Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 26 October
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Find it hard to keep up with The Next Big Thing in books and writing? We’re here to help. The Next Big Thing is all about showcasing exciting new writers – those we believe are ones to watch.
This is a golden opportunity to discover the work of writers hand-picked by us from around Australia, in the cosy surrounds of The Moat, where you can enjoy a drink and a bite as you’re entertained and enlightened.
These are the literary stars of tomorrow. Come and hear from them today.
In October, we'll feature Claire Varley, Lucy Treloar, Luke Beesley and Rafael S.W.
Featuring
Lucy Treloar
Lucy Treloar was born in Malaysia and educated in England, Sweden and Melbourne. Her novel Salt Creek (2015) won the Dobbie Literary Award, and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the UK's Walter Scott Prize. Wolfe Island (2019), her second novel, won the Barbara Jefferis Award and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's and NSW Literary Awards. She is a previous winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Pacific region).
Lucy's essays and short fiction have appeared in publications including The Saturday Paper, Meanjin, The Age, AEU Magazine, Overland and Best Australian Stories.
A graduate of the University of Melbourne and RMIT, Lucy works as a writer and occasional creative writing teacher. She lives in inner Melbourne with her family and two whippets, and is currently writing her third novel.
View ProfileClaire Varley
Claire Varley grew up on the Bellarine Peninsula and lives in Melbourne. She has sold blueberries, worked in a haunted cinema, won an encouragement award for being terrible at telemarketing, taught English in rural China, and coordinated community development projects in remote Solomon Islands.
Her short stories and poems have appeared in Australian Love Stories ('A Greek Tragedy'), Australian Love Poems('Beatitude'), Seizure online ('Poll', 'Hallow'), page seventeen ('Once', 'Hamlet, Remus and Two Guys Named Steve'), Sotto ('in the name of') and [Untitled] ('The Nicholas Name', 'Behind Tram Lines').
The Bit In Between is her first novel.
Luke Beesley
Luke Beesley is an artist, musician and poet. His latest poetry collection, Jam Sticky Vision, has just been published by Giramondo. His previous books are New Works on Paper, Balance and Lemon Shark, and his poems have been published in the Black Inc Best Australian Poems and UQP Best Australian Poetry anthologies. He has received awards and fellowships from the Australia Council, The Wheeler Centre, Arts Victoria, State Library of Victoria, City of Melbourne and the Asialink Foundation. He lives in Melbourne.
Rafael S.W.
Rafael S.W. is a recent graduate of creative writing and one of the founding members of Dead Poets’ Fight Club. Currently working on some collections of stories and a few novels, he’s been published in the Big Issue Fiction Edition, Sleepers Almanac and Award Winning Australian Writing. A regular contributor to Going Down Swinging online, he’s also fiercely competitive in poetry slams and street-hustling chess games.