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Sydney Writers’ Festival

APR 29 – MAY 5, 2019

Sydney, Australia

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. The Festival brings together some of the world’s most intelligent and argumentative writers – from local and international contemporary novelists and writers of cutting-edge nonfiction, to some of

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