The full program for Adelaide Writers\u2019 Week, which runs from 3-8 March, has been announced.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s festival is dedicated to children\u2019s author Mem Fox, who will be in conversation with Ruth Clarke on 5 March, as well as featuring in the kids\u2019 weekend program. Fox joins past dedicatees Brenda Niall, Robert Dessaix, Margo Lanagan and Christopher Koch.<\/p>\n
Twenty-seven new authors have been announced for the program, including Judith Brett, Ceridwen Dovey, Eva Hornung and Justine Larbalestier.<\/p>\n
They join a\u00a0previously announced<\/a>\u00a0line up that includes US writers Barbara Kingsolver, Jenny Zhang and Teju Cole; UK authors Alan Hollinghurst, Alexander McCall Smith, Sarah Winman and Kamila Shamsie; Canadian crime writer Louise Penny; and local authors Michelle de Kretser, Kim Scott, Richard Fidler and Kari Gislason.<\/p>\n Events include an in-conversation about sport in Australia with David Hill, an exploration of food movements with\u00a0Salt Fat Acid\u00a0Heat<\/em>\u00a0author and chef Samin Nosrat, US photographer and writer Teju Cole speaking with Sarah Sentilles on the relationship between image and word, and a discussion on \u2018democracy and populism\u2019 with A C Grayling and George Megalogenis.<\/p>\n The kids\u2019 weekend, which runs 4-5 March, features authors and illustrators Phil Cummings, Kate and Jol Temple, and Indian designers Ragini Siruguri and Dhwani Shah. Sofie Laguna, Maggie Beer and senator Penny Wong will also share their favourite stories as part of a series of events in the children\u2019s program.<\/p>\n This year, the festival is partnering with participating schools, retirement villages and libraries to live stream a wide range of its sessions from 5-7 March.<\/p>\n The festival is once again directed by Laura Kroetsch, who has announced that this will be her final year directing Adelaide Writers\u2019 Week.<\/p>\n To view the full program, click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The full program for Adelaide Writers\u2019 Week, which runs from 3-8 March, has been announced. This year\u2019s festival is dedicated to children\u2019s author Mem Fox, who will be in conversation with Ruth Clarke on 5 March, as well as featuring in the kids\u2019 weekend program. Fox joins past dedicatees Brenda Niall, Robert Dessaix, Margo Lanagan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,40,20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news","7":"category-news","8":"category-newsletter"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","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=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}This news story first appeared in <\/em>Books+Publishing<\/a> on 1 February 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":"