Sydney Writers' Festival

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Australia's largest celebration of literature, stories and ideas. Bringing together the world's best authors, leading public intellectuals, scientists, journalists and more. Subscribe to our channel for new releases.


Episode Date
2026 Program Announcement: Yumi Stynes and Ann Mossop
Mar 10, 2026
A.C. Grayling on Cancel Culture
Feb 24, 2026
Ian Rankin: Master of Crime
Feb 11, 2026
Your Favourites’ Favourites: Michael Robotham and Chris Whitaker
Feb 04, 2026
Maggie O’Farrell: Portrait of a Writer
Dec 16, 2025
Spies, Lies and Secrets
Dec 12, 2025
Robbie Arnott: Dusk
Dec 02, 2025
Zoë Foster Blake Things: Will Calm Down Soon
Nov 26, 2025
Ben Macintyre: The Siege
Nov 18, 2025
China Past, Present, Future
Nov 12, 2025
Catherine Chidgey: The Book of Guilt
Nov 06, 2025
The Moriarty Sisters
Oct 29, 2025
Family Secrets
Oct 21, 2025
Out of This World
Oct 15, 2025
Harriet Walter: What Shakespeare's Women Might Have Said
Oct 07, 2025
The F Word
Sep 30, 2025
Rumaan Alam's American Dream
Sep 25, 2025
Liane Moriarty and David Nicholls
Sep 23, 2025
Turmoil and Tyranny
Sep 16, 2025
Kate Grenville: Unsettled
Sep 09, 2025
Ferdia Lennon: Glorious Exploits
Sep 04, 2025
Colm Tóibín: From Brooklyn to Long Island
Sep 03, 2025
Home and Homesick
Aug 28, 2025
Yael van der Wouden: The Safekeep
Aug 26, 2025
Jessica Townsend: In Conversation
Aug 21, 2025
Untrue Crime
Aug 20, 2025
Torrey Peters: Stag Dance
Aug 14, 2025
Bakers' Delight
Aug 12, 2025
Kaliane Bradley: The Ministry of Time
Aug 07, 2025
Trumpocalypse Now
Aug 05, 2025
Marian Keyes: My Favourite Mistake
Jul 30, 2025
Philippe Sands: 38 Londres Street
Jul 29, 2025
Mariana Enriquez: Mastering the Macabre
Jul 24, 2025
Peter Beinart: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza
Jul 22, 2025
Culinary Culture
Jul 17, 2025
Samantha Harvey: Orbital
Jul 15, 2025
The Art and Science of AI
Jul 10, 2025
Queer Love and Longing
Jul 08, 2025
Barrie Cassidy and Friends: State of the Nation
Jul 03, 2025
Closing Address: Anna Funder: Bears Out There
Jul 01, 2025
Past and Future of Indigenous Recognition
Jun 27, 2025
Making a Writer
Jun 24, 2025
State of the Art: The Novel
Jun 19, 2025
2025 Program Announcement: Benjamin Law and Ann Mossop
Mar 13, 2025
Bruce Pascoe and Lyn Harwood: Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra
Mar 05, 2025
How We Learn to Read with Sally Rippin
Feb 27, 2025
First Fictions
Feb 18, 2025
Literary Legends
Feb 13, 2025
SWF Great Debate: Artificial Intelligence is Better Than the Real Thing
Feb 03, 2025
Robyn Davidson: Unfinished Woman
Jan 30, 2025
The Austen Formula
Jan 28, 2025
David Wengrow: The Dawn of Everything
Jan 23, 2025
Your Favourites’ Favourites: Tony Birch and Graham Akhurst
Jan 21, 2025
Hedley Thomas: How to Catch a Killer
Jan 16, 2025
Bringing the Past to Life
Jan 14, 2025
Fantastical Worlds
Dec 18, 2024
Sad Girl? Bad Girl? Mad Girl?
Dec 17, 2024
Aussie Crime All-Stars
Dec 10, 2024
Australia’s Place in the World
Dec 06, 2024
In Defence of Nature
Dec 02, 2024
Paul Murray: The Bee Sting
Nov 28, 2024
Feminist Firebrands
Nov 21, 2024
The Drowning with Bryan Brown and Sam Neill
Nov 14, 2024
Hidden Heroines
Nov 12, 2024
Richard Flanagan and Anna Funder on Writing
Nov 06, 2024
Dirty Laundry
Oct 29, 2024
PEN Lecture: Writing From Prison in Myanmar
Oct 22, 2024
Melissa Lucashenko: Edenglassie
Oct 15, 2024
Julia Baird: Bright Shining
Oct 09, 2024
The Presence of the Past
Oct 03, 2024
Lauren Groff: The Vaster Wilds
Oct 01, 2024
Richard Flanagan: Question 7
Sep 24, 2024
Survival, Sustenance and Stories
Sep 19, 2024
A.C. Grayling: The Meaning of Life in a Technological Age
Sep 17, 2024
Kate Manne: Fighting Fatphobia
Sep 12, 2024
Abdulrazak Gurnah: Afterlives
Sep 09, 2024
Katy Hessel: The Story of Art Without Men
Sep 05, 2024
Michael Connelly’s Life of Crime
Sep 03, 2024
Coffee and Headlines with Read This
Aug 29, 2024
Jake Adelstein: Tokyo Noir
Aug 22, 2024
Samantha Shannon on The Roots of Chaos series
Aug 20, 2024
Suzie Miller: Prima Facie
Aug 15, 2024
Nick Bryant: America's Unending Conflict With Itself
Aug 13, 2024
Celeste Ng: Our Missing Hearts
Aug 08, 2024
Creativity, Joy, Grace
Aug 06, 2024
Charlotte Wood: Stone Yard Devotional
Aug 01, 2024
Queer Love and Longing
Jul 30, 2024
The Secret Lives of Women
Jul 25, 2024
Paul Lynch: Prophet Song
Jul 23, 2024
The War on Journalists
Jul 18, 2024
Play Like a Girl
Jul 16, 2024
Abraham Verghese: The Covenant of Water
Jul 10, 2024
Bonnie Garmus: Lessons in Chemistry
Jul 05, 2024
Fragile Democracy
Jul 02, 2024
In Conversation: 2024 Stella Prize Winner Alexis Wright
Jun 27, 2024
Viet Thanh Nguyen: A Man of Two Faces
Jun 25, 2024
Ann Patchett on Ordinary Joys
Jun 20, 2024
Closing Address: Kate Manne on the Future of Misogyny
Jun 18, 2024
2024 Program Announcement: Annabel Crabb and Ann Mossop
Mar 07, 2024
Daniel Lavery: Dear Prudence and more
Feb 07, 2024