March 25
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Customs House
1 Bond St
Newcastle NSW 2300
Tickets are on sale from 9am 9 February. Email ticketing@newcastlewritersfestival.org.au if you have any issues.
Our literary trivia night is back! Can you name the Australian city UNESCO declared a City of Literature in 2023? Who is the youngest Booker Prize winner? What is the name of Sally Hepworth’s most recent book? Gather your bookish friends and put your literary smarts to the test. Great ‘literary’ prizes to be won including bundles of new books and festival tickets. Teams are limited to 8 participants and solo competitors can be accommodated.
Join us for the launch of local poet Morgan Bell’s trio of haiku zines: The Sound of Colour (2023), Animalian Bites (2024), and the upcoming Glancing The Hold (2025). Morgan...
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Writers and visual artists come together in this lively cross-disciplinary showcase. Five Hunter region storytellers – Dael Allison, Joanna Atherfold Finn, Morgan Bell, Micheál Lovett and Damien Linnane – unveil...
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Join this two-hour walking tour through Newcastle’s Civic precinct – from Newcastle Museum to Newcastle Library – to uncover some of the city’s radical histories. Explore how Worimi fishing stories,...
View EventKathy Lette first achieved succès de scandale as the teenaged co-author of Aussie classic Puberty Blues and has since hidden Julian Assange in her attic, tongue-kissed Prince William, and written...
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What makes for a great short story? In this intensive masterclass, students will be introduced to the various elements of characterisation, plot development and editing their work. Designed to extend...
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Newcastle Writers Festival would like to acknowledge the Awabakal and Worimi peoples, the Traditional Custodians of the land on which the festival takes place, and recognise their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging and extend this respect to all First Nations people attending our festival.
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