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9 Events You Shouldn’t Miss at This Year’s Adelaide Writers Week

Here are all the events not to miss!



One of our favourite times of year is almost upon us. Yes, it’s almost Adelaide Writers Week! Starting March 2 and running for 6 gloriously bookish days we’ve poured over the program and picked the 9 events we think should be at the top of your list.

 

Saturday 2nd March – 12pm

Stoneyard Devotional

Charlotte Wood’s latest novel is a deeply personal account of a woman in retreat, in despair, while the world is in crisis. The author tells Beejay Silcox why she has written this novel at this moment.

 

Saturday 2nd March – 5pm

The In-Between

Mature love is the subject of Christos Tsiolkas’ latest novel, The In-Between. He speaks with Charlotte Wood about intertwining the personal and political in his fiction.

 

Sunday March 3 – 2.30pm

Mary Beard:  – Empress of Rome

Cruel control freaks, diligent workaholics or extravagant teenagers? What were the emperors of Rome really like? Mary Beard is Professor Emerita of Classics at Cambridge and the author of over twenty books and numerous television documentaries.

 

Sunday March 3 – 5pm

Hear Me Roar!

A showcase of slam poetry and spoken word with performances from poets including Madison Godfrey, Sara M. Saleh, Kirli Saunders, Katherine Sortini and Australian Poetry Slam Champion Rob Waters. 

 

Monday 4th March – 9.30am

Lies My Mirror Told Me

Wendy Harmer’s memoir is the extraordinary story of a life lived in public – undaunted by naysayers, sexism and adversity. She shares her story with her dear friend and colleague Richard Fidler.

 

Tuesday 5th March – 5pm

Penance

With the publication of her first book Boy Parts, Eliza Clark was named one of Granta magazine’s best British novelists under forty. She discusses her chilling new novel, a compulsive story of a murder among teenagers, on the eve of the historic Brexit vote and her novel’s protagonist, an unreliable narrator of a true crime, reimagined as crime fiction.

 

Wednesday 6th March – 3.45pm

Family Meal

Bryan Washington was named one of the National Book Foundation’s five under thirty-five and is the Dylan Thomas Prize-winning author of Memorial and Lot. He discusses his new novel about two young men who grew up together, fell away from each other, and then collide again after a crisis.

 

Thursday 7th March – 3.45pm

Frank Moorehouse

Author Catharine Lumby discusses her friendship with Frank Moorhouse, the creator of our favourite literary heroine Edith Campbell Berry and how it influenced her approach as his biographer.

 

Thursday 7th March – 5pm

Homecoming

Best-selling author Kate Morton talks about her new novel and how her fascination with secrets and their impact has shaped her writing.

 

View the whole program and buy tickets here.

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