Writers' Week Schedule

8am | West Stage

Breakfast with Papers

9:30am | East Stage

Righting Wrongs

Geoffrey Robertson, Kenneth Roth and Stephanie Palmer debate the issue with Gareth Evans

9:30am | West Stage

Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza

Peter Beinart (live stream)

9:30am | North Stage

Conscious Coupling

Christine Breen, Anne Buist, Graeme Simsion and Niall Williams

10:45am | East Stage

On Grief

Geraldine Brooks

10:45am | West Stage

Blurring the Boundaries between Fact and Fiction

Jamieson Webster (live stream)

10:45am | North Stage

Love, Loss and MDMA Therapy

Rebecca Huntley

11am | Adelaide Town Hall

The Book Thief – 20th Anniversary

Markus Zusak

12pm | East Stage

Espionage, Seduction and Intrigue

Rachel Kushner

12pm | West Stage

A One-Man Anthology

Shaun Micallef

12pm | North Stage

Return of the Repressed

Michael Robotham

1:15pm | East Stage

The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself

Nick Bryant

1:15pm | West Stage

Self-Interested, Controlling, Delusional: The Problem of Public Writing

Lauren Oyler

1:15pm | North Stage

Between Colonial Archives and Indigenous Memory

Natalie Harkin and Jackie Huggins

2:30pm | East Stage

The State of the World

John Crace and Wesley Lowery

2:30pm | West Stage

What’s Next?

Thomas Mayo and Jared Thomas

2:30pm | North Stage

For the Love of a Small Patch of Land

Christine Breen and Niall Williams with Amanda Vanstone

3:45pm | East Stage

When the Tech Bros Come to Town

Kara Swisher

3:45pm | West Stage

2025 MUD Literary Prize

Cameron Stewart

3:45pm | North Stage

Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell

Lucia Osborne-Crowley

5pm | East Stage

Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations

Sir Simon Schama

5pm | West Stage

Robodebt: A Moral Vacuum and a Multi-Billion-Dollar Government Shakedown

Rick Morton

5pm | North Stage

Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss and Occasional Wars

Peter Godwin

6:15pm | The Drill Hall

An Evening with Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz (live streaming) and Andrew Knight

9:30am | East Stage

Righting Wrongs

Geoffrey Robertson, Kenneth Roth and Stephanie Palmer debate the issue with Gareth Evans

10:45am | East Stage

On Grief

Geraldine Brooks

12pm | East Stage

Espionage, Seduction and Intrigue

Rachel Kushner

1:15pm | East Stage

The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself

Nick Bryant

2:30pm | East Stage

The State of the World

John Crace and Wesley Lowery

3:45pm | East Stage

When the Tech Bros Come to Town

Kara Swisher

5pm | East Stage

Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations

Sir Simon Schama

8am | West Stage

Breakfast with Papers

9:30am | West Stage

Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza

Peter Beinart (live stream)

10:45am | West Stage

Blurring the Boundaries between Fact and Fiction

Jamieson Webster (live stream)

12pm | West Stage

A One-Man Anthology

Shaun Micallef

1:15pm | West Stage

Self-Interested, Controlling, Delusional: The Problem of Public Writing

Lauren Oyler

2:30pm | West Stage

What’s Next?

Thomas Mayo and Jared Thomas

3:45pm | West Stage

2025 MUD Literary Prize

Cameron Stewart

5pm | West Stage

Robodebt: A Moral Vacuum and a Multi-Billion-Dollar Government Shakedown

Rick Morton

9:30am | North Stage

Conscious Coupling

Christine Breen, Anne Buist, Graeme Simsion and Niall Williams

10:45am | North Stage

Love, Loss and MDMA Therapy

Rebecca Huntley

12pm | North Stage

Return of the Repressed

Michael Robotham

1:15pm | North Stage

Between Colonial Archives and Indigenous Memory

Natalie Harkin and Jackie Huggins

2:30pm | North Stage

For the Love of a Small Patch of Land

Christine Breen and Niall Williams with Amanda Vanstone

3:45pm | North Stage

Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell

Lucia Osborne-Crowley

5pm | North Stage

Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss and Occasional Wars

Peter Godwin

6:15pm | The Drill Hall

An Evening with Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz (live streaming) and Andrew Knight

11am | Adelaide Town Hall

The Book Thief – 20th Anniversary

Markus Zusak