Sydney Writers’ Festival 2008

Welcome to the 11th Sydney Writers’ Festival. The 2008 Festival promises to be as wide ranging, profound and enjoyable as ever, with its wealth of riches covering fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, scriptwriting, film, new media and much more.

The idea of vision underpins the 2008 program. Australia has a new government; the US is in an election year; the immediacy of climate change continues to be impressed upon us: these are just some of the events preoccupying us at this point in time. It is a time of setting targets and goals, of looking backwards to see where we have been as we envision what lies ahead. Future imaginings; utopian dreamings; dystopian visions; fear of annihilation and the drive towards conservation; reconciliation and indigenous politics; an altered sense of personal and civic responsibility; mobilising and political activism; hope and optimism all feature strongly in the sessions.

Many of the world’s greatest writers and thinkers will converge in Sydney in May; it is well worth closely studying the new enhanced website which now has extended biographies and session notes and lots of tips to help you to create your personal Festival schedule. The Sydney Writers’ Festival is on now & runs through to the 25th May 2008.

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