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Melbourne Writers Festival

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9094 7859

Address: Level 1, 176 Little Lonsdale Street 3000 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.mwf.com.au

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25.01.2022 The New York Times writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner discusses The Get, a drama set in ultra-Orthodox communities based on Matthew Shaer's GQ article The Orthodox Hit Squad, with Variety.

24.01.2022 Our free Schools' Program videos and teaching resources are available online until the end of Term 3! With sessions on the value of listening, resilience, climate change, and more, explore what's on offer for your primary and secondary students today.

23.01.2022 'Nothing about the scene had changedonly my ability to make sense of what I was seeing.' In MWF Digital’s closing address, Jenny Odell applies her framework of thinking beyond capitalist narratives to our current moment of historical urgency, illuminating how ‘resisting in place’, existing within, but not accepting the condition of the present, can offer a through-line to liberation. Read the transcript now on our blog.

23.01.2022 We’ve teamed up with Story Box Library to present a video of Jamila Rizvi reading her new picture book I’m A Hero Too, which she wrote to empower little ones grappling with big changes to their worlds during COVID-19. Learn more https://storyboxlibrary.com.au/stories/im-a-hero-too

22.01.2022 ‘How can we expect anything other than a white and middle-class way of looking at the world if the key decision-makers are predominately white and middle-class?’ While addressing the lack of marginalised voices in books is essential, Camha Pham outlines why we can only achieve true diversity when we turn our attention to the industry’s gatekeepers for Kill Your Darlings.

21.01.2022 At MWF Digital, Larissa McLean Davies, Associate Professor in Language and Literacy (Melbourne Graduate School of Education) and Professor Ken Gelder (Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne) examined the crucial role of literature and reading in this time of climate and social crisis, and the vital importance of teaching diverse Australian literature in schools. Supported by University of Melbourne, Faculty of Arts, listen to the event recording via ABC Radio National.

20.01.2022 Victorian writers, entries are now open for the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2021. With a prize pool of over $90,000, submissions close 19 July.

19.01.2022 Today is Indigenous Literacy Day! Join The Indigenous Literacy Foundation at 12.30pm AEST for the first national, virtual YouTube Live Premiere event celebrating Indigenous language, literacy and culture.

19.01.2022 Ann Goldstein translates Elena Ferrante’s books from Italian to English. Filled with Neapolitan dialect and complicated syntax, she explains the sentences that gave her the most trouble in Ferrante’s new novel The Lying Life of Adults (Europa Editions UK) for Vulture.

19.01.2022 We’re thrilled to announce that international literary heavyweights Maggie Nelson, Jhumpa Lahiri and Emma Dabiri have joined this year's Festival. Ahead of our full program launch on 28 July, tickets are on sale now for these three essential and exhilarating literary voices. From 312 September, more than 150 live events will unfurl across Melbourne as we celebrate our 35th birthday. We’ve also curated a digital program of ten events featuring some of the most powerful and be...loved writers from beyond our shores, which you can watch online alongside the live Festival. This is a milestone year for Melbourne Writers Festival. We can't wait to see you in September! #MelbourneWritersFestival #MWF21

16.01.2022 Triple R - 3RRR 102.7FM's #Radiothon2020 is on now! If you’ve found comfort and community through their programs, and are in a position to do so, please subscribe and donate to keep Triple R local and independent radio afloat. http://rrr.org.au/radiothon

15.01.2022 ‘Regardless of whether we’re back in theatres or are hosting another entirely digital festival next year, I want the program to provide the inspiration and framework for vital conversations that are firmly rooted in both time and space.’ Esteemed literary programmer Michaela McGuire has commenced in her role as Artistic Director of Melbourne Writers Festival. She speaks with the Festival’s Associate Director, Gene Smith, about Melbourne’s literary community and her vision for a Festival that will be timely, provocative and challenging.

15.01.2022 As the days become longer, it’s the little things that put a spring in our step: backstreets lined with jasmine, the slow hum of coffee percolating on the stove, and books arriving in the mail. From Avni Doshi’s The Booker Prizesshortlisted novel Burnt Sugar to local author Paul Dalgarno’s debut Poly, here’s what we’re reading this season.

13.01.2022 'History is made individually and collectively, she instructed, and even in this ill year the choice about our future remains ours.' Writer and editor David Ebershoff reflects on the experience of working with Justice Ginsburg to bring an unpublished memoir to print for The Paris Review.

13.01.2022 In this Vogue interview, our #MWF21 author Emma Dabiri sheds light on What White People Can Do Next, touted as a 'gamechanging skewering' of social media discourse and the anti-racist genre. Hear more from Dabiri when she joins us this September. Tickets available now through our website. #MelbourneWritersFestival

12.01.2022 The New Yorker has announced its first virtual festival, an eclectic mix of conversations, performances and experiences, featuring some of our time’s most influential figures including US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Margaret Atwood, Jia Tolentino, and more.

12.01.2022 'One of the great unspoken pleasures of anthologies is bemoaning what didn’t make the cut, in fantasizing about one’s own unimpeachable selections.' Book critic Parul Sehgal reviews The Selected Works of Audre Lorde, a selection of her poetry and prose edited and introduced by Roxane Gay, and contemplates the misuse of the seminal writer’s words for The New York Times.

11.01.2022 ‘One story of an event hides another. If you want to get to a deeper truth, you have the turn the page sideways.’ Behind each story stands another silenced one. How can we attend to those unheard truths and understand the past and present? In MWF Digital's opening address, Kate Grenville considered truth, fiction and the stories that need our attention. Read the full transcript now on our blog.

11.01.2022 To celebrate the Victorian release of Rams, an Australian comedy-drama film from the director of Last Cab to Darwin, our friends at Roadshow are giving away five double passes to the film. To enter, simply comment below by 5pm AEDT, Tue 1 Dec.

08.01.2022 Inspire our future storytellers and help young people attend our renowned Schools’ Program. With your support, next year we’ll provide complimentary tickets to students who may not otherwise have the means to participate in the festival through our Schools’ Program Access Initiative. Make a tax-deductible donation today. ... Image description: Three primary-school-aged students in the foreground are raising their hands in a classroom setting and wearing caps with the word ‘POET’ on them. #MelbourneWritersFestival #MWFSchoolsProgram #Fundraiser

07.01.2022 'Mega-constellations of satellites, such as Elon Musk’s Starlink, are being put into orbit; by one estimate, at the current rate, there will be fifty thousand new satellites serving the Internet in ten years.' Staff writer Raffi Khatchadourian examines how space pollution a form of high-speed environmental damage, poses a risk of creating an orbital catastrophe for the The New Yorker.

07.01.2022 For the author of Flash Count Diary Darcey Steinke, menopause has brought many positive changes to her life, including sexual freedom. She discussed writing the female body with Guernica Mag.

06.01.2022 ‘Floods are destructive but they used to mean good things as well. They gave life to river systems and wetlands, they flushed out sediments and salt.’ Writer Sophie Cunningham examines the exploitation and mismanagement of the MurrayDarling basin as part of Guardian Australia’s series of essays by Australian writers responding to the challenges of 2020.

06.01.2022 Congratulations to Douglas Stuart whose blistering and heartbreaking debut autobiographical novel Shuggie Bain has won the #2020BookerPrize.

06.01.2022 Applications for the Arts Access Victoria Stella Young Award close on Monday 14 September. This is a brilliant opportunity for young disabled artists to be recognised for their impact on disability activism and culture through their artistic practice.

06.01.2022 'If we want more disabled writers out there, we need to look at the rest of the industry. Publishing professionals agents, editors, critics shape how readers view disability, as well as whether disabled talent is either elevated or ignored.' Frances Ryan outlines the cultural shift required to get more disabled people into positions of power and the simple, practical measures that will help for The Guardian.

04.01.2022 In partnership with Study Melbourne, we're delighted to announce the shortlist for our 2020 Storytelling Competition for International Students. Voting for the People's Choice award is now open until 10am AEST, Wednesday 30 September. Winners will be announced at a virtual award presentation ceremony in mid-October.

03.01.2022 'Every book is an adventure and an opening. Every author writes in a different way. There are new authors born every minute and there are thousands, millions of authors from the past that we haven’t discovered yet.' Australian Children's Laureate and MWF Schools author Ursula Dubosarsky spoke with us about reading for life and her advice to young writers. Read more in the interview below. #MWFSchools #MelbourneWritersFestival

03.01.2022 'That is one of the many things that’s inadequate about focusing on symbols versus actually changing institutions. Obviously, it’s much easier to rebrand Aunt Jemima than it is to reform policing.' Author of The Vanishing Half and MWF Digital artist Brit Bennett speaks with Interview Magazine about the dangers of symbolic change.

03.01.2022 Pause, listen and reflect as 10 Victorian poets including Bruce Pascoe, take you to sites of inspiration in Melbourne Gardens. Created by Red Room Poetry and launched at MWF in 2017, New Shoots celebrates and cultivates poems influenced by plants and place to deepen cultural connections with nature. Supported by Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Eucalypt Australia and Australian Poetry ... https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/new-shoots

02.01.2022 'At your core you become a sort of highly focused connoisseur, which is always a pleasureof azaleas, haiku, polar bears, the human heart, anything. It is a time to flower, I think, not finally to get things done.' Ahead of his online event this Wednesday, Robert Dessaix answers questions about art, self and his new book about growing older well, The Time of Our Lives. #melbournewritersfestival #robertdessaix #interview #event

01.01.2022 'Jhumpa Lahiri’s new novel is poem-like in its patterning, intensity and pulse.' Poet and critic Felicity Plunkett reviews Jhumpa Lahiri's new novel, Whereabouts, for The Age. The Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri, will join us to discuss Whereabouts this September. Tickets are available through our website. #MelbourneWritersFestival #MWF21