Past event

Sex Machines: Robots and Human Intimacy  /  Technology

With Kate Devlin and Vanessa Toholka

Past event

Wheeler Kids

Web and Mobile Design Workshop in Warrnambool  /  Visual art & design

With Sher Rill Ng

Past event

Wheeler Kids

Our Little Inventor: Illustration Workshop in Warrnambool  /  Children’s books

With Sher Rill Ng

Past event

Wheeler Kids

Our Little Inventor: Illustration Workshop in Melbourne  /  Children’s books

With Sher Rill Ng

Past event

Wheeler Kids

Our Little Inventor: Illustration Workshop in Melbourne  /  Children’s books

With Sher Rill Ng

Past event

Group Texts

Hit List: Australian Crime Writing  /  Crime & pulp

With Emma Viskic, Garry Disher, Sulari Gentill and 3 others

Past event

The Fifth Estate

Medicine and Healthcare in Australia  /  Health, medicine & psychology

With Sally Warhaft, Ranjana Srivastava , and Gustav Nossal

Past event

The Next Big Thing

Hot Desk Edition #1  /  New & emerging writers

With Stella Charls, Vanessa Giron, Yvette Holt and 6 others

Past event

Double Booked Club

Sreedhevi Iyer and Jamie Marina Lau  /  Fiction

With Jamie Marina Lau, Sumudu Samarawickrama, and Sreedhevi Iyer

Past event

The Next Big Thing

2019 Emerging Writers’ Festival Edition  /  New & emerging writers

With Sara Saleh, Shirley Le, Julie Keys and 1 other

Past event

Books and Ideas at Montalto

Andrea Goldsmith  /  Books, reading & writing

With Andrea Goldsmith and Elizabeth McCarthy

Past event

The Fifth Estate

Post-Election Wrap 2019  /  History, politics & current affairs

With Sally Warhaft and Paul Kelly

Past event

Right Time: Why We Need an Australian Charter of Human Rights  /  Human rights

With Lee Carnie, Gillian Triggs, Teela Reid and 1 other

Past event

Not Racist, But …

Racism and Health  /  Race & multiculturalism

With Santilla Chingaipe, Adele Murdolo, Lyn Morgain and 1 other

Past event

Creative Complex: Art, Legacy and Accountability  /  Performing arts & pop culture

With Ashleigh Wilson, Luke Carman, Shaad D'Souza and 1 other

Past event

National Agitators: Confronting Australian Theatre  /  Theatre

With Patricia Cornelius, Nicci Wilks, Susie Dee and 1 other

Past event

Double Booked Club

Melanie Cheng and Omar Sakr  /  Australian stories

With Khalid Warsame, Omar Sakr, and Melanie Cheng

Past event

Writing in Exile

Samah Sabawi  /  Identity

With Samah Sabawi and Sami Shah

Past event

Sobering Thoughts: Public Drunkenness Reform in Victoria  /  Social justice

With Nayuka Gorrie, Eddie Cubillo, Shahleena Musk and 1 other

Past event

The Fifth Estate

In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy  /  Faith, religion & spirituality

With Sally Warhaft and Frédéric Martel

Past event

Sisonke Msimang: The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela  /  Biography & memoir

With Sisonke Msimang and Areej Nur

Past event

Books and Ideas at Montalto

Meg and Tom Keneally  /  Books, reading & writing

With Meg Keneally, Thomas Keneally, and Elizabeth McCarthy

Past event

So What If …

AFL Can Cure Democracy?  /  Sport

With George Megalogenis and Akec Makur Chuot

Past event

So What If …

We Didn’t Gender Babies?  /  Sex & gender

With Son Vivienne, Bobuq Sayed, and Zac Collins-Widders

Past event

So What If …

Melbourne Was Underwater?  /  Energy, environment & climate

With David Sornig, Karen White, Erin O'Donnell and 1 other

Past event

So What If …

We Didn’t Have Prisons?  /  Social justice

With Robyn Oxley, Meriki Onus, and Debbie Kilroy

Past event

Emerging Writers’ Festival Programme Launch: The Awkward Stage  /  New & emerging writers

With Izzy Roberts-Orr, Aïsha Trambas, Vidya Rajan and 3 others

Past event

Mayhem

Kamila Shamsie: Home Fire  /  Fiction

With Kamila Shamsie and Sonia Nair

Past event

Mayhem

Mary Norris: From Comma Queen to Greek Geek  /  Words & language

With Mary Norris and Penny Modra

Past event

Welcome to Clown Town: A Drag Workshop  /  Performing arts & pop culture

With Anthony Hudson / Carla Rossi

Past event

Mayhem

Andrew Sean Greer: The Less We Know  /  Fiction

With Andrew Sean Greer and Benjamin Law

Past event

Mayhem

Shelf Life: Paul Holdengräber and Susan Orlean on Libraries  /  Books, reading & writing

With Paul Holdengräber, Susan Orlean, and Kate Torney

Past event

Mayhem

Paul Holdengräber: The Art of the Interview  /  Internet, journalism, media & publishing

With Paul Holdengräber and Sally Warhaft

Past event

Mayhem

Paula Saunders: The Distance Home  /  Fiction

With Paula Saunders and Michael Williams

Past event

Mayhem

Natives: In Conversation with Akala  /  Books, reading & writing

With Akala and Andy Butler

Past event

Mayhem

Susan Orlean: Stranger Than Non-fiction  /  Non-Fiction

With Susan Orlean and Sarah Krasnostein