Fitzroy Writers Festival - Writing as Resistance

How do words become tools, shields and lifelines? In moments of upheaval, writing can speak truth to power, hold memory against erasure, and imagine futures beyond oppression. Literature offers a space of integrity and autonomy, bearing witness, embracing complexity, challenging dominant narratives and creating hope.

Join Antoun Issa (Rebirth, Hachette), Micaela Sahhar (Find Me at the Jaffa Gate, UNSW), and Dr Wayne Atkinson (Beyond the Meeting of the Waters, MUP, Co-Authored with Catherine Guinness) with Daniel James for a conversation about writing as an act of resistance, against colonial histories, displacement, and systemic injustice. Together, they explore how stories can resist, reclaim, and remake the world.

Yarra Libraries is proud to partner with Fairfield Books as our dedicated Festival bookseller.

The Fitzroy Writers Festival is only made possible through the generous support of the Thomas, Samuel and George Ewing Trust, a fund that fosters literacy, libraries, and a lifelong love of learning for the benefit of Fitzroy residents and visitors.
Fitzroy Writers Festival will be Auslan interpreted. The Fitzroy Town Hall entrance is located via a large set of stairs from Napier Street. Lift access is available via Moor Street. There are two wheelchair accessible toilets located in the Fitzroy Town Hall, next to the Ballroom.

The Route 11 Tram stops at Bell Street/ Brunswick Street (from the city) or King William Street/Brunswick Street (from the north) and is a 350m walk to the Fitzroy Town Hall.

If you have accessibility questions or requirements, please contact us at [email protected] or on 1300 695 427

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Free