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Michaela McGuire swaps Sydney Writers’ Festival for Melbourne – Sydney Morning Herald
The director of the Sydney Writers’ Festival is going to take up the reins at Melbourne Writers Festival.
“My vision is that it will be really bold and imaginative by virtue of the writers and conversations that are programmed rather than tinkering with the format too much.”
Hardy was appointed to MWF with a brief to make it distinct from other Australian writers festivals. She added music, theatre and performance to the menu and her first festival in 2018 attracted bigger audiences but also hostile criticism from some publishers and media.
Melbourne publisher Louise Adler, who had been one of tho…
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