POWER is the theme of this year's Sydney Writers Festival, which will see 60 international and 400 Australian writers, academics and public figures come together from April 30 to May 6.
The six-day program, which will see more than 350 events at its new location in Sydney's Carriageworks, as well as the Seymour Centre and State Library.
International headliners include Robert E Kelly, better known as BBC Dad after footage of his two daughters breaking into his home office while live on BBC News, went viral.
The professor of political science in South Korea will discuss unification and disarmament as Trump and Kim Jong-un meet face-to-face.
Helen Garner, one of Australia's greatest modern essayists, will make a rare festival appearance discussing the role of observation and scrutiny throughout her career.
Sydney Morning Herald senior reporter Kate McClymont will join ABC's Emma Alberici, veteran publisher Marina Go and outspoken journalist Tracey Spicer looking at 50 years of feminism and the issue of predominantly white-male newsrooms in the media.
Memoir-writing politicians will also take to the stage, including former PM Julia Guillard, former Greens leader Christine Milne, former senators Jacqui Lambie and Sam Dastyari and Labor MP Anne Aly.
Other authors heading to event will be Amy Bloom and Junot Diaz as well as children's authors Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) and Leigh Hobbs (Freaks on the Loose).
The event will be opened by three celebrated writers André Aciman, author of the coming of age novel Call Me by Your Name, Korean-American novelist Min Jin Lee (Pachinko) and Alexis Okeowo, whose A Moonless, Starless Sky won the 2018 PEN Open Book Award.
- Sydney Writers Festival, April 30-May 6. For tickets and full program go to www.swf.org.au
