Maxine Beneba Clarke

About

Maxine Beneba Clarke is the author of the acclaimed memoir The Hate Race, the award-winning short fiction collection Foreign Soil, the poetry collections Carrying The World and How Decent Folk Behave, and many other books for adults and children. She is currently Poet in Residence at Melbourne University.

Upcoming Events

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M/OTHER

Mum's the Word Gala

Pragya Agarwal, Sophie Beer, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Tony Birch, Clementine Ford, Jan Fran, Esther Freud, Mali Hawke, Eliza Hull, Monica Dux, Patricia Karvelas, Libby O'Donovan, Ronnie Scott, Rachel Yoder

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4 Mar

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Past Events

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The Show of the Year

Maxine Beneba Clarke, Tripod, Sammy J, Chloe Hooper, Henry Wagons, Hannah Gadsby, Casey Bennetto, Lally Katz, George Megalogenis, Tony Birch, Catherine Deveny, Alan Brough

12 Dec

Weather Stations

Power Slam

Maxine Beneba Clarke, Abe Nouk, Jaś Kapela, Emilie Zoey Baker, Geoff Lemon

5 May

Unpublished Manuscript Award at EWF Opening Night

Maxine Beneba Clarke, Sam Twyford-Moore

27 May

Middlesex: Queer Week

Woolf & Wilde: A Queer Party

Maxine Beneba Clarke, Selina Jenkins, James Andrews, Tristan Meecham, Dosh Luckwell, Yana Alana, Whiskey Houston, Buck Angel, Benjamin Law

29 Nov

Now read this

Omar Musa and Maxine Beneba Clarke

Maxine Beneba Clarke, Omar Musa, Jeff Sparrow

22 Sep

GALAs 2015

On Five. A Gala Night of Storytelling.

Maxine Beneba Clarke, William McInnes, Anita Heiss, Les Murray, Michael Leunig, Robert Dessaix, Eddie Perfect, Mark Colvin, Stephanie Alexander, Robyn Annear, Tim Flannery, Ellen van Neerven