
Kids' Day
For readers aged 2-11
Sat 5 Mar
Adelaide Writers' Week 2022: A Better Picture
For a third astonishing year, Adelaide Writers’ Week managed to dodge the worst of COVID's consequences and was successfully, joyfully staged on our beautiful site at the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden.
Despite some last-minute cancellations and quick pivots from live to virtual appearances necessitated by COVID, the floods and even a scare from a fire on the Harbour Bridge, a wonderful collection of minds and voices provoked, informed and inspired us. Our authors and audiences both ensured I am leaving on a sky-grazing high. I am so grateful for the opportunity to have been Director of the country’s most accessible, energising and uplifting festival of ideas and literature. It has been a great privilege. I look forward to being back next year as an eager audience member for Louise Adler’s first offering - I’ll be the one without the wild eyes and harried gait.
Jo Dyer
Director, Writers' Week
Save the date
Writers' Week will be held from 4 - 9 Mar in 2023.
Info about 2022 Writers' Week
Although Writers' Week is over for another year, you're welcome to navigate through our different offerings using the links below before we archive these pages. The line-up and session pages include links to the podcasts of the sessions.
PRESENTING PARTNERS
For readers aged 2-11
Sat 5 Mar
AUSTRALIA
With Christos Tsiolkas
With Thomas Keneally
With Yves Rees
With Anuk Arudpragasam
With Lisa Taddeo
With Liane Moriarty
John Carty & Jared Thomas with hosts Yves Rees & Clare Wright
With Bernard Collaery, David McBride and Jennifer Robinson
With Ian Lowe and Jeremy Moss
With Matt Okine
With Gabrielle Chan and Anika Molesworth
With Brandon Jack and Paul Kennedy
With Anita Heiss
With Veronica Gorrie
With Geoff Goodfellow and performers Roslyn Oades and Nic Darrigo
With Jennifer Down
With Joelle Taylor
With Antony Dapiran
With Anthony Doerr
With Norman Swan
With Michael Bradley, Rachel Doyle, Saxon Mullins
With Christos Tsiolkas and Charlotte Wood
Performed by Peter Carroll
With Jaivet Ealom and Abbas Nazari
With Murong Xuecun
China
With Hannah Kent
With Patrick Radden Keefe
With Alec MacGillis
With Scott Ludlam
With Kathryn Heyman
With Gareth Evans
With Fiona McLeod and Michael West
With Anita Heiss, Benjamin Law and Fiona Murphy
With Evelyn Araluen, Pola Fanous, Isi Ferguson, Huda the Goddess, Tyberius Larking, Sara Mansour, Daniel Mateo, Tracey O'Callaghan and Joelle Taylor
With Karen Wyld
With Katrina Nannestad
With Tom Griffiths and Bruce Pascoe
With Richard Flanagan
With Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull
With Bernadette Brennan and Joyce Morgan
With Jane Caro and Debra Oswald
With Sarah Epstein, Poppy Nwosu, Jared Thomas and Vikki Wakefield
With J.P. Pomare and Christian White
With David Barnden, Michael Bradley and Terri Janke
Hosted by Benjamin Law
With Sue Orr
With Trent Dalton
With Rachel Menzies and Ross Menzies
With Lucia Osborne-Crowley
With Alice Pung and Allee Richards
With Robin DiAngelo
With Evelyn Araluen and Jazz Money
With Charlotte McConaghy
With Samantha Crompvoets and Mark Willacy
With John Daley and Martin Parkinson
With Van Badham
Bill Birtles, Trevor Watson and Sue-Lin Wong
Hosted by Michael Williams
with Michelle de Kretser
With Sean Kelly and Annika Smethurst
With Miles Allinson and Liam Pieper
With Delia Falconer
With Scott Hamilton and Stuart Kells
With Omar Sakr
With Hannah Bent and Campbell Mattinson
With Pasi Sahlberg and Gabrielle Stroud
With John Bell and Jonathan Biggins
With Jennifer Mills
With John Mullan
With Saul Griffith
With Michael Warner
With Gideon Haigh
With Jacqueline Bublitz and Laura Elizabeth Woollett
With Lyndall Clipstone and CS Pacat
With Tim Reeves
With Kerryn Goldsworthy, Julia Horne and Nick Horne
With Elif Shafak
With Tanya Dalziell, Paul Genoni and Polly Samson
With Charlotte Wood
With Colm Tóibín
With John Flanagan
With Amani Haydar
With Thomas Keneally, Hannah Kent and Christos Tsiolkas
With Zakiya Dalila Harris
With Michael Mohammed Ahmad
With Jess Hill and Grace Tame
With Amia Srinivasan
Hosted by Jessica Alice, Director of Writers SA
With Fiona Murphy
With Linda Jaivin
With Cécile Barral, Oceane Campbell and Patrick McGorry
With David Brophy and Jason Yat-Sen Li
With Diana Reid and Indyana Schneider
With Claire G. Coleman and Julianne Schultz
With Michael Pollan
With Clem Bastow and Emma Jane
With Annabel Crabb and Miranda Murphy
With Emily Bitto
With Briohny Doyle and Rachel Yoder
With Peter Doherty and Barry Jones
With Angela O'Keeffe and Claire Thomas
Supported by 9News
Hosted by Jessica Alice & Vincent Ciccarello
With Elle Hardy
With Sheila Fitzpatrick
With Malcolm Knox and Bharat Sundaresan