December 15, 2021
Our summer reading guide
With recommendations from our programming team, discover your next read this sun-drenched summer.
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December 7, 2021
Melbourne Writers Festival appoints new CEO
Experienced cultural sector leader Vivia Hickman joins MWF in 2022.
October 12, 2021
Where Do I Begin: Santilla Chingaipe
To find out how the story ends, we need to understand how it began. How have our brutal beginnings endured to this day, and how do we reckon with our history of dispossession? When did we start to see ourselves as a bunch of battlers, larrikins and top blokes in the land of the fair […]
Where Do I Begin: Claire G Coleman
To find out how the story ends, we need to understand how it began. How have our brutal beginnings endured to this day, and how do we reckon with our history of dispossession? When did we start to see ourselves as a bunch of battlers, larrikins and top blokes in the land of the fair […]
Where Do I Begin: Stan Grant
Podcast: To find out how the story ends, we need to understand how it began.
August 30, 2021
A guide to MWF Digital
Delve into the 10 titles from luminaries including Jhumpa Lahiri and Viet Thanh Nguyen.
August 23, 2021
Endnotes: Declan Fry
We spoke to critic, essayist and MWF guest Declan Fry about beginnings, endings and the indelible impact of music on his creative process. Read some of Fry’s writing here, including incisive and thoughtful reviews of books by MWF authors Kavita Bedford, Stan Grant, Amani Haydar and others. Tell me one of your first memories connected […]
Endnotes: Claire G Coleman
We caught up with Lies, Damned Lies author and MWF guest Claire G Coleman to discuss beginnings, endings, and the most important literary and non-literary forces that have shaped her writing. The prize–winning Noongar author will lead an online workshop on the ins and outs of the speculative fiction genre, sharing insight into her own […]
August 12, 2021
Endnotes: Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Author of The Love of a Bad Man and The Newcomer Laura Elizabeth Woollett spoke with us about beginnings, endings, and mainlining Johnny Cash. Woollett is appearing in The Ties That Bind, speaking about sensitively shaping crime novels that depict the relationship between a parent and child. Tell me one of your first memories connected […]
Endnotes: Rick Morton
We sat down with award-winning journalist and author of My Year of Living Vulnerably Rick Morton to talk beginnings, endings, the influence of science on his work, and how Ocean Vuong is his north star. Morton is appearing in three MWF21 events: in a discussion about men’s complicated relationship with stoicism, love, and empathy, and […]
Endnotes: Sinéad Stubbins
We chatted to Sinéad Stubbins about beginnings, endings and her one-woman quest to end the sourdough craze.
August 6, 2021
Faculty of Arts guide to MWF21: part three
Melbourne Writers Festival is proud to partner with the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. In an expert guide to the MWF21 program, academics from the faculty have put together their top picks to inspire research, discussion and debate. This edition includes conversations on poetry, as we celebrate Poetry Month this August. Associate […]