Writers' Week Schedule

8am | West Stage

Breakfast with Papers

9:30am | East Stage

“Paki, Writer, Cripple: Who Am I Now?”

Hanif Kureishi and Dr. Michelle Johnston

9:30am | West Stage

Iconic Women

Daisy Goodwin and Dava Sobel

9:30am | North Stage

Splinter Journal: Unravelling Reality

Writers SA

10:45am | East Stage

The Men Who Killed the News

Eric Beecher

10:45am | West Stage

Exile, Nostalgia and Letting Go

Téa Obreht (live stream)

10:45am | North Stage

Writing Home: Writers on Place

12pm | East Stage

History Lessons

Orlando Figes, Bettany Hughes, Matthew Longo and Dava Sobel

12pm | West Stage

Datsun Angel

Anna Broinowski

12pm | North Stage

The Death of Dora Black

Lainie Anderson

1:15pm | East Stage

Working for the Brand: How Corporations are Destroying Free Speech

Josh Bornstein

1:15pm | West Stage

The Silent Service

Mike Carlton

1:15pm | North Stage

Shining Like the Sun

Stephen Orr

2:30pm | East Stage

Chameleon: A Memoir of Art, Travel, Ideas and Love

Robert Dessaix

2:30pm | West Stage

From Publisher, to Agent, to Author

Deborah Callaghan

2:30pm | North Stage

The End and Everything Before It

Finegan Kruckemeyer

3:45pm | East Stage

Fiction is Poetry

Miranda Cowley Heller and Daisy Goodwin

3:45pm | West Stage

Hazel Rowley Memorial Lecture 2025: Legend v Facts: A Biographical Dilemma

Clare Wright and Matthew Lamb

3:45pm | North Stage

The Wedding Party

Rebecca Heath

5pm | East Stage

The Circus Returns

Nick Harkaway (live stream)

5pm | West Stage

When Betty Turned One Hundred

Debra Oswald

5pm | North Stage

Voyagers: Our Journey into the Anthropocene

Lauren Fuge

6:15pm | The Drill Hall

All In The Mind: The Magic of Memory

podfest

9:30am | East Stage

“Paki, Writer, Cripple: Who Am I Now?”

Hanif Kureishi and Dr. Michelle Johnston

10:45am | East Stage

The Men Who Killed the News

Eric Beecher

12pm | East Stage

History Lessons

Orlando Figes, Bettany Hughes, Matthew Longo and Dava Sobel

1:15pm | East Stage

Working for the Brand: How Corporations are Destroying Free Speech

Josh Bornstein

2:30pm | East Stage

Chameleon: A Memoir of Art, Travel, Ideas and Love

Robert Dessaix

3:45pm | East Stage

Fiction is Poetry

Miranda Cowley Heller and Daisy Goodwin

5pm | East Stage

The Circus Returns

Nick Harkaway (live stream)

8am | West Stage

Breakfast with Papers

9:30am | West Stage

Iconic Women

Daisy Goodwin and Dava Sobel

10:45am | West Stage

Exile, Nostalgia and Letting Go

Téa Obreht (live stream)

12pm | West Stage

Datsun Angel

Anna Broinowski

1:15pm | West Stage

The Silent Service

Mike Carlton

2:30pm | West Stage

From Publisher, to Agent, to Author

Deborah Callaghan

3:45pm | West Stage

Hazel Rowley Memorial Lecture 2025: Legend v Facts: A Biographical Dilemma

Clare Wright and Matthew Lamb

5pm | West Stage

When Betty Turned One Hundred

Debra Oswald

9:30am | North Stage

Splinter Journal: Unravelling Reality

Writers SA

10:45am | North Stage

Writing Home: Writers on Place

12pm | North Stage

The Death of Dora Black

Lainie Anderson

1:15pm | North Stage

Shining Like the Sun

Stephen Orr

2:30pm | North Stage

The End and Everything Before It

Finegan Kruckemeyer

3:45pm | North Stage

The Wedding Party

Rebecca Heath

5pm | North Stage

Voyagers: Our Journey into the Anthropocene

Lauren Fuge

6:15pm | The Drill Hall

All In The Mind: The Magic of Memory

podfest