Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 21 September
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 September, come and hear works in progress from our second intake of writers for 2015. With Rebecca Butterworth, Emilie Collyer, Emma Marie Jones, Lian Low, Izzy Roberts-Orr and Jessica Yu. Find out more about the projects they’re completing during their Fellowships at wheelercentre.com.
Featuring
Rebecca Butterworth
Rebecca Whitehead is a freelance creative non-fiction and content writer. She has written for The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, and various health magazines. She has received a UNESCO Melbourne City of Literature Travel Grant. She lives in Melbourne.
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Emilie Collyer
Emilie Collyer lives on unceded Wurundjeri land. Her writing is widely published in Australia and internationally. Her poetry collection Do you have anything less domestic? (Vagabond Press 2022) won the inaugural ...
Lian Low
Lian Low writes across spoken word, fiction and creative non-fiction. From 2009-2016, Lian was an editor and a board member of Peril Magazine. In 2015, Lian was a recipient of a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship and a City of Literature Travel Fund to travel to the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival and the Melaka Art and Performance Festival (Malaysia). Lian is an inaugural recipient of the Wheeler Centre's Next Chapter fellowship and currently working on a young adult speculative fiction novel.
Izzy Roberts-Orr
Izzy Roberts-Orr is a poet and arts worker based on Wurundjeri Country in regional Victoria. Her debut collection, Raw Salt (Vagabond, 2024) was the recipient of a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship, Marten Bequest ...
Emma Marie Jones
Emma Marie Jones is a Melbourne-based writer, 2015 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow and 2016 Felix Meyer Scholar. She is the author of Something To Be Tiptoed Around, a work shortlisted for the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers in 2015 and due for release by Grattan Street Press in 2018. Emma’s work can be found in journals The Lifted Brow, Meanjin, Seizure and others. She is currently working on her first novel.
Emma has studied Creative Writing at Adelaide University and Melbourne University in Australia, and Oxford University in England. She is a previous editor of On Dit Magazine and previous Sex Editor at SPOOK Magazine.
Jessica Yu
Jessica Yu (@jessicazmyu) is the recipient of the Young Writers Innovation Prize 2014 and founding editor of interactive narrativity website, Betanarratives. Her fiction, poetry and non-fiction have been published or are forthcoming in Best Australian Poems 2014, Cordite, Mascara, the Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings, the Saturday Paper, Award Winning Australian Writing and more. She is a 2015 recipient of a Grace Marion Glenfern Fellowship as well as a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk fellow.