Events and appearances

2022

• Sydney Writers Festival: the Great Debate in Sydney Town Hall (May)
• Conversation with Andrew Leigh, ANU (podcast available) (June)
• Melbourne Writers Festival:
  • Conversation with Ailsa Piper, State Library (9 September)
  • Closing Address, Capitol Theatre (11 September)

2021

• Maitland City Library event with Nicole Abadee (remote, October).
• Opening address at Brisbane Writers’ Festival (May).
• Appearance at Adelaide Writers’ Week (March).

2020

• Launch of The Time of Our Lives by Andrea Goldsmith at Melbourne WF by Zoom (October).
• Interviews begin for The Time of Our Lives launch (September) (including SMH, Courier-Mail, Joy FM, ABC RN, Caroline Baum, 3RRR, Susan Wyndham for Gleebooks, Nicole Abadee, Geelong Library and many others).
• Queer Stories, Spiegeltent, Melbourne (January).

2019

• Talk to SA Writers on creativity at State Library of SA (October).
• Jaipur (JLF) OzAsia Festival, Festival Centre, Adelaide (October).
• Queer Stories, Giant Dwarf Theatre, Sydney (August).
• Queer Stories event in Spiegeltent, Hobart (March).

2018

• Lecture at St Xavier’s College, Mumbai (November).
• Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest (November).
• Bangalore Literature Festival (Bangalore, India, October).
• Queenscliff Literary Festival (Queenscliff, Victoria, May).
• Chennai Literary Festival.
• Kolkata Literary Festival.
• Jaipur Literature Festival (Jaipur, India, January).

2017

• Ubud Writers Festival appearances (Bali, October).
• Bendigo Writers Festival (August).
• Muse Long Lunch, Canberra (30 May).
• ANU/Canberra Times in conversation with Nicholas Brown (29 May).
• Sydney Writers’ Festival (24–27 May).
• Avid Reader bookshop, Brisbane, in conversation (16 May).
• Launch of The Pleasures of Leisure at Salamanca Inn, Hobart (8 May).

2016

• George Town Literary Festival (Penang, Malaysia) (November).
• Byron Writers Festival (August).
• New Zealand Writers Week (Wellington) (March).
• Adelaide Writers’ Week (March).

2015

• Address at Australian Embassy event, Kathmandu (October).
• Address at Australian High Commission event, Delhi (September).
• Kolkata, India (18 September) Bon Voyage – why we leave home and write about it (a conversation with Prof. Hari Vasudevan at Alliance française sponsored by Oxford Bookstore).
• Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival (12 September) interview with Caroline Baum.
• Bendigo Writers’ Festival (August).
• Southern Highlands Literary Festival, Bowral NSW (July).
• Sydney Writers’ Festival (May).
• Appearance at the Adelaide Writers’ Week (February/March).

2014

• Conversation with Ramona Koval, Wheeler Centre, Melbourne.
• Interview at Travel Writing Symposium, University of Tasmania, Launceston.
• Sydney Writers’ Festival (talking about travel, friendship).
• Panel discussion on childhood reading at Reader’s Feast Bookshop, Melbourne.

2013

• Perth Writers’ Festival (interviewing Michelle de Kretser, talk on ageing).

2012

• Adelaide Writers’ Week: Seymour Biography Lecture ‘Pushing Against the Dark’; panels.
• Melbourne Writers’ Festival (panels and an address on growing old well).
• Brisbane Writers’ Festival (interviewing Drusilla Modjeska, being interviewed about my own writing).

2011

• Talks at Australian Literature conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
• Ten Days on the Island festival, Hobart (interviewing writers, panels).
• Seymour Biography Lecture, National Library, Canberra.
• Address on beauty at Newcastle Art Gallery.

2010

• Adelaide Writers’ Week.
• Paper on gay issues at Gerontology Conference, Hobart.
• Keynote address to Australian Society of Travel Writers, Sydney.
• Lecture on the personal essay at ABR Calibre prize event National Library, Canberra.

2009

• Address at Monash University campus, Prato, Italy.
• Byron Bay Writers’ Festival (panels, keynote address).
• Melbourne Writers’ Festival.
• Perth Writers’ Festival (interviewing writers, breakfast address).
• Graduation speech at Curtin University, Perth WA.
• Address to Fine Arts students, University of Tasmania.

2008

• Addresses at Travel Conference, University of Melbourne.
• Panel discussion on Suffering at State Library of NSW.
• Melbourne Writers’ Festival.

2007

• Panel discussion at State Library of NSW on melancholy.
• Address at Lyon literary festival (“Villa Gillet Assizes”), France (in French).
• Byron Bay Writers’ Festival.
• Talk on George Lambert at National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

2006

• Talks on travel, beauty, at Newcastle Writers’ Festival, Ourimbah, NSW.

2004

• Appearance at Vancouver and Calgary literary festivals.

2001

• Participation in Montreal Literary Festival (in French).
• Readings at the Woolloomooloo Hotel in Paris.
• Appearances on French and Belgian television (in French).

2000

• Appearance on “Bouillon de culture”, French television (in French).