SYDNEY WRITERS’ FESTIVAL LIVE&LOCAL

Returning to southern Tasmania in 2022!

FRIDAY 20 MAY to SUNDAY 22 MAY 2022

Following a wonderful three-day program at Huonville Library in 2021, the Terror Australis Readers and Writers Festival (TARWF) is once again hosting one of Australia’s best-loved forums for literature, ideas and storytelling - the Sydney Writers' Festival.

This is an opportunity for Tasmanians to immerse themselves in three days of the Sydney Writers' Festival without leaving the state.

Streaming its headline events in Sydney direct to Huonville Library - a 30 minute drive from Hobart CBD - on Friday 20, Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 May, this year’s program features 12 panel sessions with:

Liane Moriarty, Christos Tsiolkas, Paige Clark, Sisonke Msimang, Art Spiegelman, Rebecca Solnit, Roanna Gonsalves, Caroline Overington, Sophie Black, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Omar Musa, Niki Savva, Evelyn Araluen, Hannah Marshall, Barrie Cassidy, Chris Masters, Fran Kelly, Kate McClymont, Melissa Lucashenko, Erik Jensen, Michelle de Kretser, Steve Toltz, Sarah Krasnostein, Susan Wyndham, Damon Galgut, Larissa Behrendt and a host of others.

Prepare to be engaged by conversations, debates and discussions, as the Festival brings the world’s finest authors to southern Tasmania in real time. As well as hearing new ideas from great thinkers, audiences have the opportunity to participate in Q&A sessions at each event, sending questions direct to the stage.

Join us and be part of Live & Local, streamed live by Sydney Writers’ Festival and delivered locally to southern Tasmania.

The Live & Local program is hosted in 2022 by the Terror Australis Readers and Writers Festival in partnership with Huonville Library of Libraries Tasmania.

The Panel Sessions

Please click here for more detailed session information.

Sessions will run for an hour.

There’ll be an opportunity to send questions live to the panels across all 12 sessions.

There are also breaks between the four daily sessions, giving us time for a post-session group discussion and to stretch our legs.

Friday 20 May

10 AM – Art Spiegelman

12 PM – Michelle de Kretser & Christos Tsiolkas

2 PM – Steve Toltz: Here Goes Nothing

4 PM – But Not Forgotten - Sarah Krasnostein & Melissa Lucashenko

Saturday 21 May

10 AM – Barrie Cassidy & Friends: Election 2022

12 PM – Sarah Winman, Still Life*

2 PM – Maxine Beneba Clarke & Omar Musa

4 PM – The Limits of Imagination

*Unfortunately, SWF has advised the planned Shaun Michallef session has been cancelled.

Sunday 22 May

10 AM – Rebecca Solnit: Orwell's Roses

12 PM – Where Angels Fear to Tread

2 PM – Liane Moriarty & Caroline Overington

4 PM – I Was Wrong

Please click here for more detailed session information.

Tickets

Thanks to the generosity of our partners at Huonville Library, in 2022 our SWF L&L sessions are free.

Seats must be reserved ahead of time. Click here to reserve your seats.

Please only choose sessions you will genuinely attend.

Please note attendees will be asked to adhere to library and festival COVID-19 safety protocols.

The Venue

Huonville Library, at 1 Skinner Drive Huonville, is a 30 minute drive from the Hobart CBD. There are multiple free car parks around the library; please observe all parking signs as required.

There is also a bus stop directly outside the library. This stop, Huonville, is a single bus ride from Hobart City Interchange.

The Apple and Pear Rooms are in the middle of the Huonville Library. Please sanitise your hands on entering the library and ask for directions.

There’s a private garden to the side of the library where you can enjoy a cuppa or perhaps lunch. While we can’t offer any catering, please feel free to bring a thermos, pack a picnic basket, or wander one street over to the cafes on Main St between sessions.

We ask that you do not open any containers of food while in the room, please, to allow for attendees with severe food allergies.

Seating and COVID-19 Safety

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, there are a maximum of 30 seats available per session.

Seating is spaced out according to social distancing requirements.

If you wish to sit near friends, please provide their names when you purchase tickets. We’ll do our best to seat your with each other.

Please note there will be strict COVID-19 safety procedures in place, including check-ins, providing your contact details, hand sanitising, social distancing and remaining at home if you feel unwell on the day.

Terror Australis Readers and Writers Festival would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which our festival is held, the Melukerdee People of the South East Nation, and pay our respects to Elders past and present.