Pulitzer Prize winning US poet Rae Armantrout will be in conversation with major Australian poet Kate Lilley, where they will discuss poetry and poetics.

While the impacts of climate change keep getting worse, the typical framing of the problem and the solutions are seriously insufficient. As a result, the steps we’re taking to build a clean energy economy and move beyond fossil fuels are far too incremental for the threat. So argues Dr Jennifer Rayner in this sharp and lively analysis of what’s holding us back from true action.

Corruption, politics, history and unforgettable landscapes are front and centre of two new crime thrillers, The Creeper and Smoke. Meet their authors, Margaret Hickey and Michael Brissenden, in conversation with Chris Hammer.

Australia's modern transformation as revealed through the life of an extraordinary woman: Monte Punshon. Meet author Tessa Morris-Suzuki in conversation with historian Frank Bongiorno.

Brigitta Olubas and Susan Wyndham will be in conversation with Julieanne Lamond on their new book Hazzard and Harrower. The Letters. Olubas, Hazzard’s official biographer, and Wyndham, who interviewed both Hazzard and Harrower, deliver an extraordinary account of two literary luminaries, their complex relationship and their times.

Allan Behm will be in conversation with Mark Kenny on his new book The Odd Couple: the Australia-America relationship, a provocative narrative about recalibrating the relationship between Australia and the USA to deliver peace and prosperity rather than conflict and disharmony.

Dr Li Tana in conversation with Professor Anthony Reid

Meet author Amy Brown in conversation with Canberra Writers Festival Artistic Director Beejay Silcox.

Meet authors Karen Viggers and Inga Simpson in conversation.

Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia - Meet the Editor

Deadly Dialogues celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and their journeys through in-conversation style events.

Join Paperchain for a conversation with Paul Hardisty, author of The Forcing.

Refreshments will be provided.

This is a free event but please arrive early if you would like to sit during the event as we have limited seating.

Join Paperchain for the launch of Book Launch: How James Became King by Brian O’Malley

Refreshments will be provided.

This is a free event but please arrive early if you would like to sit during the event as we have limited seating.

Peter Polites - God Forgets about the Poor

The Canberra Writers Festival presents Boochani in conversation with Amy Remeikis

An epic story of leaving everything behind to find purpose, adventure and love by crossing 4750km of rugged Australian terrain with five wild camels, from the winner of the 2022 Australian Geographic Spirit of Adventure Award.

The Biography Book Group is an ongoing program of moderated author talks held monthly at the ACT Heritage Library – one of the branches of Libraries ACT.

Australian Book Review welcomes entries for the twentieth Peter Porter Poetry Prize, which is open to all international poets from 3 July 2023 until midnight, 9 October 2023. This year the Porter Prize is worth a total of AU$10,000 – with a first prize of $6,000.

Entries must be an original single-authored poem of not more than 70 lines written in English. Poems must not have been previously published. The five shortlisted poems will be published in the January–February 2024 issue and the winner will be announced at a ceremony later that month.

Devoted entirely to work by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and artists, Meanjin 82.3 Spring 2023 is framed around notions of place.

Entries for the 2024 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing are now open for short stories and memoirs. Writers are encouraged to unleash their imagination and embark on a literary quest for this prestigious biennial national prize with a total prize pool of $17,500.

Entry for young writers and Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people is free.

Children of Tomorrow Ozlit Book Club

A special event including a lecture and performance.

Join us for a conversation with Susan Duncan about her new book, Sleepless in Stringybark Bay. This new release is a page-turning, mysterious, funny and delightful story by the bestselling author of Salvation Creek, The Briny Café and Gone Fishing.

The Field - Robert Seethaler

You are invited to Join Duncan Smith OAM and Nicole Godwin a short talk about Listen

Leigh Sales will be in conversation with Brian Schmidt on her new book Storytellers. Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism, in which the highly respected ABC anchor, bestselling author and hit podcaster interviews the cream of Australian journalists about their craft - how (and why) they bring us the stories that inform our lives. In this book, she turns her interviewing skills onto her own profession, those usually asking the questions: the journalists.

This contemporary Lebanese-Australian literature portrays the entropy of vernacular religious practices, with Islam in particular becoming fragmentary, individualistic and illusive. Drawing upon insights from broader literature of the Arab diaspora, this presentation also ponders the spiritual significance of fathers who go missing through migration.

Fancy a Sunday afternoon of crime fiction? Join Peter Papathanasiou, internationally published author of The Stoning and The Invisible about his newest piece of rural noir, The Pit. Peter will be in conversation with Irfan Master, author of A Beautiful Lie and Out of Heart.

Join first time authors Toby, Wil and Naomi from Bad Apple Press Publishing as they talk about their memoirs and the stories within.

The idea for a national award for short stories, written by Australian women and featuring a strong female protagonist, was cooked up over a few glasses of wine in 1994 at a convenors’ meeting in St Kilda, Victoria. The purpose was to support and unearth new talent.

This has been achieved in spades.