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Hot Desk Extract: Cultural Nomad / Poetry

Guest post by Thabani Tshuma

A selection of poems from Thabani Tshuma's Cultural Nomad, a collection exploring contemporary culture and addressing intersectionality, addiction, spirituality, generational trauma and relationships.

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Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowships 2019: Introducing the Fellows (round two) / New & emerging writers

Meet the second intake of Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellows, and take a peek at the projects they'll be working on.

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The Next Big Thing

Fight or Flight Edition / New & emerging writers

With Alice Bishop, Elizabeth Kuiper, Alex McClintock and 1 other

What's worth fighting for? When do we switch sides, redraw the battle lines or concede defeat? And how are we altered by the fights of our lives? At July's Next Big Thing session we'll hear from four writers whose work is concerned with bruising confrontation – with nature, with politics and even in the boxing ring.

Alice Bishop's debut short…

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The Next Big Thing

Hot Desk Edition #1 / New & emerging writers

With Stella Charls, Vanessa Giron, Yvette Holt and 6 others

In this edition of the Next Big Thing, glimpse works-in-progress from our first intake of 2019 Hot Desk Fellows – fresh from ten weeks of work on their projects inside the Wheeler Centre.

Featuring new writing from Vanessa Giron, Yvette Holt, Josefina Huq, Nimity James, Adalya Nash Hussein, Kaitlyn Plyley, Cher Tan and Thabani Tshuma.

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Rebecca Lim: ‘Don’t be afraid to have your story out there' / Books, reading & writing

Guest post by Rebecca Lim

2018 Next Chapter mentor Rebecca Lim encourages anyone interested to apply for the scheme.

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Double Booked Club

Sreedhevi Iyer and Jamie Marina Lau / Fiction

With Jamie Marina Lau, Sumudu Samarawickrama, and Sreedhevi Iyer

In partnership with the Emerging Writers’ Festival, we’re presenting two writers whose exceptional debut books were published in 2018.

Jamie Marina Lau is a writer and musician. Her first novel, Pink Mountain on Locust Island, won the 2018 Melbourne Prize for Literature Readings Residency Award and was shortlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize. It's an innovative work of fiction…

Anything and everything in New & emerging writers from across our archives.

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Debut Mondays

Debut Mondays / New & emerging writers

With Amber Beilharz, Sydney Smith, Kristin Henry and 1 other

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The Next Big Thing

Suzanne McCourt, Spiri Tsintziras, Darrell Pitt and Robbie Coburn / New & emerging writers

With Darrell Pitt, Suzanne McCourt, Robbie Coburn and 1 other

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Now read this / New & emerging writers

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Hot Desk Extract: From Below / Biography & memoir

Guest post by Leah Jing McIntosh

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Unpublished Manuscript Award at the Emerging Writers’ Festival Launch / New & emerging writers

With Graeme Simsion and Sam Twyford-Moore

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The Next Big Thing

Most Underrated Book Award Edition / Awards & prizes

With Louise Swinn

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The Next Big Thing

June: Ellie Marney, Liam Pieper, Tom O'Byrne and Diana Sweeney / New & emerging writers

With Ellie Marney, Liam Pieper, Tom O'Byrne and 1 other

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The Next Big Thing

Fight or Flight Edition / New & emerging writers

With Alice Bishop, Elizabeth Kuiper, Alex McClintock and 1 other

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Joel Magarey on the Prism of Darkness / New & emerging writers

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The Next Big Thing

Hot Desk Edition #2 / Books, reading & writing

With Asiel Adan Sanchez, Stephen Pham, Jamie Marina Lau and 4 others

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Debut Mondays

Debut Mondays / New & emerging writers

With Ailsa Piper, Romy Ash, Bruce Scates and 1 other

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Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowships 2017: Introducing the Fellows (round one) / Books, reading & writing

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Debut Mondays

Debut Mondays / New & emerging writers

With Melanie Joosten, Raphael Brous, Eli Glasman and 1 other

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A Year of Debutantes / New & emerging writers

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Debut Mondays

Ranjana Srivastava, Peter Farrar, Barry Divola and Steve Holden / New & emerging writers

With Peter Farrar, Barry Divola, Ranjana Srivastava and 1 other

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The Next Big Thing

Poetry Edition / Poetry

With Saaro Umar, Autumn Royal, Chloe Wilson and 1 other

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Lunchbox / Soapbox

Emerging Writers’ Festival: Jack Colwell on Tweeties for Sweeties: Narrative in Grindr and social media / Sexual & gender politics

With Jack Colwell

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The Next Big Thing

March: Spotlight on Victoria / New & emerging writers

With Abigail Ulman, Anne Buist, Ilka Tampke and 1 other

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