Write Around the Murray 2025 program

The Write Around the Murray (WAM) festival, running 10–14 September in Albury City, has announced its 2025 program.

Among the headliners attending the event are journalist, social commentator and writer Jane Caro, whose novel Lyrebird (A&U) is the WAM Book of the Festival for 2025, and authors Melanie Cheng, Kate Emery, Thomas Mayo, Matt Cosgrove, Antoinette Lattouf, Isobelle Carmody and Deborah Frenkel.

This year the festival will officially begin with the launch of a new comic book created by the young people of the Yes Unlimited Changemakers from Lavington’s The Hive who have been working with artists Kieran Jack and Angie Spice throughout the year. Crime author Margaret Hickey will also announce the 2025 Write Around the Murray Short Story Competition winner.

Festival events include workshops on self-publishing, playwriting and preparing a manuscript for publication; a Yindyamarra sculpture walking tour with Wiradjuri ambassador Ruth Davys; a poetry slam; and sessions on crime, romance, fantasy, YA, comics, and First Nations writing.

WAM will also run a school program to allow ‘students to meet and work with some of Australia’s most established authors and illustrators in an intimate, welcoming and creative environment’.

Last year’s school program allowed for around 2500 students to attend the festival.

Further information – including the full program – is available on the WAM website.

Category: Events Festivals Local news