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Performances. Performances. The annual WAM Slam is always a festival highlight. We can't wait to experience the Zoom slam! Enjoy being welcomed to WAM Online with a traditional Wiradjuri Welcome to Country, performed by Wiradjuri Elder, Darren

Future Tense launched the WAM 2020 online program. You can listen to the replay here.

Write Around the Murray (WAM) is the only literary based festival in the region, attracting both high profile and emerging authors and presenters.

Our 2020 theme, Past Lives/Present Tense, explores voices and stories from the past, together with contemporary storytelling, to ask questions about where we are, what we know and how to live in times of crisis and transition.

An insider's look at how a picture book evolves.

Enjoy being welcomed to WAM Online with a traditional Wiradjuri Welcome to Country, performed by Wiradjuri Elder, Darren Wighton.

Reading:. James Dunk. Share:. James Dunk. James Dunk is a historian of science and medicine at the University of Sydney. His book, Bedlam at Botany Bay, is a political history of madness in the penal colony of New South Wales, shortlisted for the

Reading:. Tony Birch. Share:. Tony Birch. Tony Birch is the author of three novels: the bestselling The White Girl; Ghost River, which won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing; and Blood, which was shortlisted for the

Reading:. Nick Gadd. Share:. Nick Gadd. Nick Gadd is the author of two novels: Death of a Typographer and Ghostlines, which won a Victorian Premier's Literary Award and a Ned Kelly Award. His non-fiction book Melbourne Circle: Walking, Memory and

Reading:. Aimee Chan. Share:. Aimee Chan. Aimee Chan has been a writer for over 15 years. Her stories have appeared in international publications and websites including CNN, Harper's BAZAAR, ELLE, Cosmopolitan and The Weekend Australia. In 2019 she