At the end of February, a spokesman for Ardern confirmed she and partner Clarke Gayford would be basing themselves in ...

The festival, which is set to celebrate its 40th anniversary, will welcome the former New Zealand prime minister as well as a number of decorated authors.

The former Samoan prime minister says chiefly titles are culturally significant and should not be given to foreign prime ...

He is one of the biggest-selling authors in the country, with more than 75,000 copies of his book sold since October, but you ...

The mayor of a rural community whose local pub hosted a book-burning ceremony for former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s ...

Melbourne Writers Festival returns for its 40th anniversary edition, bringing together more than 150 writers across the city this May.

One of Australia’s few Muslim federal parliamentarians has accused Labor of failing to confront rising Islamophobia in the ...

Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) today unveiled its program for 2026, its fortieth anniversary, with more than 150 artists appearing across the city in May. Under the theme Visions & Revisions, this ...

Grace Tame has not lost all her speaking gigs for the year, after all: she has just been announced as a guest of the Melbourne Writers Festival.

The academic was sensationally dumped from Adelaide Writers’ Week in January, sending the festival into meltdown. Her Sydney appearance has already sold out.

Meeting minutes obtained by Crikey show the Adelaide Festival board opted against disinviting Randa Abdel-Fattah before they received police and legal advice. They backflipped once the premier wrote ...