On 20 May 2026, the National Library of Australia hosted the 12 years in: Writing for the Future Library (2014-2114) event. We invited producer and chair of the Future Library Trust, Anne Beate Hovind to discuss the project with Kathryn Favelle. Anne showcased the twelfth chapter that will one day comprise one hundred.

Missed the Library event? You can watch the recording below.

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Now, follow along with the Future Library project and join Tommy Orange and Amitav Ghosh online as they partake in the 2026 Handover Ceremony. This includes handing over their manuscripts in a ceremony in Oslo.

This is an online event only, livestreamed from the Future Library Forest in Oslo, Norway. Click the 'Watch the livestream' button to join the stream on the event date.

About the Future Library project

Rooted in Oslo, Norway, the century long literary artwork Future Library, created by Scottish artist Katie Paterson, grows, quite literally, alongside a forest planted in Nordmarka in 2014. Each year, an author is selected to submit a manuscript into the Future Library, to be sealed away and only printed 100 years afterwards, using the trees planted in the forest.  

Over the years, writers including Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Sjón, Elif Shafak, Han Kang, Karl Ove Knausgård, Ocean Vuong, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Judith Schalansky and Valeria Luiselli have entrusted their unseen texts to the project.

Written for readers who will live a century from now, the Future Library unfolds slowly and tenderly across time. It invites us to consider authorship, trust, and the long arc of cross-generational responsibility, as well as the climate and nature crises shaping our shared future. It asks what it means to write for an audience we will never meet, and how literature might carry care, imagination and solidarity across generations.