I’m being really festival greedy this year… You’ll find me running (if you care to look, and you should – my run is good for a laugh) between events trying to cram as much festival goodness in as I can before the week ends. However, the absolute standout – the event that I am most […]

I’ll be leaving the main hub of the Sydney Writers’ Festival, those creaky wharves, on Friday night to head out to the Bankstown Arts Centre to see the latest production from the Westside Writers’ Group – one of the most dynamic and talented group of writers in the country. Westside meet fortnightly to workshop their […]

My personal pick for the Festival is Chad Harbach’s session. I first heard about his novel ‘The Art of Fielding’ when I read Keith Gessen’s article in Vanity Fair about how the book came into being. The novel took ten years to write and seemed, at times, like a lost cause. The article itself is […]

The absolute highlight of the Sydney Writers’ Festival for me is the fabulous Redrooms Disappearing Walking Tour. I can’t express how much I love The Red Room Company, they are easily the most innovative and exciting poetry organisation in Australia (if not the most innovative and exciting writing organisation) and we are so luckily to […]