Two writers’ festivals reveal their 2024 programs

From politics to poetry, sports to sovereignty, Melbourne Writers Festival and Brisbane Writers Festival reveal their 2024 programs.
Speakers at Brisbane Writers Festival 2023. Photo: Markus Ravik. Five people sitting on stage with an animated projection behind them. The person in the centre is holding her hands up, with the man on the left gesturing towards her. The rest of the speakers are laughing.

Both the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) and Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) have released their full 2024 programming.

MWF runs from 6-12 May. In addition to the previously reported headliners including Michael Cunningham, Paul Murray and Leslie Jamison, MFW will welcome US author Ann Patchett (Tom Lake), Japanese writer Toshikazu Kawaguchi (Before the Coffee Gets Cold), Irish novelist Paul Lynch (Prophet Song), British philosopher A C Grayling (Who Owns the Moon?) and more.

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Celina Lei is an arts writer and editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne.