Lloyd Jones, David Sedaris, Helen Garner and Augusten Burroughs will be among the guests at this year's Melbourne Writers' Festival.
Lloyd Jones, David Sedaris, Helen Garner and Augusten Burroughs will be among the guests at this year's Melbourne Writers' Festival. The full program, which is due to be released on 18 July, will also feature French crime writer Xavier-Marie Bonnot and Canadian poet and novelist Gil Adamson. In another ‘sneak peek', festival director Rosemary Cameron has revealed the Poetry Idol competition will return this year and that the North Melbourne Institute of Technology is the MWF's new ‘Education Partner'. The MWF will be held from 22-31 August at Federation Square. For more information, go to the Festival website.
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