Sydney Writers' Festival

Sydney Writers’ Festival brings together a broad and engaged community around the sharing of books, writing and ideas.
Each May, we host brilliant storytellers across all forms in a thoughtful, challenging, riotous fun week-long celebration of writing, books and ideas at our home at Carriageworks in Sydney’s Inner West and across the city. Since our first Festival in 1997, the world’s best novelists, poets, journalists, public intellectuals, economists, politicians, podcasters and scientists have come together to discuss some of the most pressing issues of our times on our stages. By showcasing a wide range of Australian and international writers, the Festival helps sustain Australia’s literary community and culture as a whole.

Our programming speaks to the world as it is today and showcases contemporary and diverse writers including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices, this land’s first storytellers.
Audience accessibility is at the heart of our festival programming. We run a free podcast program, one-third of our events are free, and our Live & Local streaming program beams the festival from our home in Carriageworks to regional libraries and community centres right across the country. Since 2014 we have been operating the Russ the Story Bus Program to service low socio-economic schools in Western Sydney and Regional NSW.

WEBSITE