We’re rapt to unveil the lineup for our 2025 festival, featuring award-winning writers and household names and, for the first time, an international author.
The stellar Australian list includes Craig Silvey, Marcia Langton, Peter Greste, Bob Brown, Virginia Trioli, Alice Zaslavsky, Brian Nankervis and Melissa Leong, as well as 2025 Miles Franklin-winner Siang Lu and two previous Stella Prize-winners, poet Evelyn Araluen and novelist Heather Rose.
QLF will host its first-ever international guest in Egyptian-American journalist Omar El Akkad, who’ll be talking with Australian journalist Antoinette Lattouf about global flashpoints including Black Lives Matter and the genocide in Gaza.
Sports sessions include Geelong Cats champion Zach Tuohy and ABC broadcaster Catherine Murphy discussing their book The Way of the Irish, and ten-time World Title-winning Muay Thai fighter and boxer John Wayne Parr talking about his brutal, brilliant career and his memoir.
Mystery fans will enjoy sessions with Sydney author Jane Caro and local crime writers Mark Smith, Christine Keighery and Tanya Scott, and true crime lovers will relish a conversation about podcasting with veteran crime reporter Andrew Rule and ABC investigative journalist Rachael Brown, in which they’ll unpack our fascination with the mushroom murders.
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QLF 2025 is going to be a brilliant celebration of community and culture. Get your tickets now!
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we honour and pay our respects to elders past and present.
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