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WRITERS WEEK OUR IMAGINED SELVES 18 - 24 FEB 2019
WELCOME TO WRITERS WEEK WRITERS WEEK HIGHLIGHTS
Perth Festival acknowledges that our events take place on the lands of the Noongar people and we wish to pay our Asking a festival curator to pick their highlights is a bit like asking a parent who their favourite child is. They’re all beautiful, they’re all
respects to the traditional custodians of this Country. perfect. But they’re also individuals, with their own strengths. So it is with the sessions, events and activities unfolding over this year’s
Writers Week. Big marquee events include evenings with acclaimed Booker Prize-winning Nigerian author and poet Ben Okri, fabulous
American cultural critic and DJ madison moore, Stasiland author Anna Funder and The Crazy Big Book Club hosted by Benjamin Law.
Writers Week returns with a powerhouse 2019 program that makes There’s a special focus on comics and graphic novels, including a retrospective of film adaptations of comic books. We’ve crammed
your story a part of every story. Writers Week Hub at The University Club of Western Australia and surrounds with in conversations, panels, performances and meal events
Curator William Yeoman has prepared an extraordinarily wide-ranging featuring the likes of Peter FitzSimons, Carly Findlay, David Malouf, Monica McInerney, Greg Fleet, Mikey Robins, Sally Seltmann, Markus
series of events spanning searing memoirs and family dramas through Zusak, Liz Byrski, Trent Dalton, Heather Morris and over 100 other authors, poets, artists and musicians. We’re also getting Out & About
to sweeping historical sagas and fun sessions on music, film, food and again, with some terrific sessions at Fremantle’s Literature Centre, City of Perth Library and Centre for Stories, as well as welcoming the
fashion. We invite you to fuel your imaginations with conversations, West Travel Club team headed up by novelist and travel writer Stephen Scourfield. And that’s just for starters …
performances, fun family activities, literary tours and adventures with
our outstanding international, Australian and Western Australian guest
writers and thinkers. Where else can you savour songs of love and lust,
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE FOOD FOR THOUGHT
assess the rise and fall of empires, drop in on a zine fair or learn how
to take great pictures from a seasoned travel photographer? I hope
you will join us so that we can all write our future together. Curate your own Writers Week experience with our Join some of your favourite writers for a meal and an intimate chat at The University Club Restaurant.
easy-to-use grid, map and index. Or try our Curated 7 10
WENDY MARTIN Experiences online, where we’ve packaged up a few
WHAT KIND OF AUSTRALIA DO WE WANT? ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
of our favourite things. Share breakfast with bestselling social researcher Amy Sackville, Gail Jones & Amanda Curtin have
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
BY TIME & DATE Hugh Mackay and hear about his compelling new written passionately about art and artists. Now
Pages 2-6 feature colour-coded grids and lists book Australia Reimagined: Towards a more hear them chat about it over breakfast with former
What comes first, reality or imagination? It’s a chicken-and-egg containing numbered details of Writers Week compassionate, less anxious society. Art Gallery of WA director Alan Dodge.
question this year’s Writers Week: Our Imagined Selves, tries to sessions, making browsing and planning a breeze. Sat 23 Feb 9am Sun 24 Feb 9am
answer – by having it both ways. Fantasy is built from facts but if you
BY VENUE $80 $80
don’t dream, you can’t make anything real in the first place. This
On the left of the Saturday and Sunday grids you’ll
is especially true when it comes to telling stories about ourselves 8
find each venue has a colour that corresponds to its 11
and each other: whether fact or fiction, narrative lies at the heart THERE ARE STRINGS ATTACHED
JAZZ HIGH TEA
position on our back page map.. Travel from Alaska to India and home to Australia in
of who we are. Especially if it’s shared. In a world of fake news, Join Gatz director John Collins in conversation
increasing alienation and extremism, writers’ festivals such as our BY AUTHOR a lunch with words and music featuring author and
with Natasha Lester as they celebrate the roaring
Writers Week are more important than ever. They bring writers Page 9 has an alphabetical list of every Writers Week travel editor Stephen Scourfield and musician and
20s and discuss F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great
and readers together in real time and in the same intimate space, guest. Next to each name are the numbers of all the luthier Scott Wise.
Gatsby.
through conversations, debates and readings that enrich and sessions they’re participating in. Sat 23 Feb 12pm
Sun 24 Feb 3.30pm
enlarge our lives, that feed our imagined selves. BY SUBJECT $90
$90
Whether you’re interested in romance, crime fiction, 9
poetry, literary fiction, politics, climate change,
THE WORLD IS THEIR BOOK
history or children’s picture books, we’ve made it Enjoy high tea with Balli Kaur Jaswal, Monica
WILLIAM YEOMAN easy to follow your passion by including subject McInerney, Elleke Boehmer & Liz Byrski as they
CURATOR: WRITERS WEEK codes covering all the major themes. discuss the inspirations for their novels and how
travel can broaden the writing mind.
Sat 23 Feb 3.30pm
$90
SPECIAL EVENTS
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AN EVENING WITH BEN OKRI ALL OF ME IS HERE AFTER THE FALL THE BIG CRAZY BOOK CLUB I JUST WANT TO SAY THIS WASHINGTON BLACK
Join Booker Prize-winning Nigerian novelist and poet Ben A compelling panel discussion featuring blogger and Thirty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall acclaimed Join media sensation Benjamin Law, The Chaser’s Andrew Anna Funder, Andrew Hansen, Jane Caro & Greg Sheridan In her extraordinary Man Booker-shortlisted novel, Esi
Okri as he talks about life, art, politics and his new novel, appearance activist Carly Findlay, novelist and journalist author of Stasiland, Anna Funder, asks is our world as Hansen, indie pop star Sally Seltmann and novelist Monica debate the limits of free speech in an increasingly polarised Edugyan explores notions of freedom and slavery against
The Freedom Artist with Sisonke Msimang. Trent Dalton & Congolese/Australian playwright Future D divided as ever? McInerney for an unpredictable interactive book club. global society. a rich backdrop of 19th century scientific exploration and
Fidel. With Sisonke Msimang. existential calamity. With Geraldine Mellet.
Sat 23 Feb 7pm Fri 22 Feb 7pm Sun 24 Feb 5pm Sun 24 Feb 7pm Sun 24 Feb 3.30pm Sun 24 Feb 2pm
WINTHROP HALL OCTAGON THEATRE OCTAGON THEATRE OCTAGON THEATRE OCTAGON THEATRE OCTAGON THEATRE
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SATURDAY 23 FEB
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BRIDGE OF CLAY ACCIDENTAL OTHER LIVES, THE ART OF THE (RE)WRITING ANZAC SNIPER MONASH – MAN & BEAUTIFUL AS THE ELSEWHERE
The Book Thief author FEMINISTS OTHER BODIES ESSAY HISTORY Historian Roland Perry talks MYTH SKY Travel editor and novelist
Markus Zusak discusses his Writer, broadcaster and David Malouf, Rodney Hall & Is the essay one of today’s Historical novelists Amanda to Geraldine Mellet about Sir Historians and authors Author and journalist Paul Stephen Scourfield &
social commentator Jane
BANQUET HALL
extraordinary new novel Anna Funder discuss literary most exciting literary forms? Curtin & Andrew Miller Stanley George Savige, the Roland Perry & Peter Daley and children’s authors percussionist Steve Richter
about a family held together Caro talks to Meri Fatin imagination and coming to Essayists Fiona Wright, Peter discuss what an imaginative son of a country butcher FitzSimons tell David Dianne Wolfer & Rachel Bin team up for a world
by stories and a young life about the generation of grips with the world with Rose & Rachel Robertson engagement with the past who became a crack Hough why general Sir Salleh discuss patriotism, premiere performance of
caught up in the current feminists that revolutionised Adam Suckling. discuss protean prose with can teach us about passion marksman and served in John Monash should be nationhood and the Anzac Elsewhere, an emotive,
with Barbara Horgan. the world. Terri-ann White. and obsession. With Bron both world wars. considered one of Australia’s legend with Ross McMullin. personal combination of
11.30am–12.15pm biography and travel.
9.30am-10.15am 10.30am–11.15am $15 12.30pm–1.15pm Sibree. 2.30pm–3.15pm greatest military geniuses.
4.30pm–5.15pm
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A QUEER WORLD THE GREAT MORAL THE GARDENS OF COLLECTED WORKS EROTIC STORIES FOR 101 MARVELLOUS FULL STEAM AHEAD HOW TO BE MANY FREO GROOVE
Join Benjamin Law, Ursula CHALLENGE OF OUR EARTHLY DELIGHTS Cassie Lynch, Zoe Deleuil, PUNJABI WIDOWS MOVIES YOU MAY Designer and book illustrator Sally Seltmann, Benjamin Join writers and musicians
Martinez & madison moore GENERATION Italian-born author Holden Sheppard, AS Patric Singapore-based author HAVE MISSED Allison Colpoys, teacher, Law, Davina Bell & Alison Bill Lawrie, Claire Moodie &
as they challenge narratives Dr Joelle Gergis, Deepak and translator Moreno & Ambelin Kwaymullina talk Balli Kaur Jaswal talks to Ara author and illustrator Mike Evans talk to Danae Gibson friends as they celebrate the
AMPHITHEATRE
Join distinguished film critic
of identity and family Unnikrishnan & Patrick Nunn Giovannoni & Maltese-born to Laurie Steed about short Jansen about womanhood, and TV personality David Speechley & maths guru about multiple intelligences, musical culture of Fremantle
through their own stories discuss the facts and fictions poet Annamaria Weldon talk fiction, essays and achieving sexuality and secrets – and Stratton & ABC broadcaster Eddie Woo talk to Kris multiple genders and the past and present. Includes
and arts practice. With Ruth of the human impact on our to Rashida Murphy about a diversity of voices in having her book as Reese Danielle Benda as they Williams about creativity in dangers of standardisation live music. With Lucky
Little. world’s climate with Vivienne weaving memory and myth collections and anthologies. Witherspoon’s Book Club uncover some hidden science and the humanities. and stereotyping. Oceans.
10am–10.45am Glance. in their writing. 1pm–1.45pm pick! cinematic gems. 4pm–4.45pm 5pm–5.45pm 6pm–6.45pm
FREE 11am–11.45am 12pm–12.45pm FREE 2pm–2.45pm 3pm–3.45pm FREE FREE FREE
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MUTINY ON THE PAINTER TO A DIAMOND IN WRITING THE WORLD THE WORLD AN OPEN BOOK SHELL NOW WE SHALL BE THE RANDOLPH
BOUNTY THE KING THE DUST Children’s and YA authors WAS WHOLE Miles Franklin Award- Australian journalist and ENTIRELY FREE STOW MEMORIAL
Australian bestselling UK novelist Amy Sackville Kimberley Fine Diamonds Karen Foxlee, Meg McKinlay Australian poet and essayist winning author and poet author Kristina Olsson talks UK writer Andrew Miller LECTURE
THEATRE AUDITORIUM
non-fiction author Peter discusses how she brought founder Frauke Bolten- & Brendan Lawley discuss Fiona Wright speaks with David Malouf speaks with to Sarah Schladow about speaks with Claire Nichols The Westerly Centre
FitzSimons chats with one of Spain’s greatest Boshammer discusses how writing for younger people Charlotte Guest about Tineke Van der Eecken one of Australia’s most about his stunning new invites you to join us in
Danielle Benda about a saga painters, Diego Velazquez, a young girl from Germany and how the imagination Wright’s powerful follow- about his dazzling new iconic buildings, the Sydney historical novel featuring commemorating the life and
of sex and sedition, mayhem out of the tenebrous gloom overcame tragedy to makes (almost) everything up to her 2016 essay collection of poetry and Opera House, and a world a traumatised soldier in writing of one of Western
and mutiny and survival and into the light. With pioneer an international possible. With Heather collection, Small Acts of being a writer in today’s on the brink of seismic search of peace. Australia’s most brilliant
against extraordinary odds. Amanda Curtin. diamond empire in Zubek. Disappearance: Essays on Australia. change. authors. Presented by
5pm–5.45pm
11am–11.45am Kununurra. With Julie 1pm–1.45pm Hunger. 3pm–3.45pm 4pm–4.45pm Andrew Lynch with Julian
10am–10.45am Hosking. $15
$15 $15 2pm–2.45pm $15 $15 Tompkin.
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THE HAPPY BOWEL THE VALLEY SPECULATIONS ON THE SUNDAY GIRL SOMETHING RICH & OUR STORY, OUR TEMPORARY PEOPLE A SUPERIOR MIGRATION,
MURDOCH LECTURE THEATRE
WA Australian of the Year West Australian author and SPECULATIVE What does Bridget Jones STRANGE WORDS, OUR BODIES Raised in Abu Dhabi by SPECTRE MEMORY & MOVIES
nominee Dr Michael Levitt playwright Steve Hawke FICTION have to do with Sun Tzu’s Julie Watts, Maddie Godfrey Young actors and writers Indian parents, Deepak Australian author Angela Jane Lydon, Joanna
talks to doctor and author talks to Chris Lin about his Alison Evans, Alison The Art of War? Join author & Glen Phillips tell Robert Maniya and Omar join Unnikrishnan blends genre Meyer speaks with Charlotte Sassoon, David Stratton &
Michelle Johnston about powerful new adult novel Croggon, SA Jones & and musician Pip Drysdale Wood why poetry isn’t just Perth theatre director and language to dismantle Guest about her gripping George Kouvaros talk to
his new book and returning dealing with a 1916 murder AJ Betts talk alternative as she talks to Emily Paull literature – it’s a way of life. Jay Emmanuel to discuss everything you thought debut work of gothic Kelly Fliedner about how still
hundreds of patients to that will haunt a family for realities and real alternatives about being dumped and Includes poetry readings. a bold new collaboration you knew about the Gulf’s speculative fiction and and moving images shape
bowel health and happiness. generations. with Angela Meyer. getting your own back. on understanding transient workforce. With our insatiable capacity for our memories and future.
2pm–2.45pm Sarah Kanowski.
10am–10.45am 11am–11.45am 1pm–1.45pm displacement. curiosity.
12pm–12.45pm FREE 6pm–6.45pm
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THE EDGE OF SAINT ANTHONY IN DRIVING INTO THE OLD GREEKS POMPEY ELLIOTT AT GOD IS GOOD POETRY LIKE WATER A STOLEN SEASON A CHINESE POET
ALEXANDER LECTURE THEATRE
MEMORY & ORAL HIS DESERT THE SUN Professor of Film Studies WAR: IN HIS OWN FOR YOU Chinese poet and essayist Acclaimed Miles Franklin IN PERTH
STORYTELLING Sydney writer Anthony Novelist, poet and academic at UNSW George Kouvaros WORDS Journalist Greg Sheridan Zheng Xiaoqiong, Australian Award-winning author Chinese poet and essayist
Patrick Nunn discusses Uhlmann talks to Bruce Marcella Polain talks to talks to Louise Allan about Ross McMullin’s award- talks to Ray Glickman about poet Glen Phillips & Sydney- Rodney Hall talks to Louise Zheng Xiaoqiong talks to
living storytelling traditions Russell about a defrocked Sarah Schladow about migration and what role winning biography uncovers why Christianity is so vital based Chinese author and Allan about his latest novel Isabelle Li about being
and their importance to priest, an unfinished book coming-of-age tropes in films play in the process of this famous Australian for our personal and social translator Isabelle Li discuss and the story of three a poet in China and the
Indigenous cultures the and temptation, damnation fiction and the intersections memorialisation. commander’s frank, well-being, now more than poetry as a cultural nexus people experiencing a importance of translation to
world over with Cassie and salvation in the world of between autobiography and controversial, emotional and ever. and machine for freedom. period of life they never her work.
12.30pm–1.15pm
Lynch. alternative music. the imagination in Australian riveting personal narrative of thought possible.
$15 2.30pm–3.15pm 3.30pm–4.15pm 5.30pm–6.15pm
10.30am–11.15am literature. World War I. $15 4.30pm–5.15pm
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SUNDAY 24 FEB
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BOY SWALLOWS THE TATTOOIST OF PRIZE FIGHTER THE ART OF LONG- SYDNEYSIDERS WHAT IS ‘WOMEN’S GUILTY PLEASURES GOD’S OWN THE BEST JOB IN
UNIVERSE AUSCHWITZ Queensland-based FORM JOURNALISM Kristina Olsson, Markus FICTION’ ANYWAY? Crime fiction authors Mads COUNTRY THE WORLD
Acclaimed New Zealand- Congolese playwright Future How do you make facts sing Zusak, Gail Jones & Anthony West Australian authors Peder Nordbo & David Journalist Greg Sheridan The West Australian’s travel
Australian journalist and
on the page? Chloe Hooper
BANQUET HALL
novelist Trent Dalton chats born author Heather Morris D Fidel talks to Sarah McNeill Uhlmann muse on one of Jennie Jones, Sasha Wasley Whish-Wilson discuss & social researcher Hugh team Stephen Scourfield,
talks to Angela Meyer about the journey from & Trent Dalton talk to Meri the world’s great cities with & Anthea Hodgson talk to politics, pleasure and place Mackay talk to Bill Bunbury Niall McIlroy, Gemma Nisbet
with Kathryn Shine about his
about the true story of page to stage to page for his Fatin about how journalism Mikey Robins. Tess Woods about gender, in police procedurals and about the role of religion in & Grace Millimaci share
acclaimed debut novel and
the tattooist of Auschwitz- prize-winning play and now and non-fiction can be just genre and telling the stories thrillers – and why they’re so Australian society. their stories and answer
drawing inspiration from his 1.30pm–2.15pm
Birkenau and the woman he novel Prize Fighter. as vivid and compelling as that really matter to people. addictive. With Stella Glorie. your questions. With Patrick
own life for his fiction. $15 4.30pm–5.15pm
fell in love with. fiction. Cornish.
9.30am-10.15am 11.30am–12.15pm 2.30pm–3.15pm 3.30pm–4.15pm $15
10.30am–11.15am $15 12.30pm–1.15pm $15 5.30pm–6.15pm
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WOO’S WONDERFUL TELLING TALL TALES STORM-WAKE BAB SHARKEY & THE LOVESOME AESTHETICS, FROM SHORTHAND SEVEN DEADLY SINS CRITICAL MASS
WORLD OF MATHS WITH WORDS & UK-based Australian YA ANIMAL MUMMIES Australian singer-songwriter ARGUMENTS & TO EMOJIS AND ONE VERY Critics Rosalind Appleby,
Ace maths teacher and PICTURES author Lucy Christopher Australian author and Sally Seltmann talks to ANTHILLS Journalists Carrie Cox, Paul NAUGHTY FRUIT William Yeoman, Alison
YouTube sensation Eddie Children’s authors and talks to Heather Zubek comedian Andrew Hansen Danae Gibson about her Australian authors Gail Daley & Sarah McNeill talk Comedian Mikey Robins Croggon & Peter Rose talk
Woo talks to Gillian illustrators Kelly Canby, about wondrous talks to Mikey Robins about debut novel and why some Jones, Susan Midalia & to The West Australian’s dishes up some saucy tales to Kelly Fliedner about the
AMPHITHEATRE
O’Shaughnessy about James Foley, Ian Mutch & stormflowers, sunken The Giant Moth Mummy, the feelings just need a bigger Greg Fleet discuss style, Ben Martin about fun facts, as he chats to Sue Yeap continuing significance of
his journey to becoming Jessica Walton chat with continents and adapting second book in his hilarious canvas than a song. substance and humour in fake news and the future of about our obsession with arts criticism, gatekeepers
a maths whiz and the Heather Zubek about why Shakespeare’s The Tempest kids’ series. short and long fiction with journalism. food through the ages. and the canon in the digital
we can all have fun with 2pm–2.45pm
importance of mathematics for a different medium, a Laurie Steed. age.
words and pictures. different audience and a
1pm–1.45pm FREE 4pm–4.45pm 5pm–5.45pm
in everyday life.
FREE 3pm–3.45pm FREE FREE 6pm–6.45pm
different time.
10am–10.45am 11am–11.45am FREE FREE
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THE GIRL WITHOUT THE ARSONIST THE CHILDREN’S SAY HELLO POETIC SUNBURNT COUNTRY INFINITE WORLDS, CLASS & CONFLICT JUDAS COLLAR
SKIN Acclaimed author of The Tall HOUSE Australian writer and SENSIBILITIES Climate scientist and writer INFINITE WORDS Authors Esi Edugyan, Jane West Australian filmmakers
Man Chloe Hooper returns appearance activist Carly Dr Joelle Gergis discusses Caro & Sisonke Msimang talk Alison James & Brooke
THEATRE AUDITORIUM
The latest Danish crime Award-winning West Acclaimed poets and Writers Balli Kaur Jaswal,
with another gripping true- Findlay speaks with Tess the history and future of to Gillian O’Shaughnessy Silcox talk to Portland Jones
fiction sensation Mads Australian novelist Alice novelists Ben Okri, David Carly Findlay, Heather
life account, this time the Woods about Findlay’s new climate change in Australia about the relationships about their award-winning
Peder Nordbo talks to Ian Nelson talks to Brenda Malouf & Tracy Ryan discuss Morris and Future D Fidel
story of the man behind the memoir and why living with and why we need to act now between class, poverty and short film highlighting
Andrew about the world’s Walker about Nelson’s the pleasures of poetry in discuss the relationships
worst bushfires in Australian a disability brings as many with Vivienne Glance. privilege – and how they the plight of feral camels.
never-ending love affair powerful new novel and how the modern age with Terri- between language, freedom
history – 2009’s Black opportunities as challenges. affect us all. Includes a special screening.
with Scandi crime and its a writer builds fiction from ann White and read from 3pm–3.45pm and identity with Rosemary
Saturday. With Bron Sibree.
translation into English. fact in order to arrive at the 1pm–1.45pm their work. Sayer. 5pm–5.45pm 6pm–6.45pm
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ALFRED’S WAR LENNY’S BOOK OF INTRODUCING TEDDY IDA THE FIREFLIES OF SIMPLY ING JOAO THE HOUSES THAT PARTNERS IN PROSE
MURDOCH LECTURE THEATRE
Author Rachel Bin Salleh & EVERYTHING Why is Errol’s teddy Tilly so Alison Evans discusses their AUTUMN The powerful story of Poet John Mateer talks ARE LEFT BEHIND Prize-winning West
illustrator Samantha Fry talk Australian author Karen sad? Australian picture book award-winning YA novel Ida, Italian-born Australian writer Noongar woman Helen to Robert Wood about Lit Live actress Sarah Australian writers and
to James Foley about their Foxlee discusses her new author Jessica Walton talks new novel Highway Bodies and translator Moreno (Ing) Nellie, a member of Mateer’s sonnet sequence McNeill performs Brenda poets Tracy Ryan & John
children’s book confronting children’s novel, two very to Holden Sheppard about and how speculative fiction Giovannoni talks to Monique the Stolen Generation who describing the encounters Walker’s O Henry Prize- Kinsella talk about their new
the lack of recognition for different siblings and the disability, LGBTI issues and can be an ideal vehicle for Mulligan about writing of war overcame considerable of Joao as he travels across winning short story before novels and sharing a life of
WWI Australian Indigenous importance of dreams with introducing young readers exploring notions of identity. and migration, feasts and challenges to reclaim her the globe, attending festivals talking to Walker about creativity and love at Jam
servicemen. Barbara Horgan. to gender identity and With Annabel Smith. misfortune in a small Tuscan culture. With Margaret and readings and meeting imagining lives from the Tree Gully. With Tony Hughes
11am–11.45am transition. village nobody’s heard of. O’Brien. friends. houses people leave behind. D’Aeth.
10am–10.45am 1pm–1.45pm
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UNDER THE THE BUTCHERBIRD THE GOOD SON BONESLAND AFTERNOONS WITH THE SHOUTING IN SAMSON AGONISTES: THE POLITICS OF
ON PATRIOTISM
ALEXANDER LECTURE THEATRE
SOUTHERN CROSS STORIES Australian author and Bones Carter can’t wait HARVEY BEAM THE DARK AN INTERTEXTUAL MEMORY
Author and Guardian West Australian author and comedian Greg Fleet talks to to finish school and head RE-DRAMATISATION
Miles Franklin Award- West Australian journalist UK-based novelist Elleke Amanda Gardiner,
journalist Paul Daley talks to illustrator Frané Lessac Kathryn Shine about his new for the big city. Then Naya AFTER MILTON
winning Australian novelist Carrie Cox talks to ABC RN Boehmer talks to Jane Mohammed Massoud
Ray Glickman about myth, talks to Bill Bunbury about novel, fulfilling each other’s comes into his life and
and short fiction writer AS host Claire Nichols about Cornes Maclean about the Poet and author John Morsi & Cassie Lynch
the media and what it really night-time in Australia, needs and how we treat the everything changes. Join
Patric discusses his powerful Cox’s debut novel featuring legacies of colonialism and Kinsella & theatre director discuss the ways creative
means to love and serve when animals are waking, elderly people in our lives. debut YA author Brendan
new collection of short a talkback radio host who’s how an individual can find Steve Chinna discuss writing can navigate what
your country. people are exploring and Lawley in conversation with
stories with Jane Cornes 12.30pm–1.15pm losing his mojo and heads their place in the world. Kinsella’s bold new take on is remembered and what is
9.30am-10.15am discoveries are being made Maclean.
$15
AJ Betts. home to face a different
3.30pm–4.15pm John Milton’s verse drama. lost from view.
$15 – under the Southern Cross. kind of music.
11.30pm–12.15pm 1.30pm–2.15pm $15 4.30pm–5.15pm 5.30pm–6.15pm
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OUT & ABOUT FAMILY FUN DAY SUNDAY
MON 18 – SUN 24 FEB SUN 24 FEB
Registrations required for all FREE Out & About sessions. Visit perthfestival.com.au There are family-friendly sessions available across Writers Week, but the really exciting stuff happens on Family Fun Day Sunday.
Old friends The Sound of Picture Books, Curated by Kids & Paper Bird Kombi return, while we’re introducing a whole lot of new programs and activities including
Comic Book Heroes Takeover, Zine Fair, workshops and terrific sessions – most free – with kids authors and illustrators like Davina Bell, Allison Colpoys, Ian Mutch,
THE LITERATURE CENTRE CITY OF PERTH LIBRARY THE CENTRE FOR STORIES UWA WATERSPORTS COMPLEX Mike Speechley, Kelly Canby, James Foley, Dianne Wolfer, Andrew Hansen, Jessica Roberts, Rachel Bin Salleh, Samantha Fry and more.
Old Fremantle Prison Hospital, Cnr 573 Hay St, Perth 100 Aberdeen St, Northbridge
114 AC ED LI
Knutsford St & Hampton Rd, Fremantle THE SOUND OF PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE THIS PLACE CURATED BY KIDS
THE BUSINESS OF BEING A WRITER
102 CR 106 PH PL SO 110 CU HI PO Take a leap into the unknown as author Danny Mogens Johansen, lead photographer of Seven Ten book enthusiasts aged 10 – 12 have created their
Writers and industry professionals
CRIME BETWEEN THE PAGES THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE HISTORY & CULTURE Parker & illustrator and composer Matt Ottley West Media’s Travel magazine and West Travel Club’s own program of literary sessions that they’ll host at
share insights to help with the various
Join Irish-born, Perth-based writer Join Professor Jane Lydon in Robert Wood talks to John Mateer bring their popular picture book Parachute to life Gemma Nisbet & Grace Milimaci teach the whole the dedicated Curated by Kids stage. Expect hard-
different aspects of a career in writing.
Dervla McTiernan to launch The conversation with Kelly Fliedner about & Annamaria Weldon about empires through storytelling, big screen illustration and live family how to effectively use a phone as a camera hitting and enlightening questions and a whole lot
Hosted by Fremantle Press and the Department of
Scholar, the eagerly anticipated her latest book Visualising Human from Malta to Portugal, the ruins of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries music featuring musicians from the West Australian with a neat assignment designed to hone your of fun!
sequel to her acclaimed first novel Rights and the way photography culture and the legacies of empire for Symphony Orchestra and Yamaha Australia. Signed photography skills.
The Ruin. shapes our notions of ethics and our own time. Sat 23 Feb 1pm–4pm books and DVDs will be available for sale. Patricia Crawford Courtyard
human rights. $25.50 Presented by The Literature Centre Patricia Crawford Courtyard 10am & 1pm
Mon 18 Feb 6pm for 6.30pm-7.30pm Mon 18 Feb 7pm–8pm 9am–1pm
Octagon Theatre FREE
FREE Mon 18 Feb 7pm–8pm FREE
11am & 12.15pm FREE
FREE CALLAWAY AUDITORIUM PAPER BIRD KOMBI
103 FA SF 111 CU SO FREE
COMIC BOOK HEROES KIDS TAKEOVER: Paper Bird Children’s Books & Arts’ quirky Kombi van
IS THIS THE REAL LIFE? IS THIS JUST 107 CR HOME CURRENTS 115 MU LA THE ADVENTURES OF TIN TIN SCREENING is back, offering a shady, laid-back outdoor venue
FANTASY? GRIPPED BY GOLD FEVER Emerging practitioners from the IT’S A ZINE FAIR!
LUST IN TRANSLATION The kids are not being left out of our Comic Book for storytelling sessions and other activities for kids
Recent speculative fiction novels A Crime fiction author David Whish- Centre’s Indian Ocean Mentoring Immerse yourself in old-school words-and-pictures
Baritone Robert Hofmann & pianist Heroes film retrospective. Join intrepid young of all ages (and their parents). Keep an eye out over
Single Stone and Hive feature female Wilson talks to Dervla McTiernan project read from creative works in action by making your own small magazine or comic
Tommaso Pollio perform and discuss journalist reporter Tintin, his trusty dog snowy the weekend for updates on who’s performing what
protagonists in enclosed societies. about the murky world of 19th century progress, focussing on identity, place with the help of some of Perth’s top zine, comic and
translated love songs. and Captain Haddock as they set out to hunt for and when!
Authors Meg McKinlay & AJ Betts San Francisco and the notorious gang and belonging. With Priya Kahlon, graphic novel artists. Our special Zine Fair includes treasure on a sunken ship in The Adventures of
discuss the creation of these unique of former convicts, the Sydney Coves. Raihanaty A Jalil & Rushil D’Cruz. Sat 23 Feb 2pm–3pm pop-up shops, activities and workshops. Patricia Crawford Courtyard
Tintin (PG).
and thought-provoking worlds. FREE FREE
Tue 19 Feb 7pm–8pm Tue 19 Feb 7pm–8pm
Jackson Court Dolphin Theatre
Tue 19 Feb 6pm for 6.30pm-7.30pm FREE FREE
9.30am–1.30pm 9.30am (108mins)
FREE 116 RE
PUBLISH & BE DAMNED FREE FREE
108 LI RE TR 112 PL SO TR
104 AC FA LA BLUE MOUNTAIN BOOK CLUB SPOTLIGHT ON BURMA Highly Strung Players members Peter
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE VOICE What happens when an online book Join PEN Perth for an evening of Rose & Francesca Sasnaitis perform
Join Dr Lucy Christopher, club meets for the first time in the readings and food with Michelle two duologues about a married
internationally acclaimed academic,
teacher and writer of YA fiction,
to find out more about developing
an authentic teenage voice and to
Blue Mountains? Find out as Liz Byrski
talks to Rosemary Sayer about her
latest novel A Month of Sundays.
Johnston, Holden Sheppard & Chris
Lin.
Wed 20 Feb 7pm–8pm
couple who are also publishers.
Sat 23 Feb 3.30pm–4.15pm
COMIC BOOK HEROES
Wed 20 Feb 7pm–8pm FREE Comic book movies seem set to dominate the cinema box office for eons to come. Beyond the blockbusters, we invite you to delve deeper into the wider world
indulge in some serious creative play! FREE
of films adapted from graphic sources with this widely diverse selection of films screening at Dolphin Theatre, each introduced by a Writers Week guest – one of
FREE
Wed 20 Feb 6pm for 6.30pm-7.30pm Perth’s own comic book heroes. An intriguing In Conversations series also features.
113 EN KINGS PARK & BOTANIC GARDEN
FREE 109 SO LETTER TO THE FUTURE
REMEMBERING KERRY HILL Dr Joelle Gergis & Portland Jones
105 LI AC 117 PO COMIC BOOK FILMS IN CONVERSATIONS
Architect Kerry Hill passed away discuss what, and who, inspired
GROWING WITH EVERY BOOK NEW SHOOTS WA POETRY TRAIL
last year, leaving an impressive Gergis’ writing and what letter she
Markus Zusak discusses the trajectory Join local poets Nandi Chinna, Daniel Dolphin Theatre Dolphin Theatre
architectural legacy. Join Kerry Hill would write to the next generation.
of his career and Bridge of Clay – Hansen & Luke Sweedman by the All sessions FREE
Architects’ Patrick Kosky & architect All films $13 – $15
what it took for him to start it, live with Thu 21 Feb 7pm–8pm Kings Park West Australian Botanic
Geoffrey London for conversation and
it, finish it and why it had to be hard. FREE Garden sign as they perform new FLASH GORDON (1980) USA 121
a tour of Hill’s City of Perth Library. 118
Thu 21 Feb 6pm for 6.30pm-7.30pm
Presented in association with The Centre for Stories poems inspired by plants and place. Introduced by Wolfgang Bylsma, THE RISE OF AUSTRALIAN COMICS A CONVERSATION WITH SARAH WINIFRED SEARLE
Thu 21 Feb 7pm-8pm Editor-in-Chief of Gestalt Publishing Wolfgang Bylsma, Justin Randall, Campbell Whyte Sarah Winifred Searle is an acclaimed writer and
FREE
FREE Sat 23 & Sun 24 Feb 8.30am–10am Sat 23 Feb 1pm & Sarah Winifred Searle join Kevin Chiat to discuss artist from New England who now calls Perth home.
Presented in association with The Literature Centre
Presented in association with City of Perth Library
FREE 111mins, PG what the increasing critical respectability of graphic Her creative work embraces superheroes, YA fiction,
Presented in association with Red Room Poetry novels and comics means for Australian creators. autobiography and erotica and she chats about it
GHOST WORLD (2001) USA
Sat 23 Feb 9.30am–10.15am with Emily Smith.
Introduced by Campbell Whyte, comics creator
WORKSHOPS
Sun 24 Feb 10.45am–11.30am
Sat 23 Feb 4pm 119
111mins, M SUPERHEROES FOR A NEW CENTURY 122
Superheroes dominate our screens. Wolfgang A CONVERSATION WITH JUSTIN RANDALL
IN THIS CORNER OF THE WORLD (2016) JAPAN
Bylsma, Sarah Winifred Searle & Justin Randall join Wolfgang Byslma chats to Justin Randall, an award-
Introduced by Sarah Winifred Searle, comics creator
Some of the best writers in the biz lead a series of hands-on workshops on On Sunday our Family Day activities include the chance for 9-12-year-olds to Kevin Chiat to discuss what this says about our winning illustrator and comics-storyteller, best-
Sun 24 Feb 1pm
Sat 23 and Sun 24 Feb at our Writers Week Hub. flex their imagination muscles with Deb Fitzpatrick in A Maze of Story & The dreams and desires in 2019? known for his series Changing Ways and art on
129mins, M
Story-Weaver. If you’re aged 7-12 sharpen your pencils and get ready to take Sat 23 Feb 10.30am–11.15am horror comic 30 Days of Night.
On Saturday let AS Patric guide you through the techniques for writing Japanese with English subtitles
your comics to the next level with Campbell Whyte in Storytelling Through Sun 24 Feb 11.45am–12.30pm
a great short story in The Art of Fiction, play with words and exercise 120
Comics. If you’re a teen (or adult) wanting to write but not knowing where SNOWPIERCER (2013) SOUTH KOREA
your imagination with Ara Jansen in Wordplay, get thinking like a writer in STORYTELLING: A CONVERSATION WITH
to start, join Lucy Christopher in Writing the Wild and use place to begin or Introduced by Campbell Whyte, comics creator
Writing Fiction – Getting Started with Amanda Curtin or use your own CAMPBELL WHYTE
invigorate your work. For adults who want to write a book about the person Sun 24 Deb 4pm
life experience to write fiction or memoir in Encountering the Other with Games are a compelling storytelling medium and
they love (or hate) Professor Roland Perry hosts Biography with a Master. 126mins, M
Rashida Murphy. For teenagers who think maths is boring, Eddie Woo invites just one of the influences on Campbell Whyte’s
you to see just how fun it can be in Reimagining Mathematics. Visit perthfestival.com.au for full details English, Korean, French, Japanese, Czech & German with some acclaimed graphic novel, Home Time. He talks with
English subtitles
games academic Tauel Harper.
Sat 23 Feb 11.30am–12.15pm
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SPECIAL EVENT GUEST SPEAKERS
A–C Vivienne Glance 22 80 Monica McInerney 4 9 Kathryn Shine 57 96
Raihanaty A Jalil 111 Ray Glickman 53 93 Meg McKinlay 33 103 Bron Sibree 16 76
Louise Allan 51 55 Stella Glorie 63 Ross McMullin 19 52 Brooke Silcox 83
Maniya Amin Dehghan 44 Maddie Godfrey 43 Sarah McNeill 59 72 91 Annabel Smith 87
Ian Andrew 75 Charlotte Guest 34 46 Dervla McTiernan 102 107 Emily Smith 121
Rosalind Appleby 74 Rodney Hall 14 55 Geraldine Mellet 6 17 Mike Speechley 27
Davina Bell 28 Andrew Hansen 4 5 69 Angela Meyer 41 46 58 Laurie Steed 24 71
Danielle Benda 26 30 Daniel Hansen 117 Susan Midalia 71 Adam Suckling 14
AJ Betts 41 97 103 Tauel Harper 120 Andrew Miller 16 37 David Stratton 26 47
Rachel Bin Salleh 19 84 Steve Hawke 40 Grace Millimaci F 65 Luke Sweedman 117
Elleke Boehmer 9 99 Anthea Hodgson 62 Claire Moodie 29 Omar Taha Alkreiz 44
Frauke Bolten-Boshammer 32 Robert Hofmann 115 madison moore 21 123 Julian Tompkin 38
Bill Bunbury 64 94 Chloe Hooper 60 76 Heather Morris 58 81 Anthony Uhlmann 49 61
Wolfgang Bylsma C 118 119 122 Barbara Horgan 12 85 Sisonke Msimang 1 2 82 Deepak Unnikrishnan 22 45
Liz Byrski 9 108 Julie Hosking 32 Monique Mulligan 88 Tineke Van der Eecken 35
Kelly Canby 67 David Hough 18 Rashida Murphy W 23 W–X
Jane Caro 5 13 82 Tony Hughes D’Aeth 92 Ian Mutch 67 Brenda Walker 77 91
Kevin Chiat 118 119 J–L Helen (Ing) Nellie 89 Jessica Walton 67 86
Nandi Chinna 117 Jennifer Jackson F Alice Nelson 77 Sasha Wasley 62
Steve Chinna 100 Alison James 83 Claire Nichols 37 98 Julie Watts 43
123
Lucy Christopher W 68 104 Ara Jansen 25 Gemma Nisbet F 65 Annamaria Weldon 23 110
madison moore’s late-night ‘performance lecture’ exemplifies
DANCE MANIA: A MANIFESTO FOR QUEER this spirit. An autobiographical story of creativity, community and Allison Colpoys 27 Mogens Johansen F Mads Peder Nordbo 63 75 David Whish-Wilson 63 107
NIGHTLIFE identity at night, Dance Mania: A Manifesto for Queer Nightlife,
explores how club spaces become sanctuaries for queer and trans
John Collins 11 Michelle Johnston 39 112 Patrick Nunn 22 48 Terri-ann White 15 79
Jane Cornes Maclean 95 99 Gail Jones 10 61 71 Margaret O'Brien 89 Campbell Whyte W C 118 120
Who doesn’t want to stretch themselves, fulfil their potential as people of colour, asking what makes them so full of possibilities for
creative individuals and have fun at the same time? Patrick Cornish 65 Jennie Jones 62 Lucky Oceans 29 Kris Williams 27
self-expression. It is a place where everyone is welcome.
Carrie Cox 72 98 SA Jones 41 Ben Okri 1 79 Scott Wise 8
As American cultural critic, DJ and author madison moore writes in But moore is also asking something of all of us: take the risk, take
his book Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric, ‘Nightlife is Alison Croggon 41 74 Portland Jones 83 113 Kristina Olsson 36 61 Dianne Wolfer 19
the trip, break out of your comfort zone and you’ll never look back.
a space where identities are created, tested, questioned, confirmed, Amanda Curtin W 10 16 31 Priya Kahlon 111 Gillian O'Shaughnessy 66 85 Eddie Woo W 27 66
and rehearsed’. He could have been describing writers’ festivals. D–F Sarah Kanowski 45 Matt Ottley F Robert Wood 43 90 110
Especially this one, Our Imagined Selves, which is an invitation to Sat 23 Feb 9.45pm
Studio Underground Paul Daley 19 72 93 Balli Kaur Jaswal 9 25 81 P–R Tess Woods 62 78
engage with a range of writers and other artists and their work –
and emerge with new wings, ready to fly. $36 – $40 Trent Dalton 2 57 60 John Kinsella 92 100 Danny Parker F Fiona Wright 15 34
Rushil D'Cruz 111 Patrick Kosky 109 AS Patric W 24 95 Zheng Xiaoqiong 54 56
Zoe Deleuil 24 George Kouvaros 47 51 Emily Paull 42 Y–Z
BAR UNDERGROUND Alf Demasi
Alan Dodge
Pip Drysdale
F
10
42
Ambelin Kwaymullina
Benjamin Law
Brendan Lawley
4 21
33
24
28
97
Roland Perry
Glen Phillips
Marcella Polain
W 17
43
18
54
50
Sue Yeap
William Yeoman
Heather Zubek 33 67
73
74
68
Venture down below at the State Theatre Centre of WA and slip Esi Edugyan 6 82 Bill Lawrie 29 Tommaso Pollio 115 Markus Zusak 12 61 105
into the late-night world of Perth Festival. Bar Underground is a
place to meet, eat, debrief, muse over a martini and wind up or Jay Emmanuel 44 Frané Lessac 94 Justin Randall 118 119 122
down with strangers, artists and friends. Rub shoulders and strike Alison Evans 28 41 87 Natasha Lester 11 Steve Richter 20
up a conversation with visiting authors, get up on the dancefloor Meri Fatin 13 60 Michael Levitt 39 Rachel Robertson 15
to guest DJs and be treated to late-night surprise acts. You never
Future D Fidel 2 59 81 Isabelle Li 54 56 Mikey Robins 61 69 73
know who might take to the stage …
Carly Findlay 2 78 81 Chris Lin 40 112 Peter Rose 15 74 116
Discover Bar Underground – open every night until late.
Deb Fitzpatrick W Ruth Little 21 Bruce Russell 49
FREE
Peter FitzSimons 18 30 Geoffrey London 109 Tracy Ryan 79 92
Greg Fleet 71 96 Jane Lydon 47 106 S–U
SUBJECT KEY Kelly Fliedner
James Foley
47 74
67
106
84
Andrew Lynch
Cassie Lynch 24 48
38
101
Amy Sackville
Francesca Sasnaitis
10 31
116
AR ARCHITECTURE ED EDUCATION LA LANGUAGE PL POLITICS Karen Foxlee
Samantha Fry
33 85
84
M–0
Hugh Mackay 7 64
Joanna Sassoon
Rosemary Sayer 81
47
108
KEY
AC ART & CREATIVITY EN ENVIRONMENT LI LITERATURE RE RELATIONSHIPS
Anna Funder 3 5 14 David Malouf 14 35 79 Sarah Schladow 36 50
BI BUSINESS FA FAMILY ME MEMOIR SO SOCIETY W Workshop
G–I Ben Martin 72 Stephen Scourfield 8 20 65 (see p6 or website for more details)
CO COOKING FI FILM MU MUSIC SF SPECULATIVE FICTION Amanda Gardiner 101 Ursula Martinez 21 Sarah Winifred Searle C 118 119 121
F Family Fun Day Sunday
CR CRIME HE HEALTH PH PHOTOGRAPHY TR TRAVEL Joelle Gergis 22 80 113 Mohammed Massoud Morsi 101 Sally Seltmann 4 28 70 (see p7 for more details)
CU CULTURE HI HISTORY PO POETRY Danae Gibson 28 70 John Mateer 90 110 Holden Sheppard 24 86 112
C Comic Book Heroes
Moreno Giovannoni 23 88 Niall McIlroy 65 Greg Sheridan 5 53 64 (see p7 for more details)
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THINGS TO KNOW
Boffins Bookshop Writers Week Packs Access Information
Printed tickets are required for all $15 Writers Week Perth Festival is committed to making our events
Open Sat 23 & Sun 24 Feb 8am–7pm
sessions. Avoid the box office queues and see more accessible. All Writers Week venues are wheelchair
Visit Boffins’ pop-up bookshop on Riley Oval to buy that and save with a Writers Week pack. Choose from four accessible. However, please note the Amphitheatre
must-have copy of the book you’ve been hearing about. or eight sessions packs. area is grassed.
Browse a range of titles from our guest authors amongst an
4 Session Pack $52 Events in the Octagon Theatre have assistive listening.
eclectic selection of technical, practical, special interest,
fiction and children’s books. 8 Session Pack $100
Not valid for $40 Special Events, Workshops or Food for Thought events.
These sessions will be Auslan sign interpreted.
Book Signing
How to Book
Authors will be signing in the marquee on Riley Oval, next For specific details on venue accessibility please
to The University Club. Catch up with your favourite and ONLINE download our Access Guide from
get your books signed. More details available throughout perthfestival.com.au perthfestival.com.au/access
the weekend.
PHONE If you have any questions about accessibility or would
Food & Drink Festival Info Centre 08 6488 5555 like to discuss your requirements with us, please
Mon-Fri 9am-5pm contact us on 08 6488 8616 or
Open all weekend, The University Club Café offers a range Sat 10am-2pm access@perthfestival.com.au
of drinks, hot foods, takeaway sandwiches, salads and light
snacks. Relax in the Writers Hub Courtyard with a cool IN PERSON
drink, coffee, ice cream or a bite to eat from one of the Octagon Theatre Fri 22 Feb 12pm–4pm PERFORMANCE LIMITATIONS AND BOOKING
CONDITIONS
food outlets. Amphitheatre Sat 23 & Sun 24 Feb 8.30am–6pm
All sessions are subject to change without notice.
Parking & Public Transport State Theatre Centre of WA Mon 18 – Fri 22 Feb
Ticket prices listed in this brochure show the range of Adult prices available.
10am–2pm & 2.30pm–5.30pm The actual price you’ll pay depends on whether you’re eligible for Friends
or student discounts.
For information about parking, visit uwa.edu.au and for Venue box offices open 45mins prior to events. Full
All sales are final. Full terms and conditions of sale are available at
transport timetables and information, visit details at perthfestival.com.au/bookings perthfestival.com.au/bookings
transperth.wa.gov.au
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