Top Ten Picks: Melbourne Writers Festival

With more than 500 international and local authors, scriptwriters, bloggers and thinkers, punters need help trawling the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) program. Here are our picks for arts-lovers, storytelling enthusiasts and creative professionals.
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Art by Mana Morimoto

Writers festivals are not just for the inner city set. This year the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) is​ ​championing the message that ​the festival is for everyone. A third of events are free and the program utilises venues in Eltham, Frankston, Nunawading and regional Victoria as well as the CBD.

‘We have spent a lot of time this year thinking about how people perceive writers’ festivals. We’ve known for a very long time that there are events for all sorts of people within the festival, but we don’t necessarily know that Greater Melbourne knows that,’ said MWF Director, Lisa Dempster.

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Madeleine Dore
About the Author
Madeleine Dore is a freelance writer and founder of Extraordinary Routines, an interview project exploring the intersection between creativity and imperfection. She is the previous Deputy Editor at ArtsHub. Follow her on Twitter at @RoutineCurator