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SYDNEY WRITERS FESTIVAL

Sydney Writers’ Festival brings together a broad and engaged community around the sharing of books, writing and ideas.

Each May, we host brilliant storytellers across all forms in a thoughtful, challenging, riotous fun week-long celebration of writing, books and ideas at our home at Carriageworks in Sydney’s Inner West and across the city. Since our first Festival in 1997, the world’s best novelists, poets, journalists, public intellectuals, economists, politicians, podcasters and scientists have come together to discuss some of the most pressing issues of our times on our stages. By showcasing a wide range of Australian and international writers, the Festival helps sustain Australia’s literary community and culture as a whole. We are proud to present a Festival that through careful curation acts as a barometer of the world around us, and offers an invitation to hear new ideas, stories and voices in our beautiful city.

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    Our Evenings - ON SALE!

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    Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England ...

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024- An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge. It is fift...

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    Life on our planet as you've never seen it before**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024****THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'A slim, profound study of in...

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDSHORTLISTE...

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    In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Malala Yousafzai, ...

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    In the Little People, Big Dreams series, discover the lives of outstanding people from designers and artists to scientists. All of them went on to ...

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    THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn explosive new novel brimming with love, secrets, and enchantment by Jandy Nelson, the New York Times best...

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  • Naku Dharuk The Bark Petitions - ON SALE!

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    'A masterpiece.' Thomas Mayo'The most painstaking and beautiful reconstruction of mission life...feels like a revolutionarily good piece of histo...

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  • James - ON SALE!

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    LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024! 'Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book' - Hernan Diaz...

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    One of the 18 best novels of the year for the Sunday Times. A book of the year for the New York Times, Guardian, Independent, Evening Standard, ...

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    A hilarious new graphic novel series for early readers from bestselling creator, Kylie Howarth.Join Kev and Trev's epic deep-sea adventure - full...

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    ‘A perfect three-part harmony of exultant joy, heartbreaking tragedy, and pant-wetting comedy.’ – Osher GünsbergYour future is not guaranteed. And ...

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    Essential reading for those who want to know 'what's next?' after the October 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum, from one of the most respected I...

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND FICTION BOOK AWARD‘an illuminating reflection on what it means to liv...

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    Young readers can learn essential bush survival skills with Aunty Munya's charming and educational picture book. Ask Aunty: Bush Survival Skills is...

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    'I loved it' Hannah Kent 'An instant queer classic' Benjamin Law The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object...

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