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One of the highlights of this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival is a celebratory stroll with our unsung heroines.

  • Sita Sargeant

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Kaliane Bradley’s time-travel novel, The Ministry of Time, brings Graham Gore, who was on Sir John Franklin’s doomed Arctic expedition, back to life.

‘I went slightly nuts’: How a TV horror binge inspired this bestselling time-travel novel

A lockdown TV binge prompted author Kaliane Bradley to dig into polar exploration. Now the novel that came of it is being turned into its own series.

  • Jason Steger
Veronica Sullivan, new head of Melbourne Writers Festival.

Jimmy Barnes joins superstar authors for Melbourne Writers Festival

New festival director Veronica Sullivan is aiming to provide something for everyone this year: from bestselling Irish writers to a BookTok phenomenon and yes, a rock legend.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Veronica Sullivan wants to broaden the ways we think about writing and storytelling.

After a troubled year, former volunteer takes reins of Melbourne Writers Festival

Veronica Sullivan, most recently head of programming at the Wheeler Centre, sees the recent wave of personnel change as an opportunity for a fresh start.

  • Jason Steger
Kim Scott is a novelist who draws deeply on the oral histories of his Wirlomin Noongar people of the south-east coast of Western Australia to challenge the colonial archive.

‘Not well received’ at Harvard, these two writers maintain the rage

Writer Tony Birch reflects on how Miles Franklin Award-winner Kim Scott has intrigued and inspired him.

  • Jane Gleeson-White

Part mystery, part hostage thriller, this is our fiction pick of the week

Our reviewers assess recent fiction and non-fiction publications.

  • Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp
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The ABC’s Laura Tingle at Parliament House in Canberra.

Laura Tingle on John Howard and the corrosion of Australia’s national debate

The ABC journalist says we can’t blame Trump or social media for the quality – or lack of – in our national debate.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Paul Murray, whose 2023 novel The Bee Sting has readers debating the shock ending.

Paul Murray (sort of) discusses his novel’s controversial ending

The Booker Prize-shortlisted author talks climate change, writing teenage characters and Judy Blume.

  • Kylie Northover
Christos Tsiolkas will be in conversation with Bryan Washington

The 13 must-see events at this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival

With the Melbourne Writers Festival kicking off today, here are some of the events that should not be missed.

  • Jason Steger
Corrie Perkin in Sorrento.

Upstart writers festival aiming to take Melbourne’s mantle

This week’s Melbourne Writers Festival will hope to capture the same success as the Sorrento Writers Festival held last month.

  • Stephen Brook

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