Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast

Ubud Writers & Readers Festival
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If you missed a moment of enlightenment or entertainment at this year’s Anniversary Festival, we’ve got you covered. Our 2025 festival highlights program brings a collection of captivating conversations by local and international Festival guests directly to your home. With lively talks and reflections aimed at understanding the past, our present, and how our words and actions shape the future.

  1. 2025 Festival Highlights | Sam Dalrymple: Shattered Lands

    6D AGO

    2025 Festival Highlights | Sam Dalrymple: Shattered Lands

    If you are after more conversations from #UWRF25, take this latest highlight session with you on your early commute or as you unwind after a busy day. In this illuminating conversation, Scottish historian and author Sam Dalrymple goes back in time to when, as recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia—India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait—was bound together under the single imperial banner known as the Indian Empire, or simply the Raj. Join host Husnara Khanom as Dalrymple explores five partitions and Asia’s enduring legacy of war, exile, and division. You can enjoy this latest highlight session, recorded live at our 2025 Festival, at ubudwritersfestival.com/media and on podcast platforms including Spotify and Simplecast.

    1h 8m
  2. 2025 Festival Highlights | Seeking Discomfort

    FEB 5

    2025 Festival Highlights | Seeking Discomfort

    Listen back to highlight events from #UWRF25, with new episodes released every week. In this week’s episode, Australian Rewilding Facilitator and writer Gina Chick, British-born essayist and novelist Pico Iyer, and Indonesian travel writer Agustinus Wibowo join Krishna Sen in an extraordinary conversation on seeking discomfort, showing how embracing fear, trying new things, and taking risks makes discomfort a catalyst for growth rather than an obstacle to development. 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.

    58 min
  3. 2025 Festival Highlights | The War Women Must Wage

    JAN 29

    2025 Festival Highlights | The War Women Must Wage

    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.

    1h 4m
  4. 2025 Festival Highlights | Modern Identities

    12/30/2025

    2025 Festival Highlights | Modern Identities

    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.

    58 min
  5. 2025 Festival Highlights | Gail Jones: The Name of the Sister

    12/16/2025

    2025 Festival Highlights | Gail Jones: The Name of the Sister

    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.

    55 min
  6. 2025 Festival Highlights | Writing Through Chaos

    12/09/2025

    2025 Festival Highlights | Writing Through Chaos

    We are delighted to announce the release of the first podcast episode from #UWRF25. In our first episode, join moderator Petra Molnar as she talks with brilliant minds Omar El Akkad, Neal Hall and Shiori Itō about how they choose to confront unthinkable atrocity with their pens, the tools that allow them to write in these times of urgent need, and why it is necessary to write on the battleground. Listen to the most urgent conversations from this year’s Festival, available at ⁠https://www.ubudwritersfestival.com/media⁠ and on podcast platforms such as Spotify and Simplecast.

    59 min
  7. 2024 Festival Highlights | The Rise of Book Bloggers

    03/21/2025

    2024 Festival Highlights | The Rise of Book Bloggers

    In this week's #UWRF24 highlight conversation, the UK’s largest BookTuber and the Internet's Resident Librarian, Jack Edwards, along with digital creator and blogger Sintia Astarina and Bali-based book cover designer and industry expert Ndari, share their journeys into the world of book blogging, the creative process behind their work, and insights into their experiences in shaping the world of literature in the digital age. This engaging conversation, moderated by Syarafina Vidyadhana, is now available to watch at ubudwritersfestival.com/media. You can also tap the link in our bio to listen to this session on podcast platforms like Spotify and Simplecast.

    1 min
  8. 2024 Festival Highlights | Shifting Genres: Challenging Forms and Crossing Genres

    03/13/2025

    2024 Festival Highlights | Shifting Genres: Challenging Forms and Crossing Genres

    Catch up on our latest #UWRF24 episode with award-winning authors Felix Cheong, Nam Le, and Omar Musa, alongside host Veronica Sullivan, as they explore the art of genre-shifting and how conventional forms in literature are being challenged. Revisit a rich discussion as they make sense of the creative process behind shifting genres and discuss its challenges. The complete session is now available to watch at ubudwritersfestival.com/media. Or, tap the link in our bio to listen to the session on podcast platforms like Spotify and Simplecast.

    1 hr
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If you missed a moment of enlightenment or entertainment at this year’s Anniversary Festival, we’ve got you covered. Our 2025 festival highlights program brings a collection of captivating conversations by local and international Festival guests directly to your home. With lively talks and reflections aimed at understanding the past, our present, and how our words and actions shape the future.

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