A festival that says there’s more to love

This year's Melbourne Writers Festival is all loved up so we picked nine events that reveal the heart's diversity with just a little lust.
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This year’s MWF is talking about love in many forms. Image by Jamie Street, Unsplash.

This year, Artistic Director Marieke Hardy expansively declared that the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), opening on Friday, is ‘when we talk about love’. Luckily, as the movies say, love is a many splendoured thing, and MWF sees love as the very broadest of churches including one where you can marry your friends and declare a love for Country.

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Alison Croggon
About the Author
Alison Croggon is an award-winning novelist, poet, theatre writer and critic. She has 30 years experience reviewing performance for outlets such as The Australian, the ABC and The Monthly and generated an international reputation as a performance critic with her influential blog Theatre Notes. In 2009 she was the first online critic to win the prestigious Geraldine Pascall Critic of the Year Award. Twitter: @alisoncroggon