Sydney Writers’ Festival 2020 – Non-Fiction Roundup

By now, I’m sure you’re all aware that the 2020 Sydney Writers’ Festival has been cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. As you can imagine, this is a devastating blow to Australia’s vibrant writing and reading landscape, as well as to the wider arts industry as a whole.

In honour of the Festival’s stellar lineup, we’re putting out a few posts compiling interviews and guest posts on our blog from some of the authors who would have been appearing, as well as reviews from our staff of their books. (We’ll also be reposting some of this content on our social media platforms.)

It’s a lesser substitute for what would have been a truly outstanding festival, but you can have a taste of what could have been and maybe derive some comfort from the words of these incredible authors.

Today’s post is a non-fiction roundup. Read on, enjoy and stay safe.

Top Stories & Fun Stuff

Jess Hill’s See What You Made Me Do has made the 2020 Stella Prize shortlist!

Vicki Laveau-Harvie wins the 2019 Stella Prize for her memoir, The Erratics.

Bruce Pascoe – 8 Books by Indigenous Authors for NAIDOC Week

Virginia Trioli, Generation F – Feminist Book Trivia!

Podcasts

Clare Bowditch

Julia Baird, Phosphorescence (limited signed copies available!) – podcast coming soon

Clare Bowditch, Your Own Kind of Girl – listen here

Annabel Crabb, Quarterly Essay: Men at Work – listen here

Georgie Dent, Breaking Badly – listen here

Adele Ferguson, Banking Bad – listen here

Richard Fidler, Saga Land (with Kári Gíslason) – listen here

Richard Glover, The Land Before Avocado – listen here

Benjamin Law, Growing Up Queer in Australia (editor) – listen here

Bri Lee, Beauty & Eggshell Skull – listen here

Rebekah Robertson, About A Girl – listen here

Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day – listen here

Virginia Trioli, Generation F – listen here

Stephanie Wood, Fake – listen here

Guest Blogs & Q&As

Leigh Sales

Clare Bowditch, author of Your Own Kind of Girl, answers our Ten Terrifying Questions!

Read a guest blog from Tanya Bretherton, author of The Killing Streets, on true crime and Sydney’s first serial killer.

Read a Q&A with Bri Lee, author of Beauty & Eggshell Skull.

Read a Q&A with Daniel Ziffer, author of A Wunch of Bankers!

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Reviews

Phosphorescence by Julia Baird – review here

The Erratics Vicki Laveau-Harvie – review here

Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales – review here

Fire Country by Victor Steffensen – review here

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo – review here

Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener – review here

More posts featuring content with authors from the 2020 Sydney Writers’ Festival lineup are coming soon!

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