
Thursday 19 March, 2026
6.30pm-9.00pm
EVENT
Thomas Keneally Oration
LOCATION
Manly Wharf Events (formerly Sake)
Friday 20 March, 2026
11.00am-12.00pm
EVENT
Workshop: Edit Like an Expert
LOCATION
Manly Youth Centre (The Writers' Room)
Friday 20 March, 2026
12.30-2.00pm
EVENT
Roundtable: Who Pays the Price? Gender and Institutional Power
LOCATION
Manly Life Saving Club
Friday 20 March, 2026
2.30-3.30pm
EVENT
Country and the Stories We Tell
LOCATION
Manly Life Saving Club
Friday 20 March, 2026
3.45-5.00pm
EVENT
A Speed Date with Love
LOCATION
Manly Life Saving Club
Friday 20 March, 2026
4.00-5.00pm
EVENT
Workshop: Building a Professional Name. Reputation and Resilience at Work
LOCATION
Manly Youth Centre (The Writers' Room)
Friday 20 March, 2026
4.00-5.00pm
EVENT
After 'Liberation' and 'Discovery': Power, Aftermath and Human Agency
LOCATION
Sky Theatre
Friday 20 March, 2026
5.15-6.00pm
EVENT
Money, Confidence and Choice
LOCATION
Manly Life Saving Club
Friday 20 March, 2026
5.30-6.15pm
EVENT
Lloyd Rees and the City He Taught Us to See
LOCATION
Manly Art Gallery
Friday 20 March, 2026
6.30-7.30pm
EVENT
Boys, Masculinity and the Online World
LOCATION
Manly Life Saving Club
Friday 20 March, 2026
6.45-7.30pm
EVENT
The Australian Wars: Truth, Violence and the Making of a Nation
LOCATION
Manly Art Gallery
Friday 20 March, 2026
7.30-9.00pm
EVENT
Festival Conversation and Book Launch: 'Betrayal'
LOCATION
Sky Theatre
Friday 20 March, 2026
7.45-9.00pm
EVENT
Democracy Under Pressure: A Civic Briefing
LOCATION
Manly Life Saving Club
Saturday 21 March, 2026
10.00-11.00am
EVENT
Ask Us Anything: From Manuscript to Bookstore—What Really Gets You Published
LOCATION
The Manly Club
Saturday 21 March, 2026
11.30-12.30pm
EVENT
Open Book: Becoming Yourself Under Pressure
LOCATION
Henry G's
Saturday 21 March, 2026
11.30-12.30pm
EVENT
The Nightmare Sequence: Art, Witnessing and Fracture
LOCATION
Qi Yoga Studio
Saturday 21 March, 2026
1.00-2.00pm
EVENT
Open Book: What the Writing Reveals
LOCATION
Henry G's
Saturday 21 March, 2026
1.00-2.00pm
EVENT
Frontlines: Conflict, Capture and the Human Cost of State Power
LOCATION
Manly Youth Centre
Saturday 21 March, 2026
1.00-2.00pm
EVENT
Land, Identity and Who Gets to Belong
LOCATION
Qi Yoga Studio
Saturday 21 March, 2026
2.30-3.30pm
EVENT
Workshop: From Page to Stage: Writing for the Theatre
LOCATION
Sky Theatre (The Studio)
Friday 20 March, 2026
2.30-3.30pm
EVENT
Workshop: Beyond the Postcard: Writing Place with Authority
LOCATION
Manly Youth Centre (The Writers' Room)
Saturday 21 March, 2026
2.30-3.30pm
EVENT
The Diplomat: Inside Australia’s Foreign Service
LOCATION
Manly Youth Centre
Saturday 21 March, 2026
2.30-3.30pm
EVENT
Inheritance, Survival and Belonging
LOCATION
Qi Yoga Studio
Saturday 21 March, 2026
4.00-5.00pm
EVENT
The World on Edge: Australia and the New Global Disorder
LOCATION
Manly Youth Centre
Saturday 21 March, 2026
4.00-5.00pm
EVENT
Open Book: Writing Lived Experience
LOCATION
Qi Yoga Studio
Saturday 21 March, 2026
5.30-6.15pm
EVENT
Bring Back Yesterday: In Conversation with Bob Carr
LOCATION
Manly Youth Centre
Sunday 22 March, 2026
8.30am-9.45am
EVENT
Beyond the Hot Flush: Rewriting Midlife with Michelle Bridges
LOCATION
Hotel Steyne
Sunday 22 March, 2026
10.00-11.00am
EVENT
Just Saying: In Conversation with Hugh Mackay
LOCATION
Manly Youth Centre
Sunday 22 March, 2026
11.30-12.30pm
EVENT
Ruptured Lives, Resilient Voices
LOCATION
Manly Youth Centre
Sunday 22 March, 2026
1.00-2.00pm
EVENT
In Conversation with Greg Sheridan
LOCATION
Manly Youth Centre
Sunday 22 March, 2026
1.00-2.00pm
EVENT
Lives That Don’t Follow the Script
LOCATION
Qi Yoga Studio
Sunday 22 March, 2026
1.00-2.00pm
EVENT
Age of Extremes: Spies, Lies and Power Games in the 21st Century
LOCATION
Henry G's
Sunday 22 March, 2026
2.30-3.30pm
EVENT
The Housing Crunch: What Drives Prices 101
LOCATION
Manly Youth Centre
Sunday 22 March, 2026
2.30-3.30pm
EVENT
History’s Long Shadow: Writing the Past
LOCATION
Qi Yoga Studio
Sunday 22 March, 2026
4.00-5.00pm
EVENT
Festival Conversation and Book Launch: Home, Forever
LOCATION
Manly Youth Centre
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.





