Sydney Writers' Festival

Special announcement: Join America’s most lauded novelist, Jonathan Franzen, live and in-person with Michael Willia… https://t.co/K209yTGZzy

23 May 2022

Also on Thursday night: @AnnabelCrabb, David Marr, Osman Faruqi (@Oz_F), @Alex_C_Lee and Robert Dessaix debate one… https://t.co/AiVf2HZqbQ

23 May 2022

Thursday night: Stars of stage and screen recite and reflect on the poetry that shaped their creative lives, with H… https://t.co/gIrTXK7gCb

23 May 2022

“Let this be the moment just before the great transformation, where we find something heroic in ourselves and there… https://t.co/7xxEnCSpG2

23 May 2022

🙏 Our heartfelt thanks to the writers, facilitators, volunteers, staff and Festival-goers for making the 2022 Festi… https://t.co/rFv8wVxanN

22 May 2022

“I found out once again that we are all of us, the children of Scheherazade—hoping to make it through another night… https://t.co/fG9AZxG2Ur

22 May 2022

“Our best hope is that here we are together this room, in this world and we’re in the pitch of dark…We’re at the p… https://t.co/MwjMpDL382

22 May 2022

“One way to produce a different future is to imagine a different future…The radical, unbridled imagination we celeb… https://t.co/GHeXk2lJbw

22 May 2022

“Children’s books do try to instil a sense of agency. Part of the business of storytelling is to educate children t… https://t.co/oaSPYlWmWM

22 May 2022

“Today of all days, we must see that we can rewire our minds with stories. We can do it and we have to do it. And i… https://t.co/8t9jRqCK2F

22 May 2022

““We can [all] remember” writes Francis Spufford in his brilliant memoir The Child That Books Built, “readings that… https://t.co/x749x9O3fq

22 May 2022

“What can we take from the best of children’s tales to speed up change?” – Chloe Hooper #SydneyWritersFestival

22 May 2022

“As a society, we spend vast fortunes keeping ourselves alive while around us, we let our forests, and river system… https://t.co/rUfnizD41U

22 May 2022

“We feel it’s important for children to see animal’s lives as nuanced, as full of hopes and fears, until these youn… https://t.co/J53DNOXMsf

22 May 2022

“We had kept up our diet of happier bedtime reading and inevitably I’d find a book in my hand about one or other wo… https://t.co/TKZ0DXspnU

22 May 2022

“But can we change the actual story we’re in? How do we rewrite the ending as we careen towards it?” – Chloe Hooper #SydneyWritersFestival

22 May 2022

22 May 2022

“A story like a drawing is an attempt to make the world static. To hold everything in place long enough for us to u… https://t.co/aYBI0TVCEK

22 May 2022

“To accurately portray the monster on the page in texta or in text is to try to freeze it and put it in a cage.” –… https://t.co/8V05BFpKGg

22 May 2022

“Monsters try to to steal meaning, just as the hero seeks to find and save it. The monster and the hero battle over… https://t.co/NAuEFXUwdr

22 May 2022

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