Poet, essayist and legal scholar Alison Whittaker's latest book Blakwork defies easy categorization. A mix of memoir, reportage, fiction, satire and critique it reflects Alison's interrogation of feminism, class, social justice and the erasure of Aboriginal people. Alison will be in conversation with Anahera Gildea to discuss poetry, advocacy and Australia on Sunday 14 March.

Choreographer and dancer Lucy-Margaux Marinkovich directs Strasbourg 1518, which runs 12-15 March at Circa Theatre as part of the Festival. Here she writes about the thinking behind the piece she's produced with her partner, the musician and writer Lucien Johnson; medieval dancing plagues, dance marathons, the role of the body in protests, and the uniquely human compulsion to respond to the world through art.

Chiké Frankie Edozien is a Nigerian-American writer and professor of journalism at New York University. His 2017 memoir Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man won the Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Memoir/Biography category at the 30th Lambda Literary Awards in 2018. Chiké will be in conversation with Victor Rodger on Thursday 27 February at Renouf Foyer, Michael Fowler Centre.

ARTicle catches up with Julie Tenret, Sicaire Durieux and Sandrine Heyraud, the three creators of Dimanche.

Novelist, essayist and short-story writer Rajorshi Chakraborti shares his literary inclinations with ARTicle.

Wellington writer and associate professor at Victoria University of Wellington Rebecca Priestley shares her literary inclinations with ARTicle.

Simon Sweetman's 2020 Festival contemporary music playlist.

ARTicle caught up with Verb Director Claire Mabey to find out what we can expect from the new look Writers programme.

British author Scarlett Thomas answers ARTicle magazine's 'Reading Life' Q&A