Published: August 24, 2018
Performance art, a ‘place where people can hug’. What are writers’ festivals for, anyway?
It’s a simple, if loaded, test: not one of three major writers’ festivals underway or about to be held around Australia would this year schedule Germaine Greer, the 79-year-old feminist provocateur, whose new book, On Rape, will be published in early September.
The decision by the Brisbane, Melbourne and Canberra festivals is either a relief or an indictment on timid programmers, but it signals a bigger debate: writers’ festivals – there are now more than 100 around the country each year – are changing fast, reinventing themselves as they wrestle with cultural flash points and competition.
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