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Jumaana Abdu: Translations

2025 NSW Literary Awards 

Ailsa Piper: For Life

Monday 19 May

Candice Chung: Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You

Hayley Scrivenor: Girl Falling

Josh Bornstein: Working for the Brand

Tuesday 20 May 

Why We Swim

Trivia in The Library Bar

Christian White: The Ledge

Linda Jaivin: Bombard the Headquarters!

Jock Serong: Cherrywood

Wednesday 21 May

Rethinking Migration Histories: Australian Perspectives and Global Directions

The 25th Patrick White Playwrights Award

Jessie Tu: The Honeyeater

A.C. Grayling: Discriminations

Shankari Chandran: Unfinished Business

The Library That Made Me – LIVE

Dreaming Inside: First Nations Voices from Correctional Centres

Readers: Books and Conversations with Hannah Kent

Thursday 22 May

Jacqueline Maley: Lonely Mouth

Inga Simpson: The Thinning

Debra Oswald: One Hundred Years of Betty

Auburn Poets and Writers: Outside the Law

Friday 23 May

Comic Making Workshop with Kylie Howarth

Kirli Saunders: Afloat

Writing as Activism: Debra Dank and Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts

Virginia Trioli: A Bit on the Side

The Books of Everything

Growing Up Indian in Australia

Rebecca Huntley: Sassafras

Hidden Beginnings 

Saturday 24 May

Emily Maguire: Rapture

Dylin Hardcastle: A Language of Limbs

Portrait of a Collector

Samantha Harvey in conversation with Ashley Hay

Sunday 25 May

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