Vincent Fantauzzo will be in conversation with Helen Musa on his memoir Unveiled, the incredible true story of how a street-fighting petty criminal, who was kicked out of school at fourteen, became one of Australia’s most celebrated and successful portrait artists.

Robert Dessaix will be in conversation with Andrew Leigh on his new book Chameleon: A memoir of art, travel, ideas and love.

Geraldine Brooks will be in conversation with Alex Sloan on her new book Memorial Days, a heart-rending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey toward peace.

Misha Ketchell will moderate a discussion with Frank Bongiorno, Michelle Grattan and Mark Kenny, contributors to the new collection of essays, How Australian Democracy Works. And why we need it more than ever.

Arnold Dix will be in a conversation with Alex Sloan on his new book The Promise. How an everyday hero made the impossible possible.

Juno Gemes will be in a conversation with Linda Burney, moderated by Ann McGrath, on her new book Until Justice Comes: Fifty Years of The Movement for Indigenous Rights.

Ross Garnaut will be in conversation with Barry Jones on his new book Let's Tax Carbon.

John Safran will be in conversation with Kim Rubenstein on his new book Squat.

Join MARION, Bookface Gungahlin and Canberra region authors for a celebration of Queer literature.

This free, informal event will be full of book recommendations, literary discussion, and connection.

Shaun Micallef will be in conversation with Andrew Leigh on his new book Slivers, Shards and Skerricks. “A one-man anthology by one of Australia's most intelligent and more handsome Renaissance men.”

Benjamin Stevenson will be in conversation with Jack Heath on his new novel Everyone this Christmas has a Secret, a Christmas addition to his bestselling Ernest Cunningham mysteries.

Best-selling Italian author Paolo Giordano will be in conversation with Marco Lazzarino on his semi-autobiographical novel Tasmania.

Andrew Leigh will be in conversation with Lin Hatfield Dodds on his new book Battlers and Billionaires: The Updated Story of Inequality in Australia.

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.