Sydney Writers' Festival Non-Fiction- contemporary key issues from food to health care to dangerous everyday things to cosmic war.

Check out this list of program topics for the Sydney Writers' Festival---

http://www.swf.org.au/component/option,com_events/Itemid,176/task,view_strand/

The 2010 SWF had a particular emphasis on non-fiction highlighted by the opening address given by Rezee Aslan (How to Win a Cosmic War; No God but God) a leading commentator on Iran and the US War on Terror. If you cast about in the program there are many writers who have recently produced books on all sorts of key contemporary issues. Lionel Shriver - the working of the US healthcare system (So Much for that- a novel) ; Michael Otterman - US Torture - Erasing Iraq ; Bill McKibben - climate change (Eaarth); Raj Pavel - our financial system and food - (The Value of Nothing); Bruce Laurie - the danger of everyday things (Slow Death by Rubber Duck : The Secret Danger of Everyday Things) -- and much more.