StoryFest 2021 guests announced
The guests for the second StoryFest festival, which will run from 18 to 20 June in Milton, Mollymook and Ulladulla on the NSW South Coast, have been announced. Guests include...
Brisbane Writers Festival 2021 program announced
The program for the Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which will this year run from Friday 7 May to Sunday, 9 May, has been announced. ‘Starting this year, the First Word...
SWF 2021 program announced
The program for the 2021 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) program has been released. The festival, which runs from Monday, 26 April to Sunday, 2 May, will host 231 live events...
AWW 2021 ‘more special than ever’; women dominate bestsellers
Adelaide Writers' Week (AWW) wrapped up on Thursday, 4 March, having run since Saturday, 27 February. Director Jo Dyer told Books+Publishing that after being ‘the last literary festival to squeak...
Wollongong Writers Festival 2020 program announced
The program for the eighth Wollongong Writers Festival, which will run online from 23 to 29 November, has been announced. Helen Garner, Tara June Winch, Bruce Pascoe, Dervla McTiernan and...
Word for Word nonfiction festival 2020 program launched
The Word for Word National Nonfiction Festival has launched its 2020 program. The event, which usually runs in Geelong, Victoria, will this year take place online due to Covid-19 restrictions....
Australian Short Story Festival 2020 cancelled
The organising committee of the Australian Short Story Festival (ASSF) has announced the 2020 festival will not go ahead in October in Adelaide as planned, due to the Covid-19 pandemic....
Byron Writers Fest releases digital program, Langton delivers 2020 Thea Astley Address
The annual Byron Writers Festival (BWF) Thea Astley Address, presented by Marcia Langton this year, will be available as a podcast, and the festival is offering free digital sessions in...
Canberra Writers Festival 2020 program launched
The Canberra Writers Festival, which will run from 12 to 16 August, has launched its 2020 program. In a statement, the festival said artistic director Jeanne Ryckmans’ program would be...
Queensland Poetry Festival Awards 2020 shortlists announced
The shortlists for the 2020 Queensland Poetry Festival (QPF) awards have been announced. The shortlisted poets in each category are: Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript Hailey Bonner...
EWF 2020 to take place ‘entirely online’
The Emerging Writers Festival (EWF), which runs from 16–23 June, usually in Melbourne, will take place online as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Festival organisers ‘made the proactive decision...
Garner and Haigh to open Mildura Writers Festival
Tickets for the Mildura Writers Festival in regional Victoria are now on sale. This year’s festival will run from 17 to 20 July and will open with a session called...
‘Packed sessions’ at inaugural Melbourne Jewish Writers Festival
A sell-out crowd of 500 attended the opening night of the inaugural Melbourne Jewish Writers Festival, which ran from 31 May to 2 June at the Lamm Jewish Library of...
Auckland Writers Festival reports 45% increase in ticket sales
The Auckland Writers Festival has reported a ‘45% increase in ticket sales compared to last year’ for the 2014 festival, which finished on Sunday evening.The five-day festival attracted 50,000 attendees....
Melbourne Jewish Writers Festival program launched
The inaugural Melbourne Jewish Writers Festival has released its full program and tickets are now available for sale.The festival, which will be held from 31 May to 2 June at...
New Jewish writers’ festival for Melbourne
A new writers’ festival celebrating Jewish literature will be held in Melbourne later this year. The inaugural Melbourne Jewish Writers Festival will be held from 31 May to 2 June at...
Callingham appointed EWF general manager
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has appointed Kate Callingham to the newly created position of general manager. Callingham will begin in the role in October in time for the EWF Roadshow in Tasmania,...
Johnson appointed BBWF director
Edwina Johnson has been appointed as the new director of the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival (BBWF) and the Northern Rivers Writers’ Centre (NRWC), which stages the festival. Johnson, who has...
Johnson appointed BBWF director
Edwina Johnson has been appointed as the new director of the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival and the Northern Rivers Writers’ Centre, which stages the festival. Johnson, who is currently manager of...
Inaugural Creative Non-Fiction Festival program announced
The program for the New South Wales Writers’ Centre’s inaugural Creative Non-Fiction Festival has been announced. Author Benjamin Law will curate the one day festival, which will be held at the NSW...