For three days, August 21-23, Mudgee Readers Festival invites you to join some of Australia’s finest writers for hair-raising stories, important conversations, poetry readings and special events.
Various locations around town, see program for more detail.
WINNER, NSW Literary Awards Book of the Year, 2026
WINNER, NSW Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction, 2026
WINNER, The Australian Political Book of the Year, 2025
WINNER, Queensland Literary Awards: University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award, 2025
WINNER, Northern Territory History Award, 2025
SHORTLISTED, Prime Minister’s LIterary Award, Australian History, 2025
SHORTLISTED, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, Non-Fiction, 2025
SHORTLISTED, Age Book of the Year, Non-fiction, 2025
SHORTLISTED, NSW History Awards, Australian History Prize, 2025
SHORTLISTED, The Australian Political Book of the Year, 2025
‘A masterpiece.’ Thomas Mayo
‘The most painstaking and beautiful reconstruction of mission life…feels like a revolutionarily good piece of history…exhilarating to read…so gripping.’ Annabel Crabb
In this engaging narrative, Wright follows the story of petitions on bark created by the Yirrkala community in Arnhem Land in 1963, protesting bauxite mining on traditional lands.
In this spellbinding new literary novel from award-winning author Gail Jones, the arrival of a mysterious young woman triggers an unstoppable series of events in the nearby town of Broken Hill.
