The Sydney Writer’s Festival is coming to a close this weekend.

Each year, Sydney Writers’ Festival presents more than 300 events, attracting audiences of up to 100,000 for a week-long conversation of books and ideas. From 29 April to 5 May 2019, thousands of readers and hundreds of writers come together at the Festival hub at Carriageworks and venues across the city such as Sydney Town Hall and City Recital Hall.

The Festival programs some of the world’s most curious and compassionate, irreverent but respectful, intelligent and argumentative writers – from local and international contemporary novelists, screenwriters, musicians and writers of cutting-edge nonfiction, to some of the world’s leading public intellectuals, scientists and journalists. With the finest writing and storytelling at its core, the programming is driven by the ideas and issues that animate all types of literature.

The Festival is a not-for-profit organisation, and as such its aim is to be accessible to a wide range of audiences. This objective sees the Festival present many events for free during the May Festival, and was behind the launch of the Live and Local program in 2015.

Writers who have appeared this year include Richard Ackland, Monica Attard, Anna Broinowski, Julian Burnside, Jennifer Byrne, Louise Adler, Leigh Sales, Annabel Crabb and many other Australian and international writers.

https://www.swf.org.au/festivals/festival-2019/

Featured image- Glory Edimi and Tayari Jones at the Sydney Writer’s Festival