AWW24: The Revenge Club - Kathy Lette
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Georgina Godwin | Kathy Lette is a master – or should that be a mistress? – of the pun, the...
AWW24: No Greater Ally? Assessing the Aus-US Alliance
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
James Curran, Zoe Daniel and Emma Shortis with Marian Wilkinson | The US has claimed that it has “...
AWW24: Bright Shining - Julia Baird
20 Mar 2024
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With Christos Tsiolkas | Julia Baird’s latest book makes the case for grace: forgiving the unforgi...
AWW24: In Bad Faith - Dassi Erlich
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Louise Milligan | Dassi Erlich’s memoir is a devastating account of sexual abuse in the close...
AWW24: Straight Talk
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Denniss, Joëlle Gergis, Thomas Keneally and Yanis Varoufakis with Natasha Mitchell | Politi...
AWW24: The End of Liberalism
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Judith Brett, Samuel Moyn and Peter Varghese with Glyn Davis | Have we abandoned the idea that citiz...
AWW24: Young Readers' Day - Amelia Mellor
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Amelia Mellor: The Grandest Bookshop in the World | Calling all fans of picture books, graphic novel...
AWW24: Young Readers' Day - Kirli Saunders #2
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kirli Saunders: Bindi | Calling all fans of picture books, graphic novels and epic tween series! You...
AWW24: Young Readers' Day - Catherine Norton
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Norton: The Fortune Makers | Calling all fans of picture books, graphic novels and epic tw...
AWW24: Young Readers' Day - Alison Lester
20 Mar 2024
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Alison Lester: Magic Beach | Calling all fans of picture books, graphic novels and epic tween series...
AWW24: Young Readers' Day - Carla Fitzgerald
20 Mar 2024
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Carla Fitzgerald: How to be Prime Minister and Survive Grade Five | Calling all fans of picture book...
AWW24: Young Readers' Day - Jason Pamment
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Pamment: Ember and the Island of Lost Creatures | Calling all fans of picture books, graphic n...
AWW24: Young Readers' Day - Kirli Saunders
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kirli Saunders: The Incredible Freedom Machines | Calling all fans of picture books, graphic novels ...
AWW24: Young Readers' Day - Story Trove
20 Mar 2024
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Story Trove: The Garden at the End of the World | Calling all fans of picture books, graphic novels ...
AWW24: Young Readers' Day - Anna Walker
20 Mar 2024
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Anna Walker: Snap! | Calling all fans of picture books, graphic novels and epic tween series! Young ...
AWW24: Songs for the Dead and the Living - Sara M. Saleh
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Karen Wyld | Award-winning human rights lawyer Sara M. Saleh explores the complexities of ident...
AWW24: Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Nicholas Jose | Alexis Wright’s new novel is both a grand allegorical epic and a book for our...
AWW24: The In-Between - Christos Tsiolkas
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Charlotte Wood | Mature love is the subject of Christos Tsiolkas’ latest novel, The In-Betwe...
AWW24: A Brilliant Life - Rachelle Unreich
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Georgina Godwin | Towards the end of her mother’s life, Rachelle Unreich decided to document ...
AWW24: The Librarianist - Patrick deWitt
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Jason Steger | Patrick deWitt has been lauded as the 21st century’s Mark Twain. He tells Jaso...
AWW24: Crossing the Line - Nick McKenzie
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Maxine McKew | Acclaimed journalist Nick McKenzie’s investigations are a catalogue of corrupt...
AWW24: The Empty Honour Board - Martin Flanagan
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Louise Milligan | In The Empty Honour Board, Martin Flanagan wrestles with what he remembers, ...
AWW24: We Have to Talk About the Weather
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Close, Peter Frankopan and Joëlle Gergis with Marian Wilkinson | Celebrated historian Peter F...
AWW24: But What Can I Do? - Alastair Campbell
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Bob Carr | Alastair Campbell’s latest book explains why politics matter in a clarion call to ...
AWW24: Can War Be Humane? - Samuel Moyn
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Ben Saul | An intellectual and humanist, Samuel Moyn’s work focuses on human rights and the l...
AWW24: Be Mine - Richard Ford
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Nicole Abadee | Richard Ford’s new novel is the fifth featuring "arch-ordinary American&...
AWW24: Technofeudalism - Yanis Varoufakis
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Barbara Pocock | If the world is an algorithm, we citizens are mere cloud serfs. Yanis Varoufak...
AWW24: 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem - Nam Le
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Patrick Flanery | Following the huge success of his debut collection, The Boat, Nam Le challen...
AWW24: Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Beejay Silcox | Charlotte Wood’s latest novel is a deeply personal account of a woman in retr...
AWW24: Thomas Keneally and Friends
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Keneally with Nikki Gemmell and special guests | Tom Keneally’s first book was published in...
AWW24: Graft - Maggie MacKellar
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Georgina Godwin | Set over a year on a merino wool farm in Tasmania, Maggie MacKellar’s memoi...
AWW24: You, Me and the B52s
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Carr, James Curran, Amanda Hodge, Sam Roggeveen and Peter Varghese with Maxine McKew | The Austr...
AWW24: Question 7 - Richard Flanagan
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Julia Baird | Internationally acclaimed novelist Richard Flanagan says: “writers are no more ...
AWW24: Trust - Jeanne Ryckmans
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Beejay Silcox | Literary agent turned memoirist Jeanne Ryckmans’ new work is a devastating pe...
AWW24: Unfinished Woman - Robyn Davidson
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Sarah L'Estrange | Robyn Davidson’s life and writing has been shaped by curiosity, restle...
AWW23: Food for Thought - Claudia Roden
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Amanda Vanstone. More than 50 years ago, Claudia Roden’s A Book of Middle Eastern Food in...
AWW23: Unbelonging - Fiona McFarlane
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Jo Case A six-year-old child disappears in a dust storm in the Flinders Ranges. It’s a fami...
AWW23: Artists and Their Legacies - Wendy Whiteley & Ashleigh Wilson
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Katrina Strickland Wendy Whiteley has long been responsible for Brett Whiteley’s legacy, bu...
AWW23: Cold War, Hot Culture - Louis Menand
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Bob Carr Louis Menand, the author of Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Metaphysical Club, tell...
AWW23: History Lessons - John Boyne
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Jonathan Green In both the bestselling novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and its recentl...
AWW23: Affairs of the Heart - Kate Legge
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Katrina Strickland It seems that no one knows everything that happens in a marriage, not even...
AWW23: Holding White Australia to Account - Inala Cooper
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Amy McQuire Inala Cooper is a Yawuru woman with German and Irish heritage. In Marrul: Aborig...
AWW23: Start Worrying, Details to Follow - Brigid Delaney
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Caroline Overington War, plague and catastrophic climate change are the collective terrors of...
AWW23: Meet a Polymath - Alexander McCall Smith
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Sue Turnbull Alexander McCall Smith is a man of many talents. An Emeritus Professor of Medica...
AWW23: The Battle for Long Tan - Peter FitzSimons
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Peter Brune The Battle of Long Tan was the deadliest battle for Australian forces in Vietnam ...
AWW23: The Planet's Clock is Ticking - Ross Garnaut & Simon Holmes à Court
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Marian Wilkinson Two of the most innovative minds in the business tell us if the energy trans...
AWW23: The Aussie Queen of Noir - Jane Harper
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Beejay Silcox Critic Beejay Silcox has suggested that Jane Harper’s “outback noir mega-hi...
AWW23: The Survivor's Humour - Sayed Kashua
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Chris Taylor Acclaimed Palestinian citizen of Israel, screenwriter and novelist Sayed Kashua ...
AWW23: "May These Words Bring You Home" - Grace Tame
27 Mar 2023
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Chair: Louise Milligan Former Australian of the Year Grace Tame is a public voice and advocate for s...
AWW23: Life is a Brief Affair - Alex Miller
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Jonathan Green Two-time winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Alex Miller is a giant o...
AWW23: Sovereignty and Solidarity - Susan Abulhawa, Lorna Munro & Karen Wyld
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
First Nations people in Australia and Palestinians share a history of struggle and resistance agains...
AWW23: Thinking Writing Now - Shannon Burns, Gillian Hagenus, Gemma Parker, Alex Sutcliffe & Jane Turner Goldsmith
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Patrick Flanery Join novelist and University of Adelaide Chair of Creative Writing Patrick Fl...
AWW23: The Eminence Grise of Arab Literary Culture - Ahdaf Soueif
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Writer, political activist and cultural commentator Ahdaf Soueif is the Eminence Grise of the Arab l...
AWW23: My Editor and Me or Should That Be Me and My Editor? - Sally Hepworth & Alex Lloyd
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
ABOUT THIS SESSIONSally Hepworth, the author of The Soulmate, in conversation with Alex Lloyd, Publ...
AWW23: My Editor and Me or Should That Be Me and My Editor? - Vanessa Radnidge & Catherine Therese
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
ABOUT THIS SESSIONCatherine Therese, the author of Things She Would Have Said Herself, tells edi...
AWW23: My Editor and Me or Should That Be Me and My Editor? - Catherine Milne & Holly Ringland
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
ABOUT THIS SESSIONHolly Ringland, the author of The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding, in conversation ...
AWW23: The Poetry of Gwen Harwood
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With Helen Morse / Introduced by Peter Goldsworthy Gwen Harwood’s reputation, already stellar at...
AWW23: The Risks & Rewards of Writing an Unauthorised Biography - Ann-Marie Priest
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Kerryn Goldsworthy When Ann-Marie Priest set out to write the first biography of renowned but...
AWW23: When Jon Met Apollo and Thelma - Jon Faine
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Paul Barclay Join Jon Faine as he explains to journalist Paul Barclay how, as a young lawyer ...
AWW23: Among the Ruins of War - Gail Jones
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Sarah Kanowski In Gail Jones’ ninth novel, the Great Fire of Salonika that broke out in Aug...
AWW23: The Terrible Truth About Climate Change - Peter Singer & Gaia Vince
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Marian Wilkinson The speed and severity of climate change is an alarming reality, but how bad...
AWW23: Don't Try to Silence V.I. Warshawski - Sara Paretsky
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Sue Turnbull V. I. Warshawski is a private investigator with a forensic interest in white col...
AWW23: Lost in Berlin - Amit Chaudhuri
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Jonathan Green Amit Chaudhuri is an acclaimed essayist, musician, poet and the author of eigh...
AWW23: The Hazards of Motherhood - Esther Freud & Gina Rushton
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Katrina Strickland Motherhood has forever been the repository for our deepest collective fant...
AWW23: On Endings - Geoff Dyer
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Jonathan Green The problem of endings is particularly acute for a master of digression. In T...
AWW23: A Vision in Teal - Simon Holmes à Court, Margot Saville & Brook Turner
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Marian Wilkinson The rise of the Teals with the election of over 10 independents to the Austr...
AWW23: A Tender Lady Chatterley - Alison MacLeod
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Felicity Plunkett Alison MacLeod’s historical novel Tenderness is a powerful recreation o...
AWW23: The Perils of Publishing - Adele Ferguson, Louise Milligan & Eve Thomson
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Grant McAvaney Publishing books on topical issues can be a health hazard, requiring deft foot...
AWW23: Sloane Crosley: In Profile - Sloane Crosley
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Diana Reid An acerbic wit and whip-smart observations are the hallmark of Sloane Crosley’s ...
AWW23: "Yes, He Has Come to the End of His Sentence..." - John Banville
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Full title: "Yes, He Has Come to the End of His Sentence, But Does That Mean He Has Nothing Mor...
AWW23: We Would Have Been Friends: My Father & I - Raja Shehadeh
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Gareth Evans The personal and the political are intertwined in the memoir a Palestinian human...
AWW23: Writing from Stolen Lands - Ramzy Baroud, Saree Makdisi & Amy McQuire
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Randa Abdel-Fattah It is inevitable that First Nations and Palestinian writers would share a ...
AWW23: Politics in Fiction - Susan Abulhawa & Samah Sabawi
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Tom Wright Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian-American writer, political activist and author. In...
AWW23: The Poetry of Dispossession - Julia Cimafiejeva, Mohammed El-Kurd, Hasib Hourani & Jeanine Leane
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Sara Saleh Writing poetry in exile gives new meaning to what John Keats referred to as the po...
AWW23: Literary Worlds - Susan Abulhawa, Micaela Sahhar & Saree Makdisi
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Jumana Bayeh Susan Abulhawa, Micaela Sahhar and Saree Makdisi together with Jumana Bayeh expl...
AWW23: Creme de la Phlegm - Melinda Harvey, Jeanine Leane, Caroline Overington & Beejay Silcox
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Catriona Menzies-Pike It was Goethe who declared "call the dog, he is a reviewer". ...
AWW23: A Bedtime Story - Chloe Hooper
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Beejay Silcox Chloe Hooper’s Bedtime Story is a paean to the solace of reading in times o...
AWW23: Wandering with Intent - Kim Mahood
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: John Carty Writer and artist Kim Mahood describes her new book, Wandering with Intent, as “...
AWW23: If You Want a Friend, Get a Dog - Craig Silvey
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Rick Morton In an interview with The Guardian, author Craig Silvey admitted his favourite ob...
AWW23: Learning to Embrace Our Inner Loser - Josh Cohen
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Sarah Kanowski In an era of waning liberal utopianism, decreasing faith in the myth of econom...
AWW23: Escaping - Shannon Burns
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Rick Morton Shannon Burns’ haunting memoir, Childhood, details the poverty, neglect and do...
AWW23: Money, Murder and Megalomaniacs - Bill Browder
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Monica Attard Bill Browder’s company, Hermitage Capital Management, has been the largest fo...
AWW23: The Return of D.H. Lawrence - Amit Chaudhuri, Geoff Dyer, Lara Feigel & Alison MacLeod
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Felicity Plunkett In her 1970 book Sexual Politics, Kate Millett described Lady Chatterley’...
AWW23: America, America - Shalom Auslander, James Curran, John Keane & Fintan O’Toole
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Bob Carr The 20th century was deemed 'The American Century’. In more recent times, that...
AWW23: Modern Relationships - Sloane Crosley, Laura Kipnis & Diana Reid
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Katrina Strickland Gender dynamics in the 21st century can be befuddling. Through fiction and...
AWW23: "From the Pulse of My Heart" - Louise Kennedy
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Nicci Gerrard Growing up Catholic on the outskirts of 1970s Belfast, Louise Kennedy’s earli...
AWW23: When Children are Cannon Fodder - Paul Byrnes
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Paul Daley Too young to shave and still wearing short pants, boys as young as 13 lined up and...
AWW23: Poetry in the Age of Absolutely Everything - Simon Armitage
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Felicity Plunkett British Poet Laureate Simon Armitage is also a playwright, a novelist, a sc...
AWW23: The Politics of Pandemics - Chip Le Grand & Raina MacIntyre
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Jon Faine How should we judge Australia’s response to the pandemic? We were quick to declar...
AWW23: State-Sponsored Greenwash - Polly Hemming & Marian Wilkinson
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Full title: State-Sponsored Greenwash: Offsetting Us Up to Fail Chair: Paul Barclay Brought to you b...
AWW23: No Enemies, No Friends... - Allan Behm, Gareth Evans & Laura Tingle
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Full title: No Enemies, No Friends: Restoring Australia's Global Relevance Chair: Paul Barclay B...
AWW23: Big: The Role of Government - Richard Denniss, Alan Kohler & Wayne Swan
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Paul Barclay Brought to you by The Australia Institute in partnership with Adelaide Writers’...
AWW23: The Future of Work - Greg Jericho, Sally McManus, Alison Pennington & Ben Schneiders
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Paul Barclay Brought to you by The Australia Institute in partnership with Adelaide Writers’...
AWW23: Insiders
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When the Fourth Estate is doing its job properly, it acts as a watchdog on the government of the day...
AWW23: 2023 MUD Literary Prize
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: David Sly / 2023 MUD Literary Prize Winner: Tracey Lien Inaugurated by the passionate readers...
AWW23: Family Secrets - Esther Freud
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Sarah Kanowski Renowned British novelist Esther Freud is the great-granddaughter of Sigmund F...
AWW23: The Pleasures of a Page Turner - Sally Hepworth
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Michaela Kalowski Sally Hepworth is probably the only Australian author who has been featured...
AWW23: You Do the Dying, We Will Do the Rest - Nicci Gerrard & Jill Hennessy
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Caroline Overington At a certain point in our lives, we turn to thinking about ageing and its...
AWW23: Truth in Fiction - Paul Daley
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Jack Latimore Journalist Paul Daley has long been preoccupied by the myths of white Australia...
AWW23: The Landscape of the Heart - Holly Ringland
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Michaela Kalowski Holly Ringland’s childhood was divided between a tropical garden in Austr...