Beginning the year with one of the timeliest panels from our 2025 Festival, we hope you enjoy hearing Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Shiori Itō, and Virginia Haussegger in a provoking panel moderated by Kirsten Han. Hear from these incredible three female firebrands as they discuss writing their stories as women and claiming their place in a man’s world, unapologetically.

Watch and listen to this lively women-only panel, recorded live at our 2025 Festival, at ⁠⁠⁠www.ubudwritersfestival.com/media⁠⁠⁠ and on podcast platforms such as Spotify and Simplecast.

Hear from a panel of speakers brought together at #UWRF25 as they explore how, in an increasingly digital world where identity is reduced to labels, titles, and qualifications, we can begin to internalise that identity is greater than what we see on the surface, featuring Australian speechwriter and journalist Brigid Delaney; Turkish writer, activist, and PEN International board member Ege Dündar; transnational novelist and filmmaker Thammika Songkaeo; hosted by Singaporean writer and journalist Kirsten Han.

You can enjoy this latest highlight session, recorded live at our 2025 Festival, at ubudwritersfestival.com/media and on podcast platforms such as Spotify and Simplecast.

Hear highlight conversations from #UWRF25 as we release a new episode each week.

For our second episode, listen to Australian award-winning author Gail Jones as she discusses her new book The Name of the Sister. In conversation with non-fiction writer Bri Lee, Jones delves into her latest work, following a young woman discovered in the outback with no identity who, unable to speak, sparks a media firestorm. This gripping mystery explores how history is told and identities are formed in the absence of reliable fact.

Listen to her lively conversation now at ubudwritersfestival.com/media and on podcast platforms such as Spotify and Simplecast.