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Working with Words: Claire Zorn / Books, reading & writing

By Claire Zorn

Claire Zorn is a writer based in New South Wales. She spoke with us about fashion design, cutting back on adverbs and Wombles fan-fiction.

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Double Booked Club

Carrie Tiffany and Peggy Frew / Australian stories

With Carrie Tiffany and Peggy Frew

How do family dynamics shape us and warp us? What do we expect of mothers and daughters? At our second monthly talk in the Double Booked series, we’ll ask two acclaimed literary authors: Carrie Tiffany and Peggy Frew. Both have new novels about families in crisis.

Tiffany won the Stella Prize in 2013 for her second book, Mateship with Birds…

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Double Booked Club

Yassmin Abdel-Magied and Alison Evans / Young adult

With Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Alison Evans, and Leanne Hall

For the first event in our fiction series, we’re pairing two authors with new books out for younger readers: Yassmin Abdel-Magied and Alison Evans.

You Must Be Layla is Abdel-Magied’s second book, and first foray into fiction, about a young girl from an Islamic family and her struggle to fit in at a new school. Highway Bodies is Alison Evans’s…

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Double Booked Club / Australian stories

For each of these monthly lunchtime sessions, we’ll bring together two great local fiction authors to discuss their work. They'll start with a chat about their latest books, before meandering off into conversation about backlists, shared themes and literary heroes.

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Group Texts / Australian stories

Group Texts is a new Wheeler Centre mini-series spotlighting excellent Australian genre writers. Each season, we'll zero in on a different category of popular fiction. Hear reflections and provocations on key issues and ideas about your favourite genre. Romance junkies, fantasy freaks, crime fiends, YA addicts – these talks are for you.

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Reading Your Mind: Neurodiversity and Writing / Books, reading & writing

With Graeme Simsion and Clem Bastow

In 2013, Graeme Simsion published his first novel, The Rosie Project, and the world fell in love with its big-hearted, socially inept protagonist, Don Tillman.

Though some readers and reviewers read Don as a character who was ‘on the spectrum’, Simsion himself has resisted labels in public discussions of his wildly successful series of romantic comedy novels. The Rosie…

Anything and everything in Australian stories from across our archives.

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Texts in the City: The Secret River / Australian stories

With Tony Birch and Tony Wilson

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Indigenous Languages / Words & language

With Paul Paton, Mandy Nicholson, Joel Wright and 1 other

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Craig Silvey on Adapting Jasper Jones / Australian stories

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The Fifth Estate

Immigration / Migration

With Sally Warhaft, Munjed Al Muderis, and Shen Narayanasamy

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Martin Flanagan and Bob Murphy in Conversation / Sport

With Martin Flanagan and Bob Murphy

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The Show of the Year 2015 / Performing arts & pop culture

With Casey Bennetto , Santilla Chingaipe, The Listies and 9 others

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Maria Tumarkin: Axiomatic / Australian stories

With Melinda Harvey, Maria Tumarkin, Lisa West McNeice and 2 others

Ideas for Melbourne: Making Racism History / Race, religion & identity

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The Politics of Biography / Biography & memoir

With Jenny Hocking

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Celebrating Peter Temple / Life & death

With Jason Steger, Kerryn Goldsworthy, Michael Robotham and 5 others

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New News by the Centre for Advancing Journalism

Michelle Guthrie: Keynote Lecture / Media

With Michelle Guthrie

Lunchbox/Soapbox: Judge John Smallwood on An Old Take on Justice: County Koori Court / Law, ethics & philosophy

With Judge John Smallwood

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Books and Ideas at Montalto

Elliot Perlman / Books, reading & writing

With Elliot Perlman and Louise Swinn

Podcast episode

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Books and Ideas at Montalto

William McInnes / Books, reading & writing

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Once and Future: Australian Speculative Fiction / Science fiction

With Claire G. Coleman, Rjurik Davidson, Jack Nicholls and 3 others

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Lunchbox / Soapbox

Gregory Phillips on The Republic and Aboriginal Peoples / Government

With Gregory Phillips

Podcast episode

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The Messenger

Position is Clear / Migration

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Australian Literature 102

The Watch Tower / Fiction

With James Ley and Geordie Williamson

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