Blak & Bright Writers Festival returns 3 September 2026
In 2026, Blak & Bright Writers Festival centres First Nations understandings of time as continuous and relational.
Through this year’s festival theme, audiences will engage with stories and conversations that challenge linear notions of past, present and future.
THURSDAY 3 SEPTEMBER
Gathering
Yarn Lab
FRIDAY 4 SEPTEMBER
Write Way
Forward:
Being
Future Maker
The Memory
Tense
Roots & Tides
Spokenground
The Rot
SATURDAY 5 SEPTEMBER
Dungeons
& Dragons
& Damper
Future Maker
Once Upon Our Stories:
Charmaine Ledden-Lewis
What Is Left
Will Stay
Tomorrow
Rising
Once Upon Our Stories: Jake Gablonski
Once Upon Our Stories: Tasma Walton
Her Story Now
Write Way
Forward:
Tomorrow
Survival of the
Tongue
Rainbow Revolution
Not Straight But Sovereign
SUNDAY 6 SEPTEMBER
Write Way Forward:
Ochre
Life in Full
Who We Become
Write Way
Forward:
Lines
Mouth Country
Blak Hearts
What This
Could Be
Living Archive
The Right
to Offend
Beneath the Sky
A big Blak thanks to our partners:
