Impressions of Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2022

by Sheila Ngoc Pham | Jun 3, 2022

Writers’ festivals are ephemeral by nature and difficult to capture the essence of, but this year we were lucky to have CuriousWorks film the day for us. The video they’ve cut together does manage to convey something of the congenial atmosphere. Given the...

Addi Road Writers Festival 2022 – Some Kind of Day

by Mark Mordue | May 19, 2022

Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2022 is over for another year. All that’s left to do is pack up a few chairs and clean Gumbramorra Hall and the Greek Theatre, although we did most of that last Saturday night as a full moon rose over us. It really was some kind of great...

The Art of Change

by Mark Mordue | May 17, 2022

Congratulations to Safdar Ahmed for winning both Book of the Year AND the Multicultural NSW Award at the NSW Premiers’ Literary Awards last night. Safdar was a very recent guest at our Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2022 this last weekend, teaming up with his...

Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2022 – The Program

by Addison Road Community Organisation | May 2, 2022

Program PDF download Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2022 returns on Saturday 14 May, back bigger and bolder this year. • 30+ writers, poets, journalists and artists across 12 panels • Short, sharp ‘hotspots’ of thought and energy from 10 solo speakers and...

Directors’ Statement for Addi Road Writers’ Festival 2022

by Mark Mordue | Apr 14, 2022

No one can escape the reality of how strange and difficult these times have been. War, Covid, climate change. And that persistent feeling our digital communications are polarising attitudes to everything from politics to telling a joke. Claustrophobia and oppression...