Context Writers Festival

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12 & 13 April

Context Writers Festival is a free, two-day festival for writers to connect and share new conversations about story, agency, and truth, held on Kaurna Yerta (Adelaide), from 12–13 April. 

Presented in partnership by Writers SA and City of Adelaide.

Fri November 20, 2026

Open discussion forum and a performative gathering. Take a seat and become a guest for a while.


Sat November 21, 2026

Indulge in a slow morning of readings and a Vietnamese-style breakfast with the curators.


Sat November 21, 2026

A panel discussion about young people leading the charge for resistance and change in a volatile political and cultural landscape.


Sat November 21, 2026

How do we channel our authentic voice when our authenticity is othered? Join this dynamic and engaging surrounding writing from the margins and breaking through barriers from some of Australia's most electric voices.


Sat November 21, 2026

In this panel, explore how POC writers can use writing to build fantastical worlds that feel expansive of culture and explorative of identity.


Sat November 21, 2026

How do we create and express ourselves freely under the threat of late-stage capitalism and surveillance?


Sat November 21, 2026

Calling all emerging writers (aged 18 to 26) to submit to this exclusive opportunity for a round of industry speed dating.


Sun November 22, 2026

A conversation by K. A. Ren Wyld and Natalie Harkin about Harkin’s new book Apron-Sorrow / Sovereign-Tea and Ren Wyld’s Southerly Essay Serve the Tea Blak.


Sun November 22, 2026

Enjoy readings and a panel by incredible emerging Aboriginal voices within the Australian writing space.


Sun November 22, 2026

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories are not only written and this is panel that shows it.


Sun November 22, 2026

A panel of Children, Young Adult and Adult Fiction Aboriginal authors who write for both this and the next generation.


An initiative of the City of Adelaide delivered in partnership by Writers SA

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