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Books and Ideas at Montalto

Krissy Kneen / Australian stories

With Krissy Kneen and Elizabeth McCarthy

Krissy Kneen is a writer of lavish imagination.

Over seven books – including five novels, one volume of poetry and a memoir – she's invented bizarre fictional technologies, conjured extravagant sexual escapades, and speculated about consciousness-fusing with jellyfish. Female sexual adventure is front and centre in much of Kneen's work, but her writing twists and traverses several genres including literary…

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The Wheeler Centre

Carmen Maria Machado / Bodies

Her Body and Other Parties is Carmen Maria Machado’s first book-length work of fiction, and has won her international acclaim, but the Philadelphia-based writer is also an essayist and critic who writes for the New Yorker, Granta, Paris Review, VICE and more. She talks fiction, fabulism and body language with host Angela Meyer.

Carmen Maria Machado and her short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties

Gory, macabre and surreal, Her Body and Other Parties is for readers who like their fiction weird.

Machado’s debut short-story collection – which blends science fiction, horror, erotica and fairytale – is a work of bravura originality. It’s a book about the claimed and contested female body, and about the thrills and dangers of the flesh. With queer women front and centre, Machado’s stories are somehow both brutal and uplifting.

‘It’s a wild thing, this book, covered in sequins and scales, blazing with the influence of fabulists from Angela Carter to Kelly Link and Helen Oyeyemi,’ Parul Sehgal wrote in the New York Times.

Angela Meyer and Carmen Maria Machado

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Carmen Maria Machado / Bodies

With Carmen Maria Machado and Angela Meyer

Her Body and Other Parties is Carmen Maria Machado’s first book-length work of fiction, and has won her international acclaim, but the Philadelphia-based writer is also an essayist and critic who writes for the New Yorker, Granta, Paris Review, VICE and more. She talks fiction, fabulism and body language with host Angela Meyer.

Gory, macabre and surreal, Her…

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Mayhem

Carmen Maria Machado / Bodies

With Carmen Maria Machado and Angela Meyer

Note: Carmen's book, Her Body and Other Parties, has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2018 International Dylan Thomas Prize. To attend the ceremony in the UK, Carmen's Australian visit has been shortened; this discussion will now take place at an early date and time.

Gory, macabre and surreal, Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado is for…

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The Wheeler Centre at The Toff

Erotic Fan Fiction / Comedy & humour

With Nath Valvo, Demi Lardner, Jess McGuire and 1 other

We’re slipping into something a little more comfortable with this next edition of Erotic Fan Fiction as we take it off ... site. To the Toff. We’re combining our favourite night of sexy stories with red velvet curtains, a more intimate setting and signature cocktails to keep everyone well lubricated.

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Erotic Fan Fiction / Erotica

With Ali McGregor, James Colley, Gareth Davies and 2 others

What did Wind in the Willows’ Ratty really mean when he talked of ‘messing about in boats’? And what did Wodehouse’s Jeeves serve along with Bertie’s cup of tea each morning to really make his master say, ‘What-ho!’? Yes, Erotic Fan Fiction is back again – so let your mind run wild.

It’s the same deal as always. Everyone gathers…

Anything and everything in Erotica from across our archives.

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Erotic Fan Fiction / Sexual & gender politics

With Andrew Denton, Clementine Ford, Declan Greene and 2 others

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Books and Ideas at Montalto

Krissy Kneen / Australian stories

With Krissy Kneen and Elizabeth McCarthy

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Erotic Fan Fiction / Erotica

With Travis Cotton, Zora Sanders, Virginia Gay and 2 others

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The F Word

Romance / Romance

With Maxine Beneba Clarke, Kate Belle, Kat Mayo and 1 other

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Friday High Five: Mean Critics and 50 Shades of Spanking / Sexual & gender politics

By Jo Case

Portrait of Lawrence Leung

Lawrence Leung / Erotica
http://www.lawrenceleung.com/
Lawrence has performed his one man shows in festivals and theatres around the world including London's Soho Theatre and the Sydney Opera House. His award-winning theatre show, Sucker, was adapted into the AWGIE-nominated feature film starring Timothy Spall. The screenplay was shortlisted for the 2017 NSW Premier's Literary Award.

As a hardcore geek, Lawrence once jumped out of a plane with a Rubik’s Cube and solved it during freefall – just in time to release the parachute.

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Erotic Fan Fiction / Erotica

With Ali McGregor, Zoey Louise Moonbeam Dawson, Virginia Gay and 2 others

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Erotic Fan Fiction / Erotica

With Richard Higgins, Anne Edmonds , Mark Wilson and 2 others

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Erotic Fan Fiction / Erotica

With Greg Larsen, Laura Jean McKay, Tom Doig and 2 others

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Erotic Fan Fiction / Erotica

With Kat Muscat, Lawrence Leung, Laura Davis and 2 others

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Carmen Maria Machado / Bodies

With Carmen Maria Machado and Angela Meyer

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Getting Older

Erotic Fan Fiction: Older Edition / Erotica

With Virginia Gay, Eddie Sharp, Annaliese Constable and 2 others

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Live Stream at wheelercentre.com: Risky Fictions (from Bendigo Writers Festival) / Books, reading & writing

With Emily Sexton, Anna George, John Purcell and 2 others

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Let's Talk About Sex

Sex in Words / Sexual & gender politics

With Krissy Kneen, John Purcell, Kate Belle and 1 other

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A Totally Hip Tribute to E.L. James, Publishing Person of the Year 2012 / Erotica

By Jo Case

Let’s Talk About Sex: Sex in Words / Sexual & gender politics

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Lunchbox / Soapbox

Emerging Writers’ Festival: Sam George-Allen on Literary Sexting: Scum Mag & Online Sex Writing / New & emerging writers

With Sam George-Allen

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Fifty Shades Stripped Bare / Erotica

With Helen Razer, Patricia Edgar, Hannah McCann and 1 other

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