2026 Festival
Speaker Profile
Clare Stephens
Clare Stephens is a Sydney-based author, screenwriter, and podcaster. Her bestselling debut novel, The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done, was published in 2025. Her writing appears in Good Weekend, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday Life, and The Age. She hosts The Pile-On podcast and is a writer and producer on the Logie-nominated Binge series Strife. Clare was formerly the editor-in-chief at Mamamia – Australia’s largest independent women’s network.
Social Media: Force For Good Or Engine Of Division
Richard King, Ruby Kraner-Tucci, Clare Stephens and Thomas Mayo with Laura Macdonald
Via our phones and laptops, we can alienate, divide, polarise and cancel out. We can also bring people together, build social and political activism, and amplify marginalised voices. Our panel discusses.
Podcasting Mania: Has it reshaped the media landscape?
Monica Attard, Mark Kenny and Clare Stephens with Libbi Gorr
Urgency Of The Here And Now: How the modern world inspires our writing
Evelyn Araluen, Clare Stephens and Sarah Walker with Katrina Strickland