Events from August 23 – August 25 › Author’s Talk ›

Fireside Funeral Chat hosted by Beverly Risstrom

Maia Irell May 31, 2024 No Comments

Usually stunned, grief-stricken, in shock or exhausted, the friends or family of the dearly departed (i.e., YOU) find they now must make 101 unfamiliar decisions fast. Don’t be that guy! [...]

Memoir writing from the heart

Maia Irell May 29, 2024 No Comments

Join 2024 Stella Prize shortlisted author, Katia Ariel, for a compelling conversation, as she reflects on writing her debut memoir, The Swift Dark Tide, an open love letter on selfhood, [...]

Secrets, Lies and Cults

Maia Irell July 1, 2024 No Comments

Walkley Award winner, and now novelist, Erina Reddan talks about secrets, lies and cults in her latest crime thriller, DEEP IN THE FOREST. Fed up with being shunned by locals [...]

Nature connection through narrative

Maia Irell May 29, 2024 No Comments

Writing about the natural world can help us first notice nature, but narrative – where living things have agency and inner lives – really fosters connection.

Mission Archives and Indigenous Truths

Maia Irell July 4, 2024 No Comments

An on-stage interview with Alison J Barton discussing nineteenth-century archives and the mistruths they tell about Indigenous people. Alison shares how contemporary Indigenous Australian poets are re-writing the archive with [...]

Words In Winter Gala with Bruce Pascoe, Alison J. Barton & many more

Maia Irell May 30, 2024 No Comments

Bruce Pascoe has won numerous awards, including the Children’s Book Council of Australia Eve Pownall Award for Young Dark Emu, New South Wales Premier’s Book of the Year Award in 2016 [...]

Travelling with a cardboard cutout

Maia Irell May 29, 2024 No Comments

Come meet Michelle Bourke, author and storyteller, the only widow that has travelled around the world with a cardboard cut-out of her late husband. This story is a journey of [...]

Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga

Maia Irell May 29, 2024 No Comments

Join Sam Elkin as he discusses his debut narrative non-fiction book Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga, which centres on his experiences transitioning while working at a queer legal service.

The Heart of Things

Maia Irell May 29, 2024 No Comments

Leah Kaminsky will discuss her latest novel ‘Doll’s Eye’, an intriguing story of love, loss and survival against the backdrop of war brewing in 1930s Europe. A young German dollmaker [...]

Love Affairs with Books

Maia Irell May 29, 2024 No Comments

Daylesford resident and author Meyer Eidelson summarises his passionate but erratic affairs of the heart with his fifteen books. In literary infatuation there is obsession, conception, gestation but how do [...]

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