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Sydney Writers' Festival at PHIVE
22nd - 24 May
Sydney Writers’ Festival brings together a broad and engaged community around the sharing of books, writing and ideas. Every Sydney Writer's Festival hosts brilliant storytellers across all forms in a thoughtful, challenging, riotous fun week-long celebration of writing, books and ideas.
Check out the Sydney Writer's Festival 2025 events happening at PHIVE.
A.C. Grayling: Discriminations
Join esteemed British philosopher A.C. Grayling for a talk on his new book exploring the history and present of cancel culture, Discriminations: Making Peace in the Culture Wars.
Wed 22nd May - 6pm
Story Time with Kirli Saunders
A beautiful session for children by award-winning artist and author Kirli Saunders, celebrating First Nations culture through art and words with her picture book Afloat.
Sat 24 May - 10am
Virginia Trioli: A Bit on the Side
Join journalist, broadcaster and author Virginia Trioli for an engaging conversation on her memoir A Bit on the Side, filled with all things that make life delicious.
Sat 24 May - 12pm
The Books of Everything
How do we make sense of an ever-changing world that often feels overwhelming, absurd and sometimes a bit too much?
Sat 24 May - 2pm
Growing Up Indian in Australia
Growing Up Indian in Australia brings together a diverse diaspora of storytellers whose experiences straddle the boundaries of Indian and Australian identities and who write of building something new in the middle.
Sat 24 May - 4pm
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Presented by Sydney Writers' Festival with support from PHIVE.
PHIVE sits on the lands and waters of the Burramattagal of the Dharug nation and we acknowledge Burramatta as significant place of ceremony, story and tradition. We pay our respects to Dharug Ancestors and Elders, past, present and future and extend our respect to all First Nations people joining this program and visiting PHIVE.
