Clockwise from top R. A C Grayling, Kate Grenville, Marian Keyes, Hannah Kent and Anita Heiss in the centre. Photos: Supplied.
Under the stewardship of new Director, Veronica Sullivan, Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) will welcome international luminaries such as Marian Keyes, Colm Tóibín, Colum McCann, A C Graying, and the most recent winner of the 2024 Booker Prize winner for Orbital, Samantha Harvey.
From 8-11 May, the annual event sees a host of authors converge for four days of discussion under the guiding theme of ‘Magical Thinking’.
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).
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