WWF 2019 "Dicey Topics Live"

In this one-off live special of Dicey Topics BENJAMIN LAW gets CLEMENTINE FORD, STEPHANIE WOOD and JESS HILL to bare all about SEX, DEATH and RELIGION In Good Weekend magazine every Saturday, Benjamin Law interviews prominent people – artists, designers, businesspeople, actors, scientists, athlete…

WWF 2019 "On Shame"

FEATURING: Lee Kofman, Luke Carman, Stephanie Wood, Jess Hill, Gala Vanting Shame is one of the most pervasive and tough human emotions. How does shame reshape us? And how can we extricate ourselves from its abyss? Writers’ best works, though, often dwell in the caves of shame, and for them shame …

WWF 2019 "What Do We Want from Education?"

FEATURING: Jane Caro, Benjamin Law, Kirli Saunders, Gabbie Stroud, Rhiannon Hall This panel ask the question: what do we want from education? Do we want our children to master basic skills, or do we want our children to be critical thinkers? Do we want our children to be curious and creative? Do w…

WWF 2019 "The White Girl"

TONY BIRCH talks to LUKE CARMAN about his Miles Franklin shortlisted book "THE WHITE GIRL"  In The White Girl, Miles-Franklin-shortlisted author Tony Birch shines a spotlight on the 1960s and the devastating government policy of taking Indigenous children from their families. Odette Brown has liv…

WWF 2019 "Losing the Plot"

This panel explores how mental health informs the writing process (and vice versa), the lived experience in first person memoir and poetry, and the power of reclaiming language from institutions. Quinn Eades, Helena Fox and Sam Twyford-Moore join David Stavanger to discuss their work and the fine l…

WWF 2019 "Sex is Weird for Everyone"

It’s not just you. We’re all feeling it. The strange materiality of bodies, our ever-unfolding understanding of the psycho-physiology ofour fantasies, traumas, attachments and our intimate windows into the lives of others in a culture of oversharing. Let’s explorethe weird, wonderful and wrong of i…

Scone 2020 "Ethics in an Age of Doubt"

You don’t have to look far today to find ethical failures causing widespread social disruption: fake news, the growing power of tech companies, dishonest political campaigning, child sex abuse scandals and cover ups within religious institutions and the rise of alt-right agitators giving new licens…

WWF 2019 "Navigating Inherited Christianity"

When you're born into a religious family, how do you navigate your inherited ideas about God and build an identity that makes sense to you? At this event, author a former Christian pastor and PhD student examining the experiences of LGBTQ+ people in the evangelical church in Australia, a multi-aw…

WWF 2019 "First Nations Writers- Speaking Truth"

Join celebrated First Nations Writers as theydiscuss the importance of speaking their truth to honour identity, culture, language and country in our literary landscape and broader society. FEATURING: KIRLI SAUNDERS, TONY BIRCH AND ALISON WHITTAKER SHOWNOTES: Writes4Festivalshttp://www.writes4women.…

WWF 2019 "Gendered Violence, Media and the Law"

How do we turn social progress into legal change, and which really comes first? How much power do we have as individuals? Let's get beyond the echo-chamber and into constructive ideas. FEATURING: CLEMENTINE FORD, GALA VANTING AND JESS HILL SHOWNOTES: Writes4Festivalshttp://www.writes4women.com/writ…