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Dates & Times
Tuesday 16 April
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
Studying a book or film can be a short-cut to consigning it to boredom. But our Texts in the City series – a gift to students, their teachers and lifelong learners – brings the VCE English and Literature lists to life.
Each week, our hosts – authors Lili Wilkinson and Tony Birch – will interview experts intimately familiar with the texts, unearthing those hidden gems that could help your essay shine.
Tony Birch will be joined by Emmett Stinson to discuss this week’s text – Steven Amsterdam’s Things We Didn’t See Coming.
· Related video: Our 2011 Texts in the City discussion of this text
Featuring
Tony Birch
Tony Birch is the author of four novels, five short fiction collections, and two poetry books. His most recent book is the novel, Women and Children (UQP).
View ProfileEmmett Stinson
Emmett Stinson is a lecturer in publishing and communications at the University of Melbourne and president of SPUNC, Australia’s only advocacy group for small presses.
He has been fiction editor for Wet Ink: The Magazine of New Writing, book reviewer for Triple R’s Breakfasters, and a panellist on the Australian Department of Innovation’s federal Book Industry Strategy Group.
Emmett’s debut collection of short stories, Known Unknowns (Affirm Press) was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award for short fiction. He is a recipient of The Age Short Story Award and a Lannan Poetry Fellowship. His essays, reviews, and fiction have appeared in The Age, The Australian, The Big Issue, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, The Monthly, Overland, The Sleepers Almanac, The Modernism Handbook (Continuum, 2009), and more.
Banning Islamic Books in Australia, which he co-wrote with Richard Pennell and Pam Pryde, was published by Melbourne University Press in June 2011