Full program announced for Ubud 2025
Monday, 1 September 2025
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced the full line-up for its 2025 festival program, themed ‘Aham Brahmasmi: I Am The Universe’, which will run 30 October to 2 November...
Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival announces 2025 program
Tuesday, 26 August 2025
The full program for the 2025 Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival, which runs 31 October–2 November, has been announced. With the theme 'a path to wonder', the 2025 program includes more...
Papercuts Comics Festival announces program
Wednesday, 20 August 2025
Papercuts Comics Festival has announced its 2025 program, running 12–14 September in Adelaide. Artists appearing include Alice Lam, Chad Molyneux, Evie ‘YEEVZ’ Hilliar, Molly Hunt, Nicola Scott and Robin Tatlow-Lord....
Northland Writers, Readers and Poets Festival announces program
Tuesday, 19 August 2025
The Northland Writers, Readers and Poets (WRAP) Festival will run 29–31 August in Kerikeri, Aotearoa New Zealand. Writers appearing at the festival include Fiona Kidman, Monty Soutar, Sherryl Clark, Cadence...
Brisbane Writers Festival releases 2025 program
Friday, 15 August 2025
Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) has launched the full program for its 2025 festival, to be held at the new venue of Brisbane Powerhouse 9–12 October. The program includes over 100 events and features...
Write Around the Murray 2025 program
Thursday, 14 August 2025
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...
Byron Writers Festival showground events cancelled
Monday, 11 August 2025
Organisers of Byron Writers Festival (BWF) cancelled the Bangalow Showground events for the second and third days of the 2025 festival program, because of rain and safety issues. In an...
Emerging Writers Festival 2025 program launched
Monday, 11 August 2025
The Emerging Writers Festival (EWF) has launched its 2025 program alongside a new logo. The festival, which will run 11–18 September, will hold 70 events with over 200 artists in...
Newcastle Writers Festival announces spring festival
Thursday, 7 August 2025
Newcastle Writers Festival (NWF) has announced a special spring program, which will run 20 September to 25 October 2025. The spring program reflects the organisation’s commitment to creating year-round opportunities...
Island Readers and Writers Festival announced
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
The inaugural Island Readers and Writers Festival will be held in Nipaluna / Hobart on 29 May–1 June 2026. Produced by literary organisation and magazine Island, the festival is accepting...
Port Fairy Literary Weekend announces program
Monday, 4 August 2025
Port Fairy Literary Weekend, which runs 12–14 September, has announced its full program. Headliners include Helen Garner, Jock Serong, Emily Maguire, Sharmini Kumar and Jayne Tuttle. The festival will open...
Stella Day Out announces Melbourne program
Monday, 4 August 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced the program for its Stella Day Out Melbourne event, set to take place on 18 August at the Queen Victoria Women's Centre. Three sessions have...
BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival program announced
Monday, 4 August 2025
BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival, running 11–13 September, has launched its 2025 program. Among the headliners are Michael Robotham, Candice Fox, Jane Caro and Gary Jubelin. The program will feature...
We Read Auckland announces full program
Tuesday, 29 July 2025
We Read Auckland | Ka Pānui Tātou i Tāmaki Makaurau has announced its full program, which will run 1–31 August. The month-long reading and writing festival offers free events with...
Somerset Storyfest announces 2025 regional program
Wednesday, 23 July 2025
Youth literary festival Somerset Storyfest has announced its regional touring program for 1–16 September 2025, traveling beyond its base on the Gold Coast, Queensland, to the towns of St George,...
Mudgee Readers’ Festival announces 2025 program
Wednesday, 23 July 2025
Mudgee Readers’ Festival (MRF) has announced its full 2025 program, set to run 15–17 August. Over 25 writers will appear over three days, including Chris Hammer, Victoria Purnam, Sara M...
Stella Day Out announces Canberra program
Tuesday, 22 July 2025
Stella has announced a date and full program for its upcoming Stella Day Out event in Canberra. Stella Day Out is a free one-day literary festival that ‘celebrates and promotes...
Phillip Island Festival of Stories announces 2025 program
Monday, 21 July 2025
Phillip Island Festival of Stories, which runs 25–27 July, has announced its full program. Among the headliners are Peter Greste, Candice Fox, Jane Caro, Paul Bangay, Alice Zaslavsky and Foong...
Words in Winter 2025 festival program launched
Wednesday, 16 July 2025
The Words in Winter festival has announced its full 2025 program, which will run 22–21 and 29–31 August on Dja Dja Wurrung country, across Daylesford and Hepburn Springs, Victoria. The...
WORD Christchurch 2025 program announced
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
WORD Christchurch Festival, which will run this year 27–31 August, has announced its full program. With the theme ‘Share the Joy of Words’, this year's program includes over 90 writers...
Parramatta’s Lit! festival launched
Monday, 14 July 2025
The Sydney Fringe Festival has announced Parramatta’s Lit!, a new writer-led literary festival as part of Sydney Fringe. The festival, which will run through September, will celebrate Parramatta’s authors, publishers...
Amplify Lit Festival Live program announced
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
Aotearoa New Zealand writer and editor Jackie Lee Morrison has announced the program for the inaugural Amplify Lit Festival Live program, running 5–31 July on Instagram and TikTok. The line-up...
Stella Day Out announces Adelaide program
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Stella Day Out, a one-day literary festival that ‘celebrates and promotes the outstanding contributions of women and non-binary writers to Australian literature’, has announced a date and full program for...
Sydney Writers’ Festival achieves ‘record-breaking year’
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
The 2025 Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF), which ran 19–27 May under the theme In This Together, recorded the ‘highest sales in the Festival’s 28-year history’. This year 101,038 attendees participated...
Community and Courage: B+P reflects on SWF
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
This year, publishing director of Books+Publishing, Kate Cuthbert, attended Sydney Writers' Festival in May. We asked her to share her thoughts on the festival which ran between 19 and 27...
Festival of Fiction 2025 program announced
Monday, 23 June 2025
The Peter Cowan Writers Centre has announced the program for the 2025 Festival of Fiction, to be held at Edith Cowan University’s Joondalup campus 18–19 October. The festival will showcase...
Stella Day Out announces Warrnambool program
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Stella Day Out has announced its next iteration will be in Warrnambool, and released the date and full program. The free, one-day festival will take place on 28 June, from...
First events announced for Red Room Poetry Month 2025
Thursday, 12 June 2025
Red Room Poetry has announced the first events for the 2025 program for the annual Poetry Month, set to run 30 July – 3 September 2025. Originally launched in 2021,...
Byron Writers Festival announces 2025 program
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
The program for the Byron Writers Festival, running 8–10 August on Bundjalung Country, has been announced. With the theme Passion and Purpose, the 2025 program features over 160 writers from...
Q-Lit Festival 2025 program announced
Tuesday, 10 June 2025
The program for the 2025 Q-Lit Festival, running this year 20–28 June, has been announced. Under the theme 'What Fills Your Cup', the 2025 festival will begin with an opening...
