Each year we try harder to make the festival experience as enjoyable as possible. We are a small team and value your feedback so we can continue to improve how we operate. If you missed the printed surveys that were distributed at the festival, we welcome your input via an online version. It takes less than... Read More
We won’t get change without quotas. You can change attitudes but that doesn’t mean you will change behaviour. Quotas are the random breath testing of equality – Jane Caro Australians hate their banks, but we’re uniquely apathetic about it. We are more likely to change our spouse than our bank – Michael Roddan In order to... Read More
Wow! What a festival. It is hard to believe that just over a week ago we were in the midst of the Schools Program and getting ready for the opening night event, which was a wonderful conversation among Jane Hutcheon, Gillian Triggs, Ben Quilty and Joe Williams. The 2019 festival is celebrating record ticket sales... Read More
Volunteer registration for this year’s festival is now open! Each year we’ve had a wonderful team of volunteers, praised by writers and audiences alike, and we couldn’t run the festival without them. If you’d like to join this dedicated, friendly and inspiring team, you can read the information sheet and then register by going to... Read More
We are thrilled to announce the first of 120 guests for the 2019 festival, which will be held from April 5 to 7 in the Civic Precinct. The full program will be released on February 22 online and in print. Heather Morris is the author of the best-selling novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, based on the incredible true... Read More
The finalists in the 2018 NWF/joanne burns MicroLit Award have now been announced. Two of these finalists will go on to win the joanne burns Microlit Award for the National and Hunter categories. The winners will be announced at the launch of the 2019 Newcastle Writers’ Festival program and their cash prizes will be awarded... Read More
The 2018 Newcastle Writers Festival/ joanne burns Microlit Award is open. Co-presented by Spineless Wonders Short Australian Stories, the award is seeking writing across any genre of up to 200 words that responds imaginatively to the theme ‘sound’. This year’s judge is Cassandra Atherton. There are national and Hunter region categories. Finalists in the award... Read More
Respected journalist, editor, policy maker and feminist Anne Summers will visit Newcastle on 4 November to discuss her new memoir Unfettered and Alive. Anne has influenced and often shaped the political, cultural and social fabric of Australia – depending on what role she was occupying at the time. In her book, she shares wicked anecdotes about... Read More
Join us for Rebels with a Cause, a very special event at Newcastle Region Library on 6 August featuring the North Korean defector and human rights activist, Hyeonseo Lee, and one of Britain’s most popular and celebrated performance poets, Lemn Sissay. From 6.30pm to 7.30pm Lemn Sissay, Chancellor of the University of Manchester, will talk to... Read More
Due to overwhelming demand a second event featuring much-loved Australian children’s author Andy Griffiths and his illustrator sidekick Terry Denton has been announced for Newcastle at 4.30pm on Sunday, July 15. The duo is visiting Newcastle in the upcoming school holidays to celebrate the launch of their new book The 104-Storey Treehouse. Join Andy Griffiths... Read More
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What an inspiring and thought-provoking weekend! The 2018 Newcastle Writers Festival has been blessed with wonderful conversations, audiences and weather. We couldn’t do it without the support and encouragement from a number of organisations and individuals. And of course our guest writers and facilitators bring the program to life. We are blessed with the most... Read More
Join Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton in their stupendous 104-storey treehouse! They’ve added 13 new levels including a stupid-hat level, a refrigerator-throwing level, a bun-fighting level, a tangled-up level and a deep-thoughts thinking room. Well, what are you waiting for? Come on up! Sunday 15 July 2018 // 1pm to 2pm // NEX 309 King Street –... Read More