THANKS to the Live & Local program, you can enjoy highlights from the Sydney Writers’ Festival without leaving Wagga. Choose from three sessions, streamed directly into the library on May 27 and 28.
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Each author talk and conversation includes a Q&A session at the end, so you can submit your questions remotely and have them answered live from the Sydney stage.
Tickets can be purchased online or in person from the Civic Theatre Booking Office for $10 per session.
Catch Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales on Saturday, May 27, at 4.30pm in “Our Reading Year”. Acclaimed journalists by day, keen readers by night, this beloved double act has charmed Australia. Here, they look back on a year in reading, sharing the books that moved or amused them, and the ones that put them to sleep.
In the same session: Hera Lindsay Bird and Rupi Kaur will have a delicious and revealing conversation with each other when they ponder the topic “Viral and Verse”. These two authors have built reputations based on their fearless flouting of sanitised femininity.
Bird’s self-titled book of poetry catapulted the 28-year-old Kiwi into cult status, and Indian-Canadian Rupi Kaur has fashioned a career out of forcing herself into places where she’s least expected.
Sunday, May 28, from 10am to 12.30pm, can be spent in the company of authors Lauren Child and Andy Griffiths.
Award-winning writer and artist Lauren Child makes her first appearance at Sydney Writers’ Festival. Lauren cracks the code on her artistic style and quirky characters, including Clarice Bean, Ruby Redfort, and Charlie and Lola.
One of Australia’s bestselling children’s authors, Andy Griffiths has written more than 30 books, including the JUST! series, The Day My Bum Went Psycho, The Bad Book and the Treehouse series. With the next instalment of Treehouse due later this year, you might even get a sneak peek at the crazy ideas planned for your child’s favourite treetop hideaway.
The final session on Sunday will commence at 1.30pm and feature authors Saroo Brierley and Clementine Ford.
Aged five, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India and couldn’t find his way home. His story, A Long Way Home, is now the award-winning film Lion. In a very special event, Saroo and his adoptive mother Sue Brierley talk to Janice Petersen.
The book Fight Like a Girl is a personal and fearless call to arms by feminist writer and scourge of trolls and misogynists everywhere, Clementine Ford. Her incendiary debut is for feminists new, old and soon-to-be, exposing just how unequal the modern world is for women. Clementine Ford will be in conversation with the erudite Jane Caro.