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Just a reminder to Melbourne readers that the Melbourne Jewish Writers Festival starts this weekend (May 21-23)!

This year the theme is ‘As it is written” and there are some fabulous events to attend.

There are more than 70 guests including award-winning writers and international authors as well.   The program includes Jewish writers and non-Jewish authors who write on Jewish themes.

I’ll be going along to hear some of my favourite authors.  If you see me about, (I’ll wear my ANZ LitLovers lapel badge) please come and say hello!  These are the sessions I’m booked in for:

Sunday:

9:00 Ros Collins doing a reading from her inspiring memoir Solly’s Girl (see my review)  (free event)

10:15 Joan London in conversation with Tali Lavi about her award-winning novel The Golden Age (see my review)

11:00 Debut novelists: Lisa Birman, Lexi Landsman and Abigail Ulman

2:00 Vera Wasowski, author of the memoir My Story, in conversation with Maria Tumarkin

3:15 Ann Goldstein, on translating Primo Levi and Elena Ferrante

4.30: The H Word, writing about the Holocaust with Nir Baram, author of Good People (on my TBR), Kate Forsyth, author of Bitter Greens, and Mireille Juchau, author of The World Without Us (see my review).

Monday

12:00 Writing out of the Rubble with Andrea Goldsmith, author of The Memory Trap (see my review) and Gail Jones, author of Guide to Berlin (on my TBR)

1.15: War and Words, writing the trauma of international conflict, with Lisa Birman, Mark Dapin, author of Spirit House (see my review) and Clare Wright, author of The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (see my review).

There are heaps of other sessions to go to, not to mention a fabulous food tent and a festival bookshop.

If you haven’t checked out the program or booked your tickets, click here.

Most sessions are $20 ($15 concession) but some are also free.

The festival is held at the Lamm Jewish Library of Australia, in the Beth Weizmann Community Centre, 304 Hawthorn Road, Caulfield. (Easily accessible by tram and from my experience parking is not too bad).