Blak & Bright Writers Festival returns 3—6 September 2026.
2026, Blak & Bright Writers Festival returns with EVERY:WHEN, centring 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
Pitch Blak
The Memory Tense
Weaving Our Stories
Spokenground
The Rot
Saturday 5 September
Dungeons & Dragons
& Damper
We Who Saw First
Future Maker
What Is Left Will Stay
Once Upon Our Stories with Charmain Ledden-Lewis
Once Upon Our Stories with Aunty Fay Muir
Tomorrow Rising
Survival of the Tongue
Once Upon Our Stories
with Jake Gablonski
Her Story Now
Rainbow Revolution
Write Way Forward:
Tomorrow
Not Straight
But Sovereign
Once Upon Our Stories
with Tasma Walton
Sunday 6 September
Write Way Forward: Ochre
Life in Full
Who We Become
Mouth Country
Write Way Forward: Lines
Blak Hearts
Living Archive
The Right to Offend
Beneath the Sky
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