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July 17, 2019
Pillow Talk with Jenna Guillaume
Love. It stirs our creative spirits, brings us to our knees, inspires songs and sonnets and paintings and volumes. In the spirit of this year’s Festival theme, When We Talk About Love, we’re asking authors and artists to share the passions that underpin their work. This week, we spoke with Australian author of What I Like About […]
An Ode to the Tome: Noni the Pony, The Everlasting Sunday and The Nowhere Child
We all have those books. The ‘I fell asleep reading you’, ‘I dropped you in the bath’, ‘I covered you in crumbs as I devoured you over lunch’ – the un-put-downables that became like instant best friends or toxic lovers. To celebrate the powerful ways in which words can rouse us, we’re asking our favourite book bloggers to […]
July 16, 2019
Sleepover with the Stars: Five nights of giveaways for MWF19
Our Sleepover with the Stars competition is back for MWF19. Over the next six weeks, we’ll be giving away five prize packs, each comprising a double pass to one of our Highlight sessions, plus one night’s stay at the Sofitel Melbourne On Collins on the date of the event. The official accommodation of MWF19 artists, […]
July 12, 2019
The Museum of Broken Relationships
We are thrilled to be bringing Croatia’s world-famous Museum of Broken Relationships to Australia for the very first time. The collection of anonymously donated objects of heartbreak and love lost will be exhibited within the Festival precinct throughout the month of September, after the museum’s originators, Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić, carefully curate a Melbourne-specific show. The Museum of […]
Pillow Talk with Tony Birch
Love. It stirs our creative spirits, brings us to our knees, inspires songs and sonnets and paintings and volumes. In the spirit of this year’s Festival theme, When We Talk About Love, we’re asking authors and artists to share the passions that underpin their work. This week, we spoke with Australian author of newly-released The White Girl Tony […]
July 11, 2019
An Ode to A Tome: Tales from the Inner City, Barracuda and The Trauma Cleaner
We all have those books. The ‘I fell asleep reading you’, ‘I dropped you in the bath’, ‘I covered you in crumbs as I devoured you over lunch’ – the un-put-downables that became like instant best friends or toxic lovers. To celebrate the powerful ways in which words can rouse us, we’re asking our favourite book bloggers to […]
July 4, 2019
A Message from the Artistic Director
Over ten days we’re inviting a hugely eclectic collection of novelists, poets, journalists, playwrights, songwriters, artists and performers to bare their souls and share what sets them aflame.
June 21, 2019
Follow your heart through MWF19.
Through the lens of this year’s theme, we’re exploring what ignites our passions and fuels our craft. Follow your heart through this year’s program.
June 20, 2019
Meet the first faces of MWF19: Kim Gordon, DeRay Mckesson and Deborah Lipstadt
Ahead of our full program release on 10 July, we’re elated to announce some of world’s biggest names in literature, civil rights activism and music in a sneak peek of the authors and artists joining the program from 30 August to 8 September, with tickets to their events on sale now. Melbourne Writers Festival is […]