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Adelaide Writers’ Week Brings Home Prestigious Award!

Adelaide Writers’ Week has been recognised at the Australian Event Awards in Sydney…

Tuesday Night, at the Australian Event Awards Ceremony in Sydney, Adelaide Writers’ Week was announced as the national winner of the Coates Hire Best Community Event, a prestigious industry award that considers how well an event engages with and builds a community.

Adelaide Writers’ Week Director, Laura Kroetsch said, “We are absolutely thrilled, being recognised as the country’s best community event is a fabulous way to celebrate Adelaide Writers’ Week’s 55th birthday. I want to give a huge thanks to our writers, audiences and the Adelaide Festival team; it was a very special night.”

Held last March the 2015 Adelaide Writers’ Week drew capacity crowds who were stimulated and entertained by a high quality program of discussion between some of the world’s great writers and thinkers. Some of the most popular sessions involved Robert Dessaix, Julia Gillard, Dan Barber, Helen Garner, David Marr and Roxane Gay. The success of the program was reflected in a 17% increase in book sales, a record for the event.

Find out more about the other awards won by South Australia here.

Looking forward to 2016, the much-loved week of free open air readings and literary conversation will take place in the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden from Saturday 27 February to Thursday 3 March.

The 2016 program will bring together a stellar line-up of best-selling novelists including Muriel Barbery (FRA) with her first new novel in seven years The Life of Elves, Lisa Genova (US) author of Still Alice, Patrick Gale (UK) with a new novel set in the wilds of colonial Canada, Paolo Bacigalupi (US) with The Water Knife, a harrowing account of the water wars in the American West, and Felix J Palma (SPA) with the final volume of the extraordinary trilogy that began with The Map of Time.

The complete Adelaide Writers’ Week program will be available on 28 January 2016.

Adelaide Writers’ Week 2016
Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden, King William Road
Saturday 27 February – Thursday 3 March
(Kids’ Days: Saturday 27 February and Sunday 28 February)
FREE – no bookings required

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