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Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden
Kaurna Country
FREE ENTRY | COVID-Safe Check-in required
26 Feb - 14 Mar 2021
Jo Dyer including a requirement for all attendees to
scan into the Garden, so we encourage you
DIRECTOR, ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK to arrive early for your preferred events. We
have some great new programs – the Plane
Tree Stage is now active across the week
featuring series for the writers amongst
Since we packed up the Pioneer Women’s you on The Business of Being a Writer and
Memorial Garden in March 2020, our world promoting advocacy and activism with Be the
has been transformed by a pandemic that Change. For the first time, you can access
rages across continents and demographics, some of our events from your own homes in
wreaking havoc on our health, economies our Curated Dozen.
and confidence. The ground shifted beneath
We note, too, that the incomes of artists and
us as we scrambled to comprehend this
arts workers have been slashed over the last
silent, invisible, potentially deadly new foe,
twelve months, including many of our authors,
to develop strategies to combat it and
as their live events, part-time teaching roles
understand its implications. In a world
and casual day jobs evaporated. We therefore
already struggling with polarised politics,
encourage you to support them – and us! –
divided communities and the existential
by buying up big at the Book Tent this year,
threat of climate change, being forced to
including the books of those authors who
confront a health crisis of this magnitude
can’t be with us in person.
felt exhausting, unconscionable,
unbelievable. For some, unsurvivable. Amongst the tumult and challenges of the
year that’s been, we are thrilled, relieved and
We are on unstable ground.
inspired that we will be able to come together
Adelaide Writers’ Week was the last literary again in the Garden to ask the big questions –
festival to squeak in before the Great what just happened? What happens next? If it
Lockdowns of 2020. We are among the only happened on Zoom, did it really happen
first to return live in 2021. It won’t quite at all? – and immerse ourselves in the healing
be business as usual – most notably, our power of literature.
international guests aren’t able to be with us
in person so will instead join us in the Garden
WITH
via livestream. COVID safety protocols SPECIAL
will also be implemented across the site, THANKS TO
1
Acknowledgement
Welcome COVID INFO
of Country
Ngadlu tampinthi, Kaurna The Hon Steven Marshall MP Judy Potter
Miyurna yaitya yarta-mathanya
Wama Tarntanyaku. Ngadlu
PREMIER OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
MINISTER FOR THE ARTS
CHAIR
ADELAIDE FESTIVAL
COVID Safe
Adelaide Writers’ Week will be
tampinthi purkarna pukinangku,
operating under an approved COVID
yalaka, tarrkarritya. Parnaku Management Plan.
After a year like no other, Adelaide Writers’ Adelaide Writers’ Week is back.
yailtya, parnaku tapa purruna, To ensure your safety during the
Week presents a welcome opportunity
parnaku yarta ngadlu tampinthi. Adelaide Writers’ Week will be amongst age of COVID, 2021 will see some
to spend six glorious days in the Pioneer
the first literary festivals to return live in
Yalaka Kaurna Miyurna parnaku Women’s Memorial Garden in Adelaide’s
2021, and Jo Dyer’s third as Director.
changes to the operation of the
beautiful Park Lands. Writers’ Week site.
yailtya, tapa purruna, yarta kuma Although returning audiences will notice
puru martinthi, puru warri-apinthi, Both writers and audiences will once again some changes, the essence of Adelaide Please check our website on the day
come together to enjoy this jewel in the Writers’ Week remains. to guarantee you have the most up to
puru tangka martulayinthi. date information.
Adelaide Festival crown – a 61 year old
Audiences will still gather in the wonderful
celebration of reading, writing, stories Key things to note:
We acknowledge the Kaurna and ideas.
setting of the Pioneer Women’s Memorial
Garden and there will be international
people are the traditional BE EARLY
Year-on-year, Adelaide Writers’ Week attracts authors, albeit via livestream but
custodians of the Adelaide both national and international writers and nonetheless still in the moment, and To facilitate contact tracing and
Plains and pay respects to even in these strangest of times, we will connected. monitor numbers on site on arrival at
be seeing international writers gracing our the Garden each day a COVID-Safe
Elders past, present and future. Adelaide Writers’ Week continues to be
Writers’ Week stages – but this time streamed Check-in is required. This may cause
We recognise and respect their proudly presented as a free event, and this delays at peak times. If you do not
live from their home countries direct to our
cultural heritage, beliefs and is only possible through the support of have a smart phone, Writers’ Week
audiences in the Garden. Amongst myriad
government, our corporate partners, and
relationship with the land. We other program highlights, the weekend for
also our growing group of philanthropic
staff can register you manually.
acknowledge that they are of younger readers and writers returns again
partners especially through our donor circle,
this year over two brilliant, jam-packed days. BE CASHLESS
continuing importance to the The Literati. Thank you.
We strongly recommend all
Kaurna people living today. The State Government has always been a
Thank you also to the Adelaide Festival and purchases in the Book Tent and
strong supporter of Adelaide Writers’ Week
Writers’ Week team, led by Jo, for your work catering outlets are made by card.
and we hope to continue this partnership
in delivering this year’s program.
long into the future.
See you all in the Garden.
BE SAFE
I congratulate Director Jo Dyer for once again Maintain physical distancing and
delivering a diverse and engaging program. make liberal use of our on-site
I look forward to seeing you there. hand sanitiser.
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Breakfast Festival Curated Dozen
With Papers Forums Streamed live from our Place to Yours Look for this icon
on session pages
Sat 27 Feb – 1 – 5 Mar &
Sun 14 Mar, 8am The Summerhouse 9 – 12 Mar, 12.30pm The Summerhouse
THE VIRUS KNOW HER HAMNET THE WHITHER THE RISE OF
IS HERE PLACE Maggie FUTURE IS AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENT
Emily St. THE O’Farrell NOW LEADERSHIP? MEDIA
John Mandel PHILOSOPHY William Katharine Peter Fray
Laura Jean OF MISOGYNY Gibson Murphy Margaret
McKay Kate Manne Laura Tingle Simons
Michael West
Sat 10.45am Sat 12pm Sun 9.30am Sun 2.30pm Sun 3.45pm Tue 2.30pm
The perfect start to your Festival day kicks Explore the Festival experience through
off at 8am at The Summerhouse. the eyes of its artists: directors, creatives,
Join Tom Wright and a panel of informed performers as they delve into unmissable REFRAMING
QUIVERING WHAT ARE TWILIGHT OF LAND OF THE
guests in stimulating conversations about behind-the-scenes conversations with ON THE YOU GOING DEMOCRACY MATES AND THE LONELY
host David Marr. CUSP THROUGH? Anne FAVOURS CLASSICS CENTURY
the news of the day and the big issues, with
Naoise Dolan Sigrid Nunez Applebaum Richard Denniss Natalie Noreena
newspapers provided by The Advertiser. Podcasts will be available after each event Jessie Tu Cameron Murray Haynes Hertz
Whether you’re on your way to work or for those who can’t attend in person but Marian Wilkinson
jogging in the parklands, stop by for a coffee being in The Summerhouse pavilion under Wed 9.30am Wed 12pm Wed 1.15pm Wed 2.30pm Thu 9.30am Thu 5pm
and a completely natural brain booster. the trees of Elder Park while listening to
For more information visit these conversations is... just a different story.
adelaidefestival.com.au For more information visit
For the first time, Writers’ Week gives you Tickets are available on a Pay What You Can
adelaidefestival.com.au the opportunity to experience some of our basis, with a recommended minimum price of
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Exploiting the COVID-related presence of received as generous support of Adelaide
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Where The Summerhouse Duration 1 hr Access Tickets Free
to stream in our international guests, we have for the arts.
Adelaide Festival Centre Amphitheatre, Where The Summerhouse curated a series of twelve sessions that can
enter from Elder Park Adelaide Festival Centre Amphitheatre, For more details and to book your tickets,
be viewed online at home across the week.
enter from Elder Park please head to
Tickets for the Curated Dozen, that include www.adelaidefestival.com.au/writers-week
many of our headline authors as well as
Presenting Partner Breakfast With Papers and Festival Forums talks some of our more provocative and inspiring The streamed events featuring Anne
will continue rain or shine. In the case of extreme discussions, must be purchased in advance. Applebaum, William Gibson and Maggie
weather refer to adelaidefestival.com.au at 4pm Events can then be viewed live from their O’Farrell are presented in partnership with
scheduled start for up to 48 hours thereafter. The Wheeler Centre.
the day before for final weather arrangements.
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Sat 27 Feb
East Stage 9.30am West Stage East Stage 10.45am West Stage East Stage 12pm West Stage East Stage 1.15pm West Stage
Curated
Dozen
See page 5
THE MUSIC INCREMENTAL WATSONIA THE VIRUS IS HERE ALL OUR KNOW HER PLACE WOMEN AND SUBURBAN
PANDEMICS IN FICTION THE PHILOSOPHY OF
ADVANTAGE LOSS SHIMMERING MISOGYNY LEADERSHIP DREAMING
Charlotte Emily St. John Mandel SKIES
McConaghy LIVE STREAMED FROM Geoff Goodfellow
Anita Collins Kate Mildenhall Don Watson NEW YORK, USA Trent Dalton Kate Manne Julia Gillard Christopher Raja
Laura Jean McKay
In her book, The The world shifted slowly, With wit, wisdom and Trent Dalton’s dazzling LIVE STREAMED FROM The message from The suburb looms large
Music Advantage: then so fast, while they endless curiosity, Don As the Lockdowns of debut, Boy Swallows NEW YORK, USA Julia Gillard and her co- in the physical and
How learning music watched but didn’t see. Watson has spent 2020 began, Laura Universe, became author, former Nigerian imaginary landscape of
Misogyny is the “law
helps your child’s In Kate Mildenhall’s a lifetime writing on Jean McKay’s story the fastest selling Finance Minister Ngozi this country, a loaded
enforcement arm of
brain and wellbeing, Dr compulsive page- subjects as diverse as of a world collapsing Australian fiction debut Okonjo-Iweala, to young repository of hopes
patriarchy” that polices
Anita Collins outlines turner The Mother Fault, they are entertaining. in the midst of a viral ever, selling over half female aspirants to and aspirations. In
and punishes “bad
the remarkable and Mim’s comfortable This definitive epidemic, The Animals a million copies in public life in Women his long anticipated
women” who threaten
surprising benefits assumptions about anthology reveals in That Country, seized Australia alone. His and Leadership ? is “Be memoir, Out of Copley
male dominance, argues
that playing – or even Australia’s “Department” the remarkable depth the popular imagination: highly anticipated aware, not beware!”. Street: A Working-
philosopher Kate Manne
just appreciating – and its universal of his interests and a hallucinogenic follow up, All Our Containing interviews Class Boyhood, Geoff
in Down Girl: The Logic
music offers children. tracking chip are starkly erudition, with articles, tale of Zoo Flu with Shimmering Skies, is with eight impressive Goodfellow deploys
of Misogyny, Entitled:
An expert in cognitive challenged when her essays and insights on wild symptoms that set in Darwin in 1942 world leaders, including clear lucid prose to
How Male Privilege Hurts
development and husband disappears. subjects ranging from enable inter-species and is a sweeping Hillary Clinton, Christine describe the South
Women then outlined
passionate music Charlotte McConaghy’s Australian humour, communication. Emily mythological odyssey Lagarde and Jacinda Australian suburbs that
the illegitimate sense of
educator, Anita visited achingly beautiful The American politics, Don St. John Mandel’s break of love and adventure, Ardern, and drawing on forged him. Christopher
entitlement that enables
classrooms and Last Migration prepares Bradman and Oscar out novel Station Eleven magical and masterfully the results of research Raja was eleven when
men to grasp power and
leading music and us for an empty world Wilde. Speechwriter, is a gripping, eerie story imaginative, populated and global surveys he settled in the
authority for themselves,
neurological research of loneliness as the humorist, biographer, of civilisation’s collapse by a Dickensian conducted by Julia’s Melbourne suburbs, a
and demand emotional
labs around the world restless Franny follows lecturer, critic and in the wake of a flu that cast of finely drawn London-based Global world away from the
and physical care from
to investigate the the journey of the last provocateur, self- wipes out 99% of the colourful characters, Institute for Women’s teeming streets of
women. Described as
extraordinary impact Arctic terns. Both books described accidental world’s population. It led by gravedigger’s Leadership, Women and Kolkata from whence he
“the Simone de Beauvoir
music can have on the force us to consider: writer Don has sold nearly two million daughter Molly Hook, a Leadership provides came. He describes the
of the 21st Century”,
development of young what could we lose if we traversed almost as copies worldwide. Both tenacious spirit as full an important and culture shock and the
Kate offers a radical
brains. The Music watch but do not see? many genres of writing are prescient, terrifying of heart and hope as comprehensive analysis life he built in Into
new framework through
Advantage is the as he has subjects: and ultimately hopeful. the novel she inhabits. of the contemporary the Suburbs: A
Chair: Cath Kenneally which to understand
impressive result. Watsonia: A Writing role of gender in access Migrant’s Story.
Chair: Sophie Chair: Anton Enus misogyny.
Life is a collection of to and perceptions of
Chair: Hannah Cunningham Chair: Royce Kurmelovs
Critchlow his wide-ranging best. Chair: Clare Wright leadership.
Chair: Tom Wright Chair: Jo Dyer
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Sat 27 Feb (RE)LAUNCH:
LIVE AND
LOCAL!
East Stage 2.30pm West Stage East Stage 3.45pm West Stage East Stage 5pm West Stage West Stage 6.15pm
Curated
Dozen
See page 5
THE GOLDEN PARWANA GHOST THE DRAGONS AZADI SAVING LIVES, Patrick Allington, Katherine
MAZE BECOMING AN SPECIES AND THE FREEDOM. ONE CHOICE Tamiko Arguile, Durkhanai
ADELAIDE ICON SNAKES FASCISM. FICTION AT A TIME Ayubi, Danielle Clode, Royce
Christine Jackman Kurmelovs, Rachael Mead,
Richard Fidler Durkhanai Ayubi James Bradley David Kilcullen Arundhati Roy Rick Morton Pip Williams, Karen Wyld
In Richard Fidler’s Parwana Afghan An Elon Musk-style Soldier-scholar David LIVE STREAMED FROM What changes do we Across the COVID-plagued year that was
love letter to the Kitchen opened in billionaire persuades Kilcullen is Australia’s NEW DELHI, INDIA need to make in our 2020, many of the great South Australian
city of Prague, The Adelaide in 2009 scientist Kate Larkin to most influential lives to get the lives we authors featured at this year’s Writers’
In Arundhati Roy’s new
Golden Maze: A with a vision to share join his secretive new contemporary military want to live? Spurred by Week had to pivot to online launches,
essay collection, Azadi,
Biography of Prague, Afghan cuisine and project. Its ambitious strategist. A former a sense of something with celebratory glasses raised only
one of the world’s
he describes it as a culture. It swiftly aim is to re-engineer adviser to General lacking in their own virtually and individually as their books
foremost intellectuals
city “written in pencil, became a beloved part our collapsing climate Petraeus and former lives, Rick Morton and began their journeys in the world.
and authors makes a
erased, rewritten of the city, attracting by resurrecting long US Secretary of State Christine Jackman step
passionate plea for The Zoom launch was a useful
and erased again... a national acclaim for its extinct species, Condoleezza Rice, his out of their comfort
the world to reimagine substitute… but not quite the same.
fabulous palimpsest food and welcoming including our closest new book, The Dragons zones to find out. In My
itself in the wake of the
of stories.” Richard atmosphere. In human relatives, the and the Snakes: How the Year of Living Vulnerably,
pandemic, and for her To compensate in some small way, we
interweaves his own Parwana: Recipes Neanderthals. James Rest Learned to Fight Rick Morton describes
country to arrest its invite you to join us to celebrate the
visits, experiences and and Stories from Bradley’s Ghost the West, examines his journey into love
slide into sectarianism wonderful array of South Australian
impressions of Prague an Afghan Kitchen, Species is both a the complex new world after a diagnosis of
and authoritarianism. books that missed out on in-person
with its broader history, Durkhanai Ayubi tells compulsive page-turner of modern warfare, Complex PTSD. Despite
Noting that “the launches in 2020, as we re-launch 8
giving us a brilliant of her family’s journey and book of big ideas: featuring the state its outward trappings
point of a writer is great works from 8 fantastic local authors
living portrait of a city from Afghanistan to a deft examination of competitor “dragons” of success, Christine
to be unpopular”, from this year’s Writers’ Week program.
of fairy tales, violent Adelaide. Her mother’s scientific, corporate and the non-state Jackman’s life felt off
Booker Prize-winner
crusades and dark recipes are interwoven and personal ethics in guerrilla and terrorist kilter and unrewarding.
Arundhati describes From memoir, to debut novels, to sly
secrets. His passion with vivid stories of our endangered world players, the “snakes.” A She recounts her efforts
her non-fiction as satire, to magic realism, to investigative
and love for the city a homeland of rich and an intimate and remarkable synthesis of to reclaim peace in
“urgent interventions”, reporting and more – help give this
infuse the pages of a histories, generous affecting account of three decades of military Turning Down the Noise:
which speak for the diverse and compelling range of books
book that captures its hospitality, and the love, motherhood and and political history, this The Quiet Power of
marginalised and their moment in the spotlight by joining
very essence. celebration of the what it means to be expert analysis of the Silence in a Busy World.
silenced, and convey us for (Re)launch: Live and Local! as we
ritual of preparing and human. new nature of conflict
Chair: Michael the unvarnished truth Chair: Natasha Cica shake our fist at Covid and 2020 and
Williams sharing food. is as illuminating as it is
Chair: Nicole Abadee to power.
disturbing. celebrate great South Australian writing
Chair: Collette
Chair: Sophie Black – in person!
Snowden Chair: Rick Sarre
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WRITING FOR
PERFORMANCE
On the Plane Tree Stage
Sun 28 Feb
SEE ME THROUGH East Stage 9.30am West Stage East Stage 10.45am West Stage East Stage 12pm West Stage
MY HANDS 11.30am
Curated
The festival’s premiere storytelling event Dozen
that places Deaf creativity at the forefront See page 5
is back! This year we showcase four new
writers performing in Auslan to show you
the world through their hands. Join us for an HAMNET THE MEANING PHOSPHORESCENCE HOW MUCH OF A BIGGER TROUBLE OF
energetic and powerful performance with OF MONEY THESE HILLS PICTURE THE MIND
some of Adelaide’s best new storytellers.
Presented by Writers SA IS GOLD? MENTAL ILLNESS
Royce Kurmelovs IN FICTION
Maggie O’Farrell Rick Morton Julia Baird C Pam Zhang Malcolm Turnbull Luke Horton
FIRST WORDS 1pm Meg Mason
LIVE STREAMED FROM Royce Kurmelovs’ After writing her LIVE STREAMED FROM When Malcolm Turnbull The devastating
LONDON, UK finances were shredded best-selling book, SAN FRANCISCO, USA became Prime Minister effect of mental health
when, uninsured, he Phosphorescence: in September 2015, afflictions and their
Maggie O’Farrell’s Compared by The
hit another car. Rick On awe, wonder and Australians of all impact on both the
award-winning Hamnet New York Times to
Morton grew up in things that sustain political persuasion individual and their
gives us new and Faulkner’s As I Lay
poverty, a household you when the world breathed a sigh of nearest and dearest
illuminating insight Dying and Steinbeck’s
Join a stellar lineup of South Australian that struggled to afford goes dark, Julia Baird relief that the hyper- is sensitively and
into Shakespeare mighty The Grapes of
First Nations writers and experience the birthday gifts and in said she hoped it partisan chaos of the sometimes hilariously
depth and power of language in verse. With and his masterpiece, Wrath, C Pam Zhang’s
which an unexpected would prove useful to Abbott Administration explored by Meg Mason
celebrated award-winning poets and some and the family that How Much of These
bill could mean a choice “a few people going was over. They forgave and Luke Horton in
of the best emerging voices, First Words nurtured him. Told Hills Is Gold? brilliantly
between food and through an ‘In the him the way he claimed their respective novels,
is an unmissable event in spoken word from the perspective reimagines both the
electricity. Royce’s Just Case of Emergency, the top job in a way Sorrow and Bliss and
performance. Presented by Writers SA of Shakespeare’s wife, American West and
Money: Misadventures Smash Glass’ kind of they never did Julia The Fogging. Full of
this devastatingly the Classic American
in the Great Australian moment.” And then Gillard. Three years spiky wit and vivid
beautiful novel takes Western. Longlisted
HEAR ME ROAR! 2.30pm Debt Trap and Rick’s On 2020 happened, and and one knife-edge observation, Sorrow
as its starting point for the Booker, it tells
Money are illuminating the world went dark election later, he too and Bliss looks back
the true fact of the of Chinese American
explorations of the for everyone. Part was gone. Malcolm on a wrecked marriage.
death of their 11 year orphans Lucy and
debt industry and its memoir, part cultural talks to Don Watson The Fogging
old son, Hamnet (a Sam’s quest through
shakedown of the poor commentary, this about his journey to documents a
variant on the more the Californian hills
and the desperate, intimate and inspiring the top of Australian relationship breakdown
familiar Hamlet), and during the Gold Rush
and the strange moral book exhorts us to politics, what it is with pathos,
from there weaves a as they seek to bury
Join us for two hours of exhilarating and meaning we – one of “reach for those tiny like to lead and to documenting with
deeply moving story of the body of their father
inspiring spoken word performance the most indebted moments of stillness” be so peremptorily prickly precision the
family, love and, most in a homeland that
showcasing poets invigorating our local nations in the world as we search for the dispatched, and what anxiety that plagues
profoundly, of grief, constantly tells them
and national stages, including Australian – ascribe to both the light within. he makes of it all now. our protagonist.
Slam Poetry Champions Ren Alessandra and the paths we must “this land is not
having and owing of
and Jesse Oliver, SA standout Slammers navigate through them. Chair: Nicole Abadee your land.” Chair: Don Watson Chair: Jo Case
money.
Chris Jaksa and Olenka Toroshenko plus Chair: Anton Enus Chair: Mirandi Riwoe
Hadley and Rameen Hayat. Chair: David Sly
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Sun 28 Feb
East Stage 1.15pm West Stage East Stage 2.30pm West Stage East Stage 3.45pm West Stage East Stage 5pm West Stage
Curated Curated
Dozen Dozen
See page 5 See page 5
THE WORLD MOTHERS THE FUTURE BENEVOLENCE WHITHER A ROOM THE LIVING SEA OUR BODIES, THEIR
OF WORDS AND SECRETS IS NOW AUSTRALIAN MADE OF OF WAKING BATTLEFIELD:
WHAT WAR DOES TO
Katherine Tamiko LEADERSHIP? LEAVES DREAMS WOMEN
Sue Butler Arguile Katharine Murphy
Pip Williams Victoria Hannan William Gibson Julie Janson Laura Tingle Kate Grenville Richard Flanagan Christina Lamb
Pip Williams’ wonderful In Katherine Tamiko LIVE STREAMED FROM Based on the oral Two of our most incisive Kate Grenville’s latest One of Australia’s LIVE STREAMED FROM
novel The Dictionary of Arguile’s beautifully VANCOUVER, CANADA histories of the political analysts novel A Room Made greatest writers and LONDON, UK
Lost Words documents melancholic The Darug people, Julie examine the state of of Leaves continues seer of our times,
The man who invented Booker Prize-winner “Rape”, writes Christina
the origin of the Oxford Things She Owned, a Janson has said that leadership in Australia. the disruption of
“cyberspace”, William Richard Flanagan’s The Lamb, one of the
Dictionary through visit from her cousin her ambitious and Drawing on their recent conventional colonial
Gibson is one of the Living Sea of Waking world’s foremost war
the tale of the fictional leads Erika to make illuminating new novel, Quarterly Essays, Laura narratives that began
influential writers of Dreams describes the correspondents who
Esme Nicoll, who sense of her fraught Benevolence, was Tingle (Follow the Leader with her acclaimed
our time. From his end of a family and has worked in war and
observes how some relationship with her written as an Aboriginal – Democracy and the The Secret River. What
groundbreaking debut the end of the world. combat zones for over
words were valued dead mother through a response to The Secret Rise of the Strongman if Elizabeth, wife of
novel Neuromancer, Documenting the slow thirty years, “is the
more than others and treasured collection of River. Muraging – a QE71 and The High the colonial monster
to his latest bestseller death of a matriarch in cheapest weapon known
seeks to rectify it. Sue artefacts and memories. character inspired by Road: What Australia Can John Macarthur, left
Agency, he was the first a Hobart hospital, and to man.” In her latest
Butler was Editor of the In Victoria Hannan’s Julie’s own great- Learn from New Zealand behind brutally frank
to imagine a computer- the tumult it causes harrowing and profoundly
Macquarie Dictionary Kokomo, Mina’s mother, great-grandmother QE80) and Katharine secret memoirs, she
saturated existence, amongst her children, moving book, Our
for decades, where she Elaine, has secrets too, – is given over to the Murphy (The End of asks? And they told
grounded in an all-too- this achingly sad but still Bodies, Their Battlefields,
oversaw the inclusion which draw Mina back Native Institution Certainty: Scott Morrison the real story behind
material world, and to hopeful novel deploys Christina documents the
of new words. Her home from London on as a pupil by her and Pandemic Politics the myth of the 18th
anticipate its implications. father, a “benevolent” magical realism, black terrible crimes committed
new book is the highly an urgent mission as QE79) explore whether century wife? Playful
The philosophies and humour and Richard’s against women as an
entertaining Rebel Elaine ventures out of institution providing #scottyfrommarketing and audacious, this
practicalities of the near Christian discipline masterfully poetic instrument of war. With its
Without a Clause. the house for the first offers more than photo astonishing literary
futures of his books prose to explore the sensitive interviews with
Losing the linguistic time since the death of and education, and opportunities, if Albo achievement delves
stem from a deep and way humanity loves, contemporary victims
plot ... Pip and Sue her father twelve years thereby becomes the missed his moment, and into history to examine
fascinated engagement neglects and destroys across many countries,
discuss the attraction ago. These impressive first person in the novel what we want and should the very contemporary
with the present, as itself and the beautiful and tenacious and
and fluidity of language, debuts are moving and to be sacrificed to the demand from those who issues of fake stories
embodied in his most world it inhabits. empathetic reporting, Our
and how dictionaries insightful meditations good intentions of the would lead us. and hidden truths, and
famous aphorism: Bodies, Their Battlefields
shape and reflect on love, grief and the waibala. where stories originate.
“The future is already Chair: Sophie Black Chair: Michael Williams writes women into the
their times. ties that bind.
here, it’s just not evenly Chair: Caroline Baum Chair: Clare Wright history of war.
Chair: Victoria Purman Chair: Kate Mildenhall distributed.”
Chair: Laura Grenfell
Supported by the Copyright
Agency Cultural Fund Chair: James Bradley
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Mon 1 Mar
East Stage 9.30am West Stage East Stage 10.45am West Stage East Stage 12pm West Stage East Stage 1.15pm West Stage
WITNESS FUTURE THE TIME OF FIRST ON THE BELIEVER HURRICANE THE INNER SELF READING:
AN INVESTIGATION INTO AWRY OUR LIVES THE SCENE SEASON
ENCOUNTERS WITH THE JOY OF IMMERSION AND
THE BRUTAL COST OF GROWING OLDER LOVE, DEATH AND DISCOVERING WHO INSPIRATION
SEEKING JUSTICE WELL FAITH WE REALLY ARE
Patrick Allington Benjamin Gilmour Debra Adelaide
Louise Milligan Dennis Glover Robert Dessaix Rachael Mead Sarah Krasnostein Fernanda Melchor Hugh Mackay Tegan Bennett Daylight
Born of Louise Milligan’s In Patrick Allington’s Robert Dessaix’s new What inner strength Sarah Krasnostein’s LIVE STREAMED FROM Hugh Mackay has Debra Adelaide and
own brutal experience as Rise & Shine, an book is an essential is required when your first book, The Trauma SAN PUEBLA, MEXICO made a lifelong study Tegan Bennett Daylight
a witness in the Cardinal environmental companion for those working day is filled Cleaner, was a runaway of the attitudes have lived their lives
Pell case, Witness is A savage, violent howl
apocalypse has pondering how to age with injury, death and bestseller and swept and behaviours immersed in books – as
at once a gripping, of a book by one of
wiped out most of well, and cogitating on despair? Rachael Mead literary prizes nationally. of Australians, writers, editors, critics,
powerful, meticulously Mexico’s most exciting
the population. Those what life is all about and Benjamin Gilmour Her new book is The researching who teachers and, most
researched critique writers, Fernanda
that survive are anyway. The Time can tell us. In The Believer, an exploration we are, and why we importantly, as readers.
of our criminal justice Melchor’s Hurricane
nourished – literally – by of Our Lives posits Application of Pressure, of the power of belief. behave as we do, for In Debra’s The Innocent
system, and an eloquent Season explores the
the consumption of that a rich inner life novelist Rachael In it, she listens to the nearly sixty years. Reader: Reflections on
and empathetic deep misogyny and
violent footage from is key to both and Mead introduces us to “human song of longing In his potent new Reading and Writing
argument for change. femicide of her country.
the perpetual war enables readers to paramedics Tash and for the unattainable”, book, The Inner Self, and Tegan’s The Details:
Including the accounts The murder of the town
waged between the share in Robert’s Joel as they traverse with each note in Hugh returns to his On Love, Death and
of victims retraumatised “witch” is the book’s
two city-states of Rise sharp, expansive, witty the streets of Adelaide the song a story of psychology roots Reading, they reflect
by their courtroom tragic centre, around
and Shine. In Dennis exploration of his own in their ambulance, unshakeable and often and turns his gaze with candour and
experience alongside which swirls streams
Glover’s Factory 19, a inner world. Reflecting saving lives and unfathomable faith. inwards, bypassing our generosity on their
expert opinions and of brutal, mesmerising,
Walshian figure leads a on time, religion, lost souls. Benjamin The stories are told to socially constructed love of reading, and
analysis from legal illuminating prose, each
willing cohort back to painting, dancing, family Gilmour documents her by six extraordinary identities to explore the joy and fulfillment it
practitioners including chapter told from the
the future to an enclave and more, this is a wise his own experience individuals – including our deeper, more offers them, exploring
defence counsel, perspective of a different
in Tasmania, where they and timely exploration as a paramedic on Death Doulas, private sense of self. the deep emotional
prosecutors, judges and but always unreliable
search for happiness in of the challenges and the frontline, first at Ghostbusters, He invites us to find a connection they have
academics, Witness lays narrator. Shortlisted for
an industrialised past. possibilities of ageing. infamous Sydney Creationists and path to psychological forged with the written
bare the flaws of our the 2020 International
Both books offer surreal suicide spot The Gap: survivors of domestic freedom by answering word and the worlds it
Chair: Peter Rose Booker Prize, Hurricane
adversarial system, and and darkly satirical A paramedic’s summer violence – individuals that most challenging can contain.
the devastating impact Season is both a dark
takes on leadership, on the edge, and Sarah meets, follows, and confronting of
they can have on the celebration of language Chair: Ashley Hay
humanity and the then further afield in interrogates and seeks questions: Who am I,
delivery of justice. and a powerful insight Supported by the Copyright
common good. Paramedico: Around the to understand in this really?
into a world of poverty, Agency Cultural Fund
World by Ambulance. profound and deeply
Chair: Natasha Cica Chair: Geordie brutality and gore. Chair: Natasha Mitchell
Williamson compassionate book.
Chair: Victoria Purman
Chair: Rebecca Huntley Chair: Claire Nichols
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MOUNTAINS LITERARY LOVE, LIES AND TRIBULATIONS LEAVING IT ALL ON THE PAGE
JUSTICE ON THE TRAIL GROWING UP GAY
SING PRIZE OF A NAZI FUGITIVE Hosted by Sami Shah
Nguyễn Phan Shannon Molloy
Alex Miller Craig Silvey Philippe Sands Ronnie Scott
Quế Mai
Dual Miles Franklin LIVE STREAMED FROM After the blockbuster Inaugurated by the LIVE STREAMED FROM In his harrowing memoir, Rick Morton, Yves Rees, Jessie Tu
Award-winner Alex JAKARTA, INDONESIA success of Jasper passionate readers LONDON, UK Fourteen: My year of
Miller’s latest book is Jones, Craig Silvey’s who comprise darkness, and the light Join broadcaster, author, comedian and
Nguyễn Phan Quế From the award- host of 2021’s all-Australian Authorial
a powerful excavation highly anticipated new Adelaide’s MUD that followed, Shannon
Mai’s The Mountains winning author of
of the history of one novel is Honeybee. Literary Club – the Molloy details the Voice Sami Shah as he talks to a panel
Sing is the epic, multi- the celebrated East
of his closest friends Chronicling the only philanthropic violence and fear he who are comfortable Leaving It All on
generational tale of the West Street comes
and mentor, Max Blatt. Tran family, set against coming of age of its organisation in the perpetually suffered the Page. Rick Morton (My Year of Living
the real life thriller The
From Melbourne’s the backdrop of the transgender narrator, country exclusively growing up as an Vulnerably, One Hundred Years of Dirt),
Holocaust Centre to the Sam, the story supporting literature –
Ratline, a mesmerising effeminate boy deep in
Vietnam War. Spanning biography of a devoted Yves Rees (winner of the 2020 Calibre
Gestapo files of Berlin’s the French colonial opens with Sam and the MUD Literary Prize regional Queensland. Essay Prize) and Jessie Tu (A Lonely Girl
husband, father and
Federal Archives, and period to the present another despairing has established an Ronnie Scott’s debut is a Dangerous Thing) sit down with Sami
war criminal. The
on to Poland and Israel, day, we follow the lives soul standing on an impressive pedigree novel, The Adversary, to debate the challenges, liberation and
story of the life and
Alex feels his way of matriarch Diệu Lan overpass ready to end over its short life. is a sly, dry account excruciating vulnerability of mining your
mysterious death of
through the silence with and her granddaughter it all. Sam and Vic save Founded in 2018 to of the inner-city world
Nazi leader turned own life and self for your writing.
imagination, sensitivity Huong. Diệu Lan tells each other and their celebrate a debut of endless student
fugitive Otto von
and great love, on Huong of Vietnam’s tentative friendship novel of literary fiction, summers, cheap wine
Wächter, the richly
a quest to uncover taboo on discussing gives them their first past winners are Sarah and Grindr; the like of
“the wrongdoing of detailed and beautifully
the elusive truth of reason to live. Equal Schmidt (See What which a young Shannon
those in power, for crafted The Ratline
Max’s early years. The parts heartbreaking I Have Done), Trent could only dream. How
they give themselves draws on the family
result is a moving, and heartwarming, Dalton (Boy Swallows individuals cope and
the right to rewrite archives of Otto’s
elegiac meditation on Honeybee is a deeply Universe) and Sienna grow, and how this
history.” With luminous son and Philippe’s
friendship, memory empathetic novel of Brown (Master of My is reflected in worlds
prose and a compelling friend Horst to explore
and history from one identity, vulnerability Fate). Be the first to changing around them,
immersive story, The humanity’s capacity
of our finest writers. and masculinity. hear from the 2021 is explored in these very
Mountains Sing breaks for love and evil, and
winner. different but equally
Chair: Tali Lavi that silence. Chair: Yves Rees ask if one can redeem
engaging accounts of
Chair: David Sly the other.
Chair: Caroline Baum gay life in Australia.
Chair: Rick Sarre
Chair: Rick Morton
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THE DETAILS THE RAIN APEIROGON TRUGANINI THE INSIDER THE GLASS THE SHADOW THE MOST
ON LOVE, DEATH HERON HOTEL KING DANGEROUS MAN
AND READING IN THE WORLD
JULIAN ASSANGE AND
Tegan Bennett Ian Anderson Emily St. John WIKILEAKS’ FIGHT
Daylight Robbie Arnott Colum McCann Cassandra Pybus Christopher Pyne Mandel Maaza Mengiste FOR FREEDOM
Andrew Fowler
Part memoir, part Robbie Arnott burst on LIVE STREAMED FROM Liberated from the When his father died LIVE STREAMED FROM LIVE STREAMED FROM
love letter to her to the literary scene NEW YORK, USA tropes of tragedy unexpectedly at 59, NEW YORK, USA NEW YORK, USA Updated to include
favourite books with his gloriously that have dominated Christopher Pyne contemporary events of
Colum McCann’s Emily St. John Mandel’s Shortlisted for the
and authors, Tegan imaginative debut, previous accounts, learned that life is short 2020, Andrew Fowler’s
profoundly moving exquisite new novel Booker Prize, The
Bennett Daylight’s first Flames, a novel of Cassandra Pybus’ in the toughest possible account of Julian
masterpiece, Apeirogon, tells of the porous Shadow King is a
collection of essays, stylistic ingenuity that biography of Nuenonne way. He became a man Assange’s rise and fall
is based on a true story boundaries between powerful, poetic book
The Details, evokes traversed genres with woman Truganini finally in a hurry, and fought is a damning indictment
of a friendship between past and present, rich about women soldiers
Blake’s observation that dense poetic prose. does justice to this his way into Federal of the lengths to which
“An Israeli, against and poor, living and during the Italian-
one can see “a World His new book The remarkable woman. Parliament at the tender Western Governments
the Occupation. A dead. The Glass Hotel Ethiopian war of 1935,
in a Grain of Sand.” Rain Heron is similarly Posthumously and age of 25, knifing his will go to keep their
Palestinian, studying the follows tough and the first main conflict of
The detail is the point, inventive, the story falsely named “the Last erstwhile mentor to secrets. As Assange
Holocaust.” United by beautiful Vincent, whose World War II. Drawing
she writes. Drawing on of a mythic bird with Tasmanian Aboriginal”, get there. A confidante languishes in London’s
the devastation of losing fall off a container ship on the life of Maaza’s
noted authors including extraordinary powers, Truganini is revealed to and tactician for maximum security
a daughter to political into a storm-tossed own grandmother, it
Jane Austen, George able to save and destroy to be a woman of multiple Prime Ministers, Belmarsh prison, in The
violence, Bassam Aramin ocean opens and tells the story of Hirut,
Saunders, S. J. Perelman the land, both hunted great strength, Christopher rose to Most Dangerous Man
and Rami Elhanan closes the book, and of whose daring plan
and particularly and protected by flawed resilience and agency, become one of SA’s in the World, Andrew
together tell their Jonathan, who whisks saves morale when
Helen Garner, Tegan humans. With lush a renowned swimmer, most powerful – and documents how a
daughters’ stories over Vincent off into the Emperor Selassie goes
skillfully blends lyrical language, The nimble negotiator, entertaining – political computer hacker with
and over, to anyone that “kingdom of money”, into exile, only to end
observations about Rain Heron is at once lover of nature and figures. In The Insider: a turbulent childhood
will listen, in an attempt but whose wealth is a up a prisoner of one
writing and reading ecological parable children, and master The scoops, the became a journalist
to bring a peaceful Bernie Madoff-esque of Italy’s most brutal
with recollections and thriller, and an of adaptation. scandals and the serious and America’s Public
resolution to the endless mirage. With its intricate, officers. A captivating
from her own life, from audacious, immersive Inspired by her own business within the Enemy No 1, facing up
conflict. Colum’s radically interlocking narratives, study of female power
the profound to the work from one of family’s connection Canberra bubble, he to 175 years in prison
empathetic novel and rich haunting prose, with an indelible,
everyday, to moving, Australia’s most original to Nuenonne country, writes with verve, wit for revealing the truth
is infused with both The Glass Hotel is a inspirational heroine
inspiring and sometimes new talents. Cassandra is joined and candour about what about the business of
desperate hope and beguiling puzzle of a at its heart.
hilarious effect. by Ian Anderson to Annabel Crabb calls “a Government.
Chair: Jane Howard poetic power. book that is a joy to
discuss Truganini’s life truly bonkers period of Chair: Linda Jaivin
Chair: Geordie solve. Chair: Rebecca Huntley
Williamson Chair: Sophie and legacy. political history.”
Cunningham Chair: Caroline Baum
Supported by Culture Ireland
Chair: Paul Daley Chair: Sally Warhaft
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THE RISE OF LIFE AFTER RETURN TO SHIFTING THE PRICE OF POETRY UNSTABLE GROUND
INDEPENDENT TRUTH ULURU PERSPECTIVES FREE SPEECH READINGS Hosted by Jo Dyer
MEDIA Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai Including:
John Carty Malcolm Knox Geoff Goodfellow
Peter Fray Ceridwen Dovey Mark McKenna
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Patrick Mullins Julie Janson
Margaret Simons JAKARTA, INDONESIA Randa Abdel-Fattah, Robbie
Nardi Simpson
Michael West Mirandi Riwoe Arnott, Durkhanai Ayubi, Geoff
Five old friends on the When historian Mark Do Australians extend Jessie Tu
Goodfellow, Andrew Kwong,
cusp of middle age McKenna set out to write In Mirandi Riwoe’s the right of free speech Join Australian Book Mirandi Riwoe, Nardi Simpson
With over half a million
meet at their fifteen- a history of Uluru, he award-winning Stone only to those we agree Review’s Editor and
Australians joining
year Harvard reunion had no idea where Sky Gold Mountain, we with, saying things we poet Peter Rose for As the sun sets, the heat recedes
Kevin Rudd’s call for
and wonder if they’re the story would take experience Australia’s approve of? In Truth is an hour of poetry and work is done for the day, the bar
a Royal Commission
wasting or realising him. Researching the Gold Rush through Trouble, Malcolm Knox reading, featuring a
into News Corp and is open and the Pioneer Women’s
their potential. And shooting death of an the eyes of Chinese documents the curious line-up of celebrated
the concentration of Memorial Garden is the place to be as
then their erstwhile Aboriginal man by immigrants Ying and case of how footballer poets drawn from
media power in this some of Writers’ Week favourite guests
classmate, the policeman Bill McKinnon, Lai Yue as family Israel Folau became Writers’ Week guests
country, Australians are embrace the informality of our Twilight
President’s much- Mark uncovered shocking circumstances force the centre of our free and South Australia’s
increasingly turning to Talks and reveal their unfiltered selves.
despised son, turns up evidence that was typical the two siblings to speech debate. Patrick vast pool of poetic
other, more independent An all-Australian, all-star line-up have
dead. With razor sharp of Australian frontier seek their fortune far Mullins’ The Trials of talent. Including
outlets for their news. ten minutes to contemplate their lives,
wit and focus, the justice, and astonishing from home. Nguyễn Portnoy, recounts Julie Janson, Jessie
Editor-in-Chief of veteran passions, preoccupations and the
hugely enjoyable Life in its contemporary Phan Quế Mai’s The the pervasive literary Tu, Nardi Simpson
online newsletter Crikey! hell of a year we’ve all just endured as
After Truth explores resonance. With support Mountains Sing censorship of our and Adelaide’s own
Peter Fray, independent
friendship, parenthood, from the families puritanical past, brought they reflect on the challenge of trying
journalist and media recounts Vietnam’s legendary street poet,
success and fame, as of key individuals, to an abrupt end with to stay balanced while standing on
analyst Margaret dark history of Geoff Goodfellow.
it examines how we and the assistance colonialism and war Portnoy’s Complaint Unstable Ground.
Simons and founder of Chair: Peter Rose
narrate the stories of of SA Museum, Mark from the perspective and Penguin’s brave
michaelwest.com.au,
our lives, and the gap uncovered critical new of its people rather decision to publish and
business writer Michael
between our inner evidence, and Return than its invaders. be damned. Malcolm
West discuss the rise
selves and the persona to Uluru became a true These illuminating and Patrick discuss our
of independent media
we present to the crime story of the most and engaging history of censorship
and what we gain –
world. explosive kind, and an novels provide new and today’s fraught
and lose – from the
important exploration perspectives on debate around bigotry
increased proliferation Chair: Tali Lavi
of what truth telling and familiar stories in ways and cancel culture.
of new media.
reconciliation means as refreshing as they Chair: David Marr
Chair: Paul Barclay in practice. are important.
Chair: Jared Thomas Chair: Yves Rees
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THE RIVER QUIVERING INFINITE ONE BRIGHT THE PALACE WHAT ARE TWILIGHT OF THE TOLSTOY
RUNS DRY ON THE CUSP SPLENDOURS MOON LETTERS YOU GOING DEMOCRACY ESTATE
THE FAILURE OF
Richard Beasley Naoise Dolan THROUGH? POLITICS AND THE
Grant Rigney LIVE STREAMED FROM PARTING OF FRIENDS
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Jessie Tu
The Murray-Darling Gifted youngster Andrew Kwong’s Distinguished historian LIVE STREAMED FROM LIVE STREAMED FROM Winner of the Prime
Basin is dying. Despite its Naoise Dolan and Lawrence enjoys an quietly gripping Jenny Hocking fought for NEW YORK, USA WASHINGTON DC, USA Minister’s Literary Award
catastrophic plight, and Jessie Tu were idyllic childhood in memoir takes us over a decade for access for his debut novel,
the devastating findings responsible for two regional Victoria, where deep into Maoist to correspondence Sigrid Nunez took Pulitzer prize-winning The Zookeeper’s War,
of the South Australian of the most bracing, he lives with his widowed China and the stark between Governor twenty-five years to author and historian Anne Steven Conte returns
Royal Commission, policy exciting debuts of mother and young human cost of the General John Kerr and become an overnight Applebaum deconstructs to World War II for his
is corrupted, neglected 2020. Naoise’s Exciting brother at the foot of the Great Leap Forward. Buckingham Palace success with her the psychology and stunning new book,
or ignored. Richard Times and Jessie’s Grampians. After taking With parents from about the sacking seventh book, the motivations of today’s The Tolstoy Estate. It
Beasley draws on his A Lonely Girl is a his first painting class, the intellectual class, of Gough Whitlam. National Book Award- crazed conspiracy is 1941 and Hitler has
experience as Counsel Dangerous Thing are he dives obsessively into Andrew’s innocence, Classified by the winning The Friend, theorists and populists repeated Napoleon’s
Assisting the Royal witty, bold accounts of an exhilarating world of optimism and love of Palace as “personal the story of a woman fatal misstep of invading
in Twilight of Democracy,
Commission in Dead in the power dynamics of light, colour and art, and the Communist Party correspondence”, Jenny mourning the suicide of Russia. In winter. A
an incisive examination of
the Water, a book that is sex and relationships thrives. But his world is is undercut by the finally secured their a close friend with the German medical unit find
the longstanding struggle
simultaneously hilarious in the twenty-first shattered by the arrival persecution his family release in June 2020 help of a Great Dane. themselves quartered
between democracy and
and deadly serious, and century, with heroines of an interloper, and a suffers under Mao’s following a landmark Its narrator returns in at Yasnaya Polyana,
very, very angry. Margaret devastating incident regime. One Bright High Court judgment dictatorship. Drawing the ancestral estate of
that deadpan their way her new book, What Are
Simons’ celebrated that follows. Sofie Moon is a powerful that decreed they on experience and Tolstoy, where surgeon
through relationships You Going Through?
Quarterly Essay, Cry Laguna’s extraordinary account of resilience, were Commonwealth with another intimate high-level relationships Paul Bauer becomes
– transactional, erotic
Me A River (QE77), is and compassionate family and starting records. In her new book, spare story in which she forged across Europe enthralled by its Director
and romantic – as
both a portrait and they navigate love, new book, Infinite anew, as, after years The Palace Letters, helps her friend prepare and America, and an and the legacy of the
explanation of our current vulnerability and Splendours, is of struggle, Andrew Jenny discusses the for the end after a exemplary understanding great Tolstoy that
predicament. Grant ambition and muster a luminous and makes a daring escape implications of the cancer diagnosis. A of contemporary and surrounds them. An epic,
Rigney is the Director the courage to find heartbreaking meditation to ultimately become Letters and their release beautiful meditation historical politics, ambitious tale of love,
of the Murray Lower their true selves. on art, trauma, and a doctor in Australia, for transparency and on friendship, mortality Twilight of Democracy war and literature.
Darling Rivers innocence lost. from where he works accountability in our and grief infused with is a confronting and
Chair: Jo Case Chair: Ashley Hay
Indigenous Nations. to reunite his family. democratic system, generosity and wit. illuminating analysis of a
Supported by Culture Ireland Chair: Linda Jaivin
and for Australian polarised world.
Chair: Natasha Mitchell Chair: Gabrielle Chan Chair: Geordie
democracy itself.
Williamson Chair: Sally Warhaft
Chair: Mark McKenna
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LAND OF MATES THE POROUS HAZEL ROWLEY CITY SERIES: A DOUBLE EVENT
AND FAVOURS PRESENT FELLOWSHIP COMING OF
AUSTRALIA’S CRONY LIFE, LOVE AND LEGACIES ADDRESS AGE IN THE
CAPITALISM MAKING CHARACTERS: Matthew Condon Kerryn Goldsworthy WAR ON
Richard Denniss Nardi Simpson BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR Sophie Cunningham Tess Lea TERROR
Cameron Murray Karen Wyld Jacqueline Kent Paul Daley Peter Timms
Marian Wilkinson Delia Falconer David Whish-Wilson Randa Abdel-Fattah
Does Australia have a In Karen Wyld’s Where the In this year’s lecture in To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the iconic City Series and the The shocking image of
problem with rent-seekers, Fruit Falls, Brigid sets off memory of biographer publication of updated versions on our eight capital cities, this special planes smashing into the
well-connected insiders who on an epic journey with her Hazel Rowley, Jacqueline double event chaired by the infinitely expert George Megalogenis World Trade Centre on
have their snouts firmly in twin babies, one white and Kent, biographer of Vida examines what makes each of our cities special through the eyes September 11, 2001, was
the public trough, enriching one black, searching for Goldstein, Julia Gillard and of authors who love and know them. As we emerge from the Great a defining moment in the
themselves and their mates lost love. Nardi Simpson’s Hephzibah Menuhin, turns Lockdowns of 2020, when we were forced to stay home, and individual modern era. We now have
at the expense of the rest of Song of the Crocodile the spotlight on herself and State borders slammed shut one after the other, it seems particularly a generation – Muslim and
us? Why is it that the majority introduces us to the her brief but passionate appropriate to look at the personality of each capital – their skylines, non-Muslim – who have
of our Rich-Listers accrued Billymil family, living with relationship with Kenneth cultures, architecture, and natural surrounds – and explore how they have grown up in the shadow of
their wealth from favourable its community on the Cook, author of the novel changed over the last decade, and how they shape, excite, attract or the War on Terror, with its
treatment in heavily regulated fringes of Darnmoor, “the Wake in Fright. Jacqueline infuriate their residents. associated Islamophobia,
industries? The Australia Gateway to Happiness”. discusses what happens First we hear from Kerryn Goldsworthy (Adelaide), Sophie Cunningham surveillance and suspicion.
Institute’s Chief Economist Both novels are award- when you become a (Melbourne), David Whish-Wilson (Perth) and Peter Timms (Hobart), and In her ambitious, rigorous
Richard Denniss, co-author winning, immersive stories character in your own story, then Delia Falconer (Sydney), Matthew Condon (Brisbane), Paul Daley and deeply compassionate
of Games of Mates (with Paul of family, Country and and switch from describing (Canberra) and Tess Lea (Darwin), before all authors return to the stage new book, Coming of Age
Frijters), Cameron Murray and history that powerfully others’ lives to tackle your for questions from the audience and each other. in the War on Terror, Randa
Marian Wilkinson weave rich narratives and own. The announcement Abdel-Fattah hears from
Don’t miss this literary and cultural audit of the state of our cities,
(The Carbon Club) examine magical realism with the of the recipient of the the young people most
and their relationship to each other and the country.
the cosy club of political enduring tragic legacy of 2021 Hazel Rowley Literary affected by our polarised
insiders and this particularly colonialism. Fellowship will follow. Chair: George Megalogenis politics, providing
Australian way to make important insight into their
Chair: Natalie Harkin
money. resilience, humour and
heartbreak.
Chair: Michael West
Chair: Sami Shah
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