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UQP Authors at Canberra Writers Festival 2024
27 Oct 2024
Various locations around Ngambri and Ngunnawal Country (Canberra)

UQP Authors at Canberra Writers Festival 2024

Join the Canberra Writers Festival 2024 for a joyful collision of art-makers, big thinkers, and storytellers as they kick off the national literary calendar this spring.

​Together, you'll take a thrilling first look at the books and ideas set to lead the cultural discussion in the coming year.

​The vibrant springtime program of master classes, dinners, author talks, panel discussions, workshops, book launches, and performances will be set against the backdrop of some of Australia’s most iconic national institutions. See the UQP author sessions below.

Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts

Wednesday 23rd

Opening Night: What If?

Melissa Lucashenko Sessions:

Friday 25th
Your Favourites, Melissa Lucashenko

Saturday 26th
Continuity and Connection

Carly-Jay Metcalfe Sessions:

Friday 25th

Postcards from the Edge

Saturday 26th

Slutdom

Hilary Caldwell Sessions:

Saturday 26th

Slutdom

Sunday 27th

Sex, Power and Truth Telling

Cheryl Leavy Sessions:

Saturday 26th

Send in the Poets

Sunday 27th

Reading Praiseworthy

Language as Archive

Royce Kurmelovs Sessions:

Saturday 26th

NEW EVENT: Slick with Royce Kurmelovs

Sunday 27th

Anthropocene of the Crime

Jeanine Leane Session:

Saturday 26th

Send in the Poets

Sunday 27th

MASTERCLASS: Documentary Poetry with Jeanine Leane

Reading Praiseworthy


Book your tickets here.