NT Writers Festival
Episodes
NTWF 2025 - When Cops Are Criminals - Veronica Gorrie
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Veronica Gorrie, editor of the anthology When Cops Are Criminals, shares accounts of police brutality and corruption from survivors and academics...
NTWF 2025 - Queerstories
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vulnerable and fierce, hilarious and heartbreaking, Queerstories celebrates the culture and creativity of the LGBTQI+ community one true story at a ti...
NTWF25 - Closer To The Subject - Daniel Browning
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cultural critic and media personality Daniel Browning has spent almost three decades as a journalist, radio broadcaster, critic and interviewer, with ...
NTWF 2025 - Past Perfect
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What myths about the past prevail? How does the past inform our present? And how do writers contextualise their work in time? In Sharlene Allsopp's e...
NTWF 2025 - We Are The Stars - Gina Chick
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gina Chick knows how to be at home in the wild. The winner of the first Alone Australia describes how an unconventional childhood led to an extraordin...
NTWF 2025 - Disrupting Literature
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australian literature is being faced with interventions that challenge old ways of doing. Indigenous authors write back to mainstream publishin...
NTWF 2025 - Oil and Water
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here in the NT, we are deeply dependent on groundwater to live. What is our relationship to water like? How are fossil fuel interests influencing the ...
NTWF 2025 - Our Stories Heal Us
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Writing can help us move through grief, pain and trauma - and can be a way to make sense of the past. Gina Chick's memoir We Are the Stars is a bold ...
NTWF 2025 - State Capture - Royce Kurmelovs
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join investigative journalist Royce Kurmelovs on a journey through Australia's toxic relationship with Big Oil. From the government's historical choic...
NTWF 2025 - Language Is Power
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to reclaim a language? In the UN International Decade of Indigenous Languages, determined leaders are revitalising and cultivating ...
NTWF 2025 - Angkwerre-iweme - Healing in the Winds of Change
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Immerse yourself into the festival altyerre-theme with a deep exploration of Angkwerre-iweme | healing in the winds of change. This is an Ar...
NTWF 2024 - Aftermaths - The Ethics of True Crime
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you pick up the threads of an unsolved mystery and weave them into a compelling story? How do you navigate the trauma and emotions of those liv...
NTWF 2024 - The Juggle Is Real
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sleepless nights, teething problems, school runs, nappies. Juggling the demands and responsibilities of caring for children with creative pursuits is ...
NTWF 2024 - Murli la - Ngarukuruwala Women's Group
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the remote Tiwi Islands, a 20-strong group of female Elders have been coming together to sing for decades, composing and performing songs that hold...
NTWF 2024 - Living With The Past
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a world where there are fewer shared rituals of mourning and we are frequently exposed to images of destruction online, how do we begin to properly...
NTWF 2024 - After The Storm
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cyclone Tracey was a cataclysmic event that destroyed 80 percent of Darwin and killed 66 people. The disaster changed the city irrevocably and, nearly...
NTWF 2024 - Queering The Narrative
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How are contemporary queer writers finding new ways to voice their experiences? How do they build on the rich history of queer writing before them, an...
NTWF - The Future of Storytelling
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With the rise of AI, the popularity of audiobooks and podcasts, and the overwhelming amount of online content being produced, what constitutes 'litera...
NTWF 2024 - The Shadows of History
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Burruberongal novelist of the Darug Aboriginal Nation, Julie Janson, and historian of the colonial frontier, Robyn Smith, for a discussion about ...
NTWF 2024 - Taking a Joke
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Taking a joke and running with it can be harder work than you think. So how do writers go about being amusing? Is it something you're born with or can...
NTWF 2024 - Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The author of seven novels and three books of nonfiction, many of which have won prestigious awards, Charlotte Wood is one of the country's most criti...
NTWF 2023 – A Minor Chorus – Billy-Ray Belcourt
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation, Billy-Ray Belcourt is a rising literary star. His debut book of poetry, This Wound is a World, ...
NTWF 2023 – Morning Meditations – Uti Kulintjaku
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Clear your mind and learn about the Pitjantjatjara concept of listening in this special presentation by Alison Milyika (Tjulapi) Carroll and Margaret ...
NTWF 2023 - Horse by Geraldine Brooks
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pulitzer Prize–winning author and journalist, Geraldine Brooks, joins us via livestream from Sydney to discuss her sweeping historical novel, Horse....
NTWF 2023 - Solidarity and Survival
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this powerful panel, three queer First Nations writers with ancestral connections to different continents – Ellen van Neerven (Mununjali Yugambeh...
NTWF 2023 - Voices Of Nature
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can we hear what the non-human world has to tell us? How can writers and storytellers translate this ‘voice’ into art, opening us up to new wa...
NTWF 2023 - Unsettling Narratives of the Past
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Three practitioners of historical fiction – Anita Heiss AM, Geraldine Brooks and Christopher Raja – discuss how their writing challenges dominant ...
NTWF 2023 - The Voice To Parliament Handbook
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this timely panel, author and Uluru Statement from the Heart campaigner, Thomas Mayo, is joined by esteemed journalist, Kerry O’Brien, to discuss...
Acknowledgement of Country
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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