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The Sydney Jewish Writers Festival (SJWF) aims to celebrate the richness of Australian and world-wide Jewish writing. It is an exciting feature of the country's Jewish cultural landscape, bringing together some of the most significant contributors to Australian literary life.
The festival runs over five days, and is timed to precede the annual Sydney Writers Festival, at which some of the SJWF presenters also appear.
The objectives of the SJWF are:
§ To showcase writers who embrace their Jewish identity and/or who write on Jewish themes, regardless of their personal backgrounds.
§ To expose the community to the range of subjects that comprise contemporary Jewish writing.
§ To promote the talents and the ideas of writers by introducing them to audiences who have not yet read their writing and by enabling those who have read their work to meet the author behind the story, idea or research.
The Sydney Jewish Writers' Festival is a project of The Shalom Institute, which undertakes to provide quality adult education programs and events for the Sydney Jewish community.
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