2024 Sydney Writers Festival: Live & Local

Next date: Thursday, 23 May 2024 | 12:00 AM to Sunday, 26 May 2024 | 11:59 PM

Join us for Live & Local 2024, streamed live by Sydney Writers’ Festival and delivered locally at Harry Bailey Memorial Library, Yarrila Place. 

After the wild success of Live & Local in 2023, Sydney Writers’ Festival’s 2024 live-stream event brings the best of the Festival direct to at Harry Bailey Memorial Library, Yarrila Place.  

One of Australia’s most loved forums for literature, ideas and storytelling, Sydney Writers’ Festival will live-stream its headline events from Sydney to Harry Bailey Memorial Library on Thursday 23, Friday 24, Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 May.  

Be invigorated and engaged by conversations, debates and discussions featuring some of the world’s finest writers and thinkers. Audiences can also participate in live Q&A sessions at each event, sending questions straight to the Sydney stage. 

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Program Schedule: 

THURSDAY 23 MAY 

Julia Baird: Bright Shining (this session has Auslan interpretation)

10am | Harry Bailey Memorial Library, Yarrila Place 

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Suzie Miller: Prima Facie 

2pm | Harry Bailey Memorial Library, Yarrila Place 

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Julian Border: I Seek a Kind Person 

4pm | Harry Bailey Memorial Library, Yarrila Place 

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FRIDAY 24 MAY 

A.C Grayling: The Meaning of Life in a Technological Age 

10am | Harry Bailey Memorial Library, Yarrila Place 

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The War on Journalists 

12pm | Harry Bailey Memorial Library, Yarrila Place 

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Abdulrazak Gurnah: Afterlives 

2pm | Harry Bailey Memorial Library, Yarrila Place 

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Feminist Firebrands 

4pm | Harry Bailey Memorial Library, Yarrila Place 

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5KM From the Frontline 

6pm | Harry Bailey Memorial Library, Yarrila Place 

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Queerstories (this session has Auslan interpretation)

7.30pm | Harry Bailey Memorial Library, Yarrila Place 

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SATURDAY 25 MAY 

Celeste Ng: Our Missing Hearts 

10am | Harry Bailey Memorial Library, Yarrila Place 

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Trent Dalton: From Eli to Lola (this session has Auslan interpretation)

12pm | Harry Bailey Memorial Library, Yarrila Place 

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Storytellers: Leigh Sales and Lisa Millar 

2pm | Harry Bailey Memorial Library, Yarrila Place 

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Katy Hessel: The Story of Art without Men

4pm | Harry Bailey Memorial Library, Yarrila Place

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SUNDAY 26 MAY 

Barrie Cassidy and Friends: State of the Nation (this session has Auslan interpretation)

10am | Harry Bailey Memorial Library, Yarrila Place

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Play like a Girl

11.30am | Harry Bailey Memorial Library, Yarrila Place 

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David Wengrow: The Dawn of Everything 

1.30pm | Harry Bailey Memorial Library, Yarrila Place 

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Harry Bailey Memorial Library, 27 Gordon Street, Coffs Harbour, 2450, View Map