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Bloodlines Edition / New & emerging writers

With Julia Prendergast, Moreno Giovannoni, and Robbie Arnott

What they don’t tell you in birth class is that families are the perfect container for ghosts. Intergenerational secrets? Check. Seething tensions? You bet. Profound attachment, sentimentality and love? Right here, buddy.

Three new Australian novels due out this year examine bloodlines, stubborn histories and family lore in distorted and dream-like ways. In a surreal reimagining of Tasmania, the interlocking…

25 Jun 2018

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2018 Emerging Writers’ Festival Edition / New & emerging writers

With Emma Marie Jones, Odette Kelada, Sumudu Samarawickrama and 1 other

New and emerging writers? You can’t go past the Emerging Writers’ Festival; effectively a festival full of Next Big Things, and a fertile breeding ground for bold experiments in Australian literature.

Come and celebrate the best new writers around – and hear readings from the cream of this year’s EWF crop. Featuring Emma Marie Jones, Odette Kelada, Marjon Mossammaparast and…

2 Jul 2018

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Hot Desk Edition #1 / New & emerging writers

With Amanda Anastasi, Ra Chapman, Triana Hernandez and 4 others

In this edition of the Next Big Thing, glimpse works-in-progress from our first intake of 2018 Hot Desk Fellows – fresh from ten weeks of work on their projects inside the Wheeler Centre.

Featuring new writing from Amanda Anastasi, Ra Chapman, Triana Hernandez, Leah Jing McIntosh, Laura Jean McKay, Thuy On and Harry Reid.

16 Apr 2018

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Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowships 2018: Introducing the Fellows (round one) / Books, reading & writing

Our Hot Desk Fellowships are back for 2018. Find out who's been selected, and take a peek at the projects the first intake of Fellows will be working on.

16 Apr 2018

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Small Town Stories / New & emerging writers

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

Rural Australia – indeed, rural anywhere – is a storytelling fixture. But in many ways, it’s specifically small towns that make a perfect setting for fiction, and a potent backdrop to coming of age.

A writer might draw on the intense social relations (or seething suspicions) of people living in each other’s pockets; the pleasures and pressures of being too near…

19 Mar 2018

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Imagined Biography / Biography & memoir

With Stella Charls, Kelly Gardiner, Marija Pericic and 2 others

The space between pure fiction and fact harbours many curious things. When it comes to famous (or infamous) historical events, we may know broadly what happened – but the inner lives and private worlds of key players are literally left to the imagination. Enter fiction.

For this edition of The Next Big Thing, we’ll hear stories of real lives reimagined…

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

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20 Jun 2016

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2016 Emerging Writers’ Festival edition / New & emerging writers

With Kate Mildenhall, Michelle Wright, Susie Anderson and 1 other

11 Mar 2016

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Working with Words: Alison Whittaker / Books, reading & writing

3 Jul 2017

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Hot Desk Edition #1 / New & emerging writers

With Mandy Beaumont, Ana Maria Gomides, Samantha Hill and 3 others

18 Mar 2013

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Debut Mondays

March: Melissa Keil, Michelle Dicinoski, Kathryn Ledson and Johannes Jakob / New & emerging writers

With Melissa Keil, Michelle Dicinoski, Kathryn Ledson and 1 other

18 Jun 2012

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Debut Mondays

Debut Mondays / New & emerging writers

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

Jeremy Chambers / New & emerging writers

He has also undertaken studies with the Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis. He has worked as a furniture removalist, a newspaper distributor and a hardware salesman and trained as an amateur boxer. He lives in Melbourne. His first book is Vintage & Gleaning.

22 Oct 2010

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Work/Life Imbalance by Lara Fergus / New & emerging writers

Guest post by Lara Fergus

14 Jul 2011

Debutants With a Knowing Eye / New & emerging writers

By Alex Landragin

Our monthly focus on new and emerging writers takes place again on Monday night. This month, Debut Mondays will feature Raphael Brous (author of I am Max Lamm) Melanie Joosten (Berlin Syndrome), Dan Disney (And Then When The) and Eli Glasman, whose piece ‘Bag’ is in edition 84 of Voiceworks magazine, subtitled ‘Pulp’.

There’s a beautiful book trailer for…

17 Jul 2017

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