Summer reading guide
The time for whiling away summer nights with a book in hand is upon us, so here's our picks for just what that book should be. From the fantastical an...
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Podcast: My Name Is Grace Tame
Listen to former Australian of the Year Grace Tame as she talks about The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner, her sharply intelligent, deeply felt and at t...
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Fiona Menzies Appointed Interim CEO of Melbourne Writers Festival
Melbourne Writers Festival is pleased to announce that Fiona Menzies has been appointed as Interim CEO of Melbourne Writers Festival.
“Melbourne Wri...
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Book giveaway!
Subscribe to the MWF eNewsletter for your chance to win a bundle of six books! (Just in time for holiday reading.) Your bundle will include:
– Gunf...
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Podcast: The John Button Oration: The Great American Lie
A world-renowned expert in American literature and culture, Sarah Churchwell (The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells) delive...
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Podcast: Shehan Karunatilaka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka won the 2022 Booker Prize for his dazzling magic-realist satire The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Set during his...
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Vivia Hickman resigns as CEO of Melbourne Writers Festival
Vivia Hickman has resigned as CEO of Melbourne Writers Festival after two spectacular years in the role.
“The Melbourne Writers Festival is the jewe...
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Podcast: Queering the Canon
Which stories made you 'different'? What makes writing queer? And what books brought about a break up with the gender binary?
Join a stellar group of...
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Podcast: Plants: Past, Present and Future
"If we don’t learn to relate to each other, we’ll continue to destroy the earth."
– Bruce Pascoe
For millennia, reciprocal relationships with p...
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Podcast: Writers on Writers: Readers of Australian Literature
The 2023 Boisbouvier Conversation
What is literature for?
The Writers on Writers series has become an indispensable fixture in the literary calendar,...
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MWF partners with Geelong Grammar School
This year, Melbourne Writers Festival embarked on an exciting new partnership with Geelong Grammar School (GGS).
As part of the partnership, acclaimed...
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