Lili Wilkinson's latest book is a wonderfully captivating dark academia fantasy perfect for fans needing get lost amongst the Unhallowed Halls.

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Sun 02 Mar, 12:00pm | North Stage

Have you ever blinked, and thought you saw something that was gone a moment later? Have you ever turned to pick up an item, only to find it wasn't where you left it? Amie Kaufman discusses her character's adventure in The World Between Blinks.

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Sun 02 Mar, 10:45am | North Stage

AI can seem scary at times, so working out where we use AI and why is an important part of making the best of this exciting technology. Sit down with Dr Matt has he answers Is My Phone Reading My Mind?

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Sun 02 Mar, 9:30am | North Stage

With Sue Turnbull.

Award-winning writer Mandy Beaumont takes us inside the mind of a killer and the terror that grips a community in her novel The Thrill of It. Aided and abetted by the doyenne of crime fiction reviewing, Sue Turnbull, Beaumont dissects how to write about fear.

Event details: Sat 01 Mar, 12:00pm | North Stage

First Nations thinkers and writers Anita Heiss, Cheryl Leavy, Thomas Mayo and Jared Thomas share words that are significant and essential to them. Discover words that evoke the connection of fathers and sons, of creation and sovereignty, of trust and power – words that sing our world alive.

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Sat 01 Mar, 2:30pm | North Stage

With Senator Barbara Pocock.

Australia faces myriad challenges, with climate change, housing affordability, fraying democratic institutions, risk-averse policies and a divisive public discourse just a few of the problems we must confront. The question is, are we? Join Richard Denniss and Senator Barbara Pocock as they apply some big ideas to the future.

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Sat 01 Mar, 1:15pm | North Stage

Journalists Lucia Osborne-Crowly and Alyx Gorman reflect on this hardy perennial with The Guardian’s Sian Cain.

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Sat 01 Mar, 5:00pm | North Stage

With Sue Turnbull.

Multi-award-winning investigative journalist Louise Milligan talks with Sue Turnbull about writing her first novel, Pheasants Nest, in the slivers of time left to her between calling the powerful to account.

Sat 01 Mar, 3:45pm | North Stage

With Sarah L'Estrange.

Catherine McKinnon, a Miles Franklin Award–shortlisted author, talks to Sarah L’Estrange about her latest work of historical fiction. To Sing of War is a richly layered novel about people trying to make a difference in a time of global danger.

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Sat 01 Mar, 10:45am | North Stage

With Sue Turnbull.In Malcolm Knox’s chilling black comedy The First Friend, a gangster mob is in control of a global superpower. He talks to Sue Turnbull about this satire of life in Stalinist Russia.Event details:

Sat 01 Mar, 9:30am | North Stage