NTWF 2025 - When Cops Are Criminals - Veronica Gorrie

Veronica Gorrie, editor of the anthology When Cops Are Criminals, shares accounts of police brutality and corruption from survivors and academics. What do testimonies of racism, homophobia, and institutionalised violence tell us about the structures that are meant to keep our communities safe? And …

NTWF 2025 - Queerstories

Vulnerable and fierce, hilarious and heartbreaking, Queerstories celebrates the culture and creativity of the LGBTQI+ community one true story at a time; unexpected tales of pride, prejudice, resilience and resistance. An institution around the country, Queerstories has played to crowds big and sma…

NTWF25 - Closer To The Subject - Daniel Browning

Cultural critic and media personality Daniel Browning has spent almost three decades as a journalist, radio broadcaster, critic and interviewer, with conversations with the likes of the late Archie Roach, Doris Pilkington, and Vernon Ah Kee. Join the winner of the 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Awa…

NTWF 2025 - Past Perfect

What myths about the past prevail? How does the past inform our present? And how do writers contextualise their work in time? In Sharlene Allsopp's essay Glitter and Guts the author butts up against the erasure of Aboriginal ANZACs, while Winnie Dunn's story Sissies and Bros time-travels to an adol…

NTWF 2025 - We Are The Stars - Gina Chick

Gina Chick knows how to be at home in the wild. The winner of the first Alone Australia describes how an unconventional childhood led to an extraordinary life in her memoir, We Are the Stars. A somatic dancer, bushcraft teacher, and nature lover who talks to lakes and platypuses, Gina Chick treats …

NTWF 2025 - Disrupting Literature

  Australian literature is being faced with interventions that challenge old ways of doing. Indigenous authors write back to mainstream publishing and archives, and create new forms inspired by old traditions. In a time when universities and arts organisations are being increasingly censored, spea…

NTWF 2025 - Oil and Water

Here in the NT, we are deeply dependent on groundwater to live. What is our relationship to water like? How are fossil fuel interests influencing the government's decisions on water protection? And what are traditional owners saying about these threats to our existence? Join storyteller and water j…

NTWF 2025 - Our Stories Heal Us

Writing can help us move through grief, pain and trauma - and can be a way to make sense of the past. Gina Chick's memoir We Are the Stars is a bold story of connection to nature and grief at the death of a child; Bebe Oliver's If This Is the End is a powerful poetry collection about queer identity…

NTWF 2025 - State Capture - Royce Kurmelovs

Join investigative journalist Royce Kurmelovs on a journey through Australia's toxic relationship with Big Oil. From the government's historical choice to ignore warnings of fossil fuel's devastating impacts, to activists standing up against powerful companies, this is an essential look at how the …

NTWF 2025 - Language Is Power

What does it mean to reclaim a language? In the UN International Decade of Indigenous Languages, determined leaders are revitalising and cultivating languages in their communities. Join Barada, Yiman, Gangulu and Gureng Gureng linguist Gari Tudor-Smith, co-author of Bina: First Nations Languages, O…