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Adelaide Writers Festival 2025
01 Mar – 06 Feb
Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden King William St, Kaurna (Adelaide)

Adelaide Writers Festival 2025

Adelaide Writers’ Week is Australia’s largest free literary festival, offering both writers and readers a unique opportunity to spend time sharing ideas and literary explorations in a garden setting in Adelaide’s city centre. Each carefully selected program brings the world's most celebrated established and emerging writers together for a week that delights, surprises and enlightens audiences. Over the years, Adelaide Writers’ Week has seen some of the world’s greatest writers and thinkers in conversation about literature, politics, poetry, current events, biography, the short story and much, much more.

Each Adelaide Writers’ Week includes six days of free panel sessions that are presented live in the gardens, and made available online via podcast. The program also features a series of ticketed special events throughout the year, and the popular free Young Readers' Day, which attracts hundreds of families for fun and engaging literary adventures.

Catch these UQP authors at Adelaide Writers Week 2025 below.

Clem Bastow

Tuesday March 4 - 9:30am

The Autistic Experience and the Power of Storytelling

Jo Case

Monday March 3 - 1:15pm

Between Colonial Archives and Indigenous Memory ft Dr Jackie Huggins

Tuesday March 4 - 9:30am

The Autistic Experience and the Power of Storytelling

Wednesday March 5 - 10:45am

Exile, Nostalgia and Letting Go ft Téa Obreht

Wednesday March 5 - 12:00pm

Datsun Angel ft Anna Broinowski

Thursday March 6 - 2:30pm

Putin’s War on Womenft Sofi Oksanen

Larissa Behrendt

Tuesday March 4 - 1:15pm

Race and Racism

Nova Weetman

Thursday March 6 - 12:00pm

Grief

Anita Heiss, Thomas Mayo & Jarad Thomas

Saturday March 1 - 2:30pm

Words to Sing the World Alive

Royce Kurmelov

Sunday March 2 - 10:45am


Australia’s Carbon Capture: Releasing Fossil Fuels’ Grip on Our Democracy

Peter Carnavas

Sunday March 2 - 9:30am

Young Readers' Day

Cheryl Leavy

Sunday March 2 - 9:30am

Young Readers' Day