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Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga

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.
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Nurturing the future of poetry

Tim Loveday and Eloise Grills will read extracts from their individual poetic works, and will freely discuss how these works were shaped through mentorships, offering insights to writers trying to…
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The Heart of Things

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…
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Stories of the Heart

This interactive storytelling event has been curated by Joel Hines and draws upon principles found in his new book “Holding Space: Strategies to Cultivate Connection and Enable Potential”. Joel brings…
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Story Slam

Do you have a story to tell? To reveal? Come along to Trentham Mechanics to the Hepburn Libraries inaugural ‘Story Slam’. You will have four minutes to share your story…
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Love Affairs with Books

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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On a Bright Hillside in Paradise

Author event with readings. Author Annette Higgs will talk about her novel On a Bright Hillside in Paradise which won the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize. In conversation (interviewer TBC)
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Words in Winter is an annual literary and arts festival held in August each year in the Hepburn Shire and surrounding districts.