Zena Cumpston is a Barkandji woman who works as a freelance writer, researcher, curator and storyteller. She is passionate about plants and the many ways they elucidate the ingenuity and deep knowledge of her people. Melbourne Writers Festival invited Cumpston to share the inspiration behind her latest work, Plants: Past, Present and Future – co-authored […]
Maxine Beneba Clarke is the author of over ten books, including the ABIA winning short fiction collection Foreign Soil, the memoir The Hate Race, and the poetry collections How Decent Folk Behave and Carrying the World. She is currently Poet in Residence at Melbourne University. Discover the events Maxine Beneba Clarke is most looking forward […]
Mark Rubbo, Managing Director of Readings, shares his top three picks of the Festival. Make sure you visit MWF’s official bookseller Readings for all your Festival reading needs! There’s much that I’d like to see at this year’s MWF and it all seems so good that it is not surprising that a lot of sessions […]
By The Stella Prize As part of this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival, Stella is delighted to present an in-conversation with the yet-to-be-announced winner of the 2023 Stella Prize (book via this link). However, there are many events across MWF’s exciting and ambitious program that the Stella team are looking forward to – these are just […]