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Festivals
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Programs 2017-2018
- 2018 Primary School Days: City (Friday)
- Primary School Days: City (Monday)
- Primary School Days: Parramatta
- Primary School Days: Penrith
- Secondary School Days: Chatswood
- Secondary School Days: Parramatta
- Secondary School Days: Carriageworks
- The Untold Stories in Australian History
- Taking a Stand
- Writers on Writers: Alice Pung discusses John Marsden
- Express Yourself
- Reporting on Natural Disaster
- Next Wave
- An Evening with Geoffrey Robertson
- An Evening with Geoffrey Robertson (additional session)
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Festival 2017
- Vikings and Zombies and Robots, Oh My! with James Foley
- The Patchwork Bike
- Andy Griffiths: Are You Ready to Roll?
- Mariko Tamaki Reading and Workshop
- R.A. Spratt’s Writing Masterclass (1)
- Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys: Creating a Unique Children's Book
- S.D. Gentill: Mining Mythology
- James Foley: Where Children's Book Ideas Come From
- Swearing In: Veep's Armando Iannucci on Spin and Satire
- John M. Green: The Tao Deception (Ashfield)
- Kathryn Heyman: Storm and Grace (Blacktown)
- Ashley Hay: A Hundred Small Lessons (Camden)
- Candice Fox: Crimson Lake (Campbelltown)
- Holly Throsby: Goodwood (Castle Hill)
- David Hunt: True Girt (Chatswood)
- Stephen Dando-Collins: The Hero Maker (Chatswood)
- Zoe Morrison: Music and Freedom (Randwick)
- Gratefully Yours
- MCA Zine Fair 2017
- Words From the West (Parramatta)
- The Art of Biography
- Di Morrissey: A Distant Journey
- Liane Moriarty: Truly Madly Guilty
- The Best of the Festival: Poetry and Performance
- Dear Quentin: Letters of a Governor-General
- A Murderer in the Family
- Deng Adut: Songs of a War Boy
- James Shapiro: The Year of Lear
- Susan Faludi: In the Darkroom
- Dreams of Her Real Self: Writers on Helen Garner
- All The Girls To The Front
- Hisham Matar: The Return
- Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales: Our Reading Year
- I Love Dick
- Clementine Ford: Fight Like a Girl
- 2017 Opening Night: Brit Bennett, Anne Enright and George Saunders
- Lion: A Long Way Home
- Elaine Welteroth: On Editing Teen Vogue
- Not to Scale: Numbers and the Immigration Debate
- SWF Gala: Origin Story
- Anne Enright: What You Have To Do Is Not Leave The House
- Ian Rankin: Who Says Crime Doesn't Pay?
- Roxane Gay: Difficult Women
- Thomas Friedman: The Case for Optimism
- American Carnage
- The Singular George Saunders
- Colson Whitehead: The Underground Railroad
- Live from Sydney: Slate's Culture Gabfest
- SWF Gala: Advice from Nasty Women
- Viral and Verse: Hera Lindsay Bird and Rupi Kaur
- Jamie Morton: My Dad Wrote a Porno
- NSW Premier's Literary Awards Presentation and Cocktail Reception
- And the Award Goes to...
- A Significant Date: 1967 Referendum – 50 Years On
- Women in the Spotlight: Still Looking for a Room of One's Own
- Troy Bramston: Paul Keating (Hurstville)
- TeenCon 2017
- Writing Race
- John Safran: Depends What You Mean By Extremist
- Insiders Live at Sydney Writers' Festival
- 2017 Closing Address: Susan Faludi
- Anuk Arudpragasam: The Story of a Brief Marriage
- Brexit
- The Writer's Habitat
- Hugh Mackay: Selling the Dream
- Through the Wardrobe
- Secret City
- Strong Female Characters
- Being a Historian in the Digital Age
- No More Questions
- Historical Fiction: Chick Lit with Wimples?
- Writing Through Fences
- New Australian Voices
- Why Your Wrong to Care About Grammar
- Do We All Turn into Our Mothers?
- Who the Bloody Hell Are We?
- Group Text
- Natalie Haynes: The Children of Jocasta
- Question Time
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Visions of Dystopia
- On Arrival
- Outsider Looking In: Reporting on True Crime
- Lingo: What is Lost When a Language Dies?
- Homemade Shorts: Australian Stories
- Tracey Spicer: The Good Girl Stripped Bare
- Kate Grenville: The Case Against Fragrance
- Scandal!
- Documenting Hardship
- Julia Baird: Victoria the Queen
- The Good Book? The Bible in Australian Culture Today
- Sebastian Mallaby: The Man Who Knew
- Pamela Paul: By The Book
- Crimes of the Father
- Things You Need To Know and May Have Missed
- Lawrence Krauss: The Greatest Story Ever Told... So Far
- Robert Forster: Grant & I
- Viola Di Grado: Hollow Heart
- No Place Like
- Stan Grant: The Australian Dream
- Reworking the Classics
- Ha Jin: The Boat Rocker
- The Attachment
- Near-Death Experience
- Decolonising Australian Literature
- The Art of Rivalry: Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
- Monday Morning Cooking Club: It's Always About the Food
- Fighting Hislam and Beyond Veiled Cliches
- Ivan Coyote: Tomboy Survival Guide
- Caroline Brothers: The Memory Stones
- A Gathering Storm: The Rise and Rise of Cli-Fi
- Nextness and Nearness: Bill Hayes on Oliver Sacks
- Human Baggage: The Hate Politics of Immigration
- Russ Rymer: Notes on Nonfiction
- Caroline Baum: Only
- Foreign Correspondents: Anecdotes from Abroad
- Get Well Soon
- System Breakdown
- Robert Dessaix: The Pleasures of Leisure
- A.N. Wilson: Resolution
- Cultural Capital
- Close to Home: The Work of Georgia Blain
- First Nations: Voices of the Matriarchy
- Hell and High Water
- Henry Lawson and The Drover's Wife
- Memoir: A Slippery Art
- This Won't End Well: Secrets of Great Short Storytelling
- Auburn Poets and Writers Group: Grandma's Bed (Auburn)
- PEN Lecture: The Threat to Freedom of Expression
- Carmel Bird: Family Skeleton (Belrose)
- Bankstown Poetry Slam
- Liam Pieper: The Toymaker (Gordon)
- Richard Fidler: Ghost Empire
- Rob Schmitz: Street of Eternal Happiness
- Maxine Beneba Clarke: The Hate Race
- Doing It!
- Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
- Fictional Truths
- Smoking Gun: Crime Fiction
- Transforming My Country
- Resist!
- Nevertheless, She Persisted
- Too Much and Not The Mood
- The Great Divide
- Hannah Kent: The Good People
- Women In Their Place (Blue Mountains)
- I Feel You
- Globalisation & Inequality in the Age of Trump
- Mikhail Zygar: All the Kremlin's Men
- Generation Next (Blue Mountains)
- Peter Polites: Down the Hume
- The Natural World of the Imagination (Blue Mountains)
- Hope Street Press Poetry Launch
- Poetry Circle (Blue Mountains)
- Bill Hayes: Insomniac City
- Henry Marsh: Admissions — A Life in Brain Surgery
- Bernadette Brennan: Writing Helen Garner
- 25 Years of Looking For Alibrandi: Have a Say Day
- Graeme Simsion: The Best of Adam Sharp
- Do Bad Times Make For Great Art?
- Sex, Blood and Death
- Sarah Bakewell: At the Existentialist Cafe
- Ellen van Neerven: Comfort Food
- People of Letters
- Holly Throsby: Goodwood
- The Politics of Fear
- From Russia, With Love
- Borders of Our Writing
- SWF Gala: Maybe This Will Help
- Tough Love: Writing Complex Relationships
- Frank Moorhouse: Is Writing Still a Way of Life?
- Graeme Simsion: What Novelists Can Learn From Screenwriters
- Amie Kaufman: Get Your Story Started
- Amie Kaufman: Get Your Story Started (2)
- Norman Ohler: High Hitler
- Social Media As Art: An Indigenous Perspective
- The Full Catastrophe
- Zoe Morrison: Music and Freedom
- Tim Costello: On Faith
- Blerd Culture
- Netflix and Chill
- Liane Moriarty: Truly Madly Guilty (Chatswood)
- Ian Rankin: Rather Be the Devil (Parramatta)
- Turia Pitt: Unmasked
- Ali Cobby Eckermann: Little Bit Long Time
- C.S. Pacat: Writing Fantasy (1)
- Kerrie Davies: Memoir - More Than You
- The Book Club (1)
- Kim Mahood: Creative Non-Fiction - What Is It and Why Write It?
- The Dangerous Borderlands: Truth and Fiction in Memoir
- Desi Anwar: Life, Strife and the Pursuit of Democracy
- Russ The Story Bus
- Working Class Boy: Q&A With Jimmy Barnes (Parramatta)
- Betoota Advocate: Australia's Oldest and Favourite Newspaper
- Lawrence Krauss: On Hidden Realities
- Sarah Bakewell: On Bambi as an Existentialist Hero
- Lynne Kelly: On How Memory Training Changed My Thinking
- Roanna Gonsalves: On Literature as Selfie
- Henry Marsh: On Hospital Architecture and Design
- Tom Griffiths: On Antarctica
- Norman Ohler: On Non-Orthodox Research Methods in Berlin
- Jeff Sparrow: On Paul Robeson
- Fiona McIntosh: On the Importance of Being Selfish
- John M. Green: On Why We Should Be Scared Shitless About North Korea
- Candice Fox: On the Importance of Rejection
- Kim Mahood: On Stilettos and Salt Lakes
- Robert Dessaix: On Kissing, Hugging and Saying ‘I love you’
- Lucy Clark: On Competition
- Desi Anwar: On Spiritual Encounters
- Jacqueline Rose: On Remarkable Women
- Ivan Coyote: On Diversity
- Natalie Haynes: On Greek Myth and Harry Potter
- Liam Pieper: On Taylor Swift
- Hera Lindsay Bird: On Metaphor
- Melanie Joosten: On Big Sisters
- Olivia Murphy: On The Problem with Austen
- Michael Traill: Jumping Ship
- Sincerest Form of Flattery
- Food and Water: Fundamentals for Living
- Dear Science
- Border Force
- Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing
- The Big Black Thing
- Mark McKenna: On Music and Writing
- Russ Rymer: On Saving the Music Tree
- Karen Pickering: On Shark Week
- Chris Rodley: On How To Build A Novel-Writing Machine
- ABC Morning: ABC RN'S Books and Arts Daily and ABC Radio's Conversations Live Broadcast
- Meet the SMH Best Young Novelists
- Australian Readers and Their Habits
- Suspense: Setting and Mood
- Candice Fox: Crims, Coppers and Corpses
- David Francis: On a Verdict, Curiosity and a Riot
- Gay For Page
- Kathryn Heyman: Diving In - Getting Started on Fiction
- Kathryn Heyman: The Carpentry of Making Fiction
- Roanna Gonsalves: Rewilding Your Short Story
- Amanda Hampson: Five Secrets to Compelling Stories
- Alice Campion: How to Write Collaborative Fiction
- Claire Scobie: From Travel Writing to Travel Memoir
- Kerrie Davies: Social Media: Sharing and Slamming
- C.S. Pacat: Writing Fantasy (2)
- Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (1)
- Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (2)
- Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (3)
- Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (4)
- Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (5)
- Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (6)
- Sarah Wilson: First, We Make the Beast Beautiful
- Drive with Richard Glover, featuring Thank God It's Friday
- Sara Foster: Disrupt Your Creativity
- Kirk Docker: How To Ask The Hard Questions
- Ashley Hay: A Hundred Small Lessons
- A.S. Patric: Black Rock White City
- R.A Spratt's Writing Masterclass (2)
- Tragedy Plus Time
- Michael Sala: The Restorer
- Lex Hirst: Editing Like a Pro - the Tricks of the Trade
- Coffee and Papers with the SMH: Norman Ohler
- Coffee and Papers with the SMH: Jenny Valentish
- Coffee and Papers with the SMH: Mikhail Zygar
- Coffee and Papers with the SMH: Ruth Quibell
- Bangarra Backyard
- Sydney Dance Viewing Lounge
- Australian Book Design Awards
- Lucy Clark: Beautiful Failures
- On Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing
- Meredith Jaffe: The Fence (Brookvale)
- Talking 'Til Late with Chris Taylor (2)
- Richard Fidler: Ghost Empire (Ryde)
- The Ancient Guide to Modern Life
- Melanie Joosten: Gravity Well (Manly)
- Cover to Cover: Roald Dahl international book covers
- Heidi Pett and Jess O'Callaghan: Writing To Be Heard
- Sandra Leigh Price: The River Sings (Windsor)
- Kick on for Literacy: A Fundraiser for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation
- James Strong Address: Thomas Friedman
- AVANT GAGA
- You're Doing It Wrong: A Guide to Modern Parenting
- Tom Griffiths: The Art of Time Travel (Ryde)
- Still Lucky
- Swearing In: Veep's Armando Iannucci on Spin and Satire (1)
- The Book Club (2)
- Trust and Persistence: How Investigative Journalists Cultivate Sources and Share Their Stories
- Collaborative Journalism: Sources and Secrets
- Patrick White Playwrights' Award and Fellowship
- Caroline Baum: Only (Double Bay)
- Mariko Tamaki Talks the Talk
- Jane Hutcheon: China Baby Love (Hornsby)
- The Rumble: Youth Slam (Parramatta)
- Stella Sparks: Women Writers On Influence and Inspiration
- Black Wallaby Indigenous Writers' Night (Wollongong)
- Rocket Readings (Wollongong)
- Tracey Spicer: The Good Girl Stripped Bare (Kogarah)
- Little Fictions
- Alexandra Joel: Rosetta (Penrith)
- Forest for the Trees: Writers and Publishing in 2017
- UTS 2017 Anthology Launch: And Watch the Whale Explode
- Lauren Child's Quirky Characters!
- Love OZ YA Anthology: Begin, End, Begin
- More Than Meets the Eye: Diversity in YA Fiction
- Word Hunters Exploration
- Under the Love Umbrella: How Do We Make a Picture Book?
- Defying Expectations: How Do Female Writers Defy Stereotypes
- Writing in Verse: Sarah Crossan in Conversation
- Talking Tough Topics with Jennifer Niven
- Expressing Herself: The Brilliant Life of Rupi Kaur
- Keeping Company: Characters Across a Series
- Fresh Voices from Western Sydney: A Showcase of Real Talk
- How to Deal with Nasty, Horrible, Terrible People (with a Little Help from Roald Dahl)
- Illustrator Battle Rounds
- Kate DiCamillo: Connecting People Through Stories
- Richard Roxburgh's Artie and the Grime Wave
- Professor Frankie's Harry Potter
- How Deep Can You Go?
- They Cannot Take the Sky: Stories from Detention
- Witi Ihimaera (Blue Mountains)
- Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
- Lost the Plot: Writing About Mental Health
- A Conversation With Di Morrissey (Blue Mountains)
- Brit Bennett: The Mothers
- Paul Beatty: The Sellout
- Jacqueline Rose: Women in Dark Times
- Writing Perseverance: Remarkable Memoirs
- Contemporary Essay: Personal and Public
- Fake News and Alternative Facts
- Krissy Kneen: An Uncertain Grace
- Nadja Spiegelman: I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This
- From Far Away We Come (Blue Mountains)
- Borders of the Queer Body
- Dr Dark Memorial Lecture: Crossing The Line - Activism and Academic Bioethics (Blue Mountains)
- Not Waving, Drowning
- Sins of the Past (Blue Mountains)
- Love and Music
- Steven Amsterdam: The Easy Way Out
- A Fine-Figured Man With a Camera (Blue Mountains)
- Joy Williams: Ninety-Nine Stories of God
- Peter Corris: Win, Lose or Draw
- New Voices (Blue Mountains)
- The Legacy of Eleanor Dark (Blue Mountains)
- Writers' Journeys: Authors' Personal Reflections on Writing and Publishing (Blue Mountains)
- The Most Unlikely of Places
- Student Sessions: Indigenous Voices
- Student Sessions: Unpacking the Change in Climate
- Student Sessions: Re-Inventing the Classics
- Student Sessions: Shakespeare in His World and Ours
- Student Sessions: Mono or Multi-cultured?
- Student Sessions: In Conversation with Ross Gittins (Parramatta)
- Student Sessions: Indigenous Voices (Parramatta)
- Student Sessions: Unpacking the Change in Climate (Parramatta)
- Student Sessions: Re-inventing the Classics (Parramatta)
- Student Sessions: Shakespeare in His World and Ours (Parramatta)
- Student Sessions: Mono or Multi-cultured? (Parramatta)
- Student Sessions: In Conversation with Ross Gittins
- Primary School Days: City (1)
- Primary School Days: City (2)
- Secondary School Days: Chatswood
- Primary School Days: Parramatta
- Secondary School Days: City
- Primary School Days: Penrith
- Primary School Days: Free at Town Hall
- Secondary School Days: Parramatta
- Mark Colvin: Light and Shadow
- The Big Read
- Talking 'Til Late with Chris Taylor (1)
- Annabel Abbs: On 1920s Paris
- Juanita Ruys on the Devil's Coach House
- All The Kremlin's Men: In Conversation with Mikhail Zygar and Monica Attard
- Readings from Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy
- Jumping Ship: Michael Traill in conversation
- Susan Faludi in Conversation
- Roxane Gay: What's Feminism Got to Do With It?
- Sarah Schmidt: See What I Have Done
- Kirk Docker: On Asking the Hard Questions
- Caravan Fran
- A Tribute to Mark Colvin
- Author Talks and Workshops
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Early Program
- Swearing In: Veep’s Armando Iannucci on Spin and Satire
- Primary School Days: City (1)
- Student Sessions: Indigenous Voices
- Student Sessions: Unpacking the Change in Climate
- Student Sessions: Re-Inventing the Classics
- Student Sessions: Shakespeare in His World and Ours
- Student Sessions: Mono or Multi-cultured?
- Primary School Days: City (2)
- Secondary School Days: Chatswood
- Primary School Days: Parramatta
- Secondary School Days: City
- Primary School Days: Penrith
- Student Sessions: In Conversation with Ross Gittins (Parramatta)
- Student Sessions: Indigenous Voices (Parramatta)
- Student Sessions: Unpacking the Change in Climate (Parramatta)
- Student Sessions: Re-inventing the Classics (Parramatta)
- Student Sessions: Shakespeare in His World and Ours (Parramatta)
- Student Sessions: Mono or Multi-cultured? (Parramatta)
- Primary School Days: Free at Town Hall
- Secondary School Days: Parramatta
- Jamie Morton: My Dad Wrote a Porno
- Student Sessions: In Conversation with Ross Gittins
- Children's Festival 2016
- Festival 2016
- Children's Festival 2015
- Festival 2015
- Children's Festival 2014
- Festival 2014
- Festival 2013
- Festival 2012
- Festival 2011
- Festival 2010
- Festival 2009
- Festival 2008
- Festival 2007
- Festival 2006
- Festival 2005
- Festival 2004
- Festival 2003
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2021
- An Evening With Geoffrey Robertson
- An Evening With Geoffrey Robertson (1)
- Ceridwen Dovey: In the Garden of the Fugitives
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Presentation and Cocktail Reception
- Opening Address: André Aciman, Min Jin Lee and Alexis Okeowo
- Derision For Homeowners Won’t Save You – Discomforting Innercity Stories
- Staging Our Stories
- Helen Garner’s Savage Self-Scrutiny
- PEN Lecture: The War on Journalism – How 9/11 Changed Everything
- EDMUND. THE BEGINNING
- Insiders Live at Sydney Writers’ Festival
- The Future of Russia
- Coffee and Papers with SMH: Irin Carmon
- Christos Tsiolkas: On Patrick White
- UTS Anthology Launch: Light Borrowers
- John Dickson: A Doubter’s Guide to Jesus
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Programs 2017-2018
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Writers
- Nicole Abadee
- Sally Abbott
- Patrick Abboud
- Annabel Abbs
- Randa Abdel-Fattah
- Yassmin Abdel-Magied
- Hani Abdile
- Louise Adler
- Deng Adut
- Michael Mohammed Ahmad
- Emma Alberici
- Jada Alberts
- Steven Amsterdam
- Jayne Anderson
- Eunice Andrada
- Desi Anwar
- Evelyn Araluen
- Samantha Armytage
- Anuk Arudpragasam
- Kaveh Arya
- Melissa Ashley
- Auburn Poets and Writers Group
- Amal Awad
- Sarah Ayoub
- Maryam Azam
- Van Badham
- Julia Baird
- Sarah Bakewell
- Jimmy Barnes
- Caroline Baum
- Matt Beard
- Paul Beatty
- Davina Bell
- Brit Bennett
- Tegan Bennett Daylight
- Craig Billingham
- Danielle Binks
- Tony Birch
- Carmel Bird
- Hera Lindsay Bird
- Sophie Black
- Graeme Blundell
- James Bradley
- Troy Bramston
- Bernadette Brennan
- Saroo Brierley
- Sue Brierley
- Nick Brodie
- Caroline Brothers
- Lachlan Brown
- Daniel Browning
- Dame Quentin Bryce AC
- Robbie Buck
- Anne Buist
- J. C. Burke
- John Muk Muk Burke
- Caroline Butler-Bowdon
- Ita Buttrose AO OBE
- Michelle Cahill
- Michael Campbell
- Susan Carland
- Jane Caro
- A.J. Carruthers
- Barrie Cassidy
- Felicity Castagna
- Michael Cathcart
- Mona Chalabi
- Merelyn Chalmers
- Jenevieve Chang
- Lisa Chaplin
- Joseph Chebatte
- Neil Chenoweth
- Durga Chew-Bose
- Lauren Child
- Tamar Chnorhokian
- Eileen Chong
- Lucy Clark
- Maxine Beneba Clarke
- Greg Clarke
- Catherine Cole
- Allison Colpoys
- Mark Colvin
- Rachael Coopes
- Bryce Corbett
- Claire Corbett
- Craig Cormick
- Peter Corris
- Tim Costello
- Ivan Coyote
- Annabel Crabb
- Sarah Crichton
- Jenny Crocker
- Emily Crocker
- Sarah Crossan
- Meredith Curnow
- Amelia Dale
- Stephen Dando-Collins
- Kerrie Davies
- Anne Davies
- Joel Davison
- Jeff Sparrow
- Alison Spencer
- Tracey Spicer
- Nadja Spiegelman
- R.A. Spratt
- Sarah Sproule
- Jane St Vincent Welch
- Fiona Stager
- Matt Stanton
- Sofija Stefanovic
- Jason Steger
- Dana Stevens
- Emily Stewart
- Anne Summers
- Nadia Sunde
- Rodney Syme
- Mariko Tamaki
- Jürgen Tampke
- Miranda Tapsell
- Denise Tart
- Latai Taumoepeau
- Lenore Taylor
- Chris Taylor
- Claudia Tazreiter
- Holly Throsby
- David Throsby
- Luigi Tomba
- Gabrielle Tozer
- Michael Traill
- Maria Tumarkin
- Julia Turner
- Chris Uhlmann
- Abigail Ulman
- James Valentine
- Jenny Valentish
- Ellen van Neerven
- Rebecca Vaughan
- Rachael Versace
- Sally Warhaft
- Tiger Webb
- Elaine Welteroth
- Michael West
- Deborah Westbury
- Colson Whitehead
- Wendy Whiteley
- Alison Whittaker
- Marian Wilkinson
- Joy Williams
- Gabrielle Williams
- Michael Williams
- Kip Williams
- Roy Williams
- Ashleigh Wilson
- A.N. Wilson
- Sarah Wilson
- Tara June Winch
- Julie Winters
- Gita Wolf
- Troy Wong
- Charlotte Wood
- Jacinda Woodhead
- Sue Woolfe
- Laura Elizabeth Woollett
- Tom Wright
- Fiona Wright
- Susan Wyndham
- Beth Yahp
- Sandra Yates
- Trish Young
- Zeeko
- John Zubrzycki
- Jan Zwar
- Mikhail Zygar
- Catriona Feeney
- David Marr
- Melissa Hardie
- Ged Kearney
- Juanita Ruys
- Aaron Nyerges
- Luke Fischer
- James Reilly
- Ruk Sar
- David Lawrence
- Caroline Overington
- David White
- Matt Ford
- Sarah Whyte
- Penny Griffin
- Justine Clarke
- Virginia Marshall
- Jennifer Byrne
- Jon Page
- Norman Hermant
- Nakkiah Lui
- Thomas Keneally
- Amanda Hampson
- Shelley Ware
- Maya Sathi
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- Philippe Sands
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- What We're Reading
- Listen: Elaine Welteroth on Editing Teen Vogue
- Listen: Jamie Morton — My Dad Wrote a Porno
- Listen: Hannah Kent — The Good People
- Interview with Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
- The Australian Reading Hour – SWF Book Recommendations
- Sports Writers Festival 2017
- The Oration
- Children's Festival of Moving Stories 2017
- Summer Reading List
- Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2017
- Local Knowledge: Benjamin Law on the Eveleigh precinct
- Local knowledge: Lewis Hobba on Redfern
- Local knowledge: Fiona Wright on Eveleigh
- Local knowledge: Cath Keenan on Redfern
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Venues
- Sydney Dance 2
- Sydney Dance Lounge
- Bangarra Studio Theatre
- Philharmonia Studio
- Roslyn Packer Theatre
- Campbelltown HJ Daley Central Library
- Carrington Hotel, Katoomba
- City Recital Hall Angel Place
- Penrith City Library
- Riverside Theatres, Parramatta
- Wharf 2 Theatre
- Sydney Jewish Museum
- Ashfield Town Hall
- Blacktown City Max Webber Library
- Riverside Theatres, Lennox Theatre
- Pier 2/3 Main Stage
- Sydney Dance 1
- ABC TV Studios
- Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Richard Bonynge Concert Hall
- NSW Writers’ Centre
- Wollongong Art Gallery
- Pier 2/3 Foyer
- Riverside Theatres, Raffertys Theatre
- Sydney Town Hall (NOT IN USE)
- State Library of NSW, Metcalfe Auditorium
- Pier 2/3 Club Stage
- Hornsby Central Library
- Riverside Theatre Foyer
- Ryde Library
- Camden Civic Centre
- Seymour Centre, Everest Theatre (NOT IN USE)
- Seymour Centre, York Theatre
- Margaret Martin Library, Randwick
- Customs House, The Reading Room
- State Library of NSW, The Galleries
- The Theatre Bar at the End of the Wharf
- The Concourse Concert Hall
- Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
- Pioneer Room - Castle Hill Library and Community Center
- Glen Street Theatre
- Hurstville Library and Service Centre
- Kogarah Library and Service Centre
- Pier 2/3 The Loft
- Pier 2/3 Curiosity Stage
- Chatswood Library on The Concourse
- Varuna the National Writers’ House
- The Concourse Theatre
- Knox St Bar
- Parramatta Artists Studios
- Science House
- Pier 2/3 The Hemingway Bar
- Double Bay Library
- Russ the Story Bus
- Ku-Ring-Gai Gordon Library
- Woollahra Library at Double Bay
- Granville Town Hall
- Giant Dwarf
- Waringah Mall Library
- Sydney Dance Viewing Lounge
- Sydney Dance Breezeway
- Richard Wherrett Studio, Roslyn Packer Theatre
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Foundation Hall, Ground Level
- Ferguson Gallery, Camden Civic Centre
- Manly Library
- Hawkesbury Central Library
- Coleman Greig Lawyers Parramatta
- Matthews Folbigg Lawyers
- Leighton Hall, John Niland Scientia Building
- ABS Lecture Theatre 1130
- Belvoir, Upstairs Theatre
- The Great Hall, The University of Sydney
- Carriageworks, Bay 20
- Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
- Newtown Library
- Auburn Town Hall
- Sydney Town Hall
- Bankstown Arts Centre
- Seymour Centre, Sound Lounge
- Seymour Centre, Everest Theatre
- State Library of NSW, Mitchell Reading Room
- Seymour Centre, Reginald Theatre
- Seymour Centre, Workshop Room 1
- Seymour Centre, Workshop Room 2
- Seymour Centre, Workshop Room 3
- Carriageworks, Bay 17
- Carriageworks, Bay 25
- Carriageworks, Track 12
- Carriageworks, Track 8
- Carriageworks, Blacksmith’s Workshop
- Narellan Library
- The Connection, The Event Space
- Rockdale Library
- Ponton Theatre, Charles Sturt University
- The Church
- Parramatta Information and Cultural Exchange
- Carriageworks, Bay 22
- Carriageworks, Bay 21
- UNSW, Leighton Hall, John Niland Scientia Building
- Sheraton On The Park
- Redfern Station
- Green Square Library
- Barry O’Keefe Library, Mosman
- Concord Library
- Carriageworks, Bay 24
- State Library of NSW, Gallery Room
- State Library of NSW, Mitchell Building
- University Of Sydney, Social Sciences Lecture Theatre
- Riverside Theatres Media Room
- Carriageworks, Bay 24, Eveleigh
- Carriageworks, Bay 22, Eveleigh
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