Manly Writers' Festival

Manly Writers' Festival

The Manly Writers’ Festival returns 19–22 March 2026 with four days of writers, ideas and lively discussion across multiple venues — stories across Manly.

Workshops

Event Details

Category

Workshops

Event Starts

Mar 19, 2026 18:30

Event Ends

Mar 22, 2026 17:00

Add to Calendar 03/19/2026 12:00 AM 03/22/2026 12:00 AM Australia/Melbourne Manly Writers' Festival The Manly Writers’ Festival returns 19–22 March 2026 with four days of writers, ideas and lively discussion across multiple venues — stories across Manly.
 

Featuring leading, local, and emerging authors across fiction, non-fiction, politics, history, memoir, and poetry, the Festival offers a wide range of sessions designed to inform, challenge, and entertain. There is also a dedicated Schools Program.

 

Program highlights include the inaugural Thomas Keneally Oration, Beyond the Hot Flush: Rewriting Midlife with Michelle Bridges, the Manly Poetry Salon and an evening creative event, The Night Shift with Heather Morris, Candida Baker and Deborah Conway (amongst others), exploring human creativity vs AI.

Over the weekend, almost 90 writers, journalists, historians, storytellers, and musicians will explore how stories are created, how people endure, how power operates, and how individuals reimagine the world around them.

Ticket prices vary by session. Full program and bookings are available online.

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