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Sydney Writers' Festival
Australia's largest celebration of literature, stories and ideas. Bringing together the world's best authors, leading public intellectuals, scientists, journalists and more. Subscribe to our channel for new releases.
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Out of This World
Space, in all its awe-inspiring, mind-blowing expanse, is still the final frontier.
Its greatness and grandness force us to reflect on o...
Harriet Walter: What Shakespeare's Women Might Have Said
After a lifetime of bringing Shakespeare’s female characters to life on stage, multi-award-winning British actor Harriet Walter lends them her pen in...
The F Word
[Content warning: sexual assault]
Feminism has a checkered past, but what can we expect from feminist ideas these days?
CEO of ind...
Rumaan Alam's American Dream
Rumaan Alam’s Entitlement probes complex racial and social dynamics much like his New York Times bestselling Leave the World Behind, which was adapted...
Liane Moriarty and David Nicholls
International bestselling novelists Liane Moriarty and David Nicholls share the experience of seeing their powerful local stories turn into bingeable...
Turmoil and Tyranny
Wars, coups and economic and climate crises: each new headline can make it feel like the world is suddenly falling apart.
But behind man...
Kate Grenville: Unsettled
After the success of her two best known works, The Secret River, adapted for stage and television, and Restless Dolly Maunder, shortlisted for the Wom...
Ferdia Lennon: Glorious Exploits
Stories about brotherhood are a mainstay of classical writing, from brothers Romulus and Remus to brothers-in-arms Achilles and Patroclus.
Colm Tóibín: From Brooklyn to Long Island
Colm Tóibín returns to the world of Brooklyn – adapted into a BAFTA- and Oscar-nominated film starring Saoirse Ronan – with the long-awaited sequel, L...
Home and Homesick
Home is a beginning, an origin, a safe harbour, a memory or a dream. Some homes we arrive at, some find us and some we make ourselves.
Yael van der Wouden: The Safekeep
The Safekeep, the debut novel from Yael van der Wouden, took the literary world by storm when it was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize.
Jessica Townsend: In Conversation
Jessica Townsend, one of Australia’s bestselling and most loved authors, discusses the highly anticipated fourth book in The New York Times bestsellin...
Untrue Crime
Distinguished international and local writers working across the crime genre unpick the relationship between fact and fiction.
Miles Fra...
Torrey Peters: Stag Dance
Torrey Peters burst onto the literary scene in 2021 with her debut novel, Detransition, Baby, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and wa...
Bakers' Delight
Meet the baking besties who are queens of the Australian pastry game.
Nadine Ingram of Sydney’s Flour and Stone, Natalie Paull of Melb...
Kaliane Bradley: The Ministry of Time
The Ministry of Time landed on multiple bestseller lists thanks to its highly original, genre-defying story, which combines elements of time travel, r...
Trumpocalypse Now
It seemed improbable enough in 2016, but here we are now in Donald Trump’s second term at the White House.
What does the return of the...
Marian Keyes: My Favourite Mistake
Beloved Irish author Marian Keyes unpacks her latest story of lost sparks and old flames and what happens when high-flyer Anna swaps New York’s skyscr...
Philippe Sands: 38 Londres Street
In 1998, at the beginning of his esteemed career as an international human rights lawyer, Philippe Sands was invited to advise Augusto Pinochet as the...
Mariana Enriquez: Mastering the Macabre
The dead permeate the supernatural and strange worlds of Argentinian writer Mariana Enriquez.
Sometimes they’re simple ghosts, but other...
Peter Beinart: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza
Acclaimed columnist and political commentator Peter Beinart issues a bold appeal to rewrite the narrative of Jewish identity to embrace nuance, tradit...
Culinary Culture
On the one hand, food is about comfort, love and passion. On the other, it’s about the economics of the restaurant rat race and the politics of identi...
Samantha Harvey: Orbital
On the International Space Station, a team of astronauts watch our big blue planet as it silently turns beneath them.
This 2024 Booker...
The Art and Science of AI
Artificial intelligence’s collision with human creativity is one of the most important stories of our time.
With the accelerating impact of AI,...
Queer Love and Longing
Local treasure Dylin Hardcastle and international gems Alan Hollinghurst and Yael van der Wouden trace love, longing and queer experience through the...
Barrie Cassidy and Friends: State of the Nation
Festival favourite State of the Nation returned bigger and better than ever this year for an Australian post-election wrap-up.
Assess t...
Closing Address: Anna Funder: Bears Out There
We closed out the 2025 Festival with an address from award-winning Australian writer Anna Funder.
As a writer who places being human at the cent...
Past and Future of Indigenous Recognition
[Content warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners should be aware that this podcast contains reference to deceased persons.]
The...
Making a Writer
What enables writers to grow and flourish?
Writing is mostly a solitary pursuit that draws on individual reserves of talent and skill. But write...
State of the Art: The Novel
The novel has continued to evolve since its inception as a major literary form centuries ago. It has seen styles and genres come and go, adaptation an...
2025 Program Announcement: Benjamin Law and Ann Mossop
Join Benjamin Law and Artistic Director Ann Mossop as they discuss the 2025 Sydney Writers’ Festival program.
The pair talk about the 2025 Festi...
Bruce Pascoe and Lyn Harwood: Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra
Bruce Pascoe and Lyn Harwood invite us onto the Country they call home in Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra, reflecting on life after publishing Dark Emu...
How We Learn to Read with Sally Rippin
We all know the importance of literacy for school and life, but what happens when, despite all your efforts, reading just doesn’t “click”?
First Fictions
Jennifer Croft, Bri Lee and Louise Milligan have earned widespread acclaim in the realms of translation, non-fiction and investigative journalism, res...
Literary Legends
Explore the literary histories of Charmian Clift, Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower.
Following her biography The Life and Myth of Charmian...
SWF Great Debate: Artificial Intelligence is Better Than the Real Thing
Humankind stands at a crossroads: will artificial intelligence make us superhumanly productive, liberating us from life’s most mundane tasks? Or have...
Robyn Davidson: Unfinished Woman
Robyn Davidson once described Unfinished Woman as an “infinite book”. “I feel absolutely that I have to write it and absolutely that I can’t write it....
The Austen Formula
Some consider Pride and Prejudice the first romantic comedy, with Jane Austen having set the ground rules for others to follow.
Certainly, with...
David Wengrow: The Dawn of Everything
What kind of world could we create if we stopped believing inequality is the price of progress?
Archaeology professor David Wengrow’s groundbrea...
Your Favourites’ Favourites: Tony Birch and Graham Akhurst
In Your Favourites’ Favourites, our most loved writers introduce one of their favourite authors.
Acclaimed Women & Children author Tony Birch si...