{"id":43659,"date":"2014-07-21T10:24:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T00:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=43659"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:28:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T23:28:20","slug":"a-glimpse-at-this-years-melbourne-writers-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/a-glimpse-at-this-years-melbourne-writers-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"A Glimpse at this year&#8217;s Melbourne Writer&#8217;s Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"www.mwf.com.au\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43660\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/writers.jpg?w=468\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"97\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-43662\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/salman-rushdie1.jpg?w=133\" alt=\"Salman-Rushdie1\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" \/>Off the back of this year&#8217;s sellout Sydney Writer&#8217;s Festival, the 2014 installment of the Melbourne Writer&#8217;s Festival is set to become one of the biggest in recent memory with a cavalcade of extraordinary talents.<\/p>\n<p>Literary icons <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/salman-rushdie\/author370.html\" target=\"_blank\">Salman Rushdie<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/dave-eggers\/author922.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Eggers<\/a> will be joined by rising stars <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/we-need-new-names-elizabeth-z-tshele\/prod9780701188047.html\" target=\"_blank\">NoViolet Bulawayo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/tampa-alissa-nutting\/prod9780571303335.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alissa Nutting<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-free-willy-vlautin\/prod9780571300297.html\" target=\"_blank\">Willy Vlautin<\/a>, while everyone&#8217;s favourite astronaut <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/an-astronaut-s-guide-to-life-on-earth-chris-hadfield\/prod9781447257516.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Hadfield<\/a> will also be at the festival, hopefully taking requests.<\/p>\n<p>The local scene is also well represented with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/this-house-of-grief-helen-garner\/prod9781922079206.html\" target=\"_blank\">Helen Garner<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/burial-rites-hannah-kent\/prod9781742612829.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Kent<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/foreign-soil-maxine-beneba-clarke\/prod9780733632426.html\" target=\"_blank\">Maxine Beneba Clarke<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/search.ep?author=Sonya%20Hartnett\" target=\"_blank\">Sonya Hartnett<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/past-the-shallows-order-your-signed-copy--favel-parrett\/prod9780733630491.html\" target=\"_blank\">Favel Parrett<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/shy-sian-prior\/prod9781922182272.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sian Prior<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/murder-in-mississippi-john-safran\/prod9781926428468.html\" target=\"_blank\">John Safran<\/a> and many more lined up to talk about all things bookish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>For the full program and ticket details go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mwf.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.mwf.com.au<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off the back of this year&#8217;s sellout Sydney Writer&#8217;s Festival, the 2014 installment of the Melbourne Writer&#8217;s Festival is set to become one of the biggest in recent memory with a cavalcade of extraordinary talents. Literary icons Salman Rushdie and Dave Eggers will be joined by rising stars NoViolet Bulawayo, Alissa Nutting and Willy Vlautin, while everyone&#8217;s favourite astronaut Chris Hadfield will also be at the festival, hopefully taking requests. The local scene is also well represented with Helen Garner, Hannah Kent, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Sonya Hartnett, Favel Parrett, Sian Prior, John Safran and many more lined up to talk about all things bookish. For the full program and ticket details go to www.mwf.com.au.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3632],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56305,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43659\/revisions\/56305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}