Sydney Writers' Festival

The work of truth-telling in Australia means a robust reckoning with our history and the colonial myths used to interpret it. In Uprising: War in the colony of New South Wales, 1838–1844, historian Stephen Gapps reveals the extent of resistance warfa

Translation allows a writer to reach readers around the world but what is the experience of having your words altered like?Video game translator Matt Alt, speculative fiction writer Bora Chung (The Midnight Timetable), who writes in Korean and translate

You can take the kid off the stage, but you can’t take the stage off the kid.These writers are theatre kids through-and-through but they’re trying their hands at another, quieter, form with their debut books. In this panel discussion, actor and play

Professor of Philosophy and author A.C. Grayling outlines the fragility of democracy and the freedoms we take for granted and risk losing in For The People: Fighting Authoritarianism, Saving Democracy. In recent years, the democratic foundations and ci

Dubbed the “undisputed laureate of ordinary lives” by The Sunday Times, Irish Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle has kept us laughing and crying in equal measure.From his prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha to The Commitments, which was adapted into a