Sydney Writers' Festival - Friday 22 May

Susan Choi: Flashlight

Friday 22 May, 12 - 12.55 pm

Join 2025 Booker Prize shortlisted writer Susan Choi as she discusses family, abscence and alienation in her new novel Flashlight, in conversation with Beejay Silcox. Supported by the Literature Translation Institute of Korea and the Korean Cultural Centre Australia. 

Trent Dalton: Gravity Let Me Go 

Friday 22 May, 2 - 2.55 pm

Join multi award-winning writer Trent Dalton to discuss his latest novel, Gravity Let Me Go, and it's themes of love, family, ambition and deception. In conversation with Cassie McCullagh. Supported by Vision Australia. 

Great Adaptations

Friday 22 May, 4 - 4.55 pm

Get behind-the-scenes insight into adapting stories from page to screen with writers Mick Herron (Slow Horses) and Suzie Miller (Prima Facie) in conversation with Benjamin Law. 

Florence Knapp: The Names

Friday 22 May, 6 - 6.55 pm

Explore the proufound force of family and the life-defining act of naming a child with bestselling debut author of The Names, Florence Knapp, in conversation with ABC Radio National's Claire Nichols. Florence Knapp appears thanks to the support of the Salon.