Program

Festival schedule

95 sessions at 23 venues over 10 days

Sessions by venue and day. Choose a day to see it in the day planner.
Venue	Tuesday 5 May , open in the day planner 1 session	Wednesday 6 May , open in the day planner 5 sessions	Thursday 7 May , open in the day planner 4 sessions	Friday 8 May , open in the day planner 13 sessions	Saturday 9 May , open in the day planner 41 sessions	Sunday 10 May , open in the day planner 27 sessions	Saturday 5 Sep , open in the day planner 1 session	Friday 11 Sep , open in the day planner 1 session	Wednesday 28 Oct , open in the day planner 1 session	Wednesday 11 Nov , open in the day planner 1 session
Athenaeum Theatre	No sessions	No sessions	6:30pm to 8:00pm Opening Night: Visions & Revisions	No sessions	10:30am to 11:30am Political Year in Review 12:30pm to 1:30pm Yann Martel: Son of Nobody 2:30pm to 3:30pm Secret Histories: Tales of Dark Academia 4:30pm to 5:30pm Ray Norris and Bruce Pascoe: Big Sky 6:30pm to 7:30pm Antoinette Lattouf and Grace Tame: Women Who Win	10:30am to 11:30am Stephanie Alexander: 30 Years of The Cook's Companion 12:30pm to 1:30pm Mieko Kawakami: Sisters in Yellow 2:30pm to 3:30pm Susan Choi: Flashlight 4:30pm to 5:30pm David Szalay: Flesh 6:30pm to 7:30pm R.F. Kuang: Katabasis [Sunday]	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions
Cinema Nova	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	6:15pm to 9:00pm Exit 8: Screening and Q&A with Genki Kawamura	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions
Clocktower Centre	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	6:30pm to 7:30pm Dervla McTiernan: Three Reasons for Revenge [Moonee Ponds]	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions
Doncaster Library	No sessions	6:30pm to 7:30pm Shaun Micallef: De'Ath Takes A Holiday [Doncaster]	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions
Forum Theatre, University of Melbourne	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	6:30pm to 7:30pm Indonesian Translation Slam	No sessions
Fringe Common Rooms, Trades Hall	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	1:00pm to 2:00pm Robert Forster: Songwriters on the Run 3:00pm to 4:30pm Acoustic Mirrors: An Afternoon of Poetry and Music	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions
Hawthorn Arts Centre	No sessions	9:00am to 5:00pm Slow Read Exhibition [Hawthorn]	9:00am to 5:00pm Slow Read Exhibition [Hawthorn]	9:00am to 5:00pm Slow Read Exhibition [Hawthorn]	5:00pm to 6:00pm Dervla McTiernan and Louise Milligan in Conversation [Hawthorn]	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions
Kew Courthouse	No sessions	No sessions	7:00pm to 8:00pm Ray Norris and Bruce Pascoe: Big Sky [Kew]	7:00pm to 8:00pm Robert Forster: Songwriters on the Run [Kew]	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions
Melbourne Town Hall	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	6:00pm to 7:00pm R.F. Kuang: Katabasis 8:30pm to 9:30pm Jacinda Ardern: A Different Kind of Power	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions
Melton Library & Learning Hub	No sessions	No sessions	6:00pm to 7:00pm Benjamin Stevenson: Everyone in this Bank is a Thief [Melton]	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions
narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	6:30pm to 7:30pm Stranger than Fiction	No sessions	No sessions
Queen Victoria Women's Centre	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	11:30am to 12:30pm Raging Disgracefully 1:30pm to 2:30pm Evelyn Araluen and Maxine Beneba Clarke: Girl, Woman, Poem 3:30pm to 4:30pm Sex, Love and Other Catastrophes	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions
Scienceworks Planetarium	No sessions	7:00pm to 9:00pm Ray Norris and Bruce Pascoe: Big Sky at the Planetarium	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions
State Library of Victoria, Create Quarter	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	10:30am to 11:30am Naynay and the Mermaid with Tasma Walton	10:30am to 11:30am My Body is My Home with Jasper Peach and Beci Orpin	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions
State Library Victoria, Conversation Quarter	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	6:30pm to 8:30pm Life Lines: A Song Cycle of Dorothy Porter	10:30am to 11:30am Bob Brown: Defiance 12:00pm to 1:00pm Making the Victorian Treaty 1:30pm to 2:30pm Nikita Gill: Hekate 3:00pm to 4:00pm Shaun Micallef: De'Ath Takes A Holiday 4:30pm to 5:30pm The Guardian’s Are You Game Show 6:30pm to 7:30pm Human Love Quest: Talk Wordy to Me	10:30am to 11:30am Top 100 Books with ABC Radio National 12:00pm to 1:00pm Sunday Afternoon Book Club 1:30pm to 2:30pm Centring First Nations Knowledge 3:00pm to 4:00pm David Moscrop: Too Dumb for Democracy? 4:30pm to 6:00pm Translation Slam with Hiroko Yoda	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions
State Library Victoria, Forecourt	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	5:00pm to 9:00pm The Book Factory	12:00pm to 3:00pm The Book Factory 5:00pm to 9:00pm The Book Factory	10:30am to 12:30pm Melbourne Memoryscapes: Walking Tour with Robyn Annear 12:00pm to 3:00pm The Book Factory 2:00pm to 4:00pm Melbourne Memoryscapes: Walking Tour with Robyn Annear	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions
State Library Victoria, Theatrette	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	10:30am to 11:30am Wilder Shores: Writing the Changing Planet 12:00pm to 1:00pm Lost and Found: Griffith Review 1:30pm to 2:30pm Crip Stories: Nothing About Us Without Us 3:00pm to 4:00pm Michael Pedersen: Muckle Flugga 4:30pm to 5:30pm Toni Jordan and Michael Winkler: Animal Instincts 6:30pm to 7:30pm Breaking Taboos: Rewriting Sex, Love and the Body	10:30am to 11:30am Hiroko Yoda: Eight Million Ways to Happiness 12:00pm to 1:00pm Omar Musa and Ellena Savage: Past Imperfect 1:30pm to 2:30pm Whose Poet Laureate Is It, Anyway?: The Peter Steele Poetry Conversation 3:00pm to 4:00pm Looking at Women, Looking at War: Cities of Literature Book Club 4:30pm to 5:30pm Chelsea Vowel: Indigenous Futurisms	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions
The Capitol	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	10:30am to 11:30am Dervla McTiernan and Benjamin Stevenson: Blood on the Page 12:30pm to 1:30pm Genki Kawamura: From Japan to the World 2:30pm to 3:30pm Toby Walsh: AI - Boom or Doom? 4:30pm to 5:30pm Genki Kawamura: One Hundred Flowers	10:30am to 11:30am Maria Reva: Endling 12:30pm to 1:30pm Breaking News: The Rise of Independent Media 2:30pm to 3:30pm Ariana Reines in Conversation 4:30pm to 5:30pm Mythical Retellings 6:30pm to 7:30pm Closing Night Address: Tony Birch on The Ethical Imagination	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions
The Moat	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	10:30am to 11:30am Minute Cryptic Crossword Workshop 1:00pm to 2:30pm Book Club: The Children's Bach with Bri Lee and Jaclyn Crupi 3:30pm to 4:30pm The Next Big Thing	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions
The Wheeler Centre	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	6:00pm to 7:00pm Mother Tongue: Writing Matriarchies 7:30pm to 9:30pm Queerstories	10:30am to 11:30am Reimagining Resistance Beyond Colonies 12:30pm to 1:30pm Tareq Baconi: Fire in Every Direction 2:30pm to 3:30pm Burial Grounds: Indigenous Perspectives on Horror 4:30pm to 5:30pm Queer View Mirror: Kill Your Boomers 6:30pm to 8:00pm Sintering: An Evening of Indigenous Brilliance	10:00am to 12:00pm Shut Up and Write! 1:00pm to 3:00pm Shut Up and Write!	10:00am to 11:00am We Who Saw First	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions
The Wheeler Centre, Workshop Space	6:00pm to 8:30pm Lally Katz: Writing Your Life	6:00pm to 8:30pm Jonathan Butler: Family History as Creative Inspiration	No sessions	10:00am to 12:30pm Zoe Terakes: Making Art in the Margins 2:30pm to 5:00pm Beejay Silcox: Literary Criticism	10:00am to 12:30pm Maria Reva: Character Networks 2:30pm to 5:00pm Chris Tse: Collaborative Poetry	10:00am to 12:30pm Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes: Decolonial Writing	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions
Union Theatre	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	6:00pm to 7:00pm Tim Winton in Conversation
Vision Australia Library	No sessions	7:00pm to 8:00pm Anita Heiss: The Paradise Pact [Kooyong]	No sessions	7:00pm to 8:00pm Bri Lee: Seed [Kooyong]	3:30pm to 4:30pm Bob Brown: Defiance [Kooyong]	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions	No sessions

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