The programme also features a series of ticketed special events, both at Festival time and throughout the year, and there is a free "Kids' Weekend", at which children's authors present their work for a range of ages and other activities take place.
In those years it was held at the State Library and University of Adelaide, which proved too small to accommodate audiences, so in 1976 was moved to the Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden, alongside King William Road next to the Torrens Parade Ground.
[5][6] Writers' Week is a mostly free daytime week-long literary festival held mostly outdoors in the shady Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden, north of Adelaide CBD.
[11] The programme also features a series of ticketed special events, both at festival time and throughout the year, and there is a free "Kids' Weekend", at which children's authors present their work for a range of ages and other activities are held.
Featured writers included Julia Baird, Alexis Wright, Christos Tsiolkas, Patrick deWitt, Robyn Davidson, Yanis Varoufakis, Nam Le, Bob Carr, Thomas Keneally, Trent Dalton, Richard Flanagan, Evelyn Araluen, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Ellen van Neerven, and many others.
It featured Chigozie Obioma, Sanam Maher, Tara June Winch, Christos Tsiolkas, John Boyne, Blanche d'Alpuget, Archie Roach, Jokha Alharthi, Anna Goldsworthy, Charlotte Wood, John Marsden, Megan Davis, Thomas Mayor, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Tim Costello, Tim Flannery, and many others.
[32] International authors included Ben Okri, Kassem Eid, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Carl Zimmer, Mohammed Hanif, Nazanin Sahamizadeh, Ndaba Mandela and Marlene van Niekerk.
[32] Adelaide Writers' Week in 2018 featured Mem Fox, Clive Hamilton, Barbara Kingsolver, Eva Hornung, Amal Awad and Jackie French.
[33] Adelaide Writers' Week in 2017 featured Caroline Baum, Paula Byrne, Richard Fidler, Emily Maguire, Melina Marchetta and Alejandro Zambra.
[34] Featured international and Australian authors at the 2016 Adelaide Writers' Week included Richard Dawkins, Fiona McFarlane, Drusilla Modjeska, Simon Winchester and Charlotte Wood.
[35] The 2015 Adelaide Writers' Week featured international and Australian authors including James Bradley, Helen Garner, Sofie Laguna, Kate Llewellyn, Susan Mitchell and Nicholas Shakespeare.
[1] The most pronounced theme was that of war stories, and featured visiting artists that included Tom Holland, Kevin Powers, Tatjana Soli, and Madeleine Thien.
[37] Adelaide Writers' Week in 2012 took place 3–8 March, and saw a focus on younger readers, hosting the first Kid's Program, with children's laureate Boori Monty Pryor.
It featured a number of prize-winning authors, including Ian McEwan, Peter Carey, Paul Auster, Geraldine Brooks, and Tim Parks.
Authors included Ruth Rendell, Janette Turner Hospital, Clive James, Don Watson, Anne Enright, John Marsden[40] and J. M.
Featured writers included Neil Armfield, Thea Astley, Blanche d'Alpuget, Helen Garner, Peter Goldsworthy, David Hare, Jeri Kroll, Thomas Shapcott, Colin Thiele, Judith Wright and Fay Weldon.