Join four women writers of colour as they discuss challenging the white male-dominated field and share what the Australian landscape means to them and how they explore it in their writing.

The Failed Writers’ Festival showcases a range of diverse voices, which the mainstream market has skipped over and looked past, even though we need these voices more than ever. Come and hear what they have to say!

Come along to experience sounds, images, and words at this multi-disciplinary performance event.

Join author and city-maker Jess Scully, writer and poet Mohammad Awad, Shelter NSW Planning Officer Stacey Miers and moderator Dominic Santagelo for a panel discussion on the housing crisis, and the power of words and lived experience to affect change.

Celebrate fifty years of rap and its transformative power with this session hosted by Simone Amelia Jordan, Australia’s top hip-hop journalist, and witness an electrifying rap battle between L-FRESH The Lion and Mari. with DJ Capital Zee.

Join Writing NSW for the 2023 Speculative Fiction Festival, where panelists will discuss everything from world-building to crafting monsters, from cross media publication to hopeful futures, from the rise of darkness to the search for new light.

The Writing NSW Kids & YA Festival is back! Directed by award-winning, internationally published children’s author Belinda Murrell, the Festival will showcase some of Australia’s best-known and dearly loved authors, illustrators, publishers, media personnel and industry professionals.

On Saturday 19 March, Writing NSW will host satellite sessions as part of the Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival.

Boundless, Australia’s leading festival of Indigenous and culturally diverse Australian writers, will be presented online, 30 October – 1 November.

Australia’s leading festival of Indigenous and culturally diverse Australian writers, Boundless, will return to Western Sydney on Saturday 26 October 2019.

A one-day festival offering insights into the speculative fiction industry from award-winning authors, publishers, agents and editors.

Quantum Words is a one-day festival of writing about science with speakers such as Fred Watson, James Bradley, Emma Johnston, Π O, Delia Falconer, Danielle Clode, and Evelyn Araluen. Book now!

Now in its tenth year, the 2018 Kids & YA Festival will take place on Saturday 30 June! Directed by best-selling, internationally published children’s author Belinda Murrell, this year’s Festival showcases some of Australia’s best-known and dearly loved authors, illustrators, publishers, media personnel and industry professionals.

Get up close and personal with some of Australia’s finest spec fic authors this July, as Cat Sparks directs her second Speculative Fiction Festival. Alongside a genre-spanning program of panels, the popular kaffeekaltsches are back, giving attendees the opportunity to take part in intimate group chats with the likes of Sean Williams, Margo Lanagan, Garth […]