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Santilla Chingaipe: Working with Archives
6 May
Raeden Richardson: Writing to the Edge of Reality
7 May
Opening Night: Magical Thinking
8 May
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Rumaan Alam: Making Writing a Habit
9 May
Thin Red Lines: An Evening of Poetry
9 May
Kate Grenville: Unsettled
9 May
Queerstories
9 May
Culture Club Podcast: Live with Chloe Elisabeth Wilson
9 May
Nardi Simpson: The Belburd
9 May
Cancelling Culture
9 May
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Hannah Kent: Writing Historical Fiction
10 May
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Badass Women of Melbourne Walking Tour
10 May,
11 May
Jessica Townsend: Silverborn
10 May
The Library of Bears with Cat Rabbit
10 May
Anita Heiss in Conversation
10 May
Lev Grossman: The Bright Sword
10 May
Post-Referendum Voices: Where Do We Go From Here?
10 May
Culture Vultures: Griffith Review
10 May
Rumaan Alam: Entitlement
10 May
Wonders Under the Moon with Tai Snaith
10 May
Jamila Rizvi and Rosie Waterland: Broken Brains
10 May
The Writer as Witness
10 May
Afternoon Tea with Sarah Wilson
10 May
John Button Oration: Decoding the Federal Election
10 May
The Past is a Foreign Country
10 May
Kaliane Bradley: The Ministry of Time
10 May
Drawing the Line
10 May
Jimmy Barnes: Highways and Byways
10 May
Afra Atiq: The Healing Power of Poetry
10 May
Horror, Hauntings and Monstrous Femmes
10 May
Selling Fast
The Next Big Thing
10 May
Tradition and Innovation: 65,000 Years of Indigenous Art
10 May
The Fifth Estate: Citizenship and Its Discontents
10 May
Top 100 Books with ABC Radio National
10 May
Sarah Wilson: Living Fully in an Age of Crisis
10 May
Carrie Tiffany: Bitten – A Snake Performance
10 May
Peter Steele Poetry Conversation: Pádraig Ó Tuama
10 May
First Knowledges First
10 May
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Asako Yuzuki: Butter
10 May
Colum McCann: Twist
10 May
Maxine Beneba Clarke and Amaya Laucirica: Fire Moves Faster
10 May
The Psychology of Your 20s with Lucinda Price AKA Froomes
10 May
Blak Magic Women
10 May
Yael van der Wouden: The Safekeep
11 May
Kate Grenville and Anita Heiss: Unsettling Australian Stories
11 May
Emily Maguire and Josephine Rowe: Are You There, God?
11 May
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Colum McCann: The Devil Is in the Details
11 May
Future Tense
11 May
The Bookshelf Live with ABC Radio National
11 May
Marian Keyes: My Favourite Mistake
11 May
Queering Genre
11 May
Found in Translation: Translation Slam with Mariana Enríquez
11 May
Norman Erikson Pasaribu: My Dream Job
11 May
Better Off Said: Eulogies for the Living and Dead
11 May
Samantha Harvey: Orbital
11 May
Bora Chung: Your Utopia
11 May
We Sharpen Our Axes Against the Hardest Stone
11 May
Someone Like Me: Autistic Writing and Belonging
11 May
Hannah Kent: Always Home, Always Homesick
11 May
Mariana Enríquez: A Sunny Place for Shady People
11 May
Torrey Peters: Stag Dance
11 May
A. C. Grayling: Making Peace in the Culture Wars
11 May
Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner: Lady’s Knight
17 May
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Colm Tóibín: From Brooklyn to Long Island
21 May
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