Digital

Digital

Digital events are the cornerstone of accessibility at the Festival. More than 100 in person events will be available to livestream, or watch on-demand during – and for a limited time after – the Festival. Ways to watch are listed in the main event listings.

On rare, and very special occasions, writers are joining us remotely as part of fully remote digital events and digital workshops.. See the individual event listings below for details.

 

Michael Ondaatje: Roots and Restlessness

Saturday 10 August 17:00 - 18:00

  • Watch online
If you know Michael Ondaatje’s beautiful, lyrical fiction, you won't be surprised to learn that over 50 years ago the Booker Prize-winner of The English Patient began his career as a poet. Today, in a special digital event, Ondaatje shares his first...
 

Polly Atkin: Interior Lives, Exterior Worlds

Thursday 15 August 16:00 - 17:00

  • Watch online
In this digital event, Polly Atkin speaks with Caro Clarke about the glorious strengths and limitations of the body, mind, and our natural world. In her latest book Some of Us Just Fall, a lyrical blend of memoir, nature writing and pathography, Atkin...
 

Eva Baltasar: A Mammoth Achievement

Monday 19 August 16:00 - 17:00

  • Watch online
In this digital event, Catalan poet and writer Eva Baltasar joins us to celebrate her latest work, Mammoth, the final in her internationally acclaimed trilogy that begun with Permafrost, followed by Boulder. Baltasar takes the world by its horns in...
 

Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Cut Up (Digital)

Wednesday 21 August 16:00 - 17:30

  • Attend in person
In ‘Cut Up’, a written text is cut up and rearranged to create something new. It’s no surprise the technique, allowing the creation of weird juxtapositions and surprising new meanings, was enjoyed by the Dadists, William S Burroughs, and more...
 

Gerald Murnane: Landscapes of the Mind

Friday 23 August 10:00 - 11:00

  • Watch online
Gerald Murnane is one of Australia’s great writers. His novels, short stories, poetry, and essays, uncompromisingly blur the boundaries of memory, imagination, fiction, and autobiography. In this online event, he is joined by Merve Emre to discuss...