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
Anita Heiss, Thomas Mayo & Jarad Thomas
Saturday March 1 - 2:30pm
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