A writers' festival for readers, writers, and thinkers that will include one-on-one conversations, Q&A panel discussions, presentations, and a book launch on books across all genres to be opened by Manly's Booker Prize winner, Tom Keneally AO.

The writers featured including some well-known and not-so-well-known writers of fiction, and non-fiction in the areas of memoir, true crime, sport, war crimes, international relations, parenting, and more.

There is also be a one-day schools and children's program.