Bradman Museum will host the Sydney Writers' Festival satellite event, Sydney Writers' Festival in the Southern Highlands.

Following last year's sell-out event, organisers Michaela Bolzan and Kylie Matthews have arranged a stellar line-up of fantastic female speakers for the sessions this Sunday afternoon.

The Southern Highlands Writers' Festival this year centres on women writers and their contributions to literature throughout the ages.

Starting the conversation will be multitalented Tara Moss, a prominent Canadian/Australian novelist, journalist, blogger, model, TV presenter and outspoken advocate for the rights of women and children.

Australian Commonwealth Games gold medalist and writer Lisa Forrest will lead the talk, which will include discussion on Tara's first non-fiction and most recent book The Fictional Woman.

The literary afternoon will be broken up by an afternoon tea, an interval session titled "Stella's Book Club and Afternoon Tea".

Founder of The Stella Prize, Aviva Tuffield, will be in attendance to discuss the importance of this national prize for women writers in Australia.

Attendees of this session will enjoy a glass of bubbles, tea and scones as they pour over their complimentary copy of the 2015 Stella Prize winning book, The Strays by Emily Bitto.

SHWF creative director Michaela Bolzan said the thought behind this complementary book was that those who attend will have a chance to read the book before meeting Emily Bitto at the upcoming writers' festival events in July.

Drawing on the "one city, one book" initiative seen across the world in cities including Dublin and San Francisco where a localised book club is expanded to cover a whole city.

"We're not a city, but a region, a community, reading and discussing the same book at the same time," she said.

"Our aims are to continue to build a sense of community and promote literacy, and Emily Bitto's book The Strays is the perfect book to kick-start our initiative."

She said it was a coup for the Highlands to have such a strong connection to the Stella Prize.

The afternoon will conclude with a talk from yet another prominent Australian female writer.

Blanche d'Alpuget, known for her work as a fiction writer, biographer and essayist (as well as being the wife of former Prime Minister Bob Hawke), will share her creative journey and insights on historical fiction with visitors of the writers' festival, in conversation with award-winning author and conference presenter Jenny Strachan.

The Sydney Writers' Festival in the Southern Highlands will be held this Sunday, May 24 at Bradman Museum.

Session one with Tara Moss will be held from 2-3pm, the interval and Stella's Book Club and Afternoon Tea will take place between 3 and 4pm, and Session two with Blanche d'Alpuget will be held from 4-5pm.

Tickets are available and selling fast from The Bookshop Bowral on Bong Bong Street, or from the festival website at www.shwf.com.au/tickets