- 21st-23rd February 2025
- Friday 21st is in person in Melbourne CBD.
- Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd is online.
- Each of the two components is ticketed separately.
Our festival opens on Friday February 21st at 11.00am when our patron Hazel Edwards will launch the society’s forthcoming book Write On! charting the first fifty years of our history. Researched and written by a group of our members and including photographs from our archives, some of the writers will be present to tell us about their chapters with brief readings.
The launch takes place in the Jenny Florence Room at Ross House, 247-251 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000.
Tickets for the launch are $60.00 per person to include a copy of the book and light refreshments. Additional books may be ordered (to be collected at the launch) for the special price of $40.00 per book. See details for this event here.
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The next two days’ events are all online and include a short story writing workshop from Cate Kennedy, a writing history workshop from Dr Wendy J. Dunn, and exploring Ekphrastic poetry with poets Angela Costi and Anne M. Carson. Author talks include Vikki Petraitis, Kylie Orr and Trish Bolton. We also have sessions for writing from prompts and an Open Mic. The full programme may be found here and the hosts and presenters here. You may also want to print a copy of the program and presenters, you can do that here.
Tickets: $55.00 for SWWV members and $70.00 for non-members to cover the whole two days enabling you to join just the sessions that appeal to you or every single one. See the event details here.