Seven local authors shortlisted for ACT Book of the Year
Seven books have been shortlisted for the 2026 ACT Book of the Year Award, it has been announced by ACT Arts Minister, Michael Pettersson, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Canberra Writers Festival
An emerging local author, Andra Putnis, has been appointed as the new artistic director of the Canberra Writers Festival for 2025, after the surprise departure of Beejay Silcox from the role.
The artistic director of Canberra Writers Festival, Beejay Silcox, is stepping down after two years at the helm.
As the Canberra Writers Festival opens with its extraordinary line-up of authors, few of them are quite so well known as Christos Tsiolkas, beloved, the festival tells us, "because of his provocations”. HELEN MUSA reports...
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Passion drives the writers’ festival leap to spring
In a dramatic leap from winter to spring, Canberra Writers Festival launches into its ninth year with an emphasis on passion, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
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Canberra Writers Festival goes Green
A creative producer and program co-ordinator at the National Film and Sound Archive is the new CEO of the Canberra Writers Festival.
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Expanding Writers Festival seeks a CEO
One of Canberra’s most successful seasonal festivals is undergoing a minor shake-up as it seeks to expand its footprint.
Beejay Silcox has been appointed artistic director of the August Canberra Writers Festival.
Canberra Writers’ Festival artistic director Jeanne Ryckmans is leaving the job, after having produced a “hybrid” festival in mid pandemic lockdown and a live festival in 2022.
The Canberra Writers’ Festival is just around the corner and artistic director Jeanne Ryckmans is ready to face it with aplomb, despite three horror years behind her, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
With an eclectic line up featuring everything from Jane and Jimmy Barnes’ cookbook to a Zoom conversation with Chilean writer Isabel Allende, the 2022 Canberra Writers Festival program was launched last night.
The Canberra Writers Festival, due to be staged from August 18-22, has been postponed until late October or early November.
Mary L Trump will be in live conversation at the National Press Club on Friday, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA in her daily arts roundup.
The Canberra Writers Festival has announced that literary agent, author and former publisher, Jeanne Ryckmans¸ will be its new artistic director.
Armed with its idiosyncratic triple-barrelled theme “Power.Politics.Passion”, the fourth Canberra Writers Festival opens today (August 21) with a host of literary celebs and political writers descending on the nation’s capital.
"POWER, Politics, Passion" is the triple-headed slogan of the Canberra Writers Festival, but it's a…
ANDREW Barr says a re-elected ACT Government will fund a program of grants to support…
ONE OF the heavy lifters at the 2016 Canberra Writers’ Festival, is Australian novelist Isobelle…
WHEN HE knew he’d be visiting Canberra, there was one thing on the mind of…
