The NT Writers Festival (NTWF) is a four-day festival shaped by place that speaks to and from the heart of Australia and the Northern Territory. Founded in 1999, the Festival embraces our country's cultural and linguistic diversity, and has hosted some of Australia’s most distinguished writers, thinkers and storytellers.
In 2020, NTWF returns to Darwin to take place in a new venue - the beautiful purpose-built event facilities at the lush George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens.
This year's Festival theme - ‘Gunamidirra garawa birditj | when the tides turn' - will explore our moments of change. In Gulumerrdjin, Larrakia country, the sea and rivers reach onto the land. Places flux with cycles of monsoon and dry. How are we made and remade? What can we change and what do we hold on to? How do we hold loss alongside possibility?
Join writers, artists and storytellers for a four-day celebration of books, language and stories that asks us to consider the marks we leave behind, and how we face and create change.
Artwork: Fiona Hall, Mangrove 2010, etching on Hahnemühle cotton rag paper, 79.5 x 94cm. Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney.
NT Writers' Festival 2020
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Organiser Profile:
The NT Writers Centre encourages vibrant literary activity in the Northern Territory by developing and supporting writers in all genres at all stages of their careers. We value quality NT writing as a unique component of Australia’s literary wealth and recognise Indigenous writers and storytellers as a core component of this. As well as our ongoing member services, we offer a program of workshops, opportunities and showcase events across the NT, including an annual Writers Festival.
