Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 30 November
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
As part of this year’s Next Big Thing series, you’ll find three special Hot Desk editions featuring writers in the midst of Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowships.
In November, come and hear works in progress from our third and final intake of writers for 2015. With Clem Bastow, Li-Kim Chuah, Astrid Edwards, Georgia Symons and Sam van Zweden. Find out more about the projects they’re completing during their Fellowships at wheelercentre.com.
Featuring
Clem Bastow
Clem Bastow's debut nonfiction book Late Bloomer was published in July 2021. Her writing appears regularly in The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Big Issue. She co-wrote and co-presented the 2017 ABC podcast Behind The Belt, a documentary "deep dive" into professional wrestling, and in 2018 she co-produced the first wrestling death match to be held on Tasmanian soil, Night Massacre, for Dark Mofo. She holds a Master of Screenwriting from University of Melbourne/VCA, teaches screenwriting at UoM and is currently undertaking a PhD in action cinema and screenwriting at RMIT University. She lives and works on Wurundjeri land with her dog, Milly.
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Li-Kim Chuah
Li-Kim Chuah is screenwriter who has worked extensively in adult drama and children's TV for the past seven years. Her writing credits include: Offspring Series 5, Neighbours and The Saddle Club Series 3. Li-Kim's satirical look at being Asian Australian was explored in the ‘coming out’ mock-documentary Of Asian Persuasion – a winner at The Reelife Film Festival, shown nationally in 2003–2005.
Li-Kim has been documenting conversations with her mother for years and has been patiently waiting to unleash them on to the world in the TV comedy series Messy Moves.
Georgia Symons
Georgia Symons is a maker of theatre, games, and interactive experiences. Her recent work includes: TurboDetective 3000 (National Young Writers Festival, 2015); Follow Me (Melbourne Fringe: Uncommon Places, 2015) In the Dark (Metanoia Live Works, 2015); Iago (Western Edge Youth Arts/Malthouse, 2015); The Alien Meteorites of Federation Square (Pop-Up Playground/Fed Square 2015); Three-Legged Race Around the World (Digital Writers Festival 2015); and A Puppet Show for All Ages (ASYLUM by Apocalypse Theatre Company, Old 505 Theatre 2015). Georgia has worked as an arts educator with companies such as Western Edge Youth Arts, Platform Youth Theatre, University of Technology Sydney, and as a freelance artist in schools. She has been the recipient of the Best New Talent award at Short & Sweet Sydney (2011); the Orloff Family Charitable Trust award for Outstanding Academic Achievement (VCA, 2014); and an ArtStart grant from the Australia Council (2015). Georgia holds a BA in Communications & International Studies from UTS (2013), and a Master’s of Writing for Performance from the VCA (2014).
Sam van Zweden
Sam van Zweden is a Melbourne-based writer interested in memory, food, mental health and the body. Her writing has been published by the Saturday Paper, ABC Life, Meanjin, The Big Issue, The Lifted Brow, Cordite, The Sydney Review of Books, The Wheeler Centre and others. Her debut book, Eating with my Mouth Open, won the 2019 KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award, and is available now.
Astrid Edwards
Astrid Edwards is a bibliophile. She hosts The Garret: Writers on Writing, judges literary prizes and teaches in the Associate Degree of Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT University. She has served on the boards of ...