What’s On Live

Youth Curator Hope Lee discusses the state of the YA community with with some of the most active members of the Australian YA community including Alison Elzayed and Rebecca Tinoco from the YA Chronicles, blogger Sofia Casanova and booktuber Cat Feeney.

Hosted by Will Kostakis and Gabrielle Tozer, TeenCon 2019 offers the inside scoop on the most exciting YA releases direct from publishers, along with book giveaways, impromptu competitions and audience participation.

Dhonielle Clayton, Jax Jacki Brown and Jenna Guillaume speak with Jordi Kerr about the enduring myth of the perfect body, how they’ve written inclusive stories for young adults, and the #OwnVoices movement.

Authors share heartfelt and humorous love letters to fandoms they have been a part of. Host Maria Lewis is joined by Dhonielle Clayton, Mackenzi Lee, Jenna Guillaume, Alison Evans, Michael Earp and Ambelin Kwaymullina.

Speculative fiction authors Claire G. Coleman, Neal Shusterman and Lili Wilkinson join SWF Youth Curator Rameen Hayat to talk about writing dystopias when real environmental catastrophe looms.

Join some of Australia’s most exciting LGBTIQA+ authors for the exclusive launch of Kindred, a groundbreaking collection of 12 short stories for young adults.

Peter Polites meets debut novelist Jordy Rosenberg to discuss Confessions of the Fox, described by The New York Times as a “joyous mash-up of literary genres shot through with queer theory and awash in sex, crime and revolution”.

D'Arrietta and band celebrate the late, legendary Leonard Cohen. Arresting & imaginative musical arrangements are punctuated by poems, with stories of Cohen's life and the motivations behind the songs.

Featuring Circa’s dexterous daredevil artists and a live accordionist, this illuminating production reinvents Mozart’s renowned compositions, lifting them off the page under the eccentric swirl of the conductor’s baton.