2024 Canberra Writers Festival
Get involved in an engaging program of Festival events being held at MoAD.
When
23 – 27 October
Join art-makers, big thinkers and storytellers for a variety of 2024 Canberra Writers Festival events. For the full program, visit Canberra Writers Festival.
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23 – OPENING NIGHT
6-7:30pm King's Hall: What if?
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FRIDAY OCTOBER 25
10-11am Members' Dining Rooms: Young Hawke
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10:30-11:30am Senate: Battlers, Billionaires and Banks
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11:30-12:30pm Members' Dining Rooms: Democracy on a Precipice
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12:00-1:00pm Senate: Myths and Misremembering
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1:00-2:00pm Members' Dining Rooms: Love and Homelands
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2:30-3:30pm Senate: Ghost Stories
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2.30-3.30pm Members' Dining Rooms: Shifting Sands
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Canberra Writers Festival Masterclass Series
9-11am Private Dining Room 1: Life Writing with Samah Sabawi
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9-11am Private Dining Room 2: The Words they Leave Behind: Using Ephemera to Inspire Stories, with Kaaron Warren
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1-3pm Private Dining Room 1: Ask Markus Zusak
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3-5pm Private Dining Room 2: Tackling True Crime with Mark Dapin
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SATURDAY OCTOBER 26
10-11am Senate: Black Witness
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10:30-11:30am House of Representatives: Being Peter Dutton
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12-1pm Senate: What would a real progressive agenda look like?
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12:30-1:30pm House of Representatives: The Democracy Trilogy
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2-3pm Senate: What would a real conservative agenda look like?
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2:30-3:30pm House of Representatives: The Voice, A Year On
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3:30-5:00pm Senate: Status Anxiety
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SUNDAY OCTOBER 27
10-11am Members' Dining Rooms: Book launch – Working for the Brand
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10:30-11:30am Senate: The Women Time Forgot (US Politics Series part one of three)
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10:30-11:30am House of Representatives: Anthropocene of the Crime
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12-1pm Members' Dining Rooms: The Men Who Killed the News
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12:30-1:30pm Senate: American Reckoning (US Politics Series part two of three)
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12:30-1:30pm House of Representatives: Back in the USSR
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2-3 pm Members' Dining Rooms: Mean Streak: Reckoning with Robodebt
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2:30-3:30pm House of Representatives: Lebanon Days
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2:30-3:30pm Senate: From ANZUS to AUKUS (US Politics Series part three of three)
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3.30-4.30pm Members' Dining Rooms: A Long March
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4-5pm Senate: Your Favourites, Louise Milligan
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4-5pm House of Representatives: Memories and Fables
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Plan your visit
Senate and House of Representatives: the entry level is wheelchair accessible. There are some small steps from the entry level down onto the floor of the chambers. Some areas are not accessible to wheelchair users.
The Members' Dining Rooms and Private Dining Rooms are wheelchair accessible.
There is seating available in each space.
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