Past Events
David Marr, one of Australia's foremost writers and thinkers, will be in conversation with Andrew Leigh on the updated edition of his book, My Country: Stories, Essays and Speeches
George Megalogenis will be in conversation with Niki Savva on his new quarterly essay Minority Report The New Shape of Australian Politics
Best-selling author, Peter FitzSimons will be in conversation with Matthew Trinca on his new book The Legend of Albert Jacka: From the brutal shores of Gallipoli to the battlefields of France, the epic story of the first Australian soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross in WW1
Ross Garnaut will be in conversation with Barry Jones on his new book Let's Tax Carbon: And Other Ideas for a Better Australia, tracing a new path for Australia
Please join us for the celebration of the Finlay Lloyd Publishing Prize 20/40 for the winning books of 2024
John Safran will be in conversation with Kim Rubenstein on his new book Squat, in which he recounts his time squatting in a Hollywood celebrity’s abandoned mansion..
Join Magnificent Mei & Grandma Murphy's Pussycat and help them celebrate Love Your Bookshop Day with a spooky twist. Games, colouring in, cupcakes and lots of great bookish fun!
David Dufty will be launching and discussing his latest book - Charles Todd's Magnificent Obsession The epic race to connect Australia to the world. The construction of the Overland Telegraph in 1870 was an extraordinary feat of engineering and a wild gamble that nearly went terribly wrong!
Benjamin Stevenson will be in conversation with Jack Heath on his new novel Everyone this Christmas has a Secret, a Christmas addition to his bestselling Ernest Cunningham mysteries. Unwrap all the Christmas staples: presents, family, an impossible murder or two, and a deadly advent calendar of clues. If Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club kissed under the mistletoe...
Best-selling Italian author Paolo Giordano will be in conversation with Marco Lazzarino on his semi-autobiographical novel Tasmania, which captures the fear, anxiety, wonder, and beauty of this time of uncertainty and upheaval, exploring how we can create and maintain relationships with other people when it feels increasingly difficult to connect.
Shaun Micallef will be in conversation with Andrew Leigh on his new book Slivers, Shards and Skerricks. “A one-man anthology by one of Australia's most intelligent and more handsome Renaissance men.”
Canberra Writers Festival, in partnership with ANU Meet the Author and Canberra Times, and Penguin Books Australia, are proud to welcome Tim Winton to Canberra to discuss his new novel, JUICE. An epic novel of determination, survival, and the limits of the human spirit. This is Tim Winton as you’ve never read him before.