The program has been announced for this year\u2019s Sydney Writers\u2019 Festival (SWF), which runs from 30 April to 6 May.<\/p>\n
Sixty international guests and 400 Australian writers, academics and public figures will take part in events held across greater Sydney, with the festival\u00a0moving its main hub<\/a>from Walsh Bay to a temporary home at Carriageworks and the Seymour Centre while the Walsh Bay Arts Precinct is redeveloped.<\/p>\n American authors Andr\u00e9 Aciman, Min Jin Lee and Alexis Okeowo will each deliver an opening address on the festival\u2019s theme of power. Pulitzer Prize-winning US novelist Jennifer Egan will deliver the festival\u2019s closing address about \u2018the power of media culture and its relationship with storytelling\u2019.<\/p>\n International authors include US psychotherapist Amy Bloom; Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Junot D\u00edaz; American authors Tayari Jones and Eileen Miles; journalists and political commentators Masha Gessen and Katy Tur; and poets Cleo Wade and Yrsa Daley-Ward.<\/p>\n Other international guests include podcast hosts Wesley Morris and\u00a0Jenna Wortham of\u00a0Still Processing<\/em>, and Aminatou Sow of\u00a0Call Your Girlfriend<\/em>; British broadcaster Robert E Kelly; founder of the book club and digital platform Well-Read Black Girl, Glory Edim; and debut authors Jenny Zhang, Gabriel Tallent and Carmen Maria Machado.<\/p>\n More than 400 Australian authors and public figures will appear at the festival, including Helen Garner, Jane Harper, Ceridwen Dovey, Robert Drewe, Michael Robotham, Kim Scott, Christos Tsiolkas, Alexis Wright, Stan Grant, Jamila Rizvi, deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party Tanya Plibersek, broadcast journalist Leigh Sales and filmmaker Warwick Thornton.<\/p>\n A two-day family program will be held at Sydney Town Hall on 5 and 6 May, featuring Jeff Kinney, Junot D\u00edaz, Jacqueline Harvey and Leigh Hobbs. The festival will also bring back its full-day program dedicated to young adult fiction, which will be held at Riverside Theatres in Parramatta on 5 May.<\/p>\n International guests at this year\u2019s \u2018All Day YA\u2019 include Patrick Ness, Jesse Andrews and Cleo Wade, while local authors Shaun Tan, Alice Pung and Jay Kristoff will also feature. Other highlights include a poetry slam between Omar Musa and Evelyn Araluen, and the return of Teen Con, where publishers pitch their forthcoming titles.<\/p>\n As\u00a0previously reported by\u00a0Books+Publishing<\/em><\/a>, former UK children\u2019s laureate Chris Riddell and British author A F Harrold will be among the children\u2019s and YA authors participating in the festival\u2019s schools program.<\/p>\n The festival\u2019s Live & Local streaming program will bring events to regional and national audiences, with more than 35 venues signing on to broadcast select festival events.<\/p>\n The 2018 program will mark SWF CEO Jo Dyer\u2019s last at the festival, as she\u00a0takes up her new role<\/a>\u00a0as director of Adelaide Writers\u2019 Week.<\/p>\n A number of international guests will also participate in Wheeler Centre events, including Andr\u00e9 Aciman, Junot D\u00edaz, Eileen Myles, Patrick Ness, Jennifer Egan, Jenny Zhang and Jeff Kinney.<\/p>\n To see the full SWF program, click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The program has been announced for this year\u2019s Sydney Writers\u2019 Festival (SWF), which runs from 30 April to 6 May. Sixty international guests and 400 Australian writers, academics and public figures will take part in events held across greater Sydney, with the festival\u00a0moving its main hubfrom Walsh Bay to a temporary home at Carriageworks and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news","8":"category-newsletter"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}This news story first appeared in <\/em>Books+Publishing<\/a> on 16 March 2018. <\/em>Books+Publishing is Australia’s leading source of print and digital news about the book industry, keeping <\/em>subscribers<\/i><\/a> up to date with the latest industry news, announcements, job advertisements, events, trends and more.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"