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WRITERS WEEK 19 – 25 FEBRUARY 2018
Perth Festival acknowledges that our events
take place on the traditional lands of the
Noongar people and we wish to pay our respects
to the traditional custodians of this country.
This year’s Writers Week offers a range of experiences across different locations from Strange
Company small bar in Fremantle to our new hub at The University Club of Western Australia.
The Octagon Theatre’s evening program is a celebration of Australian storytelling featuring Kim Scott, Helen Garner, Tim Winton and
William Yang. Meal-based events at The University Club’s restaurant embrace fashion, philosophy, literature and genre fiction and
WELCOME
include guests such as Alan Hollinghurst, AC Grayling, Di Morrissey and Natasha Lester. There is a special focus on architecture, the
centrepiece of which is a retrospective of Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine’s quirky documentaries about spaces and the people who
use them. The University Club’s venues provide veritable theatres for dynamic interactions between readers and writers working in
different genres, from rural romance and crime to memoir and poetry. There is Boffins’ new Festival boutique bookstore and a fun
kids’ hub, while the Western Australian Museum presents a pop-up exhibition featuring your favourite quotes from your favourite WA
authors. In other words, what’s not to like?
TO WRITERS WEEK
CURATE YOUR OWN FAMILY FUN
Our Writers program returns in 2018 with a new name, a new hub and a new vision. Perth Writers Week happens across the
city, School’s Day takes over the Perth Cultural Centre and the weekend focus for all the family is at The University Club of WRITERS
Western Australia where we gather to share our love of words and ideas and much, much more.
I was delighted when William Yeoman accepted my invitation to be our 2018 Guest Curator. The program reflects his
EXPERIENCE
extraordinary knowledge of literature, his passion for the arts and his eclectic taste.
BY TIME & DATE
Pages 2 – 6 feature grids containing numbered details of every
As you explore the program you will see not only great international authors and Australian legends like Helen Garner,
Writers Week session, making planning or just browsing
but also a roll call of Western Australian writers including Kim Scott, Tim Winton, Robert Drewe and Josephine Wilson
a breeze!
celebrating the writing of this marvellous place we call home.
I am sure you will feel as excited as I am about Perth Festival Writers Week 2018. BY AUTHOR
Finding your fave has never been easier. Page 7 contains a full
WENDY MARTIN alphabetical list of every Writers Week speaker alongside their Kids have always been welcome at Writers Week, but never
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR session numbers for easy reference. Full details of the Writers more so than this year. We have heaps of fun sessions and
Week program, including speaker biographies, available at activities for kids, and their mums and dads, running across the
perthfestival.com.au entire weekend.
Seeing art in a new light means finding new ways to talk and write about art, which is part
of the art of story. There’s a lot that’s new about Perth Festival Writers Week 2018. But at BY SUBJECT The new family lounge upstairs at The University Club of
its heart remains the ancient tradition of sharing stories with one another. So this year Interested in Crime Fiction? Architecture? Fashion? Western Australia features a library and an activities and
you’ll find the same in-depth conversations and panel discussions you’ve come to expect Relationships? What are those weird letters next to each storytelling area, while Paper Bird’s Kombi van on the lawn
from one of Australia’s best-loved writers’ festivals. Most of them will start with a short session number? Check out the back page for a key and you’ll outside celebrates children’s literature and art. Across at the
reading – a kind of secular prayer, a ritual. There will even be entire sessions devoted to see they’re there to help you find the session that’s just right Octagon Theatre, popular author and illustrator Matt Ottley
storytelling and poetry readings. What’s new is the invitation to embrace mystery and play; for you. presents The Sound of Picture Books with members of the West
to explore different spaces and levels of intimacy; to see how other disciplines, such as Australian Symphony Orchestra. Artists Dhwani Shah and Ragini
architecture, can be a form of storytelling. To see language in a new light. BY VENUE Siruguri have come all the way from India to help kids create a
Remember those grids? On the left are the names of each spectacular mural based on their amazing activities book, Twins.
WILLIAM YEOMAN venue, in coloured squares. The same colours correspond to The Book Doctor and Curated by Kids are back too. But best
GUEST CURATOR: WRITERS WEEK
the same venues represented by the maps and plans on of all is Story Land, a series of storytelling sessions in intimate
pages 8 – 9. You’ll also find the numbers for every session held venues featuring some of Australia’s best children’s authors and
in a particular venue there too. illustrators, like Gabrielle Wang, Deb Fitzpatrick, Yasmin Hamid,
FEATURED EVENTS
Tamara Moss, Sabrina Dudgeon, Cristy Burne and Josie Boyle.
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WHY LITERATURE MATTERS MILES AHEAD MAGGIE’S RECIPE FOR LIFE DETOURS THE SOUND OF PICTURE BOOKS – TREE WORDS & IMAGE: AN EVENING WITH MASTER
Fri 23 Feb, 7pm | Octagon Theatre | $25 – $40 Sat 24 Feb, 9am | Uni Club Restaurant | $72 – $80 Sat 24 Feb, 9.30am | Banquet Hall | $13 – $15 Sun 25 Feb, 1.30pm | Banquet Hall | $13 – $15 Sun 25 Feb, 11am & 12.15pm | Octagon Theatre STORYTELLER WILLIAM YANG
FREE Sun 25 Feb, 7pm | Octagon Theatre | $25 – $40
Join Helen Garner & Kim Scott in conversation with Join Miles Franklin winners Josephine Wilson, Maggie Beer and Ralph Martins discuss eating to avoid Musician Tim Rogers chats about his offbeat and
William Yeoman as they discuss how we can write in Michelle de Kretser and Sofie Laguna as they discuss Alzheimer’s with Barbara Horgan. immensely charming literary memoir with Author Danny Parker and illustrator/composer Matt Join William Yang for a powerful, heart-rending
this Australia and whether it is worth it. women, writing and winning over breakfast. With Danae Gibson. Ottley join WASO’s string quintet and Yamaha’s Alf performance in photography and spoken word as he
Gillian O’Shaughnessy. Demasi for an engaging family performance featuring explores encounters with men, a friend dying of AIDS,
Presented in association with the Copyright Agency through the spoken word, pictures, music, drama and more. his relationship with his mother, his uncle’s murder and
Cultural Fund Presented in association with The Literature Centre his Taoist life philosophy.
Presented in association with The China Australia Writing Centre
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MAGGIE’S RECIPE
FOR LIFE:
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Maggie Beer & Ralph
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blogging, business and
latest Gamache thriller.
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‘the realest dude out
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O’Shaughnessy.
Byrski on creativity in
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Williamson. Presented
on Icelandic myth and
legend. With Gillian
O’Shaughnessy.
Massy & David Ritter on
environmental issues in
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Josephine Wilson &
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AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
avoid Alzheimer’s. With
linguistic slippage and everything in-between. in association with the Bron Sibree. prestigious prize. With
Barbara Horgan.
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Ara Jansen. the Cultural Fund FREE
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THE BEST OF ADAM VASILISA THE WISE DANCING WITH DOCTORS’ WRITING THIS BOOK CHANGED TAPE THIS!: A ALL THE BURNING THE LIFE TO COME: TEX & TIM DO MORE
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and love found and lost WOMEN: Kate Forsyth & Noëlle Janaczewska swapping medicine for G. Coleman, Heather Steven Camden aka acclaimed memoir and wickedly funny new rock ’n’ roll life. With
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tales. With Meri Fatin. Adam Suckling. Presented
by the Copyright Agency
through the Cultural Fund
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THE PASSAGE OF
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FREE TO LOVE, FREE
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THE ART OF FICTION:
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LOVE: Alex Miller on Winman on unlived lives TO LEARN: Manal THE FACTS: Frame Rachel Khong on love, Helen Garner on finding OPTIMIST – A Samanta Schweblin on Sarah Winman, ‘A knockout emotional triumph.’
THEATRE intimate connections, and life not imitating al-Sharif, Tess Woods VR’s Stefan Szo grief and losing it – the extraordinary in the POLITICAL MEMOIR: maternal love, broken Robert Drewe & Chris Film Inquiry
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the power of writing. Barbara Horgan. dangerous passions. VR technology and Danae Gibson. Alice Nelson. before, in and after and desperation of and craft of writing. Showing nightly at UWA Somerville
With Caroline Baum. With Rosemary Sayer. reveals its true power. politics. With family. With With Michael White. during Writers Week
FREE Ben Martin. Susan Midalia.
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PERTH WORKS: THE ART OF THE EVERLASTING STORYLAND: Catherine TRUE STORIES: William FALSE CLAIMS OF SEEING SALTWATER SECRETS BETWEEN THE FREMANTLE
Gabrielle Wang, NAVIGATION: Rose SUNDAY: Robert Lukins McKinnon on the Yang on documenting COLONIAL THIEVES: COUNTRY: Venessa FRIENDS: Fiona Palmer PRESS ANTHOLOGY
Matt Edgerton & Zoë Michael on magic, on his haunting debut interlinking narrative Australian culture in Charmaine Papertalk Cox & Albert Wiggan on on the secrets that OF WA POETRY: John
SEMINAR 1 Atkinson on A Ghost ghosts and the alchemy novel about growing up, arcs piercing Australia’s words and pictures. Green & John Kinsella the art and culture of can make or break Kinsella & Tracy Ryan
$13 – $15
(GRD) in my Suitcase and of history. With growing wild and what it past, present and With Helena Grehan. on the politics of the Dampier Peninsula. friendships. With on the richness and
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page to stage. With Sarah Schladow. Sarah Schladow. of politics. With Australian poetry. With
Sarah McNeill. FREE, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth. Catherine Noske.
registrations required
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THE SISTERS’ SONG: THE RÚIN: Dervla POETRY LAND I: COLLATERAL ON THE OUTSKIRTS: A TALE OF TEN PERFORMANCE THE TINY MUSEUMS: GLASSHOUSES:
Louise Allan on McTiernan’s troubled Poetry readings with DAMAGES: Fiona Harari John Kinsella on Dante, PIANOS: Geoffrey ANXIETY: Rachel Carolyn Abbs on Stuart Barnes on the
CASE STUDY sisterly love, thwarted Irish detective and Charmaine Papertalk & Leigh Straw on war Blake, the nature of Lancaster on historic Khong, Robert Lukins & adulthood as a series potency of poetry and
$13 – $15
(L1) dreams, music and the 20-year case that Green, Stuart Barnes, and what survives in poetics and the poetics pianos and authentic Laurie Steed on getting of sometimes haunted borrowed word-worlds.
motherhood. With Jane comes back to haunt Caroline Abbs, Tineke the survivors. of nature. With performance style in that first novel across negotiations between With Vivienne Glance.
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Corey Wakeling. Ros Appleby. Susan Midalia. Tineke Van der Eecken.
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BEAUTIFUL MESSY RETURN OF THE YOU BELONG HERE: THE WATER BEARER: SWIMMING ON THE WE ARE HERE – POETRY LAND II: AFTER THE WAR – THE ALARMING
LOVE: Tess Woods on DINOSAURS: Bronwyn Laurie Steed on a Tracy Ryan on LAWN: Yasmin Hamid TALKING WITH Poetry readings with RETURNED SOLDIERS CONSERVATORY:
the perils of crossing Houston on the marriage that rocks to a fluency literally and on the winds of change AUSTRALIA’S David McCooey, AND THE MENTAL AND Corey Wakeling on
SEMINAR 3 the cultural divide to dinosaurs that just marriage on the rocks. metaphorically and why that threaten an idyllic OLDEST HOLOCAUST Shevaun Cooley, PHYSICAL SCARS OF language and the
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(L1) find the man of your might roam the Broome With Jane no word is an island. Sudanese childhood. SURVIVORS: Fiona Charlotte Guest, Renee WORLD WAR I: Leigh spatial architectures
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Monique Mulligan. Heather Zubek. book with Jane book with David Hough. With Philip Mead.
Cornes Maclean.
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IRAN
UPPER STORY LAND: STORY LAND: STORY LAND: STORY LAND:
COLONNADE FREE Storytelling Storytelling Storytelling Storytelling
(L1) with Miriam Lo with Deb with Cristy with Sabrina
& Emily-Rose Fitzpatrick. Burne. Dudgeon.
Lochore.
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MILES AHEAD: Breakfast with Miles Franklin winners THE SPARSHOLT AFFAIR: Alan Hollinghurst HOW TO READ A DRESS: High Tea and a fashion
CLUB Josephine Wilson, Michelle de Kretser & Sofie discusses illicit love and its consequences over show with Lydia Edwards on women’s clothes
See
RESTAURANT Laguna as they talk women, writing and winning. lunch. With Geordie Williamson. through history and their influence on today’s
prices
(L1) With Gillian O’Shaughnessy. Presented in association $108 – $120 fashions. With Natasha Lester.
with the Copyright Agency through the Cultural Fund. $81 – $90
$72 – $80
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FROZEN MUSIC: LIVING ARCHITECTURES: LIVING ARCHITECTURES:
Geoffrey Lancaster A screening of Bêka & Lemoine’s film Koolhaas Houselife, where the cleaner offers a A screening of Bêka & Lemoine’s film Barbicania, a series of daily snapshots of the
DOLPHIN See & Geoffrey London unique look inside the Rem Koolhaas-designed Bordeaux House. residents of London’s Barbican Estate.
THEATRE prices on the relationships $13 – $15 $13 – $15 STUDIO UNDERGROUND | 20 - 25 Feb
between music and
architecture. With A sealed envelope contains an unread
William Yeoman. FREE script for a new actor each night.
THE PAPER BIRD KOMBI: TARA BOOKS: PAPER BIRD KOMBI: TARA BOOKS:
FREE Running family activities all day Mural activities Running family activities all day Mural activities
COURTYARD
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IN LIGHT OF SHADOWS: POETRY INTO MUSIC: Katja A TERROR TO AUSTRALIA –
Showcasing the Berndt Webb sings Aaron Copland’s BOYS WILD, COLONIAL AND
See
OTHER SPACES Museum’s Asian Collection. With Twelve Poems of Emily CONTEMPORARY: A preview of
prices
curator Sarah Ridhuan. Dickinson. With David McCooey Tim Winton’s powerful
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, & Ros Appleby. new novel.
FREE Callaway Auditorium, FREE Octagon Theatre, $25 – $40
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SUNDAY 25 FEB
VENUE TICKETS 9AM 9.15 9.30 9.45 10AM 10.15 10.30 10.45 11AM 11.15 11.30 11.45 12PM 12.15 12.30 12.45 1PM 1.15 1.30 1.45 2PM 2.15 2.30 2.45 3PM 3.15 3.30 3.45 4PM 4.15 4.30 4.45 5PM 5.15 5.30 5.45 6PM 6.15 6.30 6.45 7PM 7.15 7.30 7.45
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BEYOND THE RURAL DISHING IT OUT: WALKAWAY: Cory TWO STEPS DETOURS: Musician Tim ORNAMENT AS DIRTY GIRL: Juliet Wills WHIPBIRD: Robert TABOO: Kim Scott on
ROMANCE: Rachael Maggie Beer & Ralph Doctorow on swapping FORWARD: Anne Rogers discusses his offbeat CRIME: AC Grayling on one of the most Drewe on the ghosts that confronting the past to
BANQUET
HALL $13 – $15
Johns, Fleur McDonald
& Fiona Palmer on the
Martins on why we’re
all foodies at heart.
one dystopian future
for another. With
Buist & Graeme
Simsion on alternating
and immensely charming
literary memoir with
& Alan Hollinghurst
on aesthetics as
notorious unsolved cases
in WA’s history – the
haunt an unusual family
gathering. With
create a future. With
Geordie Williamson.
FILMS
joys of genre-skipping. With Sue Yeap. Annabel Smith. chapters in a romantic Danae Gibson. transgression. With murder of brothel madam Ray Glickman.
With Ara Jansen. journey. With Gillian William Yeoman. Shirley Finn. With David
O’Shaughnessy. Whish-Wilson.
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INDIGENOUS STORY LAND – MYTHS, CLEAR TO THE CAN ART CHANGE ONLY: Caroline Baum BEYOND VEILED THE MUSEUM OF MODERN A GALA FOR FAY THE EXAMINED LIFE:
SPECULATIVE LEGENDS & FAIRY HORIZON: Dave THE WORLD?: Perth on what it means to be CLICHÉS – THE LOVE: Heather Rose on ZWICKY: With Morgan Caroline Baum, Steve
AESTHETICS: Ambelin TALES: Pull up a Warner on unsolved Festival artistic the only child of damaged REAL LIVES OF ARAB life as performance and Yasbincek, David Bisley & Sisonke
Kwaymullina, Claire G chair as Josie Boyle, kidnappings in director Wendy Martin, parents. WOMEN: Amal Awad intimacy as risk. With McCooey, Amanda Msimang on the art of
AMPHITHEATRE FREE Coleman & Paul Collis Kate Forsyth, Lorena Claremont, with PI London’s Southbank With Charlotte Guest. discusses her book Geordie Williamson. Joy, Charlotte Guest, memoir and making
on Indigenous spec-
fic. With Elfie Shiosaki.
Carrington, Richard
Fidler & Kári Gíslason
Snowy Lane set to
solve an icy cold case.
Centre artistic director
Jude Kelly and Iranian
with Rafeif Ismail. Corey Wakeling, Dennis
Haskell & Marcella Polain.
sense of the present
through the past. With
LET THE SUNSHINE IN
tell some ripping yarns. With Kathryn Shine. playwright Nassim Presented by Tess Woods. UWA SOMERVILLE | 26 Feb – 4 Mar
Soleimanpour with Australian Poetry ECU JOONDALUP PINES | 6 – 11 Mar
Kirsti Melville.
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THE WESTERLY CITY OF CROWS: THE CHOKE: Sofie TALL TALES AND EXTINCTIONS: 2017 NOBODY REAL: WORK STRIFE BALANCE: ALT-HISTORIES: Claire CRIME IS ANOTHER
CENTRE RANDOLPH Chris Womersley on Laguna on a child who TRUE-ISH: Kate Miles Franklin winner Steven Camden on Mia Freedman on the price G Coleman & Cory COUNTRY: Alan Carter,
STOW MEMORIAL 17th Century Paris and navigates an often dark Forsyth & Richard Josephine Wilson the real problem with women pay for wanting it Doctorow on patterns of Dave Warner, Dervla
LECTURE: Donna the ties that bind a and uncaring world Fidler on mythology on the fragments we imaginary friends. With all. With Ben Martin. power and resistance. McTiernan & Louise
THEATRE
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AUDITORIUM
Noske on Gothic and a stolen child. With violence. With unconscious. With Claire Nichols. place in crime fiction.
undertones, Amanda Curtin. Caroline Baum. With Ian Andrew.
romanticisation and
lyricism in Randolph
Stow’s writing.
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THIS I WOULD KILL
FOR: Anne Buist on
HISTORY & THE
POET: Join critic and
THE BEAST OF
HUSHING WOOD:
TERRA NULLIUS:
Claire G Coleman on
SUDDENLY ONE
SUMMER: Fleur
ALWAYS ANOTHER
COUNTRY – A MEMOIR
LIGHTHOUSE NOODLES:
Cristy Burne & Deb
TIME LADIES: Catherine
McKinnon & Rose
THE COAL TRUTH –
THE FIGHT TO STOP
TIM WINTON
how far parents will author Robert Wood Gabrielle Wang on Australia’s colonisation McDonald on love, OF EXILE AND HOME: Fitzpatrick on writing for Michael on temporal ADANI, DEFEAT THE
SEMINAR 1 go to protect their & Catherine Noske as Ziggy Truegood’s battle told slant. With loss and unlikely Sisonke Msimang younger readers. traversals and reversals BIG POLLUTERS
(GRD) $13 – $15 children. With they discuss Australian to save her beloved Catherine Noske. connections of life on discusses her book With AJ Betts. in fiction. With AND RECLAIM OUR
Ray Glickman. poetry now and its Hushing Wood from the land. With with Stella Glorie. Annabel Smith. DEMOCRACY: David
relationship to history, dark forces. With Tess Woods. Ritter discusses his book
philosophy Heather Zubek. with Kathryn Shine.
and politics.
104 ME SO CU 105 SF TE 106 CR SO 107 ME SO CU 108 LI AC 109 PO CR 110 AC CU 111 RE HE SO 112 ME AC CU A preview of his powerful new
DARING TO DRIVE – BAD TO WORSE: DANCING HOME: Paul THE BOOK OF THE AUTHOR IS DEAD: THE CRIMINAL DANCING IN SHADOWS – DUSTFALL: Michelle THE PLEASURES OF novel, The Shepherd’s Hut.
A SAUDI WOMAN’S Robert Edeson on Collis on his exciting THISTLES: Noëlle Sara Foster, Elizabeth RE-REGISTER: Ross HISTORIES OF NYUNGAR Johnston on her LEISURE:
CASE STUDY AWAKENING: Manal drones, hieroglyphs debut novel, described Janaczewska on Tan & Robert Edeson Gibson on the poetics PERFORMANCE: Anna spectacular debut novel Robert Dessaix on the Limited tickets available.
(L1) $13 – $15
al-Sharif discusses her and the possible as ‘Koori noir’. With surprising essayistic on dangerous delusions of police dossiers and Haebich discusses her exploring the crushing serious business of
book with triumph of good over Susan Midalia. encounters with a in fact and fiction. found photographs. book with Cassie Lynch. consequences of a doing nothing. With OCTAGON THEATRE | 24 Feb
Rosemary Sayer. evil. With much-maligned weed. With Annabel Smith. With Vivienne Glance. doctor’s single mistake. Monique Mulligan. TICKETS $25 – $40
Geraldine Mellet. With Laurie Steed. With Emily Paull.
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LINTANG AND THE THE BERNDT MUSEUM: DRAWING SYBILLA: MRS WHITE AND THE BREE’S FOREST HOMING: Shevaun RUBIK: Elizabeth Tan CALL OF THE REED STAR STRUCK: David
FORBIDDEN ISLAND: Vanessa Russ on one Odette Kelada on RED DESERT: Josie ADVENTURE: Miriam Cooley on what on virtual lives and viral WARBLER: Charles McCooey on life and
Tamara Moss on a of the world’s most doodling at writers’ Boyle on the pros Lo & Emily-Rose constitutes a home mortalities. With Jane Massy on farming for the death as play and a
SEMINAR 3
FREE swashbuckling fantasy important collections festivals and the and cons of oral and Lochore on the and how to find our Cornes Maclean. future. With play between binary
(L1)
adventure with a kick- of Aboriginal and challenges women written storytelling. wonders of the South way there. With Portland Jones. opposites and pop
arse heroine and a Torres Strait Islander writers face. With With Cassie Lynch. West and working on Robert Wood. music poetics. With
pirate queen to die for. cultural material. With Sisonke Msimang. their first illustrated Vivienne Glance.
With Glenn Swift. Kelly Fliedner. book together.
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HUMAN
ISRAEL/UK
UPPER STORY LAND: STORY LAND: STORY LAND: STORY LAND:
COLONNADE FREE Storytelling Storytelling Storytelling Storytelling
NATURE
(L1) with Yasmin with Tamara with Matt with Josie
Hamid. Moss. Stanton. Boyle.
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CLUB ZADOK BEN-DAVID
SEE DEMOCRACY AND ITS CRISIS: Breakfast with AC THE RED COAST: Di Morrissey discusses passion THE PARIS SEAMSTRESS: High Tea and a chat with
RESTAURANT Grayling as he discusses the challenges facing and resistance under the Kimberley’s blazing sun Natasha Lester about the birth of prêt-à-porter in
(L1) PRICES
democracy today. $72 – $80 over lunch. With William Yeoman. $108 – $120 1940s New York. With Lydia Edwards. $90/$81
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AN UNFINISHED LIVING ARCHITECTURES: LIVING ARCHITECTURES:
EXPERIMENT IN LIVING: A screening of Bêka & Lemoine’s film The Infinite Happiness, which looks at the 8 House A screening of Bêka & Lemoine’s film Moriyama-San, which looks at the experimental
Geoffrey London, Julian outside Copenhagen recognised as the world’s best residential building. Tokyo dwelling purpose-built for Mr. Moriyama.
DOLPHIN SEE
Bolleter & Tim Ross $13 – $15 $13 – $15
THEATRE PRICES
on the rise and fall of
Modernism in Australian
domestic architecture.
FREE
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CURATED BY KIDS TAKEOVER: The Curated by Kids team put CURATED BY KIDS TAKEOVER: The Curated by Kids team put Writers Life and death in nature.
THE Writers Week children’s authors in the hot seat. Week children’s authors in the hot seat.
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LAWRENCE WILSON ART GALLERY
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Running family activities all day Running family activities all day Mural activities
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THE SOUND OF THE SOUND OF PERTH WORKS: FRAMING NED: Peter WORDS & IMAGE: An evening
PICTURE BOOKS: PICTURE BOOKS: A work in progress performance Goldsworthy & Thomas de with master storyteller
OTHER SPACES SEE With Matt Ottley & With Matt Ottley & of Lost and Found’s Ned Kelly. Mallet Burgess on the making of William Yang.
PRICES WASO members. WASO members. Callaway Auditorium, FREE, a new Australian opera. With Presented in association with
Octagon Theatre, Octagon Theatre, registrations required Ros Appleby. The China Australia Writing Centre
FREE FREE Callaway Auditorium, FREE Octagon Theatre, $25 – $40
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Carolyn Abbs 39 44 Kelly Fliedner 34 114 Natasha Lester 61 128 140 Tex Perkins 5 18 Geordie Williamson
6 60 76 83
Louise Allan 13 37 Kate Forsyth 11 78 89 Miriam Lo 55 117 Marcella Polain 84
Juliet Wills 74
Manal al-Sharif 21 104 Sara Foster 108 139 Emily-Rose Lochore 55 117 Sarah Ridhuan 65
Josephine Wilson
Ian Andrew 94 142 Mia Freedman 3 92 Geoffrey London 62 129 David Ritter 8 103 9 14 59 90
Ros Appleby 42 66 G–I Robert Lukins 30 43 Tim Rogers 18 72 Sarah Winman 20 27
Zoë Atkinson 28 Helen Garner 24 152 Cassie Lynch 93 110 116 Heather Rose 12 14 83 Tim Winton 67
Amal Awad 21 82 Danae Gibson 23 72 M–O Tim Ross 129 Chris Womersley 27 87
Stuart Barnes 39 45 Ross Gibson 52 109 Thomas de Mallet Burgess 137 Vanessa Russ 114 Caroline Wood 144
Caroline Baum Karí Gíslason 7 78 Ben Martin 25 92 Tracy Ryan 36 49 Robert Wood 96 118 143
19 81 85 88
Vivienne Glance Wendy Martin 80 S–U Tess Woods 21 46 85 99
Kate Beaufoy 38 45 49 109 121
Ralph Martins 1 69 147 Rosemary Sayer 21 104 149 Y–Z
Maggie Beer 1 69 Ray Glickman 75 95
Charles Massy 8 120 Renee Schipp 52 William Yang 32 138
AJ Betts 91 101 Stella Glorie 16 100
Donna Mazza 86 Sarah Schladow 30 31 Sue Yeap 69
Image courtesy Strange Company
Steve Bisley 16 85 Peter Goldsworthy 137
David McCooey Samanta Schweblin 2 26 Morgan Yasbincek 84
Julian Bolleter 129 148 AC Grayling 73 126 10 52 66 84 121
VENUE MON 19 FEB TUE 20 FEB WED 21 FEB THU 22 FEB FRI 23 FEB Kim Scott 76 152 William Yeoman
Josie Boyle 78 116 125 Helena Grehan 32 Fleur McDonald 68 99 62 73 127 140 146 152
139 CR RE 140 FS CO RE 141 RE HE 142 RE TR
Stephen Scourfield 146
THE HIDDEN HOURS: Sara THE PARIS SEAMSTRESS: THE GREATEST GIFT: Rachael COORDINATING Anne Buist 71 95 142 150 Phil Griffiths 148 Catherine McKinnon 31 102 Heather Zubek 47 97
STRANGE
Foster on secrets, lies and the Natasha Lester previews Johns on one woman’s CONJUNCTIONS: Anne Buist Dhwani Shah (Tara Books)
COMPANY Charlotte Guest
death of an author. With her exciting new novel. With decision to help another’s & Graeme Simsion on wedding Cristy Burne 57 101 Sarah McNeill 12 28
5 Nairn St,
Susan Midalia. William Yeoman. ultimate dream come true. words and lives. With 52 81 84 143 Kathryn Shine 79 103
Fremantle Liz Byrski 6 Dervla McTiernan 38 94
7 – 8PM, FREE 7 – 8PM, FREE With Monique Mulligan. Ian Andrew.
12 – 1PM, FREE 12 – 1PM, FREE Anna Haebich 12 110 Elfie Shiosaki 77
Steven Camden 15 91 Philip Mead 54
143 PO 144 CO HE SO 145 CR SO AR 146 ME TR MU Yasmin Hamid 50 122 Bron Sibree 8 50
THE POETS SPEAK: Shevaun FERVENT FLAVOURS: One of NORTHBRIDGE CRIME WALK: BIRD: Stephen Scourfield Lorena Carrington 11 78 Geraldine Mellet 105
Fiona Harari 40 51 Graeme Simsion
Cooley & Charlotte Guest talk WA’s hottest chefs and owner Join David Whish-Wilson (spoken word) & William
CENTRE poetry with Robert Wood. of Fervor, Paul ‘Yoda’ Iskov, and for a walk on the dark side Yeoman (guitar) take you on a Alan Carter 94 149 Kristi Melville 80 10 71 142 150
6 – 7PM, FREE his team serve up dishes based as he takes you to some of journey through rural England
Dennis Haskell 84
FOR STORIES Claire G. Coleman Ragini Siruguri (Tara Books)
Rose Michael 29 102
100 Aberdeen St, around native WA foods. Join Northbridge’s most notorious and WA’s wheatbelt in words, 14 77 93 98 Alan Hollinghurst 60 73
Northbridge us for an evening of canapés, crime scenes. music and images. Susan Midalia Annabel Smith
wine and conversation with 6 – 7.30PM, FREE 6 – 7.30PM, FREE Simon Collins 18 Barbara Horgan 1 20 147 26 43 106 139 17 70 102 108
Paul & Caroline Wood. WALKING EVENT
6.30 – 9PM, $85 Paul Collis 77 106 David Hough 29 53 Alex Miller 6 19 Nassim Soleimanpour 2 80
147 CO HE 148 AR HI SO 149 CR TR 150 RE TR LI
Shevaun Cooley 52 118 143 Bronwyn Houston 47 Di Morrissey 8 127 Matt Stanton 124
ALZHEIMER’S, EATING & YOU: STORIES IN STONE: East End MARLBOROUGH MAN: Alan A NOVEL RELATIONSHIP:
Professor Ralph Martins AO, Historic Precinct History Walk Carter on crossing continents, Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist Jane Cornes Maclean Tony Hughes-d’Aeth 33 41 Tamara Moss 113 123 Laurie Steed 43 48 107
leading Alzheimer’s researcher, with architect Phil Griffiths. past crimes and clear and talk to Geraldine Mellet. 37 48 51 119
CITY OF PERTH Rafeif Ismail 82 Sisonke Msimang 85 100 115 Leigh Straw 40 53
and co-author of Recipe for DOWN TO THE RIVER: present dangers. With 6.30 – 7.30PM, FREE
LIBRARY Venessa Cox 34
Life talks to Barbara Horgan. Foreshore Walk with architect Rosemary Sayer.
573 Hay St, Perth Paul Iskov 144 Monique Mulligan 46 112 141 Adam Suckling 14
6.30 – 7.30 PM, FREE Julian Bolleter. 6.30 – 7.30PM, FREE
6.30 – 8PM, FREE, Amanda Curtin 87
registrations required J–L Rashida Murphy 35 40 Glenn Swift 113
WALKING EVENT D–F
Noëlle Janaczewska 12 107 Alice Nelson 24 Stefan Szo 22
151 AC AR FI Michelle de Kretser 17 59
Ara Jansen 2 68 Claire Nichols 90 Elizabeth Tan 108 119
MUSEUM UK/WESTERN AUSTRALIA 24 HEURES SUR PLACE: A
Robert Dessaix 2 6 112
screening of Bêka & Lemoine’s Rachael Johns 68 141 Catherine Noske V–X
film about the characters that Cory Doctorow 3 70 93 36 86 96 98
move through Paris’ Place de
OF WATER
Michelle Johnston 13 111 Tineke Van der Eecken 39 44
LINTON & KAY la République is preceded by a Robert Drewe 27 75 Gillian O’Shaughnessy
West Perth, walk-and-talk encounter with Portland Jones 120 5 7 59 71 Corey Wakeling 39 54 84
11 Old Aberdeen Pl, Linton & Kay and Holmes a Sabrina Dudgeon 58
West Perth Court’s new galleries. Amanda Joy 84 Matt Ottley 134 135 Gabrielle Wang 28 97
Be water curious. 6 – 9PM (Film screens 7.30pm Robert Edeson 105 108
See the full program online now. at The Backlot Cinema) Odette Kelada 9 115 P–R Dave Warner 79 94
$13 – $15, Matt Edgerton 28
registrations required Jude Kelly 80 Fiona Palmer 35 68 Katja Webb 66
FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE Lydia Edwards 61 128
WALKING EVENT
7 Feb – 23 Mar | FREE Rachel Khong 23 43 Charmaine Papertalk Green David Whish-Wilson 74 145
152 LI SO CU Gareth Evans 14 25 33 39
John Kinsella 33 36 41 Michael White 4 27
WHY LITERATURE MATTERS:
Meri Fatin 11 13 Danny Parker 134 135
How can we write in this
OCTAGON Ambelin Kwaymullina 77 Terri-ann White 9
Australia and is it worth it? Richard Fidler 7 78 89 Emily Paull 3 105 111
THEATRE
Helen Garner & Kim Scott in Sofie Laguna 59 88 Albert Wiggan 34
University of WA
conversation with
William Yeoman.
7 – 8PM, $25 – $40
* WALKING EVENT: You will start at the listed venue. You will be on your feet for 60mins but the walk will be fairly gentle and will be wheelchair accessible.
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THE UNIVERSITY CLUB
GROUND FLOOR MATCH THE SESSION NUMBERS TO THE DAILY PLANNERS
and map your experience at The University Club. THE UNIVERSITY CLUB
HACKETT
DRIVE
WHEELCHAIR RAMP ACCESS ENTRANCE
1ST FLOOR
RECEPTION LOBBY
STAIRS TO
SEMINAR ROOMS
LOUNGE BAR THE
CLUB BOOK DOCTOR
BANQUET RESTAURANT STAIRS
CLUB CAFÉ
HALL
SEMINAR
SATURDAY SESSIONS
ROOM 3
1 2 3 4 5 6 SATURDAY SESSIONS
7 8 9 59 60 61
SATURDAY SESSIONS
SUNDAY SESSIONS SUNDAY SESSIONS 46 47 48 49
ENTRANCE 68 69 70 71 72 73 126 127 128
50 51 52 53
74 75 76 54
CLUB GALLERY FAMILY
SUNDAY SESSIONS LOUNGE
STAIRS 113 114 115 116
117 118 119 120
BOFFINS
AMPHITHEATRE LIFT
UPPER
LOWER COLONNADE
121
BOOKSHOP
TO OCTAGON BALCONY STAIRS LIFT COLONNADE
& DOLPHIN THEATRES
ENTRANCE
CASE STUDY
SATURDAY SESSIONS SEMINAR ROOM 1
10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 SATURDAY SESSIONS
28 29 30 31 32 THEATRE AUDITORIUM
BOOK SUNDAY SESSIONS 33 34 35 36 SATURDAY SESSIONS
77 78 79 80 81
SIGNING 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
82 83 84 85 SUNDAY SESSIONS 26 27
95 96 97 98 99
BOX 100 101 102 103
SUNDAY SESSIONS
86 87 88 89 90 91 92
OFFICE STAIRS
93 94 ENTER HERE
FROM
GROUND
WHEELCHAIR RAMP ENTRANCE SATURDAY SESSIONS FLOOR
THE 37 38 39 40 41
FOOD
COURTYARD TO CARPARK 3
42 43 44 45
SATURDAY SESSIONS
SUNDAY SESSIONS
TRUCKS 55 56 57 58
104 105 106 107 108
SUNDAY SESSIONS
109 110 111 112
122 123 124 125
PAPER BIRD
KOMBI (FOR KIDS)
MURAL
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BITS TO KNOW BOOKINGS
ONLINE perthfestival.com.au
BOFFINS BOOKSHOP PHONE 08 6488 5555
OPEN SAT & SUN, 8AM – 7PM IN PERSON at our onsite Writers Week Box Office on event day
Visit Boffins’ pop-up bookshop in The University Club to buy that REGISTRATIONS for all FREE Out & About sessions at perthfestival.com.au
must-have copy of the book you’ve been hearing about. Browse a range PERFORMANCE LIMITATIONS AND BOOKING CONDITIONS
of titles from our guest authors amongst an eclectic selection of technical, All sessions are subject to change without notice.
We recommend you pre-purchase your tickets online and choose e-ticket delivery: a $2 transaction fee applies.
practical, special interest, fiction and children’s books. Where tickets are booked online or over the phone and you choose to have your tickets mailed or collected at the
box office a $6 transaction fee will apply.
All sales are final. Full terms and conditions of sale are available at perthfestival.com.au
BOOK SIGNING
Authors will be signing in the marquee on Riley Oval, next to The University
Club. Catch up with your favourite and get your books signed. More details
available throughout the weekend.
ACCESS INFORMATION
Perth Festival is committed to making our events accessible. All Writers Week
RELAX & ENJOY venues are wheelchair accessible. However, please note the Amphitheatre
Open all weekend, The University Club Café offers a range of drinks, hot area is grassed.
foods, takeaway sandwiches, salads and light snacks. Relax in the Writers
Courtyard Hub. Enjoy a cool drink, coffee, ice cream or a bite to eat from These sessions will be Auslan sign interpreted.
one of the food outlets.
For specific details on venue accessibility please download our Access Guide
WRITERS WEEK BOX OFFICE from perthfestival.com.au/access
DATE AMPHITHEATRE OCTAGON If you have any questions about accessibility or would like to discuss your
requirements with us, please contact us on 08 6488 8616 or
Fri 6.15 – 7.15pm
access@perthfestival.com.au
Sat 8.30am – 6pm 6.15 – 7.15pm
Sun 8.30am – 6pm 6.15 – 7.15pm
BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION
PARKING &
#PERTHFESTWW #PERTHFEST PUBLIC TRANSPORT
For information about parking, visit uwa.edu.au and for transport timetables
and information, visit transperth.wa.gov.au
SUBJECT KEY
AR ARCHITECTURE EN ENVIRONMENT LA LANGUAGE PL POLITICS
AC ART & CREATIVITY FA FAMILY LI LITERATURE RE RELATIONSHIPS
BU BUSINESS FS FASHION ME MEMOIR SO SOCIETY
CO COOKING FI FILM MU MUSIC SF SPECULATIVE FICTION
CR CRIME HE HEALTH PH PHILOSOPHY TE TECHNOLOGY
CU CULTURE HI HISTORY PO POETRY TR TRAVEL
AUSLAN INTERPRETING
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