Woollahra Writers’ Festival
Join some of Australia’s most exciting writers and thinkers Saturday 29 March and Sunday 30 March in conversation about a diverse range of topics, including literature, art and theatre, crime and espionage and taking on the patriarchy, all in the glorious surroundings of the Olsen Gallery at 63 Jersey Road Woollahra. To see our participant bios, click here.
Bookings essential.
The Woollahra Bookshop is bookseller to the Woollahra Writers’ Festival 
Sunday Program
10am:
WING
One of Australia’s leading writers, Nikki Gemmell, in conversation with Michaela Kalowski about her latest novel, Wing, literary thriller and feminist mystery. When a group of private schoolgirls goes missing on a school excursion all hell breaks loose. Powerful, compelling and provocative, Wing explores what it means to be a young woman today.
11am:
ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE
Join two of Australia’s most-beloved thespians, John Bell (Some Achieve Greatness) and Heather Mitchell (Everything and Nothing) in conversation with (former actor) Ailsa Piper about their lives on stage, and how the theatre has shaped their reading and writing lives.
12pm:
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Shankari Chandran won the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her blistering novel Chai Time in Cinnamon Gardens. In her latest novel, Unfinished Business, a respected local journalist is assassinated in broad daylight in postwar Sri Lanka. In conversation with Nicole Abadee she talks political intrigue, international skulduggery and the legacy of Sri Lanka’s brutal civil war.
1pm:
Lunch
2pm:
FOR LIFE
When writer Ailsa Piper suffered an unfathomable loss she turned to nature for solace. Here she talks with Michaela Kalowski about her memoir For Life – a profound exploration of grief, a hymn of praise to love and to life and a radiant beacon of hope.