2025 Newcastle Writers Festival

Hilary Caldwell

• 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, Saturday, April 5 Things We Don’t Speak About: Pleasure University of Newcastle NUspace X320 - Tickets
• 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm, Saturday, April 5 Kink in the Tale: Live Storytelling for Grown-ups Civic Playhouse - Tickets

Jeanine Leane

• 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm, Saturday, April 5 Gawimarra: Gathering – A Reading The Wollotuka Institute, University of Newcastle Callaghan Campus - Tickets(free for Mob)
• 10:00 am - 11:00 am, Sunday, April 6 The Limits of Language: Poetry as Protest (with Omar Sakr) Watt Space Gallery - Tickets

Omar Sakr

• 10:00 am - 11:00 am, Sunday, April 6 The Limits of Language: Poetry as Protest (with Jeanine Leane) Watt Space Gallery -Tickets
• 5:30 pm - 6:45 pm, Saturday, April 5 Poetry Salon @ The Press The Press Book House - Tickets

Peter Greste

• 10:00 am - 11:00 am, Sunday, April 6 The Correspondent: Peter Greste in Conversation University of Newcastle NUspace X320 - Sold Out
• 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Sunday, April 6 Words of Warning: The State of Democracy (with Antony Loewenstein and Misha Zelinsky) Civic Playhouse - Tickets

Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts

• 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Sunday, April 6 Long Yarn Short: Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts in Conversation University of Newcastle NUspace X301 - Free Event

Chris Flynn

• 2:15 pm - 4:15 pm, Sunday, April 6Reading the Room: Live Readings University of Newcastle NUspace X201 - Free Event