BWF 2022 program announced

The program for this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which runs 3–8 May, has been announced. Over 100 artists will appear at more than 200 events for the 60th celebration of the festival.

Special events include the Marion Taylor Gala, which ‘celebrates the power of the story and the written word with an address by or discussion with an extraordinary writer’ and this year features Holly Ringland; the Literary Death Match, which ‘asks four daring writers to read a piece of their best and most entertaining work for judgement’ featuring performer Reuben Kaye, beatboxer Hope One and writer Benjamin Law, and ‘contestants’ Tobias Madden, Lee McGowan, Nevo Zisin and Martine Kropkowski; the return of the Mother’s Day High Tea event, this year featuring Sally Hepworth in conversation with Those Two Girls podcasters Lise Carlaw and Sarah Wills; and a Bluey family event, ‘Bluey on the Green’.

Two other special events focus on poetry: All I Have Is A Voice features poets including Pascalle Burton, Jazz Money, Sarah Holland-Batt and host Ella Jeffery, while Show Ponies asks attendees to ‘forget everything you know about poetry readings and get ready for a raucous evening of neon, costumes, sick beats and backup dancers’ as Freya Sadgrove brings ‘a troupe of Aotearoa New Zealand’s dopest and most dazzling poets to Brisbane for the first time’.

This year’s festival is curated by Ellen van Neerven, Anne-Marie Te Whiu, Benjamin Law, Michaela Kalowski and Rhianna Patrick.

‘We bring a world of beautiful, wise, strong and urgent voices from across the Pacific Ocean and from around the world to Meanjin/Brisbane,’ said the organisers of the 2022 event. ‘We hope that this festival does Meanjin/Brisbane proud as a reflection of our city’s culture, diversity and literary depth.’

For more information see the BWF website. More events are to be announced soon.

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