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Sydney Writers' Festival is an annual literary festival held in Sydney. The festival's artistic director is Michaela McGuire.^[1]

History[edit]

The festival began in January 1997,^[2][3] with most events initially held at the State Library of New South Wales. The first independent Sydney Writers' Festival ran from 12 to 17 May 1998, with 169 participants appearing in venues in, and around, the centre of Sydney.

Since then, the Festival has rapidly expanded. The Festival moved from Walsh Bay to Carriageworks in May 2018 (Walsh Bay is undergoing a major refurbishment). Events were also held at venues stretching across Sydney, from the City Recital Hall and Sydney Town Hall in the city centre, into suburban Sydney and the Blue Mountains.

Held mid-to-late May each year, the Festival now involves over 400 participants and presents over 300 events in renovated piers at Walsh Bay. Other festival locations include Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney Town Hall, City Recital Hall, and Sydney Opera House. Events are also regularly held in regional and suburban locations including Parramatta, Ashfield, Auburn, Blacktown, Bankstown, Campbelltown, Hornsby, Penrith, the Blue Mountains and Wollongong.

Approximately one-third of all Sydney Writers' Festival events are free of charge. Festival attendances have reached over 90,000 each year since 2007.

Sydney Writers' Festival Limited is a not-for-profit company with an independent board of directors. The inaugural Chair of the Festival was Geraldine Doogue, who held the position for three years. Sandra Yates AO became Chair in late 2000, retiring on 31 December 2011. Deena Shiff was the Chair 1 January 2012 through to February 2018. Mark Scott was appointed chair in February 2018. The Festival Director in 1998 was John Nieuwenhuizen, with Meredith Curnow the Program Director. Meredith Curnow became Festival Director for the period 1999–2002. Caro Llewellyn was Artistic Director and Chief executive from 2003 to 2006. Wendy Were was Artistic Director and CEO for the three festivals, from 2007 to 2009. Chip Rolley became the Festival's Artistic Director in the middle of 2009, programming the 2010, 2011 and 2012 Festivals. Jemma Birrell was the Festival's Artistic Director for the four Festivals 2013–2016. In 2016, Michaela McGuire was appointed as the Festival's new Artistic Director. Ben Strout was the Festival's Executive Director from 2009 to 2014. Jo Dyer was the Executive Director from 2015; and was promoted to CEO in November 2016, when she also joined the Festival board of directors. Chrissy Sharp was appointed as the new CEO of Sydney Writers' Festival in 2018.^[4] The 2020 event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[5]

Past international guests[edit]

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Past guests have included:

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• 1999 – Alan Duff,^[6] and Peter Porter^[7]
• 2002 – Jodi Picoult,^[8]Lloyd Jones, Giles Milton and Neil Hanson^[9]
• 2003 – Antony Beevor, Jonathan Franzen, Catherine Millet, Janette Turner Hospital, Nicholas Shakespeare, and CK Stead^[10]
• 2004 – Alan Bennett, Alain de Botton, Hilary Mantel, Tim Krabbe, Susanna Moore, Jane Campion, Louis de Bernières, Salam Pax, John W. Dean, Harvey Pekar, Alexei Sayle, ZZ Packer, and David Sedaris^[11]
• 2005 – Lewis Lapham, Alan Hollinghurst, Deirdre Bair, Professor Harold Bloom, Tariq Ali, David Suzuki, Jared Diamond, Suad Amiry, Michael Winter, Colin McAdam and Miriam Toews^[12]
• 2006 – Naomi Wolf, Anna Politkovskaya, Michael Burleigh, Andy Borowitz, Susan Orlean, Aleksandar Hemon, Hendrik Hertzberg, Mark Danner, Haifa Zangana, John Banville, Edmund White, and Maya Angelou^[13]
• 2007 – Andrew O'Hagan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Bei Dao, Will Hutton, Antony Beevor, William Dalyrmple, Lionel Shriver, Richard Ford, Andrei Makine, Rachel Seiffert, Mohsin Hamid and Steven Hall^[14]
• 2008 – Jon Lee Anderson, Andrew J. Bacevich, Michael Pollan, John Gray, and Jeanette Winterson^[15]
• 2009 – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Alex Ross, and Kazuo Ishiguro^[16]
• 2010 – John Carey, Colm Tóibín, Lionel Shriver, Yiyun Li, John Ralston Saul, Bill McKibben, and Raj Patel^[17]
• 2011 – Ingrid Betancourt, Howard Jacobson, A. A. Gill, Anthony Bourdain, Téa Obreht, Izzeldin Abuelaish, Kei Miller, Kader Abdolah, Michael Cunningham, David Mitchell, AC Grayling, Michael Connelly, Gail Dines, and Daniel Altman
• 2012 – Hisham Matar, Jeffrey Eugenides, Dava Sobel^[18]
• 2013 – Molly Ringwald, Ruby Wax, Claire Messud^[19]
• 2014 – Irvine Welsh, Vince Gilligan, Alice Walker
• 2015 – Michael Connelly, Anthony Horowitz, Douglas Coupland, Norman Doidge, Alan Cumming, Atul Gawande, David Walliams, Michael Frayn, James Patterson (out of season event)
• 2016 – Gloria Steinem, Jonathan Franzen, Marlon James, Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Jeanette Winterson, Kate Tempest, Yanis Varoufakis, Hanya Yanagihara, Paul Muldoon, Yeonmi Park
• 2017 – Anne Enright, Henry Marsh, Ian Rankin, George Saunders, A. N. Wilson^[20]
• 2018 – André Aciman, Min Jin Lee, Alexis Okeowo, Masha Gessen, Jennifer Egan, Tayari Jones

Past local guests[edit]

• 1997 – Robert Dessaix,^[2]Andrew McGahan, Matthew Condon, Bernard Cohen, Christos Tsiolkas, Gillian Mears^[3]
• 2001 – Lee Tulloch^[21]
• 2002 – Geoffrey Atherden, Bernard Cohen^[9]
• 2003 – Sonya Hartnett, David Malouf, Danny Katz, Louis Nowra^[10]
• 2005 – Bob Carr and John Kinsella^[12]
• 2006 – Alex Miller, Robert Drewe, Kate Grenville, Les Murray, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Peter Singer, Tim Flannery, Gail Jones^[13]
• 2007 – Raimond Gaita^[14]
• 2008 – Mem Fox, Peter van Onselen, Michelle de Kretser, Gail Jones, Drusilla Modjeska^[15]
• 2009 – Elizabeth Farrelly
• 2010 – Peter Carey, Les Murray, Alex Miller, Ross Garnaut, Clive Hamilton^[17]
• 2011 – Suelette Dreyfus, Annette Shun Wah, David Hicks
• 2012 – Kathy Lette^[22]
• 2013 – Brendan Cowell,^[19]Elizabeth Farrelly, Claudia Karvan,
• 2014 – Christos Tsiolkas, Michelle de Kretser, Robert Dessaix
• 2015 – Richard Flanagan, Annabel Crabb, Leigh Sales, Helen Garner, David Malouf, Les Murray, Andy Griffiths, Julia Gillard
• 2016 – Elizabeth Harrower, Anna Funder, Magda Szubanski, Stan Grant, Kerry O'Brien, Bob Brown, Charlotte Wood
• 2017 – Julia Baird, Jimmy Barnes, Peter Corris, Clementine Ford, Liane Moriarty^[20]
• 2018 – Michelle de Kretser, Jane Harper, Helen Garner, Christos Tsiolkas, Julia Gillard

Closing address[edit]

• 2011 James Gleick 'Perish the thought'
• 2012 Dava Sobel
• 2013 Claire Messud^[19]
• 2014 Emma Donoghue
• 2015 Helen Macdonald
• 2016 Hanya Yanagihara
• 2017 Susan Faludi^[23]
• 2018 Jennifer Egan

Organisational structure[edit]

The Festival is organised by the artistic director Michaela McGuire, with the support of the CEO Chrissy Sharp, who both report to the Board of Sydney Writers' Festival. In 2018 the directors of the Festival are:^[24]

• Mark Scott (Chair)
• Nikki Christer
• Jo Dyer
• Amelia Lester
• Lena Nahlous
• Kathy Shand
• Su-Ming Wong

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Convery, Stephanie (10 December 2016). 'Michaela McGuire will be new artistic director of Sydney Writers' festival'. The Guardian. Guardian News and Media. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
2. ^ ^abDessaix, Robert (24 January 1997). 'After The Plague'. The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
3. ^ ^abTom, Emma (11 January 1997). 'The Best Young Australian Novelists 1997'. The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
4. ^'McGuire appointed SWF artistic director'. Books + Publishing. 10 November 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
5. ^Sydney Writers’ Festival cancelled for 2020Mumbrella 17 March 2020
6. ^'Alan Duff on Both Sides of the Moon'. Book Talk on Radio National. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 22 May 1999. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
7. ^'Program Summaries and Transcripts'. Books and Writing on Radio National. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 1999. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
8. ^'Events'. Festival News 2002. University of Technology Sydney. 2002. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
9. ^ ^ab'Program Summaries and Transcripts'. Books and Writing on Radio National. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2002. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
10. ^ ^ab'Highlights from Festival 2003'. Festival 2003. Sydney Writers' Festival. 2003. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
11. ^'Highlights from Festival 2004'. Festival 2004. Sydney Writers' Festival. 2004. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
12. ^ ^ab'Highlights from Festival 2005'. Festival 2005. Sydney Writers' Festival. 2005. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
13. ^ ^ab'Highlights from Festival 2006'. Festival 2006. Sydney Writers' Festival. 2006. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
14. ^ ^ab'Highlights from Festival 2007'. Festival 2007. Sydney Writers' Festival. 2007. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
15. ^ ^ab'Highlights from Festival 2008'. Festival 2008. Sydney Writers' Festival. 2008. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
16. ^'Highlights from Festival 2009'. Festival 2009. Sydney Writers' Festival. 2009. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
17. ^ ^ab'Highlights from Festival 2010'. Festival 2010. Sydney Writers' Festival. 2010. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
18. ^'Festival Nights'. Festival 2012. Sydney Writers' Festival. 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
19. ^ ^abcHaroldson, Peter. 'Sydney Writers' Festival 2013'. Sydney Life. Destination New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
20. ^ ^ab'Sydney Writers Festival 20–28 May 2017'(PDF). Sydney Writers Festival. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
21. ^'Program Summaries and Transcripts'. Books and Writing on Radio National. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2001. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
22. ^'Highlights'. Festival 2012. Sydney Writers' Festival. 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
23. ^'2017 Closing Address : Susan Faludi'. Sydney Writers Festival. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
24. ^'Board'. Sydney Writers Festival. Retrieved 27 February 2018.

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I'm an actress for film, television, and stage.

In 2018, I had the wonderful pleasure of transitioning in and out of multiple characters from an award-winning writer Lu Lu Jayadi to a Hmong refugee Mother among others in the world premier of new Australian comedy, 'Going Down.'

An Asian-Australian Sex and the City set in Melbourne. The story follows Natalie, a Hmong-Australian writer, who, through a career come down, goes on a journey of self-discovery, and finds her identity as both the daughter of a migrant and a modern Asian-Australian woman.

A Malthouse Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company co-production. The play is written by Michele Lee, and directed by Helpmann Award winning director Leticia Cáceres.

2017 saw the release of the film 'Australia Day', in which I starred in a leading role opposite Bryan Brown.

The film, set on Australia’s most controversial national holiday, interweaves the struggles of three Australians from diverse backgrounds, April Tucker, a 14-year-old Indigenous girl, Sami Ghaznavi, a 17-year-old Persian boy, and Lan Chang, a 19-year-old Chinese woman. Their colliding worlds illuminate the contemporary issues of racial tension and national identity that simmer beneath the surface of modern Australia.

Directed by Kriv Stenders. Produced by Hoodlum and Foxtel.

'Lady Bloodfight', was my first martial arts movie lead role, a US production shot in the bustling city of Hong Kong. I played the antagonist, a sexy, comic book style, street punk, bad-ass chick who ends up kung fu fighting in a secret underground tournament, known as the Kumite.

Rigorous training in martial arts took place months prior to shooting in Hong Kong, building our skills level to where we, the actors, were actually fighting and doing a lot of our own stunts!

Directed by Chris Nahon. Produced by Voltage Pictures.

2017 also saw the release of Golden Globe nominated TV series 'Top of the Lake: China Girl', in which I had the great honour to work with Academy Award winner Jane Campion.

Directed by Jane Campion, Ariel Kleiman. Produced by See-Saw Films.

I made my mainstage debut with the highly acclaimed Sydney Theatre Company's extravaganza 'Chimerica.' A term coined by historian Niall Ferguson and economist Moritz Schularick describing the symbiotic relationship between China and America. The play written by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood, made its national premiere on the Roslyn Packer Theatre stage to standing ovations and rave reviews.

Directed by Helpmann Award recipient and Sydney Theatre Company Artistic Director Kip Williams.

2017 also saw me working on the Sydney Theatre Award winning production of the Australian classic 'The Ham Funeral'. Written in 1948 by Australia's only Nobel prize award winning writer Patrick White, the story dealing with frivolity, excess and desire, centres around an impressionable young poet and his existential search for the meaning of life.

A Siren Theatre Co & Griffin Independent Production. Directed by Sydney Theatre Award winning director Kate Gaul.

In 2017 I learnt new skills as a puppeteer while travelling across 8 Chinese cities performing 'Erth's Dinosaur Zoo'. Usually to audience numbers well over 1000.

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An Erth Production. Directed by Scott Wright.

An original Foxtel TV series - 'Secret City', a political thriller led by Anna Torv and Jackie Weaver, dubbed as the Australian 'House of Cards' was released to rave reviews in 2016.

A Foxtel Production.

A Chinese comedy exploring relationships between sent-down youth during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, known by its Chinese title as《那年我对你的承诺》and in English as 'The Promise I Made to You', officially premiered at the Golden Rooster Chinese Film Festival, and was released theatrically across China in fall 2016. I had the joy of shooting this movie in the middle of winter, at -30 degrees Celcius heavy snow, in Northeastern China, bordering Russia.

Born in Shanghai, and raised in Sydney, I decided quite young to be an actress. In year 7 we all had to name the potential career for our future, most people were undecided, I stood up and said ‘actor’, that turned a lot of heads. Nobody in their right mind would choose that career, and there I was, a studious, nerdy little girl.

I made my stage debut at 16 in a Bertolt Brecht play and honed my craft at the Young Actors Studio. I received my Bachelor's Degree of Dramatic Arts in Acting from NIDA, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, a place where many successful creative forces have emerged and a few celebrities.

Whilst on exchange at the Peking University, Beijing, I got involved on the biggest blockbuster Chinese movie at the time, 'Dragon Blade', as assistant director and translator. The job took me on a journey from Beijing through to the Gobi Desert, working with Jackie Chan, John Cusack, Adrien Brody, Siwon Choi, the Chopstick Brothers and several other Asian celebrities. Working closely with the big name superstars taught me so much about acting first hand. For 7 months, more than 18 hours a day, and pretty much no breaks, the work was incredibly challenging. In China, anything goes!

I was also fortunate to work alongside Liu Xiao Qing (the Chinese Meryl Streep), and badminton world champion Bao Chun Lai, on a celebrity driven reality travel show called 'Deep Breathing in Australia'. Working on the TV show as actor as well as bi-lingual assistant director, allowed me to take reigns both in front and behind the camera.

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