Sydney Writers' Festival - Live and Local 2024

Events are free and bookings are not required.
One of Australia’s most loved forums for literature, ideas and storytelling, the Sydney Writers’ Festival will live-stream its headline events to Wangaratta Library on Thursday, Friday and Saturday 23-25 May. Prepare to be invigorated and engaged by conversations, debates and discussions featuring some of the world’s finest writers and thinkers.

Thursday 23 May
10am - 11am     Julia Baird: Bright Shining (AUSLAN)
12pm - 1pm       Viet Thanh Nguyen: A Ma of Two Faces
2pm - 3pm         Suzie Miller: Prima Facie
4pm - 5pm         Julian Borger: I Seek a Kind Person
6pm - 7pm          Fantastical Worlds
7.30-8.30pm       Love and Longing - Cancelled by Festival

Friday 24 May
10am - 11am      A.C. Grayling: The Meaning of Life in a Technological Age
12pm - 1pm        The War on Journalists
2pm - 3pm          Abdulrazak Gurnah: Afterlives
4pm - 5pm          Feminist Firebrands

Saturday 25 May
10am - 11am      Celeste Ng: Our Missing Hearts
12pm - 1pm        Trent Dalton: From Eli to Lola (AUSLAN)
2pm - 3pm          Storytellers: Leigh Sales and Lisa Millar