Ahead of the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, join us at MPavilion for a special book club celebrating this year’s Fiction shortlist.
You’ll hear from a line-up of speakers, including Cher Tan, Jaclyn Crupi and Bridget Caldwell, who’ll each reflect on one of the five shortlisted titles: Act of Grace by Anna Krien, Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas, Simpson Returns by Wayne Macauley, The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab and The Yield by Tara June Winch. Then, you’ll have the chance to share your own thoughts and questions.
This is a free event.
Presented in partnership with MPavilion.
Featuring
Cher Tan is an essayist and critic in Naarm/Melbourne, via Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide and Singapore. Her work has appeared in the Sydney Review of Books, Overland, The Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings, Runway Journal and elsewhere. She is an editor at LIMINAL magazine and the reviews editor at Meanjin. ... Read more
Jaclyn Crupi is a bookseller, specialising in fiction, at Hill of Content Bookshop in Melbourne and a freelance book editor and project manager. She has written several children’s books ranging from board books for babies to series fiction for middle graders to craft kits for tweens and teens. ... Read more
Bridget Caldwell-Bright is a Jingili Mudburra writer and editor based in Melbourne. She works as a freelance editor for Hardie Grant Books as well as commissioning editor for literary journal the Lifted Brow. She was previously co-editor for Archer magazine’s First Nations Edition and managing edi... Read more
Chris Somerville is the author of the short story collection We Are Not The Same Anymore. He is a former Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow and his work has appeared in Best Australian Stories, Paper Radio, Griffith Review and the Lifted Brow. ... Read more
Justine Hyde is a writer, critic and librarian who lives in Melbourne. Her criticism, essays and short fiction are published in the Age/Sydney Morning Herald, the Saturday Paper, Meanjin, LitHub, Electric Literature, Kill Your Darlings and a range of anthologies. ... Read more
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