Adelaide Writers' Week

Adelaide Writers' Week

Adelaide Writers' Week

Episodes 571
Avg. Duration 58m
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Since Mar 2021
Latest Episode Mar 2025

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Australia's largest free literary Festival, held in March in Adelaide, South Australia.

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AWW25: No Place Like Home - Brooke Boland, Winnie Dunn and Lia Hills

Mar 20, 2025 1h 1m

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…

AWW25: Leaps of Faith - Ceridwen Dovey and Zeynab Gamieldien

Mar 20, 2025 1h 2m

With Carody Culver.Whether it’s religious, political, societal, philosophical or spiritual in nature, the act of believing can be a lodestar, a comfort, a ritual, a guiding principle or a reason for…

AWW25: Putin’s War on Women - Sofi Oksanen

Mar 20, 2025 1h

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…

AWW25: How Johnny Voghel Escaped a Dead-End Job - Leo Robson

Mar 20, 2025 1h

With Lauren Oyler.Leo Robson is a well-known British essayist and critic who has just written his first novel, The Boys. He talks to Lauren Oyler about writing a comedy about confusion and loss – a…

AWW25: Grief - Nova Weetman

Mar 20, 2025 1h

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,…

AWW25: "We Were Elsewhere People” - André Aciman

Mar 20, 2025 55m

With Richard Buckham.Bestselling author André Aciman (live stream) shares with Richard Buckham his abiding preoccupation with the themes of exile, longing and memory – themes that inhabit his new…

AWW25: What Will Survive of Us? - Howard Jacobson

Mar 20, 2025 1h 1m

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…

AWW25: When Betty Turned One Hundred - Debra Oswald

Mar 20, 2025 51m

With Helen Pitt.With One Hundred Years of Betty, Debra Oswald has written a ‘whole of life’ novel, the story of the determinedly curious Betty from 1928 to 2028. In conversation with Helen Pitt,…

AWW25: Hazel Rowley Memorial Lecture 2025: Legend v Facts: A Biographical Dilemma - Matthew Lamb and Geordie Williamson

Mar 20, 2025 58m

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…

AWW25: From Publisher, to Agent, to Author - Deborah Callaghan

Mar 20, 2025 55m

With Mark Dapin.Former publisher and literary agent extraordinaire Deborah Callaghan talks to Mark Dapin about The Little Clothes, her provocative new novel about the vicissitudes of middle age.Event…

AWW25: The Silent Service - Mike Carlton

Mar 20, 2025 1h 1m

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…

AWW25: Datsun Angel - Anna Broinowski

Mar 20, 2025 1h 4m

With Jo Case.Anna Broinowski chats to Jo Case to talk about her new memoir, Datsun Angel, the confronting story of a sex, drugs and violence-fuelled adventure through the savage Australian outback of…

AWW25: Exile, Nostalgia and Letting Go - Téa Obreht

Mar 20, 2025 1h

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…

AWW25: Iconic Women - Daisy Goodwin and Dava Sobel

Mar 20, 2025 57m

With Katrina Strickland.Marie Curie and Maria Callas were legends in both their professional and private lives. Bestselling writers Dava Sobel and Daisy Goodwin take us inside these remarkable…

AWW25: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain - Matthew Longo

Mar 20, 2025 1h 3m

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…

AWW25: Robodebt: A Moral Vacuum and a Multi-Billion-Dollar Government Shakedown - Rick Morton

Mar 20, 2025 1h 2m

With Tory Shepherd.Award-winning journalist Rick Morton talks to Tory Shepherd about his book, Mean Streak, a compelling but horrifying account of the “venality, incompetence and cowardice” behind…

AWW25: 2025 MUD Literary Prize

Mar 20, 2025 55m

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…

AWW25: What’s Next? - Thomas Mayo and Jared Thomas

Mar 20, 2025 1h 1m

The Voice to Parliament referendum was an opportunity for meaningful Indigenous recognition. Thomas Mayo and Jared Thomas reflect on the defeat of this modest proposal. Are we mean-spirited? Are we…

AWW25: Self-Interested, Controlling, Delusional: The Problem of Public Writing - Lauren Oyler

Mar 20, 2025 1h 1m

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…

AWW25: A One-Man Anthology - Shaun Micallef

Mar 20, 2025 1h

With Alexander Ward AM.Shaun Micallef talks to Alexander Ward AM about his new anthology, Slivers, Shards and Skerricks, a dizzying collection of prose, plays, philosophy, poetry and parody by one of…

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