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12 Apr 2019

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Hot Desk Extract: self upon self upon self / Biography & memoir

Guest post by Shu-Ling Chua

An excerpt from Shu-Ling Chua's self upon self upon self, a collection of essays exploring the intersections between life and art.

10 Apr 2019

News

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Our City of Literature Parliament: Maiden Speeches / Books, reading & writing

A selection of maiden speeches from our City of Literature Parliament sessions.

8 Apr 2019

News

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Working with Words: Sonia Nair / Books, reading & writing

Guest post by Sonia Nair

Melbourne writer Sonia Nair spoke with us about writing regrets, unsung gems and tuna eyeballs.

8 Apr 2019

News

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Working with Words: Wayne Macauley / Books, reading & writing

Guest post by Wayne Macauley

Melbourne-based novelist Wayne Macauley stands by his full stops.

24 May 2019

Upcoming event

Booked out

Books and Ideas at Montalto

Meg and Tom Keneally / Books, reading & writing

With Meg Keneally, Thomas Keneally, and Elizabeth McCarthy

Tom and Meg Keneally are an unlikely crack novel-writing team who write about an unlikely crack murder-investigation team.

Tom Keneally is an icon of Australian literature: a Booker Prize-winner, a Miles Franklin-winner, and the author of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Schindler’s Ark and other classics. Meg Keneally is a former journalist and PR specialist turned crime writer. The…

26 Jul 2019

Upcoming event

Books and Ideas at Montalto

Tony Birch / Books, reading & writing

With Tony Birch and Elizabeth McCarthy

Tony Birch is among Australia’s finest living writers. A poet, activist and academic, as well as an acclaimed novelist and short-story writer, Birch’s writing is concerned with Australians, especially Indigenous Australians, living life on the fringes. He writes, too, about the dark shadow cast by the state in the everyday lives of marginalised people.

In 2017, he became the first…

Anything and everything in Australian stories from across our archives.

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23 Oct 2013

Past event

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Christos Tsiolkas: Barracuda / Books, reading & writing

With Michael Williams and Christos Tsiolkas

Children’s Book Festival 2013: Bronwyn Bancroft / Children’s books

23 Mar 2018

Past event

Books and Ideas at Montalto

Robyn Davidson / Biography & memoir

With Robyn Davidson and Elizabeth McCarthy

MJ Hyland: ‘It’s really tricky shit.' / Books, reading & writing

13 Mar 2015

News

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Explore the writers of the 2015 Stella Prize shortlist / Awards & prizes

By Jon Tjhia

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Wild Things: The Lives and Loves of John and Sunday Reed / Australian stories

With Lesley Harding, Kendrah Morgan, and Georgia Moodie

23 Jun 2017

News

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Working with Words: Amie Batalibasi / Film

Guest post by Amie Batalibasi

13 Sep 2012

Past event

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McSweeney’s 41: Australian Aboriginal Fiction Edition / Poetry

With Chris Flynn, Tony Birch, Melissa Lucashenko and 2 others

4 May 2019

Upcoming event

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Blaze a Tale: The Power of Story / Australian stories

With Tony Birch, Alice Pung, and Paddy O'Reilly

David Malouf / Poetry

16 Apr 2018

Past event

The Next Big Thing

Small Town Stories / New & emerging writers

With Jay Carmichael, Kate O’Donnell, Mira Robertson and 1 other

18 Aug 2017

Past event

Books and Ideas at Montalto

Tony Jones / Australian stories

With Tony Jones and Jason Steger

23 Mar 2011

Larissa Behrendt on Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage / Australian stories

By Jon Tjhia

(Click to watch video.)

Lawyer and acclaimed author Larissa Behrendt came into the Wheeler Centre last Thursday to deliver a Lunchbox/Soapbox on why overcoming indigenous disadvantage is proving to be so difficult. In a wide-ranging discussion, she touched on self-determination, the Northern Territory intervention, the suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act, mutual obligation and the failure of government vision.

8 Mar 2018

Past event