The full program has been announced for the 2018 Perth Festival Writers Week, which runs from 19-25 February.<\/p>\n
Events at the festival include the pairing of ‘literary giants’ Kim Scott and Helen Garner in a discussion on ‘why literature matters’; a preview of Tim Winton’s forthcoming novel\u00a0The Shepherd’s Hut<\/em>\u00a0(Hamish Hamilton); dining events, such as breakfast with Miles Franklin-winners Josephine Wilson, Michelle de Kretser and Sofie Laguna and lunch with UK writer Alan Hollinghurst; and writer and photographer William Yang’s closing address on his career working with words and images.<\/p>\n Architecture receives a special focus in this year’s program, including guided heritage walks and a retrospective of documentaries by filmmakers Ila B\u00eaka and Louise Lemoine.<\/p>\n As\u00a0previously reported by\u00a0Books+Publishing<\/em><\/a>, international guests attending the festival include UK authors Hollinghurst and A C Grayling, Canadian writer Louise Penny and US writer Cory Doctorow. They are joined by local authors Robert Drewe, Maggie Beer, Tex Perkins, Tim Rogers, Rachael Johns and Claire G Coleman and more than 100 other writers and artists.<\/p>\n Children’s events include mural activities with Indian small press Tara Books; family activities in the ‘Paper Bird Kombi’, run by Fremantle children’s bookshop Paper Bird; and the ‘Curated by Kids’ program, a series of sessions staged with the involvement of 10 guest curators aged 10-12.<\/p>\n The 2018 program is curated by\u00a0West Australian\u00a0<\/em>literary editor William Yeoman, who was\u00a0appointed guest curator<\/a> following the\u00a0departure of long-time\u00a0program manager Katherine Dorrington<\/a>\u00a0in 2017. The event has been extended from four days to a full week, and will be based in a new hub located at the University Club of Western Australia, as well as extending to libraries and bars in Perth. Boffins Bookshop will be the official bookseller.<\/p>\n To see the program, click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The full program has been announced for the 2018 Perth Festival Writers Week, which runs from 19-25 February. Events at the festival include the pairing of ‘literary giants’ Kim Scott and Helen Garner in a discussion on ‘why literature matters’; a preview of Tim Winton’s forthcoming novel\u00a0The Shepherd’s Hut\u00a0(Hamish Hamilton); dining events, such as breakfast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news","7":"category-newsletter"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","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=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}This news story first appeared in <\/em>Books+Publishing<\/a> on 19 January 2018. <\/em>Books+Publishing is Australia’s leading source of print and digital news about the book industry, keeping subscribers<\/a> up to date with the latest industry news, announcements, job advertisements, events, trends and more.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"