Sydney Writers' Festival is Australia's largest annual celebration of literature and ideas. Each year, it presents over 300 events (half of them for free) and attract attendances of around 80,000 in venues that stretch from the Festival hub at Walsh Bay to the Blue Mountains. For one week every May we bring together authors of the very best contemporary fiction and writers of cutting edge nonfiction, including some of the world's leading public intellectuals, scientists and journalists. With the finest literary writing at its core, the programming is driven by the ideas and issues that animate all forms of writing. (From the organisation website: http://www.swf.org.au/)