This year’s festival theme PULSE addresses what makes us human – and why it’s more important than ever.
The 2025 festival features a keynote from award-winning poet Evelyn Araluen. Evelyn is a Goorie and Koori poet, editor and researcher. She is co-editor of Overland magazine, and her debut poetry collection Dropbear won the 2022 Stella Prize.
Odyssey Lit Fest 2025 will also feature the following 4 x exciting discussion panels:
Nothing About us Without Us: an open discussion amongst editors, writers and disability advocates exploring the barriers to accessibility in Australian writing and publishing. Featuring writers Carly Findlay & Eli Sutherland. Moderated by Kate Larsen.
Getting to the Heart of the Matter: a discussion with memoirists Sian Prior and Janine Mikosza, unpacking the processes of recording their lives and asking why they do so. Moderated by Dani Baulch.
Publishing Through Censorship: exploring truth-telling and censorship within an increasingly fragmented ecosystem, and how this affects literature, journalism and our ideas of what it means to be human. With writers Osman Faruqi and publisher Aviva Tuffield. Moderated by Melissa Cranenburgh.
The Poetics of Place and Displacement: celebrating the power of spoken word and deep human connections created through performance poetry. Featuring writers Tony Birch and Thabani Tshuma. Moderated by Tim Loveday.
Odyssey Literary Festival will also launch Visible Ink‘s 2nd digital issue: Now and Then, alongside the 2025 Towards Publication anthology Where Light Falls.
Odyssey Literary Festival 2025: celebrating vulnerability, truth and connection through literature, and exploring what makes us human.
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