circular Quay as in previous years. Opal Cards are not accepted. Sydney Jewish Museum and 204 SWF Gala: Nasty Women George Street and turn right on From Thursday May 25 – Sunday 148 Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst will be Auslan interpreted. Auslan Hickson Road. Follow Hickson Road May 28, the Sydney Writers’ Festival BICYCLES interpreting services will be offered under the Harbour Bridge and around shuttle bus will run a return service from Bicycle parking is provided under the Sydney Town Hall for further selected events across the past the Pier One Sydney Harbour hotel Wynyard Station to the Festival precinct awning on Pier 2. 483 George Street, , including CH18 Kate DiCamillo: to the Festival precinct. at Walsh Bay. Buses are wheelchair Connecting People through Stories accessible and depart approximately PARKING on request. A full list of events will be BUS every 15 minutes between 9am and While on-street metered parking is ENQUIRIES published at swf.org.au/access on May 5. The 311 bus stops at Towns Place and 6.15pm from York Street outside available in Walsh Bay, we recommend All events at City Recital Hall will Hickson Road, Walsh Bay. The 324 and Wynyard Station. parking at Bond Store One (26 Hickson (excluding bookings) be closed captioned. All events at the 325 buses terminate in Hickson Road, The first stop is opposite Roslyn Road); Barangaroo Point Car Park (entry For any general enquiries, please Roslyn Packer Theatre on May 27 and Walsh Bay. Packer Theatre, and the second stop via Hickson Rd); or Barangaroo Reserve contact Sydney Writers’ Festival either May 28 will be closed captioned. is outside Pier 4/5. Buses then return Car Park (entry via Towns Place). by phone on 9252 7729 or by email on Tickets for Auslan-interpreted SYDNEY WRITERS’ FESTIVAL directly to Wynyard Station. The last [email protected]. and closed-captioned events can be SHUTTLE BUS scheduled service returning to Wynyard ROAD CLOSURES purchased directly through the Sydney Station departs from Walsh Bay at The light rail construction scheme along Writers’ Festival box office. Please call PLEASE NOTE: Due to George Street 6.15pm. George Street will impact journeys to 9256 4200, or email [email protected]. and Vivid Sydney road closures, the the Sydney CBD and Walsh Bay. Please au. Sydney Writers’ Festival shuttle bus will The cost is $1 one way on the SWF visit mysydney.nsw.gov.au for the latest depart from Wynyard only in 2017, not shuttle bus. As this is a charter service, information and to plan your trip.

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