The centre will play host to some of Australia’s best writers and thinkers, including Richard Flanagan, James Patterson, Clementine Ford, Simran Sethi, Anna Bligh, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Helen Garner, Hannie Rayson, Kate Grenville, Michel Faber and Elizabeth Gilbert.
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