There will be hundreds of guests and events at the Brisbane and Sydney Writers Festivals. Photo by freestocks on Unsplash
Despite recent flooding and heavy rains in and around their ambit as well as ongoing COVID-safety issues, both Brisbane and Sydney Writers Festivals are prevailing and will return to celebrate storytelling in all its forms.
‘The impacts of the last couple of years have really impacted the slim infrastructure resources that the arts sector operates on and the resilience of our people – writers festivals have been as impacted as any live event format has. Planning events has tripled in workload because at any one time we were planning for at least three different scenarios.Â
Thuy On is the former Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian.
She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025).
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