AWW22 The Mother Wound - Amani Haydar
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Lur Alghurabi. The first time Amani’s father hit her mother, his wife of twenty-eight y...
AWW22 My Body Keeps Your Secrets - Lucia Osborne-Crowley
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Smriti Daniel “Despite our best efforts,” writes Lucia Osborne-Crowley, “the body f...
AWW22 The Shape of Sound - Fiona Murphy
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Jane Howard. “Deaf people feel and see sound: the entire body becomes a receptor,” wr...
AWW22 Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience - Veronica Gorrie
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Tali Lavi. Kurnai woman Veronica Gorrie grew up with a fear of the police. So she joined ...
AWW22 Beyond Boyhood - Brandon Jack and Paul Kennedy
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Tory Shepherd. ABC journalist Paul Kennedy and former Sydney Swans player Brandon Jack we...
AWW22 Son of Sin - Omar Sakr
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Geordie Williamson. Omar Sakr is an acclaimed Arab-Australian poet and author. His most r...
AWW22 The MUD Literary Club: The 10th Anniversary
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With Thomas Keneally, Hannah Kent and Christos Tsiolkas. Chaired by David Sly. Established by passio...
AWW22 This is Australia - Claire G. Coleman and Julianne Schultz
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Kerry O'Brien. Two deep thinkers and fine writers turn their minds to contemporary Austra...
AWW22 Live Podcast: Archive Fever
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hosted by Yves Rees & Clare Wright with guests John Carty & Jared Thomas. In a special live ...
AWW22 The Centred Victim - Jacqueline Bublitz and Laura Elizabeth Woollett
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Angela Savage. Turning the crime genre on its head, Jacqueline Bublitz’s Before You Kne...
AWW22 Wild Motherhood - Briohny Doyle and Rachel Yoder
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Tali Lavi. Rachel Yoder’s Nightbitch is one of the wildest debuts of the year, a feral,...
AWW22 Theatre, Leadership and the Imagination - John Bell and Jonathan Biggins
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Tom Wright. John Bell and Jonathan Biggins have spent their lives on the stage. John is o...
AWW22 All About Yves: Notes from a Transition - Yves Rees
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Jennifer Mills. In this remarkable memoir, historian and author Yves Rees invites readers...
AF22 Bet the Farm - Gabrielle Chan and Anika Molesworth
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Natasha Mitchell As we stand at a crossroads crowded with interconnected issues for our p...
AWW22 Continuous Creation: The Poetry of Les Murray - Peter Carroll
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Performed by Peter Carroll / Introduced by Peter Goldsworthy The late Les Murray was our unofficial ...
AWW22 Australia's War on Whistleblowers - Bernard Collaery, David McBride and Jennifer Robinson
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Andrew Fowler Australia's recent treatment of high-profile whistleblowers has been shocki...
AWW22 The Luminous Solution - Charlotte Wood
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Kerryn Goldsworthy In her latest book, The Luminous Solution: Creativity, Resilience and ...
AWW22 Compounding Damage - Michael Bradley, Rachel Doyle, Saxon Mullins
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Louise Milligan Events of the last year have brought a renewed and urgent focus on the ex...
AWW22 Growing Up in Australia - Anita Heiss, Benjamin Law and Fiona Murphy
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Anton Enus In 2008, Black Inc published Growing Up Asian in Australia, a collection of st...
AWW22 The Artful Dickens - John Mullan
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Linda Jaivin “What is so good about Dickens’ novels?” asks John Mullan – and then...
AWW22 Living Gender: Reimagining Masculinities and Femininities - Yves Rees, Omar Sakr and Brandon Jack
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Twilight Talks | Authorial Voice Hosted by Benjamin Law. Join Australia’s favourite raconteur Ben ...
AWW22 There's Something About China - David Brophy and Jason Yat-Sen Li
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Linda Jaivin. David Brophy’s China Panic: Australia’s Alternative to Panic and Pander...
AWW22 City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong - Antony Dapiran
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Benjamin Law. In his detailed account of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, City on Fi...
AWW22 Reporting China - Bill Birtles, Trevor Watson and Sue-Lin Wong
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In conversation with Melissa Roberts. When correspondents Bill Birtles and Michael Smith abruptly le...
AWW22 The Shortest History of China - Linda Jaivin
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Jacqueline Lo. One of Australia’s foremost sinologists distils the sprawling history of...
AWW22 Blight Street - Geoff Goodfellow, Roslyn Oades and Nic Darrigo
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Poetry in Performance. Geoff Goodfellow returns to Writers’ Week with a reading of his new v...
AWW22 Holding the Hose - Richard Flanagan
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Kerry O'Brien Richard Flanagan returns to Writers’ Week for a wide-ranging discussion w...
AWW22 The Big Switch - Saul Griffith
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Sally Warhaft NSW Treasurer Matt Keane describes Australian and Biden climate and energy ...
AWW22 Words from the Wise - Peter Doherty and Barry Jones
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Rick Sarre Two of Australia’s most distinguished thinkers join forces in this unmissabl...
AWW22 Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking Over the World - Elle Hardy
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Meredith Lake Little more than 100 years old, Pentecostalism currently has 600 million fo...
AWW22 Our Nation's Shame - Samantha Crompvoets and Mark Willacy
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Sharon Davis On 19 November, 2020, the Chief of the Australian Defence Force stood in fr...
AWW22 Remembering Shane Warne - Malcolm Knox and Bharat Sundaresan
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Nick Ryan Following the shocking news of Shane Warne’s untimely death overnight on Frid...
AWW22 C+NTO and Othered Poems - Joelle Taylor
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Jennifer Mills A welcome discovery for many at the 2019 Adelaide Writers’ Week, British...
AWW22 The Island of Missing Trees - Elif Shafak
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Michael Williams. In best-selling author Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees, sta...
AWW22 This Campus Life - Diana Reid and Indyana Schneider
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Victoria Purman. The transformative excitement of university life has been little mined b...
AWW22 The Boys' Club - Michael Warner
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Tom Wright. AFL is one of Australia’s most popular sports and the only one we can claim...
AWW22 Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Ben Brooker. Patrick Radden Keefe’s remarkable Say Nothing documented the Troubles in N...
AWW22 Bodies of Light - Jennifer Down
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Cath Kenneally. Holly lives a simple life in America when a Facebook message from across ...
AWW22 Legally Bound: Change, Activism and the Law - David Barnden, Michael Bradley and Terri Janke
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Paul Barclay. Three high profile lawyers discuss how they use their legal practice to adv...
AWW22 Once There Were Wolves - Charlotte McConaghy
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Geordie Williamson. Charlotte McConaghy’s follow-up to her intense and acclaimed The La...
AWW22 The Master of Two Worlds - John Flanagan
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Coming to Writers' Week for the first time, John Flanagan is primed to meet the legions of fans of h...
AWW22 History's Inspiration - Katrina Nannestad
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Inspired by historical events, Katrina Nannestad’s We Are Wolves and Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief...
AWW22 Being Black 'N Chicken, & Chips - Matt Okine
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Comedian Matt Okine’s debut novel, Being Black ‘n Chicken, & Chips, burst onto the scene wit...
AWW22 The Darkness Within - Lyndall Clipstone and CS Pacat
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join bestselling YA fantasy author CS Pacat (the Fence series) debut author Lyndall Clipstone (...
AWW22 Hear Me Roar!
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Poetry in Performance Writers’ Week’s favourite showcase of slam poetry and spoken word performa...
AWW22 Heroes, Rebels and Innovators - Karen Wyld
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
SA author Karen Wyld will offer insights into the early resistance fighters, collaborators, inventor...
AWW22 YA Microstory Competition
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Adelaide Writers' Week Microstory Competition is on again in 2022! Supported by 9News, this comp...
AWW22 The Listies Live
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a special one-off event, Australia’s favourite kids comedy duo The Listies (ABC TV’s The List...
AWW22 Introducing Hometown Haunts - Sarah Epstein, Poppy Nwosu, Jared Thomas and Vikki Wakefield
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hometown Haunts is a #LoveOzYa homegrown horror anthology featuring some of SA’s finest authors. J...
AWW22 Scott Morrison: Who the Bloody Hell is He? - Sean Kelly and Annika Smethurst
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Annabel Crabb Sean Kelly describes The Game, his illuminating and deliciously readable ta...
AWW22 Apples Never Fall - Liane Moriarty
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Collette Snowden Liane Moriarty is one of Australia’s most successful authors. Her book...
AWW22 Deadly Quiet City - Murong Xuecun
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Clive Hamilton In January 2020, Wuhan was placed in total lockdown, leaving its residents...
AWW22 How Fast Things Fall - Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Jo Dyer Since leaving office, former Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull have...
AWW22 Well Hello - Annabel Crabb and Miranda Murphy
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Natasha Cica When Annabel Crabb and bestie Leigh Sales started a little podcast in 2014, ...
AWW22 Scary Monsters - Michelle de Kretser
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Cath Kenneally. Dual Miles Franklin Award-winner Michelle de Kretser’s Scary Monsters t...
AWW22 Cometh the Virus, Cometh the Man - Norman Swan
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by David Sly Well-known to listeners of ABC RN’s The Health Report, Norman Swan’s clear ...
AWW22 The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature are presented every two years during Adelaide Writers’...
AWW22 Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams - Anita Heiss
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Jared Thomas. Hugely popular and award-winning author Anita Heiss’s new novel opens wit...
AWW22 Writing Art - Angela O'Keeffe and Claire Thomas
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Kate Mildenhall. Two of 2021’s most innovative and engrossing books have works of art a...
AWW22 QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults - Van Badham
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Sharon Davis. In this compelling account of contemporary conspiracies, the internet’s d...
AWW22 Comrades in Words - Christos Tsiolkas and Charlotte Wood
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Nicole Abadee. Charlotte Wood and Christos Tsiolkas are two of our most acclaimed and bes...
AWW22 Up Close and Different - Clem Bastow and Emma Jane
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Jane Howard. In her warm and witty memoir, Late Bloomer, Clem Bastow writes how her life ...
AWW22 Animal - Lisa Taddeo
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Kate Mildenhall. Catapulted to literary stardom with her non-fiction bestseller Three Wom...
AWW22 The Airways - Jennifer Mills
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Sophie Cunningham. Jennifer Mills follows up her Miles Franklin-shortlisted Dyschronia wi...
AWW22 My Favourite Story - Kevin Rudd
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This Writers' Week session is part of our Kids' Day program.
AWW22 Skywhales: Every Heart Sings - Patricia Piccinini
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This Writers' Week session is part of our Kids' Day program.
AWW22 My Favourite Story - Mem Fox
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This Writers' Week session is part of our Kids' Day program.
AWW22 Remy Lai
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This Writers' Week session is part of our Kids' Day program.
AWW22 Story Trove: Littlelight - Kelly Canby
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This Writers' Week session is part of our Kids' Day program
AWW22 Felice Arena
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This Writers' Week session is part of our Kids' Day program.
AWW22 Story Trove: Tomorrow is a Brand New Day - Davina Bell & Alison Colpoys
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This Writers' Week session is part of our Kids' Day program
AWW22 Kids' Day Introduction
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This Writers' Week session is a part of our Kids' Day program.
AWW21 In Conversation with Vikki Wakefield
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Vikki Wakefield’s This is How We Change the Ending won the 2020 CBCA’s Award for Book of th...
AWW21 Honeybee - Craig Silvey
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After the blockbuster success of Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey’s highly anticipated new novel is Hone...
AWW21 The Lonely Century: Coming Together in a World that's Pulling Apart - Noreena Hertz
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Described by The Observer as one of the “world’s leading thinkers”, global economist Noreena H...
AWW21 Twilight of Democracy - Anne Applebaum
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pulitzer prize-winning author and historian Anne Applebaum deconstructs the psychology and motivatio...
AWW21 The Price of Free Speech - Malcolm Knox and Patrick Mullins
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Do Australians extend the right of free speech only to those we agree with, saying things we approve...
AWW21 What Just Happened? - Danielle Celermajer, Gabrielle Chan and Richard McGregor
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It began with Australia ablaze and ended with a scramble to avoid the latest cluster of the clusterf...
AWW21 Return to Uluru - John Carty, Marcia Langton and Mark McKenna
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When historian Mark McKenna set out to write a history of Uluru, he had no idea where the story woul...
AWW21 The Business of Being a Writer - Your Book and Your Brand
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When should you start to think about your author brand? How are you going to promote your message an...
AWW21 The Details: On Love, Death and Reading - Tegan Bennett Daylight
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Part memoir, part love letter to her favourite books and authors, Tegan Bennett Daylight’s first c...
AWW21 The Carbon Club - Marian Wilkinson
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why is it that, despite overwhelming popular support for action on Climate Change, Australia has bee...
AWW21 The Future is Now - William Gibson
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The man who invented “cyberspace”, William Gibson is one of the most influential writers of our ...
AWW21 The Dragons and the Snakes - David Kilcullen
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Soldier-scholar David Kilcullen is Australia’s most influential contemporary military strategist. ...
AWW21 The Business of Being a Writer - Self-Publishing: Viable or Vanity?
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When should you choose self-publication over publication? What does a self-publishing writer need to...
AWW21 The Golden Maze - Richard Fidler
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Richard Fidler’s love letter to the city of Prague, The Golden Maze: A Biography of Prague, he ...
AWW21 The Meaning of Money - Royce Kurmelovs and Rick Morton
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Royce Kurmelovs’ finances were shredded when, uninsured, he hit another car. Rick Morton grew up i...
AWW21 The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandel
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Emily St. John Mandel’s exquisite new novel tells of the porous boundaries between past and presen...
AWW21 The Inner Self: The Joy of Discovering Who We Really Are - Hugh Mackay
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hugh Mackay has made a lifelong study of the attitudes and behaviours of Australians, researching wh...
AWW21 The Insider - Christopher Pyne
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When his father died unexpectedly at 59, Christopher Pyne learned that life is short in the toughest...
AWW21 The Living Sea of Waking Dreams - Richard Flanagan
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of Australia’s greatest writers and seer of our times, Booker Prize-winner Richard Flanagan’...
AWW21 The Mother Fault - Kate Mildenhall
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The world shifted slowly, then so fast, while they watched but didn’t see. In Kate Mildenhall’s ...
AWW21 The Mountains Sing - Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s The Mountains Sing is the epic, multigenerational tale of the Tran famil...
AWW21 The Palace Letters - Jenny Hocking
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Distinguished historian Jenny Hocking fought for over a decade for access to correspondence between ...
AWW21 The Music Advantage - Anita Collins
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In her book, The Music Advantage: How Learning Music Helps Your Child’s Brain and Wellbeing, Dr An...
AWW21 The Porous Present: Love, Life and Legacies - Nardi Simpson and Karen Wyld
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Karen Wyld’s Where the Fruit Falls, Brigid sets off on an epic journey with her twin babies, on...
AWW21 The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive - Philippe Sands
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From the award winning author of the celebrated East West Street comes the real life thriller The Ra...
AWW21 The River Runs Dry - Richard Beasley, Grant Rigney and Margaret Simons
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Murray-Darling Basin is dying. Despite its catastrophic plight, and the devastating findings of ...
AWW21 The Virus is Here: Pandemics in Fiction - Emily St. John Mandel and Laura Jean McKay
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the Lockdowns of 2020 began, Laura Jean McKay’s story of a world collapsing in the midst of a v...
AWW21 The Rise of Independent Media - Peter Fray, Margaret Simons and Michael West
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With over half a million Australians joining Kevin Rudd’s call for a Royal Commission into News Co...