The 2021 Sydney Writers’ Festival program has just been announced! This year’s theme, Within Reach, highlights the astonishing writers who are shaping Australian literature right now.

Don’t miss these fantastic Black Inc. authors:

• Lech Blaine (Car Crash) on writing grief
• Richard Cooke (On Robyn Davidson) on creating non-fiction
• Carly Findlay and Growing up Disabled in Australia contributors Alistair Baldwin, Fiona Murphy, Gayle Kennedy and Belinda Downes
• Stan Grant (On Thomas Keneally) on the Booker Prize–winning author
• Jess Hill (See What You Made Me Do) on the day’s headlines
• Kate Holden (The Winter Road) on writing tragedy
• Erik Jensen (I said the sea was folded) on the power of poetry
• Scott Ludlam (Full Circle) on political change
• David Marr (My Country) on leadership and larrikins
• Sean O’Beirne (A Couple of Things Before the End) debuts in the COVID Class of 2020
• Laura Tingle (QE80: The High Road) on larrikins
• Don Watson (Watsonia) on his writing life
• Linda Jaivin on The Shortest History of China

Tickets are on sale now. View the program.