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Melbourne Writers Festival has just announced the program for MWF Digital! This year’s festival will run online 7–16 August.

This year’s features over 100 writers and thinkers from around the world who will question who we give our attention to and why, unpack how crises and other major events force us to reconsider how we connect with each other and our environment and, importantly, they will celebrate their books and writing that hold our attention despite the world in which we find ourselves.

You can join Scribe authors Michael Christie and Laura Jean McKay at events during the festival. 

Michael joins Sophie Cunninghuam to discuss his novel Greenwood: a time-hopping, world-spanning, page-turning family saga that’s as intricately constructed as the rings of a tree. Sun 16 Aug 11:00 AM

Laura joins fellow authors Chris Flynn and Erin Hortle to talk about her novel The Animals in That Country and would happen if we could understand what animals were saying in The Language of Animals – Sun 16 Aug 12:00 PM .

Explore the full MWF digital program here.