Writing Against ‘the Cult of Forgetfulness’
Australia’s colonial history is an act of violence against First Nations People. In order to move with care and hope into a shared future, how... Read More
It’s Just a Question of Smiling More
Toni Jordan (Prettier if She Smiled More) and RN’s Jacinta Parsons (Question of Age) unpack the patriarchy with hilarity and cutting observations, focussing on the... Read More
Enclave and Blak Futurisms
What dystopia occurs when we ignore our shared humanity? Claire G. Coleman, master of speculative fiction explores a future of surveillance, disruption and segregation that... Read More
First Time Podcast Talks Sad Girl Novels
First Time Podcast tackles the trials and triumphs of publishing. In a live episode recording, Katherine Collette talks to Pip Finkemeyer about Sad Girl Novel(s)... Read More
Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls
How can girls and women reach their potential in a culture that prefers them to be scared? Anne Casey-Hardy in conversation with Angela Savage as... Read More
Why are we Still Writing about Virginia Woolf?
It’s been a century since Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury set were at their most prolific, yet readers still turn to them today. Join Michelle... Read More
Patting the Shark
Tim Baker was living the dream. All this changed in 2015 when he was diagnosed with stage 4, metastatic prostate cancer. Jock Serong and Tim... Read More
Indelible City
The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths: to Britain, a ‘barren rock’ with no appreciable history; to China, a part... Read More
Infidelity and Other Affairs
When faced with her husband’s affair, journalist Kate Legge (Infidelity and Other Affairs) discovered a fault line of betrayal running through four generations of his... Read More
Birthday Party!
As the festival comes to a close, come and celebrate 20 years of both Willy Lit Fest and the Emerging Writers Festival. Join our two... Read More