Addi Road Writers Festival 2025

Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2025

theme: “free expression”

early bird tickets $35 (limited release)

full price $40

students and unemployed $20

all ticket types can be purchased here.

event takes place inside our Gumbramorra Hall (GH) and the Greek Theatre (GT)

tickets will provide open access to ALL events on the day pending hall and theatre capacity for each conversation or ‘hot spot’ performance

food and coffee with an open green area for relaxing; family and pet friendly outside on the green between our venues

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All profits go to Addi Road’s food relief programs and community work

Our developing program for Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2025 – with panel details, participants and bio notes – is available on Humanitix…. see QR code below.

Overall event runs 11am to 6pm as stated. Session times on the day TBC with a complete program soon.

Catch Sara M Saleh at the below event:

ANEL (GH) at 2.15pm: Political World | Divided Existence

Gretchen Shirm, Patrick Holland, Sara M Saleh and Rhyan Clapham (aka DOBBY) speak with moderator Mark Mordue about adapting their creative ideals and personal politics into books, writing and songs. Are politics and art such different ways of relating to the world they fail to connect with one another? Or is that tension precisely where the most valued engagements exist? Is the nature of politics eternal and inherent in everything we do, more critical than ever at this juncture in history?

Catch David Stavenger at the below event:

PANEL (GT) at 2.25pm: Coming of Age | A Language of Reconnection

Youth suffering from anxiety and online toxicity. Parents fighting to hold things together and keep the lines of communication open. Staying connected feel like an impossible battle. Felicity Castagna speaks with Tegan Bennett Daylight, David Stavanger and Jim Moginie about writing and the meaning of family, stories of love, personal history and finding both ourselves and our shared future across the generations.

Catch Felicity Plunkett at the below event:

PANEL (GT) at 4.00pm: Sleep, Perchance to Dream | Literature, History and the Unconscious

Dreams that arise in a community, expressing the collective traumas of what is later called ‘history’. Dreams that mark personal loss. Dreams that require another kind of language to communicate what the world can reveal to us about who and what we are. How do poets, novelists and essayists read the signs and articulate them, to themselves and for us? Mireille Juchau, Šime Knežević and Peter Boyle with Felicity Plunkett.