Queenscliffe Literary Festival 2025 program announced
Queenscliffe Literary Festival (QLF) has announced its 2025 program.
Under the theme ‘Rising Tides’, the festival will run 17–26 October 2025 on the lands of the Wadawurrung people.
Among local headliners are Craig Silvey, Marcia Langton, Peter Greste, Bob Brown, Virginia Trioli, Alice Zaslavsky, Brian Nankervis and Melissa Leong, as well as 2025 Miles Franklin–winner Siang Lu and two previous Stella Prize–winners, poet Evelyn Araluen and novelist Heather Rose.
This year QLF will host an international guest for the first time, with Egyptian-Canadian journalist Omar El Akkad in conversation with Australian journalist Antoinette Lattouf.
Highlights include contemporary authors discussing Jane Austen’s wide appeal in the 250th year since her birth; a two-course meal prepared from Alice Zaslavsky’s Salad for Days as Zaslavsky speaks with Kerrie O’Brien; ‘Better Off Said: Eulogies for the Living and the Dead’ with Marieke Hardy and Emilie Zoey Baker and featuring Antoinette Lattouf, Hannie Rayson, Brian Nankervis, and Shokoofeh Azar alongside others; and a reading flash mob on the Town Hall lawn.
A free program in schools will also be held to encourage children to ‘read, write, draw more’.
QLF program director Elizabeth McCarthy said, ‘Our festival program will challenge and inform, educate and exhilarate. Many of our festival guests will explore topics of critical significance, including the climate emergency, First Nations issues, and crises across the globe. These are essential conversations to have at books and ideas festivals.’
The full program is available on the QLF website.
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