Addi Road Writers Festival 2022 – The People
Here’s an A to Z of all the people appearing at Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2022. Poets, storytellers, journalists, memoirists, cartoonists and more.
Here’s an A to Z of all the people appearing at Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2022. Poets, storytellers, journalists, memoirists, cartoonists and more.

As surely as sunlight after months of rain, coming together at a community arts event is a tonic. Most especially with an election looming. Come join us Sat 14 May from 12 o’clock for a great day.
Last night Addi Road hosted almost 300 people to the film premiere of ‘Die. Or Die Trying. Escaping the Taliban.’ Full story and photos from the event here.
Another big day at Addi Road in Marrickville, preparing for the premiere of our documentary ’DIE. OR DIE TRYING. ESCAPING THE TALIBAN’.

Okay, okay, it’s still only a whisper and a rumour. But Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2022 is coming. Put down Saturday 14 May in your social diary and vote with your presence here in Marrickville.
Backyard table; golden leaves. Addi Road autumn in Marrickville. So much rain the wood of the old table is soaked right through. More than a moment’s silence can be found here. Our hearts and minds with friends in Lismore and all those flood-affected at this time.
Witness a community rallying together, taking care of its own problems in the absence of larger coordinated efforts. Small charities and civil society groups have been joining in, creating solutions when they are need most: today, right now.
International Women’s Day 2022. Theme: #BreaktheBias. How do we make a picture that tells this story? Simply by inviting those women nearest us on an ordinary day at Addi Road in Marrickville.
You can see here in the photo some of our Friday morning crew – from left to right: Louise, Laurie, Terry and Tanja – taking a well-earned coffee-break before things get busy with a coming delivery to the Addi Road Food Pantry…
It’s 2.37am and a message pings through on Addi Road’s Instagram feed. Someone is awake late into the night, and they want to communicate with us. We won’t see the message from the Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) Hospital in Camperdown till the following morning. “I am a midwife on the Postnatal floor,” it says….