Scribe at Sydney Writers’ Festival

Marina Benjamin is a writer and editor. Her most recent books are Insomnia, The Middlepause, Rocket Dreams, shortlisted for the Eugene Emme Award, and Last Days in Babylon.

2 May: Insomnia

3 May: Too Much Information

4 May: Worried Sick: Living in the age of anxiety

Davina Bell is a writer from Western Australia. She is the author of the award-winning picture book The Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade, which won the 2016 Australian Book Industry Award for Best Children’s Book from a Small Publisher.

Allison Colpoys is an award-winning designer and illustrator.

Their latest book is All The Ways To Be Smart.

5 May: All The Ways To Be Smart

Casey Legler is an artist, restaurateur, model, and former Olympic swimmer. Their memoir Godspeed is out now.

30 April: Developing Your Own Creative Practice

3 May: Gay For Page

4 May: Godpseed

Jeff Sparrow is a writer, editor, and broadcaster. He writes a fortnightly column for The Guardian and contributes regularly to many other Australian and international publications. His latest book is Trigger Warnings.

2 May: Trigger Warnings

3 May: William Davies: Nervous States

5 May: Huge Mood: feelings and politics in a divided age

5 May: Why free speech is an industrial issue

Niki Savva is one of the most senior correspondents in the Canberra Press Gallery. Her book The Road to Ruin won the 2016 General Nonfiction Book of the Year Award at the Australian Book Industry Awards. The enthralling sequel is out this year.

3 May: Insiders Live

5 May: “I do not want to see this in print”

Julian Burnside, QC, is an Australian barrister who specialises in commercial litigation and is also deeply involved in human-rights work, in particular in relation to refugees. His books include Wordwatching and Watching Brief.

3 May: Taking Flight: stories of expulsion and migration

3 May: Ben Quilty: Home

Kate Wild is an investigative journalist whose work with distinguished teams at the ABC has been recognised with three Walkley Awards and a Logie. Waiting for Elijah is her first book.

2 May: Matters of fact

3 May: Women’s Work