Program - Laravel

Tim Winton in Conversation

Indonesian Translation Slam

Stranger than Fiction

We Who Saw First

The Book Factory

8 May, 9 May, 9 May, 10 May

Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes: Decolonial Writing

Shut Up and Write!

Maria Reva: Endling

Stephanie Alexander: 30 Years of The Cook's Companion

Top 100 Books with ABC Radio National

Hiroko Yoda: Eight Million Ways to Happiness

Melbourne Memoryscapes: Walking Tour with Robyn Annear

My Body is My Home with Jasper Peach and Beci Orpin

Omar Musa and Ellena Savage: Past Imperfect

Sunday Afternoon Book Club

Mieko Kawakami: Sisters in Yellow

Breaking News: The Rise of Independent Media

Whose Poet Laureate Is It, Anyway?: The Peter Steele Poetry Conversation

Centring First Nations Knowledge

Susan Choi: Flashlight

Ariana Reines in Conversation

David Moscrop: Too Dumb for Democracy?

Looking at Women, Looking at War: Cities of Literature Book Club

Mythical Retellings

Chelsea Vowel: Indigenous Futurisms

David Szalay: Flesh

Translation Slam with Hiroko Yoda

Closing Night Address: Tony Birch on The Ethical Imagination

R.F. Kuang: Katabasis [Sunday]

Maria Reva: Character Networks

Dervla McTiernan and Benjamin Stevenson: Blood on the Page

Bob Brown: Defiance

Minute Cryptic Crossword Workshop

Political Year in Review

Wilder Shores: Writing the Changing Planet

Reimagining Resistance Beyond Colonies

Naynay and the Mermaid with Tasma Walton

Raging Disgracefully

Lost and Found: Griffith Review

Making the Victorian Treaty

Yann Martel: Son of Nobody

Genki Kawamura: From Japan to the World

Tareq Baconi: Fire in Every Direction

Robert Forster: Songwriters on the Run

Book Club: The Children's Bach with Bri Lee and Jaclyn Crupi

Crip Stories: Nothing About Us Without Us

Nikita Gill: Hekate

Evelyn Araluen and Maxine Beneba Clarke: Girl, Woman, Poem

Chris Tse: Collaborative Poetry

Toby Walsh: AI - Boom or Doom?

Burial Grounds: Indigenous Perspectives on Horror

Secret Histories: Tales of Dark Academia

Michael Pedersen: Muckle Flugga

Acoustic Mirrors: An Afternoon of Poetry and Music

Shaun Micallef: De'Ath Takes A Holiday

Bob Brown: Defiance [Kooyong]

Sex, Love and Other Catastrophes

The Next Big Thing

Genki Kawamura: One Hundred Flowers

Ray Norris and Bruce Pascoe: Big Sky

Toni Jordan and Michael Winkler: Animal Instincts

The Guardian’s Are You Game Show

Queer View Mirror: Kill Your Boomers

Dervla McTiernan and Louise Milligan in Conversation [Hawthorn]

Human Love Quest: Talk Wordy to Me

Antoinette Lattouf and Grace Tame: Women Who Win

Sintering: An Evening of Indigenous Brilliance

Breaking Taboos: Rewriting Sex, Love and the Body

Slow Read Exhibition [Hawthorn]

6 May, 7 May, 8 May

Zoe Terakes: Making Art in the Margins

Beejay Silcox: Literary Criticism

R.F. Kuang: Katabasis

Mother Tongue: Writing Matriarchies

Exit 8: Screening and Q&A with Genki Kawamura

Life Lines: A Song Cycle of Dorothy Porter

Dervla McTiernan: Three Reasons for Revenge [Moonee Ponds]

Bri Lee: Seed [Kooyong]

Robert Forster: Songwriters on the Run [Kew]

Queerstories

Jacinda Ardern: A Different Kind of Power

Benjamin Stevenson: Everyone in this Bank is a Thief [Melton]

Opening Night: Visions & Revisions

Ray Norris and Bruce Pascoe: Big Sky [Kew]

Jonathan Butler: Family History as Creative Inspiration

Shaun Micallef: De'Ath Takes A Holiday [Doncaster]

Anita Heiss: The Paradise Pact [Kooyong]

Ray Norris and Bruce Pascoe: Big Sky at the Planetarium

Lally Katz: Writing Your Life