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UNSW x Sydney Writers' Festival 2024

In 2024 Sydney Writer' Festival returned with a massive program featuring over 250 local and international speakers, including over 15 UNSW academics and researchers.

If you missed this years' Festival, or just want to relive your favourite sessions, check out podcasts (and transcripts) of sessions on creativity, curiosity and where we're headed next below.

UNSW Sydney is the exclusive university sponsor and proud Premier Partner of the Sydney Writers’ Festival.

Articles

Refuge: Viet Thanh Nguyen & Shankari Chandran 

Go beyond the media reports with dramatic tales of refugee escape and their aftermath with Pulitzer Prize Viet Thanh Nguyen and Miles Franklin-winner Shankari Chandran.

Literary Legends

Dive into the fabled lives, vexed friendships and lost stories of some of Australia's greatest writers Charmian Clift, Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower with the scribes who are salvaging their ...

Richard Holden on Money in the 21st Century

Modern money is mobile. Money is on our phones more often than it's in our pockets. It's decentralised and its fast. But you know what it isn't? Anonymous. ⁠ ⁠ Join economist ...

Australia's Place in the World

Two of Australia’s most interesting foreign policy thinkers take a fresh look at Australia’s place in the world and come to some surprising conclusions.

Abraham Verghese: The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese and Roanna Gonsalves discuss The Covenant of Water, an epic family saga of love, faith and life in South India.

Joel Pearson on Intuition

Learn how to trust your gut, supported by trailblazing research.

Great Debate: Artificial Intelligence is Better Than the Real Thing

Decide humankind's fate in the battle of man vs. machine.

Writing Letters with Brigitta Olubas and Susan Wyndham

Biographer Brigitta Olubas and journalist Susan Wyndham have edited a collection of the letters of eminent novelists Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower.