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Six of Australia’s best emerging literary voices share their work at a special Melbourne Writers Festival edition of The Next Big Thing.
Discover new works and celebrate cutting-edge writing talent at this much-loved readings series from The Wheeler Centre.
Raya Goldtwig reflects on a childhood shaped by the long shadow of World War II in her evocative memoir The World Belongs to Children. In her fearless debut Periodic Bitch, Emma Hardy interrogates menstrual monsters and the culture that created them, drawing on her own experience with premenstrual dysphoric disorder. Journalist Antoun Issa’s Rebirth traces his mother’s journey through love, migration and renewal amid the upheaval of the Lebanese Civil War. Emily Lighezzolo’s Life Drawing is a provocative novel about women’s bodies, sex, autonomy – and the power of the image. Graphic storyteller Soolagna Majumdar shares work from her forthcoming project Food Bird. And Olivia Wood presents her Voiceworks piece, ‘Privilege of a Peaceful Grief’, a meditation on the strange undercurrents flowing beneath suburban family life.
Hosted by Pranati Narayan Visweswaran.
This event may include references to sensitive content. The authors will share relevant content warnings with the audience before their readings.
The Next Big Thing series is generously supported by George and Rosa Morstyn.
Presented in partnership with Melbourne Writers Festival
Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Saturday 9 May
3.30 - 4.30pm
Tickets
$19.50
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$15.50
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$15.50
Under 30
$0.00
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Additional Notes
Featuring
Raya Goldtwig
Raya Goldtwig was born in Warsaw and spent her early childhood moving through Russia and wartime Europe, later living in a refugee camp in Germany. She arrived in Melbourne in 1950, speaking six languages. ...
Emma Hardy
Emma Hardy is an Australian writer based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her writing has been published in Guernica, The Monthly, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Lifted Brow, Voiceworks and Going Down Swinging. Emma ...
Antoun Issa
Antoun Issa is a Lebanese-Australian journalist and co-founder of Deepcut News. After completing his Master of International Relations at the Australian National University, he moved to Lebanon in 2011 where he worked ...
Emily Lighezzolo
Emily Lighezzolo has worked in Australian publishing for nearly a decade. Life Drawing won the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer at the Queensland Literary Awards and is her first book. She lives ...
Soolagna Majumdar
Soolagna Majumdar is a Kolkata born, Perth/Boorloo raised comic artist and illustrator. Comics and art are a means for her to explore self awakenings, to find the magical and mystical within the mundane, and to make ...
Olivia Wood
Olivia J. Wood is a writer born and raised in Naarm. She has three baby teeth and writes a blog dedicated to them. John Marsden forgot her name once.
Pranati Narayan Visweswaran
Artist, creative worker, and culture junkie, Pranati is a staunch supporter of the arts. They have worked with emerging, independent BIPOC artists, and are the founder of local initiative South by South East Asian (SXSEA ...