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August

Mudgee Readers’ Festival
(21–23 August)
Children’s Book Week
(22–28 August)
Festival of Dangerous Ideas 
(30 August)

September

WORD Christchurch Festival
(1–6 September)
Blak & Bright
(3–6 September)
Blak & Bright Writers Festival 
(3–6 September)
Eumundi Writers Festival 
(4–6 September)
Emerging Writers’ Festival 
(10–18 September)
Whitsundays Writers Festival
(13 September)

October

Melbourne Kids Book Fest 
(2–3 October)
Frankfurt Book Fair 
(7–11 October)
Brisbane Writers Festival 
(8–11 October)
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival
(21–25 October)
APA Graphic Novel Editing Intensive 
(29–30 October)
Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival 
(30 October–1 November)

November

Festival of Fiction 
(21–22 November)

April

Newcastle Writers Festival 
(2–4 April 2027)

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Canberra Writers Festival 2018 program launched  Archive

Tuesday, 17 July 2018
Canberra Writers Festival has announced the full line-up of guest speakers for its festival program, running from 23-26 August. International guests appearing at the festival include Scottish author Irvine Welsh,...

Storyology festival 2018  Archive

Wednesday, 11 July 2018
The Walkley Foundation’s Storyology journalism festival will be held in Brisbane and Sydney in July. The festival has a program of public talks and exhibitions that showcase great journalism. Guest...

BWF 2018 program announced  Archive

Friday, 6 July 2018
The program has been announced for the 2018 Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which runs from 6-9 September. More than 200 writers will appear at the festival, including human rights barrister...

International authors announced for MWF 2018  Archive

Thursday, 21 June 2018
The first international authors have been announced for the 2018 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which runs from 24 August to 2 September. International guests include musician Andrew WK, who will...

Byron Writers Festival 2018 program announced  Archive

Wednesday, 13 June 2018
The full program for the 2018 Byron Writers Festival, which runs from 3-5 August, has been announced, featuring 140 writers, thinkers and commentators. International guests include UK-based novelists Matt Haig...

Sharp appointed CEO of SWF  Archive

Friday, 8 June 2018
Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has appointed Chrissy Sharp as its new CEO. Sharp, who was previously the inaugural director of the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne from 2009 to 2011, will...

BWF releases 2018 schools program  Archive

Wednesday, 30 May 2018
The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) has released its 2018 Word Play program, designed for students from prep to year 12. The Word Play program will run from 4-7 September at...

MWF 2018 schools’ program released  Archive

Wednesday, 23 May 2018
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has released its 2018 schools' program, which will run from 27-30 August. Held at Melbourne's Federation Square, the 2018 MWF schools' program will focus on...

EWF 2018 program launched  Archive

Wednesday, 16 May 2018
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has announced its 2018 program, which runs from 19-29 June in venues across Melbourne’s CBD and surrounding suburbs. Timmah Ball, Tony Birch and Neil Morris...

SWF 2018 program announced  Archive

Friday, 16 March 2018
The program has been announced for this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), which runs from 30 April to 6 May. Sixty international guests and 400 Australian writers, academics and public...

20,000 attend PFWW; Beer tops bestsellers  Archive

Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Twenty thousand people attended the 2018 Perth Festival Writer’s Week (PFWW), which ran from 19 to 25 February. Attendance was down on last year’s event, but a festival spokesperson said...