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The Local Word Poetry Prize 2024-25

Geelong Library & Heritage Centre 51 Little Malop Street, Geelong

The Geelong Regional Library Corporation (GRLC) and Deakin University (DU) are pleased to present 2024-25 Local Word Poetry Prize. This […]

Free to enter

Stella Prize entries open

Entries to the 2025 Stella Prize are now open. Entries are accepted from 9am (AEST) Monday 22 July until 5pm […]

Festival of Stories – Saturday

Berninneit Cowes Cultural Centre 91-97 Thompson Ave, Cowes, Phillip Island, Cowes

We will be celebrating story-telling in all its forms from 2nd - 4th August 2024 at Berninneit Cowes Cultural Centre […]

Festival of Stories – Sunday

Berninneit Cowes Cultural Centre 91-97 Thompson Ave, Cowes, Phillip Island, Cowes

We will be celebrating story-telling in all its forms from 2nd - 4th August 2024 at Berninneit Cowes Cultural Centre […]

Ongoing

53rd ANZAAB Book Fair

Wilson Hall University of Melbourne

The Melbourne Rare Book Fair returns in July 2024 to Wilson Hall, The University of Melbourne. It is the major […]

What to Expect When You’re Expecting… A Book

The Wheeler Centre 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

The publishing industry can often seem both opaque and arcane. But publishing is a business like any other and there […]

$220

Visions & Revisions

The Wheeler Centre 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

Each work that engages with history (and all do, to some degree or another) raises questions about how our visions […]

Poetry Slam Workshop

Sunbury Library 44 Macedon Street, Sunbury

Writers get inspired with a spoken wordshop led by a professional slam artist. This workshop includes a demonstration of slam […]

Free

The Novel

The Wheeler Centre 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

The old novel … had defined boundaries within which information was traded for the reader’s loyalty to a common and […]

Critical Limit

The Wheeler Centre 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

Literary criticism seems to be in an endless state of decline. In so-called Australia, a particular flavour of cultural cringe […]

Writing Utopia: Poetics, Futurity & Friendship

The Wheeler Centre 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

How does poetry register the transformation of time and space? Where does the poet begin and end? In this session, […]

Writing Utopia: Poetics, Futurity + Friendship

The Wheeler Centre 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

How does poetry register the transformation of time and space. Where does the poet begin and end? In this session, […]

$15 – $19
Event Series The State

The State

Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman Street, St Kilda

Look at the state of this place! Four states are lorded over by foppish drag-king Daddies, all under the thumb […]

$20 – $35