Adelaide Writers' Week

With Annabelle Quince | Ilan Pappé is one of the most influential historians writing today on the history of Israel and Palestine. He joins Annabelle Quince via live stream to explain why context matters.

Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 12:00pm

With Nicole Abadee | Anna Funder’s Wifedom shines a light on the woman who George Orwell described as his wife thirty-seven times without ever using her name. Eileen O’Shaughnessy has now been written back into history, as Funder explains to Nicole Abadee.

Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 12:00pm

With Sarah Martin | Polly Toynbee has been a columnist for The Guardian for over twenty-five years. In conversation with Sarah Martin, Toynbee speaks about her new memoir and its exploration of class in Britain, social justice and the effects of privilege.

Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 10:45am

With Louise Adler and Sian Cain | By exploring an episode of her own life in the context of a residential creative writing course, Miranda France examines how and why we tell our own stories in The Writing School. Can writing be taught? Louise Adler joins Sian Cain to test this proposition and discuss France's work.

Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 10:45am

With Tory Shepherd | Women have long been written out of history, marginalised and ignored. Tory Shepherd interviews Sarah Watling about the remarkable women writers who went to Spain to fight fascism in the 1930s.

Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 9:30am

With Lucia Sorbera | Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and his most recent work has focused on engaged writers. He tells Lucia Sorbera why he chose to write a biography of Frantz Fanon at this moment.

Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 9:30am

With Annabelle Quince | Understanding the Middle East conflict requires us to consider the origins of Hamas: the organisation, its political ambitions and relationship to the Palestinian polity. Tareq Baconi, the author of Hamas Contained, explains the background and context to Annabelle Quince.

Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 8:15am

Evelyn Araluen, Madison Godfrey, Jill Jones and Ellen van Neerven with Jessica Alice | Join renowned Australian poets Evelyn Araluen, Madison Godfrey, Jill Jones and Ellen van Neerven with chair Jessica Alice for an exploration of poetry as a tool for resistance and social transformation.

Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 5:00pm

With Anne Pender | Susan Johnson is a brave writer. She is also a brave daughter. Johnson tells Anne Pender why and how she decided to bring her elderly mother to live with her on a Greek island.

Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 5:00pm

Kate Grenville, Susan Johnson, Una Mannion and Pip Williams with David Marr | Have you ever wondered what happens during a book tour? Kate Grenville, Susan Johnson, Una Mannion and Pip Williams join chair David Marr to give you the scoop as they share stories from their own book tours across Australia and around the world.

Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 3:45pm