UQP authors at 2024 Sydney Writers Festival

Australia's beloved celebration of literature, stories & ideas. 20–26 May 2024.

View the full website and program here.

Wednesday 22 May

6:30PM Chris Flynn: Here Be Leviathans

Thursday 23 May

2:00PM Melissa Lucashenko: Edenglassie

5:00PM Jeanine Leane: Blak Crit with Susie Anderson, Daniel Browning, Neika Lehman.

6:00PM Sara Saleh: Sweatshop Stories

6:30PM Tony Birch, Jazz Money: Firetalk

6:45PM Mirandi Riwoe: Sunbirds

Friday 24 May

1:00PM Tony Birch: True Lives

1:00PM Sara M Saleh: The Secret Lives of Women

3:00PM Melissa Lucashenko: Colonial Truths with David Marr and Matthew Condon.

5:00PM Omar Sakr, Jazz Money: A line in the Sand: Twenty Years of Redroom Poetry

5:00PM George Haddad, Amy Thunig: Dirty Laundry

7:30PM George Haddad: Queerstories

Saturday 25 May

11:00AM Chris Flynn: Animal Magic

1:00PM Sara M Saleh: Trailblazing Women

1:00PM Nova Weetman: More Than A Memoir

4:00PM Mirandi Riwoe: Bringing the Past to Life

6:00PM Jeanine Leane, Omar Sakr, Sara M Saleh, Anne-Marie Te Whiu: Speak the Light with Susie Anderson, Shivram Gopinath, Bebe Oliver.

Sunday 26 May

10:00AM Tony Birch: Your Favourites’ Favourites with Graham Akhurst

1:30PM Larissa Behrendt, Tony Birch, Amy Thunig: Survival, Sustenance and Stories

3:15PM Nova Weetman: The Inbe-Tweens

3:30PM Ashleigh Barton: Spooky Campfire Tales