Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Tuesday 15 May
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
No matter how compelling a novel or a film might be, if you have to study it, there’s always the risk you’ll end up hating it. Not any more! A gift to VCE students, their teachers (and of course life-long learners) Texts in the City is a weekly exploration of the classic texts – both old and new – that appear on the VCE English reading lists.
For our brand new season of Texts in the City, we’ve asked schools to nominate which texts on the curriculum they’d most like to see discussed. By presenting speakers who are intimately familiar with each chosen work, as a writer, reviewer, publisher or performer, we’ll offer new perspectives on these classic books, creating the chance to take the obligation out of – and put the joy back into – reading for the VCE.
Sessions run at the student-friendly timeslot of 4.30pm – 5.15pm and are subsequently hosted on the Wheeler Centre website.
This week, we look at Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood.
Featuring
Carmel Bird
Carmel Bird is an Australian fiction writer who has written ten novels and six collections of short fiction. Her most recent novel is Child of the Twilight.
She has also edited many collections of essays and short stories, and has written three highly popular books on how to write, the latest being Writing the Story of Your Life. Her most recent publication is the picture book The Fabulous Finola Fox (illustrated by Kerry Argent and published by Penguin).
Ruby Murray
Ruby J Murray is a writer and researcher whose work appears regularly in Australian magazines, journals and newspapers. Her first novel, Running Dogs, is out now through Scribe.
Ruby is a regular moderator and host at public events and writers festivals including the Melbourne Writers Festival, the Emerging Writers Festival, The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival and the Melbourne Free University.