Here and Gone Edition
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Where
When
Monday, 20 Apr 2020, 06:15pm - 07:15pm
Event Status
Past event
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For this edition of The Next Big Thing, we present a handful of writers whose exciting new works concern distance and perspective – from down the hall, across town or the other side of the world.
The Adversary, by Ronnie Scott, follows its protagonist from a long Brunswick winter into the sticky heat of one transformative Melbourne summer. Laura McPhee-Browne’s tender coming-of-age novel, Cherry Beach, introduces a pair of childhood best friends who depart suburban Melbourne to live in Toronto. And in her experimental essay collection, Blueberries, Ellena Savage wields a stirring blend of journalism, poetry, polemic and memoir in her pursuit of human truths: the meaning of power and desire, the decisions that make a life, and one’s place in the world.
Join us at The Moat as we bring these three writers together for readings from their new books – alongside April Rasmussen, who’ll share ‘Familial Eclipse of the Heart’, her essay published in the latest edition of Voiceworks.
Readings will be our bookseller for this event.
Featuring
Stella is the Wheeler Centre’s Programming Coordinator. An emerging arts manager and event producer, Stella was previously the Marketing and Events Coordinator for Readings, and the Festival Manager for the National Young Writers’ Festival, Australia’s largest gathering of young and innova... Read more
Ronnie Scott’s first novel The Adversary was shortlisted for a Queensland Literary Award and the ALS Gold Medal; his second novel, Shirley, will be published in February. He teaches Creative Writing at RMIT.
Ellena Savage is an author and academic. Her work has been published widely in anthologies and literary journals including, recently, the Paris Review Daily, Sydney Review of Books, Choice Words and Lifted Brow, of which she is a former editor. Ellena is the recipient of several grants and prizes, ... Read more
Laura McPhee-Browne a writer, social worker, and counsellor living in Melbourne, on unceded Wurundjeri land. Her award-winning debut novel, Cherry Beach, was published by Text Publishing in February 2020. Her second novel, Little Plum, is forthcoming with Text Publishing on January 31st, 2023. She i... Read more
April Rasmussen is a writer and artist living in Melbourne. Her education is in science, but her real passion is crafting stories about the ways we live, love, and learn from one another. Originally from the US, she has lived in Chile and Denmark, and is now finding appreciation for all that the Aus... Read more
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