We’re so pleased to share the news that we’ll be the official bookseller for Melbourne Writers Festival in 2016.

Melbourne Writers Festival is Australia’s biggest literary festival and is set to welcome thousands to events featuring more than 350 international and local guests from the worlds of literature, journalism, philosophy, science and the arts. This year’s festival will run from 26 August to 4 September – look out for the full 2016 program to be launched in late July.

Readings’ Managing Director, Mark Rubbo was founding chair of the Melbourne Writers Festival back when it first started. He says: ‘We are so excited to be the bookseller at Melbourne Writers Festival again. Our connection goes back to its beginning 31 years ago, so it feels like reconnecting with a very old and dear friend.’

Together with Festival Director Lisa Dempster and the whole Festival team, we hope to create a vibrant space for booklovers during the Festival. Dempster says: ‘Look out for a fresh new Festival Bookshop at the heart of the Festival Hub in Fed Square during this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival.’

Find out more about Melbourne Writers Festival here.