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Adelaide Writers' Week
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Australia's largest free literary Festival, held in March in Adelaide, South Australia.
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AWW25: No Place Like Home - Brooke Boland, Winnie Dunn and Lia Hills
Mar 20, 202501:01:14Tap to summarizeWith Carody Culver.There’s no place like home, although home isn’t always a place. It could be a feeling, an instinct, a language, a person, a memory; it could be somewhere we long to return to or can’t wait to escape. Join Griffith Review 87 contributors Brooke Boland, Winnie Dunn and Lia Hills as they explore the myriad material consequences of home, from the picket fence to the political arena, in conversation with editor Carody Culver.Event details:Thu 06 Mar, 5:00pm | West Stage
Transcribe →AWW25: Leaps of Faith - Ceridwen Dovey and Zeynab Gamieldien
Mar 20, 202501:02:14Tap to summarizeWith Carody Culver.Whether it’s religious, political, societal, philosophical or spiritual in nature, the act of believing can be a lodestar, a comfort, a ritual, a guiding principle or a reason for living. Join Griffith Review 86 contributors Ceridwen Dovey and Zeynab Gamieldien as they explore what faith can tell us about our desires, our values and ourselves, in conversation with editor Carody Culver.Event details:Thu 06 Mar, 3:45pm | West Stage
Transcribe →AWW25: Putin’s War on Women - Sofi Oksanen
Mar 20, 202501:00:49Tap to summarizeWith Jo Case.Sofi Oksanen, librettist for Innocence, acclaimed Finnish playwright and bestselling novelist blends family history and journalistic rigour in Same River, Twice to reveal Russia’s history of weaponising sexual violence against women – and its links to genocide in Ukraine, misogyny within Russia itself and imperialism on the world stage. Under Putin, she tells Jo Case, women are under threat.Event details:Thu 06 Mar, 2:30pm | West Stage
Transcribe →AWW25: How Johnny Voghel Escaped a Dead-End Job - Leo Robson
Mar 20, 202501:00:12Tap to summarizeWith Lauren Oyler.Leo Robson is a well-known British essayist and critic who has just written his first novel, The Boys. He talks to Lauren Oyler about writing a comedy about confusion and loss – a generational saga that takes place over a fortnight.Event details:Thu 06 Mar, 1:15pm | West Stage
Transcribe →AWW25: Grief - Nova Weetman
Mar 20, 202501:00:46Tap to summarizeWith Jonathan Green.According to Marcel Proust, “grief develops the power of the mind.” Jonathan Green tests the proposition with Nova Weetman, who has written a memoir, Love, Death and Other Scenes, about the death of her partner, the playwright Aiden Fennessy, during COVID.Event details:Thu 06 Mar, 12:00pm | West Stage
Transcribe →AWW25: "We Were Elsewhere People” - André Aciman
Mar 20, 202500:55:41Tap to summarizeWith Richard Buckham.Bestselling author André Aciman (live stream) shares with Richard Buckham his abiding preoccupation with the themes of exile, longing and memory – themes that inhabit his new memoir about his teenage life, My Roman Year.Event details: Thu 06 Mar, 10:45am | West Stage
Transcribe →AWW25: What Will Survive of Us? - Howard Jacobson
Mar 20, 202501:01:00Tap to summarizeWith Georgina Godwin.Booker Prize–winning author Howard Jacobson (live stream) talks to Georgina Godwin about the questions at the heart of What Will Survive of Us? – whether love can survive marriage, betrayal and the passage of time. Event details:Thu 06 Mar, 9:30am | West Stage
Transcribe →AWW25: When Betty Turned One Hundred - Debra Oswald
Mar 20, 202500:51:04Tap to summarizeWith Helen Pitt.With One Hundred Years of Betty, Debra Oswald has written a ‘whole of life’ novel, the story of the determinedly curious Betty from 1928 to 2028. In conversation with Helen Pitt, Oswald explores writing across an entire century.Event details:Wed 05 Mar, 5:00pm | West Stage
Transcribe →AWW25: Hazel Rowley Memorial Lecture 2025: Legend v Facts: A Biographical Dilemma - Matthew Lamb and Geordie Williamson
Mar 20, 202500:58:37Tap to summarizeAustralian writer Frank Moorhouse was legendary in Australian literary and cultural life.But what if the facts contradict the legend?Join Clare Wright in conversation with Matthew Lamb for this year’s Hazel Rowley Memorial Lecture about sorting the legend from the facts.Hear how Matthew grappled with this in his brilliant biography, Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths.The announcement of the 2025 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship winner will follow.Event details:Wed 05 Mar, 3:45pm | West Stage
Transcribe →AWW25: From Publisher, to Agent, to Author - Deborah Callaghan
Mar 20, 202500:55:43Tap to summarizeWith Mark Dapin.Former publisher and literary agent extraordinaire Deborah Callaghan talks to Mark Dapin about The Little Clothes, her provocative new novel about the vicissitudes of middle age.Event details: Wed 05 Mar, 2:30pm | West Stage
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