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7 Aug 2017

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Working with Words: Shaun Prescott / Fiction

Guest post by Shaun Prescott

Shaun Prescott writes fiction and non-fiction. He's the former editor of Crawlspace and his writing on games, music and culture has appeared in the Guardian, Meanjin, PC Gamer, the Lifted Brow and more. Shaun spoke with us about day jobs, Kafka and the thrilling release of his new…

6 Oct 2017

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Richard Flanagan in Conversation: Bendigo / Australian stories

With Richard Flanagan and Cate Kennedy

In his Man Booker Prize-winning novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan found the humane in the face of a great crime. The 2014 book, about the World War II Prisoners of War who built the Thai-Burma railway, earned Flanagan parallels with Cormac McCarthy and a vocal fan in former US President Barack Obama.

Like his…

9 Oct 2017

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Richard Flanagan in Conversation / Australian stories

With Richard Flanagan and Michael Williams

Like his…

28 Sep 2017

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Booked out

Jane Harper / Crime & pulp

With Jane Harper and Helen Withycombe

Jane Harper’s debut crime novel, The Dry, was an instant success – selling into 20 countries, winning major awards at the Indie Book Awards and getting optioned by Reese Witherspoon’s production company.

The Dry – set in a drought-stricken farming community in rural Victoria – follows federal police investigator Aaron Falk, who returns to his hometown in the wake…

1 Sep 2017

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Robert Drewe in Conversation / Australian stories

With Robert Drewe and Hannie Rayson

The sea has loomed large throughout Robert Drewe’s body of work, from the award-winning memoir The Shark Net to the short-story collection, The Rip. His new novel, Whipbird, takes us inland to Ballarat. But the sense of unseen currents tugging beneath the calm surface is as present here as ever in Drewe’s work.

Six generations of the Cleary…

20 Oct 2017

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Books and Ideas at Montalto

Melanie Cheng / Australian stories

With Melanie Cheng and Sian Prior

The Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript has an impressive track record for unearthing major literary talent. The winner of the 2016 Award, Melanie Cheng, joined an outstanding alumni, including Graeme Simsion (The Rosie Project), Maxine Beneba Clarke (Foreign Soil) and Jane Harper (The Dry).

Cheng’s winning work, Australia Day, is…

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25 Jan 2016

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Stella Sparks: writers reflect on inspiring books by Australian women / Books, reading & writing

8 Jul 2015

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Martin Flanagan and Bob Murphy in Conversation / Sport

With Martin Flanagan and Bob Murphy

21 Mar 2013

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Australian Literature 102

The Watch Tower / Fiction

With James Ley and Geordie Williamson

23 Apr 2015

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Helen Garner and Hannie Rayson / Biography & memoir

With Helen Garner and Hannie Rayson

27 Nov 2013

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‘The Ghosts Around Us’: Toni Jordan on Nadia Wheatley / Classics

By Jo Case

Lunchbox/Soapbox: Chris Sarra on Indigenous Education / Australian stories

22 Sep 2014

Past event

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Omar Musa and Maxine Beneba Clarke / Books, reading & writing

With Maxine Beneba Clarke, Omar Musa, and Jeff Sparrow

Lunchbox/Soapbox: Gregory Phillips on The Republic and Aboriginal Peoples / Australian stories

With Gregory Phillips

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.

14 May 2015

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