September: Hot Desk Edition
Series
Where
When
Monday, 15 Sep 2014, 06:15pm - 07:15pm
Event Status
Past event
Ender Baskan is a Melbourne-based writer who is working on a travel memoir about his return to Turkey.
Meaghan Bell is working on a series of poems investigating the apocalyptic outcomes of global warming and climate change.
Elin-Maria Evangelista is writing a novel about a handful of Australians travelling to Stockholm for the 1934 world congress in Esperanto.
Rebecca Harkins-Cross is writing a cultural history of Australian cinema, consisting of discrete essays on key films. She is film editor of the Big Issue.
Christa Jonathan’s short-story cycle The Long Way Home will be published as a series of themed zines.
Chad Parkhill’s critical essay ‘About Time’ will analyse Daft Punk’s 2001 album Discovery in terms of technology and temporality.
Kieran Stevenson’s The Johnston Tradition is a novel that follows Padraig Johnston, a young man who has fallen into a life of alcoholic isolation.
The Next Big Thing
Australia consistently produces a wealth of new literary talent – from debut novelists to short-story writers, memoirists to poets. How to keep up? It’s simple.
Once a month, head on down to The Next Big Thing, where you’ll hear from and meet exciting new and emerging authors. These are the literary stars of tomorrow. Come and hear from them today.
Included in our line-up are two special extended editions, with spotlight conversations on selected authors. And two Hot Desk editions, featuring the writers selected for our renowned Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowships.
Featuring
Meaghan has featured at many poetry reading events around Melbourne as well as working with the journals Going Down Swinging and Visible Ink. She was a part of the team producing the Visible Ink journal in 2011 and completed her study at RMIT (Professional Writing and Editing) the following year. Me... Read more
Elin-Maria Evangelista is a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship recipient, 2014. She holds a PhD in creative writing and has published on translation issues when writing in a second language. An award-winning short-story writer, she has been an invited guest at international writers’ festivals and ... Read more
Chad Parkhill is a Melbourne-based cultural critic who writes about sex, booze, music, history, and books – but not necessarily in that order. His work has appeared in The Australian, Junkee, Killings (the blog of Kill Your Darlings), The Lifted Brow, Meanjin, Overland, and The Quietus, amongst ot... Read more
Rebecca Harkins-Cross is a writer and cultural critic from Naarm/Melbourne. Her work has been published widely in journals and periodicals across Australia and the world. Rebecca is currently a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University’s Writing Program in New York City and finalising her PhD i... Read more
Kieran Stevenson is a Melbourne writer and musician who graduated from one of RMIT’s writing programs and dropped out of another. He has a preoccupation with the unusual, with hopelessness and gallows humour. He is currently undertaking a Hot Desk Fellowship at the Wheeler Centre to complete his f... Read more
Ender Baskan studies professional writing & editing at RMIT. He is the recipient of a 2014/15 Marten Bequest travelling scholarship for prose and a 2014 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship. When he’s not travelling, he’s writing about it. At the moment, it’s a travel memoir about his return... Read more
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