The Jacarandas are blooming and things are heating up as the year is coming to a close! There are still literary events all around town. There’s Christmas tales, poetry in park gazebos and train rides across India! Looking to the New Year we have our Playwriting Festival on 19 March. We’re looking for directors, producers […]

NSW Writers’ Centre staff share the events they have circled in their planners for mid-October and November. Find out what’s happening and keep your finger on NSW’s social literary pulse. In this Writing on Our Calendar we have served up a taste plate of new and established happenings that we recommend. So venture out to […]

This September & October edition of Writing on Our Calendar is jam-packed with pearler literary & cultural happenings! NSW Writers’ Centre staff share the things they’ve got highlighted in their diaries. Find out what’s happening and keep your finger on NSW’s social literary pulse. We will present a listing of new and established events so […]

Welcome to Writing on Our Calendar! We will feature a monthly calendar that serves up our tasting plate of literary events and happenings around town. NSW Writers’ Centre staff share things to do and see that they’ve got highlighted in their diaries. Find out what’s happening and keep your finger on NSW’s social literary pulse. […]

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 […]