Melbourne Writers' Festival

The Melbourne Writers’ Festival was created to raise awareness of the importance of the contribution of writers and their work to Australian society. Since 1986 it has fostered and encouraged interest in literature generally, especially amongst the young. It provides a meeting place for intellectual and cultural debate on a local, Australian and global scale.

Previous festivals have had published authors of the ilk of: E Annie Proulx, Ben Okri, Bill Bryson, Ruth Rendell, Xinran Xue, Joanna Trollope, Terry Jones, Melvyn Bragg, Ian Rankin, David Malouf, Kate Grenville, Les Murray, Drusilla Modjeska, Helen Garner, Germaine Greer, Clive James and Thomas Keneally to name only a few.

The focus of the festival is in the heart of Melbourne in Federation Square.