ONLINE Word for Word Festival – Unconscious Bias & Cultural Respect in Non-Fiction Marsha Uppill and Sue Lawson Live 2.00pm-5.00pm AEDT Join First Nations cultural awareness educator and Director of Arranyinha, Marsha Uppill, and award-winning children’s and YA author of Freedom Ride and co-author of Nganga and the Our Place series, Sue Lawson, for an informative and enlightening journey of understanding that examines privilege, unconscious bias and cultural appropriation, and how to approach these issues in your writing. As Marsha…

ONLINE Word for Word Festival: The Mutant Project Australian Launched Live 11.15am-12.15am AEDT  As scientists elsewhere start to catch up with China’s vast genetic research program, gene editing is fueling an innovation economy that threatens to widen racial and economic inequality. In doing so, it’s also raising questions about science, health, social justice and what makes an ethical and fair society. Join American anthropologist and Deakin University Associate Professor Eben Kirksey live from the US for the exclusive Australian launch…

ONLINE Word for Word Festival: On Young Shoulders Live 12.30pm-1.30pm AEDT Catastrophe, grief, heartbreak and betrayal. These are the raw emotions laid bare by young memoirists Shannon Molloy and writer and Director of the Wollongong Writers Festival, Chloe Higgins. Molloy’s Fourteen is a deeply personal story of a gay kid that faces a terrible year of torment, and survives. Higgins’ The Girls is a memoir of family, grief and sexuality that begins with an unimaginable tragedy. While autobiographies reflect on…

ONLINE Word for Word Festival: Becoming Older Live 1.45pm-2.45pm AEDT As we are living longer, what is it that we expect from our later years? How can we help our elderly loved ones reach safe harbour at the end of their lives, happy and living the best life possible? Join Jean Kittson (We Need to Talk About Mum and Dad) and Robert Dessaix (The Time of Our Lives) for an in-depth discussion of the practical and the philosophical implications of…

ONLINE Word for Word Festival: Us and Them Australia’s Relationship with America Live 4.15pm-5.15pm AEDT  Australia has long been tied to the United States by shared values. Recent times have seen an undeniable shift in the relationship, both politically and culturally. As the US faces challenges to its dominance as a world superpower, it needs this alliance more than ever. Join us for this panel discussion with Australian Foreign Affairs editor Jonathan Pearlman, demographer Liz Allen (The Future of Us),…

ONLINE Word for Word Festival: Peter Cosgrove In Conversation Live 7.30pm-8.30pm AEDT General Sir Peter Cosgrove is one of Australia’s most significant public figures. In his new memoir, You Shouldn’t Have Joined… he gives incredible insight into the role and world of Australia’s Governor-General. He was there as two prime ministers were toppled by their own party. He was there through disasters both natural and man-made. He was there for world leaders, and for ordinary Australians. Remembered as much for…