Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 17 July
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
It’s no secret that literary magazines are a great place to discover exciting, experimental new writing. At best, they offer that magical combination of a writer’s more intrepid ideas, an editor’s guiding hand and an open-minded readership.
In this edition of the Next Big Thing, hear readings of great new work – hand-picked by the editors of local lit rags including Kill Your Darlings, Archer, The Lifted Brow and Voiceworks. With Ellen O'Brien, Laura Stortenbeker, Richard Hanson and Anna Kingston.
Featuring
Laura Stortenbeker
Laura Stortenbeker is a writer and editor. Her work has been published in Overland, Meanjin, Chart Collective and Kill Your Darlings. In 2016 she was the recipient of a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship. In 2017 she was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript.
Anna Kingston
Anna Kingston is a dancer, performance artist and founder of Strange Beast Collective. They create performances that fuse elements of burlesque, caberaet, performance art and drag to explore themes of sexuality, gender, BDSM and fetish.
Prior to forming the collective, Anna spent the best past of the past ten years as an independent choreographer and human rights activist, and led Amnesty International's ARTillery group in a number of arts focused festivals and events. Anna is currently spending her spare time creating a new social enterprise, designing bicycle trailers and food carts to create pathways to self-employment for refugees and long-term unemployed.
Ellen O’Brien
Ellen O’Brien is a Garigal/Walkeloa writer and editor. Ellen is the Editor-in-Residence at the Faber Writing Academy at Allen & Unwin. She has had prose and poetry published in Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, Overland, The Big Issue and Cordite, among other publications.
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Richard Hanson
Richard Hanson is a writer based in Melbourne. He is interested in the underside of experience, the bounds of language, and representing mental illness. He is currently working on a manuscript for a short novel.