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25.01.2022 Tickets for this event have now sold out however, additional tickets may be released if audience restrictions ease in the next month Thank you for supporting our first event of 2021!

25.01.2022 Award-winning Australian writer Richard Flanagan will be in conversation with Jennifer Byrne about his stunning new novel The Living Sea of Waking Dreams. Tickets are $15 and ticket-holders have access on demand until 13 October. Don't miss this national one-off event! https://bit.ly/3kV9meb

25.01.2022 New Annual is City of Newcastle's inaugural arts festival. Spanning 10 days and activating venues across the city. The festival will feature music, dance, contemporary performance and visual art in a celebration of creativity. Find out more at newannual.com

21.01.2022 When her husband decided he didn't want biological children, Sarah Sentilles was forced to acknowledge her deepest longing. In her compelling new memoir, Stranger Care, she explores the realisation that she wanted to be a parent - and care for someone else's baby. Stranger Care is published by Text Publishing and can be bought online via MacLean's Booksellers Listen at www.newcastlewritersfestival.org.au/listen/ or your preferred podcast app

21.01.2022 Want to be part of #NWF2021 in September? Program submissions are now open for emerging and established writers. Complete the online form by 22 February 2021 at newcastlewritersfestival.org.au/call-for-submissions

21.01.2022 Check out this amazing feedback from our #FreshInk2021 Emerging Writers Program! Thank you to everyone who attended and we look forward to bringing you the full conversations in our #StoriesToYou podcast... stay tuned Intervision Photography

20.01.2022 GIVEAWAY This week we chatted with author Sarah Sentilles on our #StoriesToYou podcast and now we’re giving you the chance to WIN a copy of her latest book, Stranger Care! To enter simply... Like this post... Tag a friend Follow our page Stranger Care is a moving story of what one woman learned from fostering a newbornabout injustice, about making mistakes, about how to better love and protect people beyond our immediate kin. Listen to our full conversation with Sarah at www.newcastlewritersfestival.org.au/listen/ or your preferred podcast app . . *Competition closes on May 20, 2021. Unlimited entries permitted. You must be following Newcastle Writers Festival to win. One winner will be drawn randomly. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by or associated with Facebook or Instagram. Good luck!

15.01.2022 Bookings are open for the third annual Margaret Henry Memorial Lecture, which will be presented online at 7pm on 5 Nov by distinguished legal academic and Indigenous rights activist Larissa Behrendt. Prof Behrendt's lecture is titled Aboriginal Lives Matter: Stopping the Next Stolen Generation. This free event is supported by the Newcastle Writers Festival and registration is essential https://www.trybooking.com/BMFJZ

13.01.2022 What happens when a female fantasy writer translates one of the oldest pieces of English literature? In this week's Stories To You podcast, Maria Dahvana Headley talks to Magdalena Ball about her very modern translation of Beowulf, which is infused with feminism and social-media slang. Listen at www.newcastlewritersfestival.org.au/listen/ or your preferred podcast app Beowulf is published by Scribe Publications

11.01.2022 "What an astonishing book this is." Michael Williams reviews Richard Flanagan's new novel The Living Sea of Broken Dreams. Tickets for our special online event with Richard and Jennifer Byrne tomorrow night (29/09) at 7pm are $15. Once you book, you will receive access details. Please note, the broadcast will not be freely available. https://www.newcastlewritersfestival.org.au/

10.01.2022 Check out the program for the inaugural New Annual Festival this February!

05.01.2022 Join Newcastle Writers Festival and City of Newcastle for our first live event of 2021, featuring former prime minister Julia Gillard The conversation will be hosted by Newcastle Writers Festival director Rosemarie Milsom and will centre on her most recent book Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons co-written with economist Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The Hon Julia Gillard AC will discuss the lessons that can be learned from women leaders as well as an agenda for chang...e that allows women to take control and combat gender bias. Get your tickets at https://events.humanitix.com/nwf-gillard

04.01.2022 Here’s to bookshops everywhere. Thank you to the passionate people who champion books and writers. Special thanks to the wonderful team at MacLean's Booksellers, a valued Festival partner

03.01.2022 The inaugural #FreshInk2021 Emerging Writers Program could not have been possible without our expert panels. Thank you to the writers, publishers and agents who shared their wisdom with emerging writers at the event. Bastian Fox Phelan, Bri Lee, Susan Francis - Writer, Jaye Ford - Author Andrew Pippos Brendo Fedorowicz, Ewa Ramsey Omar Sakr Jess Black Author, Shu-Ling Chua, Rosemarie Milsom, Magdalena Ball, Nick Milligan, Michael Sala, Wendy James, Ed Wright and Jane Novak Intervision Photography