Writers' Week

Kids' Day

For readers aged 2-11

Sat 5 Mar

Middle Grade & YA Day

AUSTRALIA

7 ½

With Christos Tsiolkas

A Bloody Good Rant

With Thomas Keneally

The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature

All About Yves: Notes from a Transition

With Yves Rees

A Passage North

With Anuk Arudpragasam

Animal

With Lisa Taddeo

Apples Never Fall

With Liane Moriarty

Live Podcast: Archive Fever

John Carty & Jared Thomas with hosts Yves Rees & Clare Wright

Australia's War on Whistleblowers

With Bernard Collaery, David McBride and Jennifer Robinson

Bad Energy

With Ian Lowe and Jeremy Moss

Being Black 'N Chicken, & Chips

With Matt Okine

Bet the Farm

With Gabrielle Chan and Anika Molesworth

Beyond Boyhood

With Brandon Jack and Paul Kennedy

Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams

With Anita Heiss

Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience

With Veronica Gorrie

Blight Street

With Geoff Goodfellow and performers Roslyn Oades and Nic Darrigo

Bodies of Light

With Jennifer Down

C+NTO and Othered Poems

With Joelle Taylor

City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong

With Antony Dapiran

Cloud Cuckoo Land

With Anthony Doerr

Cometh the Virus, Cometh the Man

With Norman Swan

Compounding Damage

With Michael Bradley, Rachel Doyle, Saxon Mullins

Comrades in Words

With Christos Tsiolkas and Charlotte Wood

Continuous Creation: The Poetry of Les Murray

Performed by Peter Carroll

Dark Actions, Dark Consequences

With Jaivet Ealom and Abbas Nazari

Deadly Quiet City

With Murong Xuecun

China

Devotion

With Hannah Kent

Empire of Pain

With Patrick Radden Keefe

Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America

With Alec MacGillis

Full Circle: A Search for the World that Comes Next

With Scott Ludlam

Fury

With Kathryn Heyman

Good International Citizenship: The Case for Decency

With Gareth Evans

Grift, Lies and Influence

With Fiona McLeod and Michael West

Growing Up in Australia

With Anita Heiss, Benjamin Law and Fiona Murphy

Hear Me Roar!

With Evelyn Araluen, Pola Fanous, Isi Ferguson, Huda the Goddess, Tyberius Larking, Sara Mansour, Daniel Mateo, Tracey O'Callaghan and Joelle Taylor

Heroes, Rebels and Innovators

With Karen Wyld

History's Inspiration

With Katrina Nannestad

History, Storytelling and the Collective Imagination

With Tom Griffiths and Bruce Pascoe

Holding the Hose

With Richard Flanagan

How Fast Things Fall

With Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull

In Case You Missed Them

With Bernadette Brennan and Joyce Morgan

Into Her Own Hands

With Jane Caro and Debra Oswald

Introducing Hometown Haunts

With Sarah Epstein, Poppy Nwosu, Jared Thomas and Vikki Wakefield

Keeping It Tense

With J.P. Pomare and Christian White

Legally Bound: Change, Activism and the Law

With David Barnden, Michael Bradley and Terri Janke

Living Gender: Reimagining Masculinities and Femininities

Hosted by Benjamin Law

Loop Tracks

With Sue Orr

Love Stories

With Trent Dalton

Mortals: How the Fear of Death Shaped Human Society

With Rachel Menzies and Ross Menzies

My Body Keeps Your Secrets

With Lucia Osborne-Crowley

Motherhood Express

With Alice Pung and Allee Richards

Nice Racism

With Robin DiAngelo

Once and Future

With Evelyn Araluen and Jazz Money

Once There Were Wolves

With Charlotte McConaghy

Our Nation's Shame

With Samantha Crompvoets and Mark Willacy

Policy Drift

With John Daley and Martin Parkinson

QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults

With Van Badham

Reporting China

Bill Birtles, Trevor Watson and Sue-Lin Wong

Revolution and Reform: Gender, Climate and Race

Hosted by Michael Williams

Scary Monsters

with Michelle de Kretser

Scott Morrison: Who the Bloody Hell is He?

With Sean Kelly and Annika Smethurst

Searching for Redemption

With Miles Allinson and Liam Pieper

Signs and Wonders: Dispatches from a Time of Beauty and Loss

With Delia Falconer

Sold Down the River

With Scott Hamilton and Stuart Kells

Son of Sin

With Omar Sakr

Symbiotic Siblings

With Hannah Bent and Campbell Mattinson

Taking Down the Decorations

With Pasi Sahlberg and Gabrielle Stroud

Theatre, Leadership and the Imagination

With John Bell and Jonathan Biggins

The Airways

With Jennifer Mills

The Artful Dickens

With John Mullan

The Big Switch

With Saul Griffith

The Boys' Club

With Michael Warner

The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent

With Gideon Haigh

The Centred Victim

With Jacqueline Bublitz and Laura Elizabeth Woollett

The Darkness Within

With Lyndall Clipstone and CS Pacat

The Death of Dr Duncan

With Tim Reeves

The Education of Young Donald

With Kerryn Goldsworthy, Julia Horne and Nick Horne

The Island of Missing Trees

With Elif Shafak

The Legend of Charmian Clift

With Tanya Dalziell, Paul Genoni and Polly Samson

The Luminous Solution

With Charlotte Wood

The Magician

With Colm Tóibín

The Master of Two Worlds

With John Flanagan

The Mother Wound

With Amani Haydar

The MUD Literary Club: The 10th Anniversary

With Thomas Keneally, Hannah Kent and Christos Tsiolkas

The Other Black Girl

With Zakiya Dalila Harris

The Other Half of You

With Michael Mohammed Ahmad

The Reckoning

With Jess Hill and Grace Tame

The Right to Sex

With Amia Srinivasan

The Ruthless Muse

Hosted by Jessica Alice, Director of Writers SA

The Shape of Sound

With Fiona Murphy

The Shortest History of China

With Linda Jaivin

The Silence Between Us

With Cécile Barral, Oceane Campbell and Patrick McGorry

There's Something About China

With David Brophy and Jason Yat-Sen Li

This Campus Life

With Diana Reid and Indyana Schneider

This is Australia

With Claire G. Coleman and Julianne Schultz

This is Your Mind on Plants

With Michael Pollan

Up Close and Different

With Clem Bastow and Emma Jane

Well Hello

With Annabel Crabb and Miranda Murphy

Wild Abandon

With Emily Bitto

Wild Motherhood

With Briohny Doyle and Rachel Yoder

Words from the Wise

With Peter Doherty and Barry Jones

Writing Art

With Angela O'Keeffe and Claire Thomas

YA Microstory Competition

Supported by 9News

The Listies Live

AICSA Election Series: In-conversation with Shadow Minister for the Arts, Katrine Hildyard MP

Hosted by Jessica Alice & Vincent Ciccarello

Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking Over the World

With Elle Hardy

From Russia to the Soviet Union and Back Again

With Sheila Fitzpatrick

Remembering Shane Warne

With Malcolm Knox and Bharat Sundaresan