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.
WELCOME
TO WRITERS WEEK
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 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 extraordinary knowledge of literature, his passion for the arts and his eclectic taste. As you explore the program you will see not only great international authors and Australian legends like Helen Garner, but also a roll call of Western Australian writers including Kim Scott, Tim Winton, Robert Drewe and Josephine Wilson celebrating the writing of this marvellous place we call home.
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 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?
CURATE YOUR OWN WRITERS EXPERIENCE
FAMILY FUN
BY TIME & DATE
Pages 2 – 6 feature grids containing numbered details of every Writers Week session, making planning or just browsing a breeze!
BY AUTHOR
I am sure you will feel as excited as I am about Perth Festival Writers Week 2018.
Finding your fave has never been easier. Page 7 contains a full alphabetical list of every Writers Week speaker alongside their session numbers for easy reference. Full details of the Writers Week program, including speaker biographies, available at perthfestival.com.au
WENDY MARTIN ARTISTIC DIRECTOR 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 its heart remains the ancient tradition of sharing stories with one another. So this year you’ll find the same in-depth conversations and panel discussions you’ve come to expect from one of Australia’s best-loved writers’ festivals. Most of them will start with a short reading – a kind of secular prayer, a ritual. There will even be entire sessions devoted to storytelling and poetry readings. What’s new is the invitation to embrace mystery and play; to explore different spaces and levels of intimacy; to see how other disciplines, such as architecture, can be a form of storytelling. To see language in a new light.
BY SUBJECT
Interested in Crime Fiction? Architecture? Fashion? Relationships? What are those weird letters next to each session number? Check out the back page for a key and you’ll see they’re there to help you find the session that’s just right for you.
BY VENUE
Remember those grids? On the left are the names of each venue, in coloured squares. The same colours correspond to the same venues represented by the maps and plans on pages 8 – 9. You’ll also find the numbers for every session held in a particular venue there too.
WILLIAM YEOMAN GUEST CURATOR: WRITERS WEEK
FEATURED EVENTS
Kids have always been welcome at Writers Week, but never more so than this year. We have heaps of fun sessions and activities for kids, and their mums and dads, running across the entire weekend. The new family lounge upstairs at The University Club of Western Australia features a library and an activities and storytelling area, while Paper Bird’s Kombi van on the lawn outside celebrates children’s literature and art. Across at the Octagon Theatre, popular author and illustrator Matt Ottley presents The Sound of Picture Books with members of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Artists Dhwani Shah and Ragini Siruguri have come all the way from India to help kids create a spectacular mural based on their amazing activities book, Twins. The Book Doctor and Curated by Kids are back too. But best of all is Story Land, a series of storytelling sessions in intimate venues featuring some of Australia’s best children’s authors and illustrators, like Gabrielle Wang, Deb Fitzpatrick, Yasmin Hamid, Tamara Moss, Sabrina Dudgeon, Cristy Burne and Josie Boyle.
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WHY LITERATURE MATTERS
MILES AHEAD
MAGGIE’S RECIPE FOR LIFE
DETOURS
Join Helen Garner & Kim Scott in conversation with William Yeoman as they discuss how we can write in this Australia and whether it is worth it.
Join Miles Franklin winners Josephine Wilson, Michelle de Kretser and Sofie Laguna as they discuss women, writing and winning over breakfast. With Gillian O’Shaughnessy.
Maggie Beer and Ralph Martins discuss eating to avoid Alzheimer’s with Barbara Horgan.
Musician Tim Rogers chats about his offbeat and immensely charming literary memoir with Danae Gibson.
Fri 23 Feb, 7pm | Octagon Theatre | $25 – $40
Sat 24 Feb, 9am | Uni Club Restaurant | $72 – $80
Presented in association with the Copyright Agency through the Cultural Fund
Sat 24 Feb, 9.30am | Banquet Hall | $13 – $15
Sun 25 Feb, 1.30pm | Banquet Hall | $13 – $15
THE SOUND OF PICTURE BOOKS – TREE
Sun 25 Feb, 11am & 12.15pm | Octagon Theatre FREE Author Danny Parker and illustrator/composer Matt Ottley join WASO’s string quintet and Yamaha’s Alf Demasi for an engaging family performance featuring spoken word, pictures, music, drama and more. Presented in association with The Literature Centre
WORDS & IMAGE: AN EVENING WITH MASTER STORYTELLER WILLIAM YANG Sun 25 Feb, 7pm | Octagon Theatre | $25 – $40
Join William Yang for a powerful, heart-rending performance in photography and spoken word as he explores encounters with men, a friend dying of AIDS, his relationship with his mother, his uncle’s murder and his Taoist life philosophy. Presented in association with The China Australia Writing Centre
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TEX: Tex Perkins is the guy Iggy Pop called ‘the realest dude out there’. With Gillian O’Shaughnessy.
DOCTORS’ WRITING CLUB: Louise Allan & Michelle Johnston on swapping medicine for manuscripts. With Meri Fatin.
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TAPE THIS!: A performance by YA spoken word artist Steven Camden aka Polar Bear.
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RETURN OF THE DINOSAURS: Bronwyn Houston on the dinosaurs that just might roam the Broome coastline today. With Heather Zubek.
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THE WATER BEARER: Tracy Ryan on fluency literally and metaphorically and why no word is an island. With Vivienne Glance.
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WRITING THE LAND: Di Morrissey, Charles Massy & David Ritter on environmental issues in writing. With Bron Sibree.
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IN LIGHT OF SHADOWS: Showcasing the Berndt Museum’s Asian Collection. With curator Sarah Ridhuan. Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, FREE
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DOROTHY HEWETT AWARD: Past winners Josephine Wilson & Odette Kelada meet the 2018 winner of this prestigious prize. With Terri-ann White. FREE
THE LIFE TO COME: Michelle de Kretser on her profoundly moving and wickedly funny new novel. With Annabel Smith.
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SWIMMING ON THE LAWN: Yasmin Hamid on the winds of change that threaten an idyllic Sudanese childhood. With Bron Sibree.
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TEX & TIM DO MORE THAN SING: Tex Perkins & Tim Rogers on the rock ’n’ roll life. With Simon Collins.
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WE ARE HERE – TALKING WITH AUSTRALIA’S OLDEST HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS: Fiona Harari discusses her book with Jane Cornes Maclean. 58
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THE TINY MUSEUMS: Carolyn Abbs on adulthood as a series of sometimes haunted negotiations between past and present. With Tineke Van der Eecken. PO
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THE ART OF FICTION: Sarah Winman, Robert Drewe & Chris Womersley on the art and craft of writing. With Michael White.
SECRETS BETWEEN FRIENDS: Fiona Palmer on the secrets that can make or break friendships. With Rashida Murphy.
POETRY LAND II: Poetry readings with David McCooey, Shevaun Cooley, Charlotte Guest, Renee Schipp & Ross Gibson.
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FEVER DREAM: Samanta Schweblin on maternal love, broken souls and the power and desperation of family. With Susan Midalia.
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PERFORMANCE ANXIETY: Rachel Khong, Robert Lukins & Laurie Steed on getting that first novel across the line. With Susan Midalia.
LEAN ON PETE ‘A knockout emotional triumph.’ Film Inquiry Showing nightly at UWA Somerville during Writers Week
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THE FREMANTLE PRESS ANTHOLOGY OF WA POETRY: John Kinsella & Tracy Ryan on the richness and diversity of Western Australian poetry. With Catherine Noske. PO
GLASSHOUSES: Stuart Barnes on the potency of poetry and borrowed word-worlds. With Vivienne Glance.
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AFTER THE WAR – RETURNED SOLDIERS AND THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL SCARS OF WORLD WAR I: Leigh Straw discusses his book with David Hough.
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THE ALARMING CONSERVATORY: Corey Wakeling on language and the spatial architectures of history and culture. With Philip Mead.
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SEEING SALTWATER COUNTRY: Venessa Cox & Albert Wiggan on the art and culture of the Dampier Peninsula. With Kelly Fliedner.
STORY LAND: Storytelling with Cristy Burne.
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THE INCORRIGIBLE OPTIMIST – A POLITICAL MEMOIR: Gareth Evans on life before, in and after politics. With Ben Martin.
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A TALE OF TEN PIANOS: Geoffrey Lancaster on historic pianos and authentic performance style in classical music. With Ros Appleby.
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HOW TO READ A DRESS: High Tea and a fashion show with Lydia Edwards on women’s clothes through history and their influence on today’s fashions. With Natasha Lester. $81 – $90 AR
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LIVING ARCHITECTURES: A screening of Bêka & Lemoine’s film Koolhaas Houselife, where the cleaner offers a unique look inside the Rem Koolhaas-designed Bordeaux House. $13 – $15
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LIVING ARCHITECTURES: A screening of Bêka & Lemoine’s film Barbicania, a series of daily snapshots of the residents of London’s Barbican Estate. $13 – $15
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FALSE CLAIMS OF COLONIAL THIEVES: Charmaine Papertalk Green & John Kinsella on the politics of poetry and the poetry of politics. With Tony Hughes-d’Aeth.
THE SPARSHOLT AFFAIR: Alan Hollinghurst discusses illicit love and its consequences over lunch. With Geordie Williamson. $108 – $120
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EVERYWHERE I LOOK: Helen Garner on finding the extraordinary in the ordinary. With Alice Nelson.
TRUE STORIES: William Yang on documenting Australian culture in words and pictures. With Helena Grehan.
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ON THE OUTSKIRTS: John Kinsella on Dante, Blake, the nature of poetics and the poetics of nature. With Tony Hughes-d’Aeth.
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GOODBYE VITAMIN: Rachel Khong on love, grief and losing it – memory, that is. With Danae Gibson.
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STORY LAND: Storytelling with Deb Fitzpatrick.
MILES AHEAD: Breakfast with Miles Franklin winners Josephine Wilson, Michelle de Kretser & Sofie Laguna as they talk women, writing and winning. With Gillian O’Shaughnessy. Presented in association
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STORYLAND: Catherine McKinnon on the interlinking narrative arcs piercing Australia’s past, present and future. With Sarah Schladow.
COLLATERAL DAMAGES: Fiona Harari & Leigh Straw on war and what survives in the survivors. With Rashida Murphy.
YOU BELONG HERE: Laurie Steed on a marriage that rocks to a marriage on the rocks. With Jane Cornes Maclean.
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ALL THE BURNING BRIDGES: Steve Bisley on the sequel to his acclaimed memoir Stillways. With Stella Glorie.
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SAGA LAND: Richard Fidler & Kári Gíslason on Icelandic myth and legend. With Gillian O’Shaughnessy.
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LATE STYLE: Alex Miller, Robert Dessaix & Liz Byrski on creativity in later life. With Geordie Williamson. Presented
THIS BOOK CHANGED MY LIFE: Gareth Evans, Josephine Wilson, Claire G. Coleman, Heather Rose & Curated by Kids guests talk faves with Adam Suckling. Presented
VIRTUAL REALITY – THE FACTS: Frame VR’s Stefan Szo demonstrates the latest VR technology and reveals its true power. FREE
THE EVERLASTING SUNDAY: Robert Lukins on his haunting debut novel about growing up, growing wild and what it takes to survive. With Sarah Schladow.
POETRY LAND I: Poetry readings with Charmaine Papertalk Green, Stuart Barnes, Caroline Abbs, Tineke Van der Eecken & Corey Wakeling. FA
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FREE TO LOVE, FREE TO LEARN: Manal al-Sharif, Tess Woods & Amal Awad on dangerous passions. With Rosemary Sayer.
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THE ART OF NAVIGATION: Rose Michael on magic, ghosts and the alchemy of history. With David Hough.
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DANCING WITH LANGUAGE: Anna Haebich, Heather Rose & Noëlle Janaczewska on language as ritual. With Sarah McNeill.
THE RÚIN: Dervla McTiernan’s troubled Irish detective and the 20-year case that comes back to haunt him. With Kate Beaufoy. RE
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TIN MAN: Sarah Winman on unlived lives and life not imitating art. With Barbara Horgan.
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MAMMA MIA, IT’S BOING BOING!: Cory Doctorow & Mia Freedman on blogging, business and everything in-between. With Emily Paull.
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BEAUTIFUL MESSY LOVE: Tess Woods on the perils of crossing the cultural divide to find the man of your dreams. With Monique Mulligan.
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VASILISA THE WISE & OTHER TALES OF BRAVE YOUNG WOMEN: Kate Forsyth & Lorena Carrington on feminism and fairy tales. With Meri Fatin.
THE SISTERS’ SONG: Louise Allan on sisterly love, thwarted dreams, music and motherhood. With Jane Cornes Maclean. 46
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THE PASSAGE OF LOVE: Alex Miller on intimate connections, youthful ambitions and the power of writing. With Caroline Baum. 28
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THE ART OF TRANSLATION: Samanta Schweblin, Nassim Soleimanpour & Robert Dessaix on linguistic slippage and serendipity. With Ara Jansen.
THE BEST OF ADAM SHARPE: Graeme Simsion on music trivia and love found and lost and found again. With David McCooey.
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MAGGIE’S RECIPE FOR LIFE: Maggie Beer & Ralph Martins on eating to avoid Alzheimer’s. With Barbara Horgan.
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POETRY INTO MUSIC: Katja Webb sings Aaron Copland’s Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson. With David McCooey & Ros Appleby. Callaway Auditorium, FREE
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A TERROR TO AUSTRALIA – BOYS WILD, COLONIAL AND CONTEMPORARY: A preview of Tim Winton’s powerful new novel. Octagon Theatre, $25 – $40 3
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THE SOUND OF PICTURE BOOKS: With Matt Ottley & WASO members. Octagon Theatre, FREE
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RUBIK: Elizabeth Tan on virtual lives and viral mortalities. With Jane Cornes Maclean.
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THE COAL TRUTH – THE FIGHT TO STOP ADANI, DEFEAT THE BIG POLLUTERS AND RECLAIM OUR DEMOCRACY: David Ritter discusses his book with Kathryn Shine. ME
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STAR STRUCK: David McCooey on life and death as play and a play between binary opposites and pop music poetics. With Vivienne Glance.
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THE PLEASURES OF LEISURE: Robert Dessaix on the serious business of doing nothing. With Monique Mulligan.
CALL OF THE REED WARBLER: Charles Massy on farming for the future. With Portland Jones.
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CRIME IS ANOTHER COUNTRY: Alan Carter, Dave Warner, Dervla McTiernan & Louise Penny on the role of place in crime fiction. With Ian Andrew.
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DUSTFALL: Michelle Johnston on her spectacular debut novel exploring the crushing consequences of a doctor’s single mistake. With Emily Paull.
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TIME LADIES: Catherine McKinnon & Rose Michael on temporal traversals and reversals in fiction. With Annabel Smith.
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THE EXAMINED LIFE: Caroline Baum, Steve Bisley & Sisonke Msimang on the art of memoir and making sense of the present through the past. With Tess Woods.
ALT-HISTORIES: Claire G Coleman & Cory Doctorow on patterns of power and resistance. With Cassie Lynch.
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TABOO: Kim Scott on confronting the past to create a future. With Geordie Williamson.
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A GALA FOR FAY ZWICKY: With Morgan Yasbincek, David McCooey, Amanda Joy, Charlotte Guest, Corey Wakeling, Dennis Haskell & Marcella Polain. Presented by Australian Poetry
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THE PARIS SEAMSTRESS: High Tea and a chat with Natasha Lester about the birth of prêt-à-porter in 1940s New York. With Lydia Edwards. $90/$81
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LIGHTHOUSE NOODLES: Cristy Burne & Deb Fitzpatrick on writing for younger readers. With AJ Betts.
LIVING ARCHITECTURES: A screening of Bêka & Lemoine’s film The Infinite Happiness, which looks at the 8 House outside Copenhagen recognised as the world’s best residential building. $13 – $15
CURATED BY KIDS TAKEOVER: The Curated by Kids team put Writers Week children’s authors in the hot seat.
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WORK STRIFE BALANCE: Mia Freedman on the price women pay for wanting it all. With Ben Martin.
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HOMING: Shevaun Cooley on what constitutes a home and how to find our way there. With Robert Wood.
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THE RED COAST: Di Morrissey discusses passion and resistance under the Kimberley’s blazing sun over lunch. With William Yeoman. $108 – $120 AN UNFINISHED EXPERIMENT IN LIVING: Geoffrey London, Julian Bolleter & Tim Ross on the rise and fall of Modernism in Australian domestic architecture. FREE
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WHIPBIRD: Robert Drewe on the ghosts that haunt an unusual family gathering. With Ray Glickman.
DANCING IN SHADOWS – HISTORIES OF NYUNGAR PERFORMANCE: Anna Haebich discusses her book with Cassie Lynch.
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BREE’S FOREST ADVENTURE: Miriam Lo & Emily-Rose Lochore on the wonders of the South West and working on their first illustrated book together.
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ALWAYS ANOTHER COUNTRY – A MEMOIR OF EXILE AND HOME: Sisonke Msimang discusses her book with Stella Glorie.
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THE MUSEUM OF MODERN LOVE: Heather Rose on life as performance and intimacy as risk. With Geordie Williamson.
THE CRIMINAL RE-REGISTER: Ross Gibson on the poetics of police dossiers and found photographs. With Vivienne Glance. 117
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NOBODY REAL: Steven Camden on the real problem with imaginary friends. With AJ Betts.
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DIRTY GIRL: Juliet Wills on one of the most notorious unsolved cases in WA’s history – the murder of brothel madam Shirley Finn. With David Whish-Wilson.
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SUDDENLY ONE SUMMER: Fleur McDonald on love, loss and unlikely connections of life on the land. With Tess Woods.
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BEYOND VEILED CLICHÉS – THE REAL LIVES OF ARAB WOMEN: Amal Awad discusses her book with Rafeif Ismail.
THE AUTHOR IS DEAD: Sara Foster, Elizabeth Tan & Robert Edeson on dangerous delusions in fact and fiction. With Annabel Smith.
MRS WHITE AND THE RED DESERT: Josie Boyle on the pros and cons of oral and written storytelling. With Cassie Lynch.
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ORNAMENT AS CRIME: AC Grayling & Alan Hollinghurst on aesthetics as transgression. With William Yeoman.
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TERRA NULLIUS: Claire G Coleman on Australia’s colonisation told slant. With Catherine Noske.
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ONLY: Caroline Baum on what it means to be the only child of damaged parents. With Charlotte Guest.
THE BOOK OF THISTLES: Noëlle Janaczewska on surprising essayistic encounters with a much-maligned weed. With Laurie Steed. CU
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DETOURS: Musician Tim Rogers discusses his offbeat and immensely charming literary memoir with Danae Gibson.
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TALL TALES AND TRUE-ISH: Kate Forsyth & Richard Fidler on mythology and the collective unconscious.
DRAWING SYBILLA: Odette Kelada on doodling at writers’ festivals and the challenges women writers face. With Sisonke Msimang.
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STORY LAND: Storytelling with Tamara Moss.
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THE BERNDT MUSEUM: Vanessa Russ on one of the world’s most important collections of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural material. With Kelly Fliedner.
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THE BEAST OF HUSHING WOOD: Gabrielle Wang on Ziggy Truegood’s battle to save her beloved Hushing Wood from dark forces. With Heather Zubek. CR
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CAN ART CHANGE THE WORLD?: Perth Festival artistic director Wendy Martin, London’s Southbank Centre artistic director Jude Kelly and Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour with Kirsti Melville.
DANCING HOME: Paul Collis on his exciting debut novel, described as ‘Koori noir’. With Susan Midalia.
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TWO STEPS FORWARD: Anne Buist & Graeme Simsion on alternating chapters in a romantic journey. With Gillian O’Shaughnessy. 80
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THE CHOKE: Sofie Laguna on a child who navigates an often dark and uncaring world of male power and violence. With Caroline Baum.
DEMOCRACY AND ITS CRISIS: Breakfast with AC Grayling as he discusses the challenges facing democracy today. $72 – $80
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HISTORY & THE POET: Join critic and author Robert Wood & Catherine Noske as they discuss Australian poetry now and its relationship to history, philosophy and politics.
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CLEAR TO THE HORIZON: Dave Warner on unsolved kidnappings in Claremont, with PI Snowy Lane set to solve an icy cold case. With Kathryn Shine.
BAD TO WORSE: Robert Edeson on drones, hieroglyphs and the possible triumph of good over evil. With Geraldine Mellet.
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DARING TO DRIVE – A SAUDI WOMAN’S AWAKENING: Manal al-Sharif discusses her book with Rosemary Sayer.
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THIS I WOULD KILL FOR: Anne Buist on how far parents will go to protect their children. With Ray Glickman.
$13 – $15
11AM
STORY LAND – MYTHS, LEGENDS & FAIRY TALES: Pull up a chair as Josie Boyle, Kate Forsyth, Lorena Carrington, Richard Fidler & Kári Gíslason tell some ripping yarns.
LINTANG AND THE FORBIDDEN ISLAND: Tamara Moss on a swashbuckling fantasy adventure with a kickarse heroine and a pirate queen to die for. With Glenn Swift.
SEMINAR 3 (L1)
10.45
THE WESTERLY CENTRE RANDOLPH STOW MEMORIAL LECTURE: Donna Mazza & Catherine Noske on Gothic undertones, romanticisation and lyricism in Randolph Stow’s writing.
104
CASE STUDY (L1)
69
LI
95
SEMINAR 1 (GRD)
10.30
DISHING IT OUT: Maggie Beer & Ralph Martins on why we’re all foodies at heart. With Sue Yeap.
INDIGENOUS SPECULATIVE AESTHETICS: Ambelin Kwaymullina, Claire G Coleman & Paul Collis on Indigenous specfic. With Elfie Shiosaki.
86
THEATRE AUDITORIUM
10.15
BEYOND THE RURAL ROMANCE: Rachael Johns, Fleur McDonald & Fiona Palmer on the joys of genre-skipping. With Ara Jansen. 77
AMPHITHEATRE
9.45
136
MU
AC
PERTH WORKS: A work in progress performance of Lost and Found’s Ned Kelly. Callaway Auditorium, FREE, registrations required
Life and death in nature. LAWRENCE WILSON ART GALLERY 10 FEB – 21 APR | FREE
TARA BOOKS: Mural activities 137
MU
HI
LI
FRAMING NED: Peter Goldsworthy & Thomas de Mallet Burgess on the making of a new Australian opera. With Ros Appleby. Callaway Auditorium, FREE
138
ME
SO
CU
WORDS & IMAGE: An evening with master storyteller William Yang.
Presented in association with The China Australia Writing Centre
Octagon Theatre, $25 – $40
5
OUT & ABOUT
19 – 23 FEB
GUEST SPEAKERS
REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED FOR ALL FREE SESSIONS. Visit perthfestival.com.au
A–C
139
STRANGE COMPANY 5 Nairn St, Fremantle
PO
CO
140
HE
ALZHEIMER’S, EATING & YOU: Professor Ralph Martins AO, leading Alzheimer’s researcher, and co-author of Recipe for Life talks to Barbara Horgan. 6.30 – 7.30 PM, FREE
FS
WED 21 FEB CO
RE
THE PARIS SEAMSTRESS: Natasha Lester previews her exciting new novel. With William Yeoman. 7 – 8PM, FREE 144
THE POETS SPEAK: Shevaun Cooley & Charlotte Guest talk poetry with Robert Wood. 6 – 7PM, FREE
147
CITY OF PERTH LIBRARY 573 Hay St, Perth
RE
THE HIDDEN HOURS: Sara Foster on secrets, lies and the death of an author. With Susan Midalia. 7 – 8PM, FREE 143
CENTRE FOR STORIES 100 Aberdeen St, Northbridge
CR
TUE 20 FEB
CO
HE
SO
FERVENT FLAVOURS: One of WA’s hottest chefs and owner of Fervor, Paul ‘Yoda’ Iskov, and his team serve up dishes based around native WA foods. Join us for an evening of canapés, wine and conversation with Paul & Caroline Wood. 6.30 – 9PM, $85 148
AR
HI
SO
STORIES IN STONE: East End Historic Precinct History Walk with architect Phil Griffiths. DOWN TO THE RIVER: Foreshore Walk with architect Julian Bolleter. 6.30 – 8PM, FREE, registrations required WALKING EVENT
141
RE
THU 22 FEB HE
142
THE GREATEST GIFT: Rachael Johns on one woman’s decision to help another’s ultimate dream come true. With Monique Mulligan. 12 – 1PM, FREE 145
CR
SO
AR
NORTHBRIDGE CRIME WALK: Join David Whish-Wilson for a walk on the dark side as he takes you to some of Northbridge’s most notorious crime scenes. 6 – 7.30PM, FREE WALKING EVENT
146
Be water curious.
See the full program online now. FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE 7 Feb – 23 Mar | FREE
ME
TR
149
CR
TR
MARLBOROUGH MAN: Alan Carter on crossing continents, past crimes and clear and present dangers. With Rosemary Sayer. 6.30 – 7.30PM, FREE
150
RE
TR
Sara Foster
Ian Andrew
94
142
Mia Freedman
Ros Appleby
42
66
Kate Forsyth
AR
OCTAGON THEATRE University of WA
139
Emily-Rose Lochore
55
117
Sarah Ridhuan
65
92
Geoffrey London
62
129
David Ritter
8
103
9
Robert Lukins
30
43
Tim Rogers
18
72
Sarah Winman
110
116
14
83
24
152 72
Stuart Barnes
39
45
Ross Gibson
52
109
Karí Gíslason
7
78
81
85
88
45
49
109
121
1
69
Ray Glickman
75
95
AJ Betts
91
101
Stella Glorie
16
100
Steve Bisley
16
85
Julian Bolleter
129
148
116
125
71
78 95
142
150
57
101
Peter Goldsworthy AC Grayling
15
91
Lorena Carrington
11
78
Alan Carter
94
149
77
93
52
48
81
84
143
Anna Haebich
12
110
Yasmin Hamid
50
Fiona Harari
40
Dennis Haskell Alan Hollinghurst Barbara Horgan
1
147
29
53
143
Bronwyn Houston
119
87
Michelle de Kretser
17
59
Robert Dessaix
2
6
112
Cory Doctorow
3
70
93
27
75
105
Matt Edgerton
58 108 28
Lydia Edwards
61
128
Gareth Evans
14
25
Meri Fatin
11
13
78
89
Ralph Martins
Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
33
1
Charles Massy
Heather Rose
137
80 147
8
120
52
66
84
121
Fleur McDonald
68
99
Catherine McKinnon
31
102
Sarah McNeill
12
28
Dervla McTiernan
38
94
Philip Mead
54
Geraldine Mellet
105
Kristi Melville
80
Rose Michael
29
Tim Ross
129
Vanessa Russ
114
43
Rosemary Sayer
139
Alex Miller
6
19
47
Di Morrissey
8
127
41
Tamara Moss
113
123
21
104
Renee Schipp Sarah Schladow
149
Stephen Scourfield
146
Dhwani Shah (Tara Books) Kathryn Shine
79
Elfie Shiosaki Bron Sibree
8
71
142
70
Nassim Soleimanpour
102
108
2
80
Matt Stanton
Michelle Johnston
13
111
Portland Jones
120
Amanda Joy
84
Odette Kelada
9
Jude Kelly Rachel Khong John Kinsella
33
23 36
Ambelin Kwaymullina Sofie Laguna
59
115 80 43 41 77 88
Gillian O’Shaughnessy 5
7
Matt Ottley
59
71
134
135
P–R Fiona Palmer
35
68
Charmaine Papertalk Green Danny Parker Emily Paull
3
33
39
134
135
105
111
99
32
138
Y–Z William Yang
William Yeoman 62
73
127
140
Heather Zubek
146
152
47
97
Laurie Steed
43
Leigh Straw
124
48
107
40
53
22
98
85
Annabel Smith 17
Stefan Szo
96
46
Ragini Siruguri (Tara Books)
113
86
143
150
Glenn Swift
Catherine Noske
118
Graeme Simsion 10
40
36
21
96
50
35
141
Robert Wood
144
77
14
68
Caroline Wood
87
103
Adam Suckling
Rachael Johns
27
152
141
90
Chris Womersley
67
76
112
Claire Nichols
Tim Winton
Kim Scott
46
68
27
84
Monique Mulligan
2
20
Morgan Yasbincek
144
Ara Jansen
90
26
Paul Iskov
24
59
2
115
Alice Nelson
14
Samanta Schweblin
100
107
Josephine Wilson
69
85
12
74
Sue Yeap
Sisonke Msimang
Noëlle Janaczewska
83
31
82
Rashida Murphy
76
Juliet Wills
52
Rafeif Ismail
J–L
60
30
102
106
49
6
Tess Woods
Susan Midalia 26
36
S–U
86
David McCooey 10
12
Tracy Ryan
92
69
Donna Mazza
84
20
25
Wendy Martin
51
73
118
51
Ben Martin
122
60
David Hough
Amanda Curtin
7
148
106
34
Richard Fidler
Phil Griffiths
93
Thomas de Mallet Burgess
126 32
77
Venessa Cox
Robert Edeson
73
61
M–O
Charlotte Guest
98 18
Cassie Lynch
137
Helena Grehan
52
6
Steven Camden
Natasha Lester
Vivienne Glance
38
Maggie Beer
Sabrina Dudgeon
WHY LITERATURE MATTERS: How can we write in this Australia and is it worth it? Helen Garner & Kim Scott in conversation with William Yeoman. 7 – 8PM, $25 – $40
84
23
Robert Drewe
CU
Marcella Polain
Danae Gibson
37
SO
117
Helen Garner
Jane Cornes Maclean
LI
55
82
Shevaun Cooley
152
Miriam Lo
21
Simon Collins
FI
11
28
D–F AC
Geordie Williamson
Amal Awad
14
24 HEURES SUR PLACE: A screening of Bêka & Lemoine’s film about the characters that move through Paris’ Place de la République is preceded by a walk-and-talk encounter with Linton & Kay and Holmes a Court’s new galleries. 6 – 9PM (Film screens 7.30pm at The Backlot Cinema) $13 – $15, registrations required WALKING EVENT
18
Geoffrey Lancaster
G–I
Claire G. Coleman
LI
5
3
104
Liz Byrski
A NOVEL RELATIONSHIP: Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist talk to Geraldine Mellet. 6.30 – 7.30PM, FREE
Tex Perkins
108
21
Cristy Burne
MU
140
89
Manal al-Sharif
Anne Buist
BIRD: Stephen Scourfield (spoken word) & William Yeoman (guitar) take you on a journey through rural England and WA’s wheatbelt in words, music and images. 6 – 7.30PM, FREE
128
78
37
Paul Collis
UK/WESTERN AUSTRALIA
LINTON & KAY West Perth, 11 Old Aberdeen Pl, West Perth
TR
Kris Williams (Book Doctor)
114
13
Josie Boyle
COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS: Anne Buist & Graeme Simsion on wedding words and lives. With Ian Andrew. 12 – 1PM, FREE
151
MUSEUM OF WATER
RE
FRI 23 FEB
94
34
Louise Allan
Kate Beaufoy
MON 19 FEB
4
Kelly Fliedner
44
Caroline Baum
VENUE
Louise Penny
101
39
19
Image courtesy Strange Company
62
56
Carolyn Abbs
Zoë Atkinson
42
Deb Fitzpatrick
Elizabeth Tan
108
119
Tineke Van der Eecken
39
44
54
84
Gabrielle Wang
28
97
Dave Warner
79
94
V–X Corey Wakeling
39
Katja Webb
66
David Whish-Wilson
74
145
Michael White
4
27
Terri-ann White
9
Albert Wiggan
34
* 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. 6
7
THE UNIVERSITY CLUB
GROUND FLOOR
HACKETT DRIVE
MATCH THE SESSION NUMBERS TO THE DAILY PLANNERS
THE UNIVERSITY CLUB
and map your experience at The University Club.
1ST FLOOR
ENTRANCE
WHEELCHAIR RAMP ACCESS
RECEPTION LOBBY STAIRS TO SEMINAR ROOMS
LOUNGE BAR
CLUB RESTAURANT
BANQUET HALL
CLUB CAFÉ
2
3
7
8
9
4
5
6
CLUB GALLERY
68
69
70
74
75
76
SATURDAY SESSIONS 59
SUNDAY SESSIONS
ENTRANCE
71
STAIRS
SEMINAR ROOM 3
SATURDAY SESSIONS 1
THE BOOK DOCTOR
60
61
SATURDAY SESSIONS
SUNDAY SESSIONS 72
73
126
127
128
11
12
13
15
16
17
18
14
SATURDAY SESSIONS
SUNDAY SESSIONS 77
78
79
80
82
83
84
85
81
BOX OFFICE
28
29
30
31
33
34
35
36
32
53
BALCONY
FAMILY LOUNGE
96
97
98
100
101
102
103
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
STAIRS
UPPER COLONNADE
LIFT
CASE STUDY
THEATRE AUDITORIUM
SUNDAY SESSIONS 95
113 121
99
TO CARPARK 3
19
20
26
27
21
22
23
24
25
90
91
92
SUNDAY SESSIONS
STAIRS
THE COURTYARD
49
52
SATURDAY SESSIONS
WHEELCHAIR RAMP ENTRANCE
FOOD TRUCKS
LOWER COLONNADE
SEMINAR ROOM 1
SATURDAY SESSIONS
BOOK SIGNING
BOFFINS BOOKSHOP
ENTRANCE
10
48
51
SUNDAY SESSIONS LIFT
TO OCTAGON & DOLPHIN THEATRES
47
54
STAIRS
AMPHITHEATRE
46 50
86
87
93
94
88
89
ENTER HERE FROM GROUND FLOOR
SATURDAY SESSIONS 37
38
39
40
42
43
44
45
41
SUNDAY SESSIONS 104
105
106
107
109
110
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108
SATURDAY SESSIONS 55
56
57
58
SUNDAY SESSIONS 122
123
124
125
PAPER BIRD KOMBI (FOR KIDS) MURAL 8
9
BITS TO KNOW
BOOKINGS ONLINE perthfestival.com.au PHONE 08 6488 5555 IN PERSON at our onsite Writers Week Box Office on event day REGISTRATIONS for all FREE Out & About sessions at perthfestival.com.au
BOFFINS BOOKSHOP
OPEN SAT & SUN, 8AM – 7PM Visit Boffins’ pop-up bookshop in The University Club to buy that must-have copy of the book you’ve been hearing about. Browse a range of titles from our guest authors amongst an eclectic selection of technical, practical, special interest, fiction and children’s books.
PERFORMANCE LIMITATIONS AND BOOKING CONDITIONS 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. 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
RELAX & ENJOY
Perth Festival is committed to making our events accessible. All Writers Week venues are wheelchair accessible. However, please note the Amphitheatre area is grassed.
Open all weekend, The University Club Café offers a range of drinks, hot 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 one of the food outlets.
These sessions will be Auslan sign interpreted. For specific details on venue accessibility please download our Access Guide from perthfestival.com.au/access
WRITERS WEEK BOX OFFICE DATE
AMPHITHEATRE
Fri
If you have any questions about accessibility or would like to discuss your requirements with us, please contact us on 08 6488 8616 or access@perthfestival.com.au
OCTAGON
6.15 – 7.15pm
Sat
8.30am – 6pm
6.15 – 7.15pm
Sun
8.30am – 6pm
6.15 – 7.15pm
PARKING & PUBLIC TRANSPORT
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For information about parking, visit uwa.edu.au and for transport timetables and information, visit transperth.wa.gov.au
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