Deadly Dialogues celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and their journeys through in-conversation style events.

Join Paperchain for a conversation with Paul Hardisty, author of The Forcing.

Refreshments will be provided.

This is a free event but please arrive early if you would like to sit during the event as we have limited seating.

Join Paperchain for the launch of Book Launch: How James Became King by Brian O’Malley

Refreshments will be provided.

This is a free event but please arrive early if you would like to sit during the event as we have limited seating.

Peter Polites - God Forgets about the Poor

The Canberra Writers Festival presents Boochani in conversation with Amy Remeikis

An epic story of leaving everything behind to find purpose, adventure and love by crossing 4750km of rugged Australian terrain with five wild camels, from the winner of the 2022 Australian Geographic Spirit of Adventure Award.

The Biography Book Group is an ongoing program of moderated author talks held monthly at the ACT Heritage Library – one of the branches of Libraries ACT.

Australian Book Review welcomes entries for the twentieth Peter Porter Poetry Prize, which is open to all international poets from 3 July 2023 until midnight, 9 October 2023. This year the Porter Prize is worth a total of AU$10,000 – with a first prize of $6,000.

Entries must be an original single-authored poem of not more than 70 lines written in English. Poems must not have been previously published. The five shortlisted poems will be published in the January–February 2024 issue and the winner will be announced at a ceremony later that month.

Devoted entirely to work by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and artists, Meanjin 82.3 Spring 2023 is framed around notions of place.

Entries for the 2024 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing are now open for short stories and memoirs. Writers are encouraged to unleash their imagination and embark on a literary quest for this prestigious biennial national prize with a total prize pool of $17,500.

Entry for young writers and Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people is free.

Children of Tomorrow Ozlit Book Club

A special event including a lecture and performance.

Join us for a conversation with Susan Duncan about her new book, Sleepless in Stringybark Bay. This new release is a page-turning, mysterious, funny and delightful story by the bestselling author of Salvation Creek, The Briny Café and Gone Fishing.

The Field - Robert Seethaler

You are invited to Join Duncan Smith OAM and Nicole Godwin a short talk about Listen

Leigh Sales will be in conversation with Brian Schmidt on her new book Storytellers. Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism, in which the highly respected ABC anchor, bestselling author and hit podcaster interviews the cream of Australian journalists about their craft - how (and why) they bring us the stories that inform our lives. In this book, she turns her interviewing skills onto her own profession, those usually asking the questions: the journalists.

This contemporary Lebanese-Australian literature portrays the entropy of vernacular religious practices, with Islam in particular becoming fragmentary, individualistic and illusive. Drawing upon insights from broader literature of the Arab diaspora, this presentation also ponders the spiritual significance of fathers who go missing through migration.

Fancy a Sunday afternoon of crime fiction? Join Peter Papathanasiou, internationally published author of The Stoning and The Invisible about his newest piece of rural noir, The Pit. Peter will be in conversation with Irfan Master, author of A Beautiful Lie and Out of Heart.

Join first time authors Toby, Wil and Naomi from Bad Apple Press Publishing as they talk about their memoirs and the stories within.

The idea for a national award for short stories, written by Australian women and featuring a strong female protagonist, was cooked up over a few glasses of wine in 1994 at a convenors’ meeting in St Kilda, Victoria. The purpose was to support and unearth new talent.

This has been achieved in spades.

The Matilda Effect is the exciting, inspiring, sometimes infuriating and always colourful story of the Australian women's football (soccer) team, the Matildas, and their ultimately successful struggle, alongside other women from around the world, to compete in World Cup football. From the 1980s, when women had to pay to participate in the pilot Women's World Cup, to 2019, when the principle of equal pay for women players was finally accepted amid surging interest in their game, the voices of key figures emerge. A book at once about and not about sport, and with a throughline of human rights and gender equality history, The Matilda Effect takes the reader out of the stands and onto the pitch, into the team's hotels, buses, boardrooms and social media universe, where positive change has been wrestled into being.

Walter Marsh - Young Rupert at MUSE

Join Brenda Matthews as she talks about her story and the process of turning it into a documentary and a published book, both titled The Last Daughter.

Entry is free to this event but bookings are essential.

Following the discussion in the Theatre, Brenda Matthews will be available for book signings in the Foyer.

Join Paperchain for the launch of Survival Mode by Anastasia Tyler.

Refreshments will be provided.

This is a free event but please arrive early if you would like to sit during the event as we have limited seating.

From their graves in the field, the oldest part of Paulstadt’s cemetery, the town’s late inhabitants tell stories from their lives. Some recall just a moment, perhaps the one in which they left this world, perhaps the one that they now realise shaped their life forever. Some remember all the people they’ve been with, or the only person they ever loved.

Meet Kerry Sackville in conversation with Amanda Whitley.

Anna Funder will be in conversation with the Virginia Haussegger on her new book, Wifedom. Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life, a blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time.

Meet Robyn in conversation with Emily Maguire.

Tuttle, Coopes, Zemiro - Bastille Special

Join Inga Simpson in Conversation