Highlights of Sydney Writers’ Festival 2025 program

'In This Together' is the apt theme of this year's SWF as local and international authors gather to discuss and provoke.
A man and a woman's partial faces can be seen through a tower of books.

The Sydney Writers’ Festival (19-25 May) has just released some early teasers to its program, under the theme ‘In This Together’. This year’s program meets at the intersections of human interactions and societal challenges like climate change, cultural identity and political conflict.

The key focus areas for 2025 include:

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Thuy On is the 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). Threads: @thuy_on123 Instagram: poemsbythuy