FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Canberra Writers Festival
22–26 October 2025
Irma will be on three panels at the festival.
Sat 25 Oct, 12.30pm: In ‘Self on the page: My writing life’ Irma Gold (Shift), David Stavanger (The Drop Off) and Natasha Rai (An Onslaught of Light) will confess what this writing caper means to them, inspirations for their latest works, when they They will also read passages that mean the most to them from their latest works. Moderated by journalist and author of Troll Hunting, Ginger Gorman. Venue: Marie Reay Teaching Centre | Australian National University.
Sun 26 Oct 10.30am: In ‘Art of the short story’ Lucy Nelson (Wait Here) and Vijay Khurana (The Passenger Seat) will share why they love the form and reveal top lessons they have learnt about what can make or break a short story. Moderated by author and Secrets from the Green Room podcaster, Irma Gold. Venue: Marie Reay Teaching Centre | Australian National University.
Sun 26 Oct 12.30pm: Telling stories can be an act of truly seeing the world around us, from Colombo to Tehran to Soweto. In ‘Lay the world bare’ Shankari Chandran, Hossein Asgari and Irma Gold, in conversation with Nicole Abadee, will discuss how their characters are moulded, and their stories guided, by the places in which they live. Venue: Cinema | Lowitja O’Donoghue Cultural Centre | Australian National University.
Tickets via the website.
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Irma loves any excuse to get on a mic and chat with other writers about her books or theirs. She is an experienced panellist and moderator and has appeared at many events and festivals, including Emerging Writers’ Festival, Sorrento Writers Festival, Willy Lit Fest, Canberra Writers Festival, Write Around the Murray, Riverina Readers Festival, and many others. She has interviewed many of Australia’s finest authors at festivals, events and on her podcast, including Charlotte Wood, Christos Tsiolkas, Kate Grenville, Nam Le, Tony Birch, Sofie Laguna, Graeme Simsion, Robbie Arnott, and many more.
If you’d like Irma to appear at an event or festival, get in touch via the contact page.
And in the meantime, have a listen to her in-conversation event with Craig Silvey where they chat about his days as a ukelele rock star, the Cleo bachelor incident and why biscuit book art is where it’s at. They do also talk about his latest book, Runt.
‘She’s always good in the interviewer’s chair, being both warm in manner and astute about writing.’ Whispering Gums