Don Watson will be in conversation with Mark Kenny on is quarterly essay On the US Election, in which Don offers a report from America that catches the madness and the politics of an election like no other.

Following a welcome to country by Ngunnawal elder Aunty Violet Sheridan, Darren Rix and Craig Cormick’s new book Warra Warra Wai How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People, will be launched by Karen Mundine, CEO of Reconciliation Australia.

Nina Jankowicz, American disinformation expert and author of How to Lose the Information War and How to Be a Woman Online, and Van Badham, activist, playwright, and author of QAnon and On, will be in conversation with Andrew Leigh.

Catherine Fox will be in conversation with Michelle Ryan on her new book Breaking the Boss Bias How to get more women into leadership.

Best-selling author of Dirt Town, Hayley Scrivenor will be in conversation with Chris Hammer on her second novel Girl Falling.

Ken Cameron’s film (Monkey Grip, based on the novel by Helen Garner) offers a nuanced reflection on the complexity of love, set against the realities of inner-city sex, drugs and rock‘n’roll in 1970s Australia

Critically acclaimed historian, Paul Ham, will be in discussion with Hugh Mackay on his new book The Soul A History of the Human Mind, from the earliest expression of self-consciousness to its unshakeable belief in the great religions and political systems.

Leigh Boucher and Michelle Arrow will be in conversation with Frank Bongiorno on their book, with Barbara Baird and Robert Reynolds, Personal Politics Sexuality, Gender and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia.

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.

Cassandra Pybus will be in conversation with Mark McKenna on her new book Very Secret Trade. The dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania.

Michael Brissenden will be in conversation with Mike Bowers on his new novel Smoke.

Canberra author Kaaron Warren will be in conversation with Daniel O'Malley on her new book, The Under History, a dark and magnificently inventive novel about the lengths a lone woman will go to protect her home, and the family history it hides within its walls.

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

Jennifer Rayner will be in conversation with John Uhr on her new book Climate Clangers The Bad Ideas Blocking Real Action .

Meet authors Karen Viggers and Inga Simpson in conversation.

Bruce Pascoe and Lyn Harwood will be in conversation with Bill Gammage on their new book, Black Duck, A Year at Yumburra.

Hugh Mackay will be in conversation with Virginia Haussegger on his new book, The Way We Are. Lessons from a lifetime of listening.

James Bradley will be in conversation with Beejay Silcox on his new book Deep Water: The World in the Ocean, which through the lens and narratives of the ocean, offers vital new ways of understanding and being in the world, and how we anticipate our climate future.

Qin Qin will be in conversation with Melanie Poole on her memoir Model Minority Gone Rogue: How an unfulfilled daughter of a tiger mother went way off script – the story of a Chinese-Australian girl who did everything she was supposed to do—then grew into a woman who questioned it all.

Anne Buist & Graeme Simsion will be in conversation with Yenn Purkis on their latest book The Glass House.

Trauma and Healing, Memory and Forgetting: A conversation with Arnold Zable.

Paul Tilley will be in conversation, moderated by Miranda Stewart, with Ken Henry on Paul's new book Mixed Fortunes. A History of Tax Reform in Australia.

Award-winning writer and journalist Louise Milligan will be in conversation with Amy Remeikis on Pheasants Nest, a gripping, propulsive and brilliantly original debut novel.

World-leading forest expert, Professor David Lindenmayer, will be in conversation with Alex Sloan on his new book The Forest Wars, which lifts the lid on destruction of native forests by government corporations and logging industry that is making bushfires worse, killing wildlife and costing taxpayers millions, for the sake of woodchips for export.

Kathy Lette will be in conversation with Karen Hardy on Kathy's new novel The Revenge Club, a subversive, irreverent revenge romp.

Sarah Bailey will be in conversation with Chris Hammer on her new novel Body of Lies, the latest in her award-winning Gemma Woodstock series

Andrew Leigh will be in conversation with Genevieve Bell on his new book The Shortest History of Economics, a small book that tells a big story.

International best-selling author Dervla McTiernan returns to Meet the Author to be in conversation with Chris Hammer on her new book What Happened to Nina, an emotional novel of suspense about two families at war with each other.

Karen Viggers will be in conversation with Alex Sloan on her new novel Sidelines, a fast-paced contemporary novel from the bestselling author of The Orchardist's Daughter.