Adelaide Writers' Week

With Carody Culver.There’s no place like home, although home isn’t always a place. It could be a feeling, an instinct, a language, a person, a memory; it could be somewhere we long to return to or can’t wait to escape. Join Griffith Review 87 contributors Brooke Boland, Winnie Dunn and Lia Hills as they explore the myriad material consequences of home, from the picket fence to the political arena, in conversation with editor Carody Culver.Event details:Thu 06 Mar, 5:00pm | West Stage

With Jo Case.Sofi Oksanen, librettist for Innocence, acclaimed Finnish playwright and bestselling novelist blends family history and journalistic rigour in Same River, Twice to reveal Russia’s history of weaponising sexual violence against women – and its links to genocide in Ukraine, misogyny within Russia itself and imperialism on the world stage. Under Putin, she tells Jo Case, women are under threat.Event details:Thu 06 Mar, 2:30pm | West Stage

With Jonathan Green.According to Marcel Proust, “grief develops the power of the mind.” Jonathan Green tests the proposition with Nova Weetman, who has written a memoir, Love, Death and Other Scenes, about the death of her partner, the playwright Aiden Fennessy, during COVID.Event details:Thu 06 Mar, 12:00pm | West Stage

With Georgina Godwin.Booker Prize–winning author Howard Jacobson (live stream) talks to Georgina Godwin about the questions at the heart of What Will Survive of Us? – whether love can survive marriage, betrayal and the passage of time. Event details:Thu 06 Mar, 9:30am | West Stage

Australian writer Frank Moorhouse was legendary in Australian literary and cultural life.But what if the facts contradict the legend?Join Clare Wright in conversation with Matthew Lamb for this year’s Hazel Rowley Memorial Lecture about sorting the legend from the facts.Hear how Matthew grappled with this in his brilliant biography, Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths.The announcement of the 2025 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship winner will follow.Event details:Wed 05 Mar, 3:45pm | West Stage

With Bob Carr.Mike Carlton shares stories of the little-known Australian submariners of the 20th century with Bob Carr. His latest book, Dive!, is a chronicle of courage, espionage and political maneuvering.Event details:Wed 05 Mar, 1:15pm | West Stage

With Jo Case.The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife and Inland, Téa Obreht (live stream), tells Jo Case about her latest novel, The Morningside, a haunting, dystopian story about war, climate refugees and magic.Event details:Wed 05 Mar, 10:45am | West Stage

With Annabelle Quince.The winner of the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Writing, Matthew Longo, talks to Annabelle Quince about The Picnic. An improbable historical event, this pan-European outing involved goulash, beer and 600 East Germans on the border between Hungary and Austria.Event details:Tue 04 Mar, 2:30pm | West Stage

The MUD Literary Prize celebrates a debut novel of literary fiction. Past winners have included Trent Dalton and Pip Williams. Hear from the 2025 winner, Cameron Stewart, author of Why Do Horses Run? with chair David Sly. Special thanks to the MUD Literary Club for their support and contribution to Adelaide Writers’ WeekEvent details:Mon 03 Mar, 3:45pm | West Stage

With Nicole Abadee.Critic and Novelist Lauren Oyler joins Nicole Abadee to explore the self-aggrandisement and selfexoneration inherent in public writing, as well as literary criticism and Oyler’s latest essay collection, No Judgement.Event details:Mon 03 Mar, 1:15pm | West Stage

With Leo Robson.What does the rise and fall of autofiction suggest about contemporary subjectivity? Is ‘lived experience’ the only form of truth available to the neoliberal author, be it the patient on the analyst’s couch or the modern novelist? Can audiences no longer suspend disbelief? Psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster and literary critic Leo Robson discuss the problem.Event details:Mon 03 Mar, 10:45am | West Stage

With Jonathan Green.Legendary former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and Mark Scott, former managing director of the ABC and now Vice Chancellor of the University of Sydney, talk to Jonathan Green about the state of the modern media and why it is that journalists are routinely viewed as unethical and untrustworthy.Event details:Sun 02 Mar, 5:00pm | West Stage

With Kim Williams.Kim Williams chairs a discussion with Martin Baron, Eric Beecher and Alan Rusbridger on the blokes with ink in their veins and asks what happens when the ink runs out and the presses grind to a halt.Event details:Sun 02 Mar, 2:30pm | West Stage