Trans Book Festival (TBF) is the only writers’ festival in the southern hemisphere focused on uplifting and celebrating trans and gender diverse (TGD) literary excellence in all narrative forms.

Four humans sit on stage for a panel on Evening the Score: Sports Writing.
A panelist in a red jacket speaks into a microphone.
A panelist in a grey jacket speaks into a microphone.
A panelist in a black jacket speaks into a microphone.
A panelist in a grey jumper speaks into a microphone.
An audience member wearing a red felt hat speaks into a microphone.
An audience member with pink hair speaks into a microphone.
Four humans stand whilst a fifth human is in a wheelchair. All look toward the camera.
Close up of a human singing into a microphone.
Close up of a human singing into a microphone, their hand is raised and their eyes are closed.
A human with a guitar holds onto a microphone and sings into it.
A panelist with brown hair speaks into a microphone.
A panelist in a grey jumper speaks into a microphone.
Across an audience two humans sit on stage for a panel "Ode to (trans) joy". An auslan interpreter signs off to one side.
An audience member in a mask leans against another human in a mask.
A volunteer stands holding a microphone.
Two audience members, both wearing scarves.
A smiling audience.
Eli Sutherland at a lectern, smiling.
A panelist in a colourful shirt smiles at an unseen human.
A panelist in a black and grey dress speaks into a microphone.
A panelist in a black dress speaks into a microphone
Five panelists sit on stage for the panel "Selling Out (Complimentary)".
A panelist wearing rainbow glasses speaks into a mucrophone and does air quotes.
A panelist in a blue jacket smiles whilst holding onto a microphone.
An audience member with red hair leans against another human in a black jacket.
A human in a brown dress smiles at the camera.
A panelist in a yellow jacket speaks into a microphone.
A panelist in a red and black top speaks into a microphone.
A panelist in a blue denim jacket speaks into a microphone.
A large screen displaying the panel name: "Trans Femmes to the Front". Blurred in front is a tv screen showing the stage.
A panelist in a keffiyah speaks into a microphone.
A panelist in a colourful shirt reads from a book.
An audience member in black glasses leans against another human with long hair.
Audience members clapping.
A panelist in a white top smiles to the side.
A panelist in a blue shirt speaks into a microphone.
Across an audience five panelists can be seen on stage for the panel "Trans Poetics".
An audience member in a grey jumper hugs another human wearing a scarf.
A panelist wearing a scarf speaks into a microphone.
A human wearing a cap and holding a book smiles at the camera.
A human wearing black holds up an Overland journal for the camera.
A human wearing glasses stands reading an Overland book.
A human in a yellow top interviews a human in a black top.
Eli Sutherland wears a black satin jacket whilst standing at a lectern and smiling into a microphone.
A panelist with blonde hair smiles.
A panelist sits holding a microphone in one hand and their laughing face in the other hand.
Across an audience there are four panelists on stage for the panel "Transing the Canon".
A panelist in a tie speaks into a microphone.
A panelist wearing a mask speaks into a microphone.
A panelist wearing a red keffiyah speaks into a microphone.
Across an audience are four panelists sitting on stage for the panel "Words of Resistance". An Auslan interpreter is off to the side.
A panelist in a green boiler suit speaks into a microphone.
A human wearing a blue shirt speaks into a microphone.
A panelist wearing a head scarf speaks into a microphone.
Audience members clapping.
A human in a tiger print skirt stands talking to a human in a wheelchair. They stand in front of a banner for Readers and Writers Against the Genocide.
A panelist in black glasses laughs.
A panelist with pink hair speaks into a microphone.
A panelist in a black leather jacket speaks into a microphone.
A panelist wearing a black stripe tie and matching shirt looks to an unseen human.
The back of two audience members. One wraps an arm around the other.
Across an audience four panelists sit on stage for the panel "Writing the Neuroqueer Experience". An Auslan interpreter is off to the side.
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