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SUMMARY:Online Feedback: Picture Books
DESCRIPTION:This online feedback clinic is an opportunity to work on your current picture book project or embark on a new one in a supportive group environment with guidance from a professional editor and picture book author Elizabeth Cowell. \nOver the course of eight weeks\, you will submit your work four times (up to a maximum of 850 words each time) and receive individual feedback from Elizabeth and fellow group members. The sessions are designed to help you build on your strengths and encourage you as you edit\, refine\, and polish your manuscript. \nThe feedback will be tailored to each submission\, focusing on areas such as story\, character\, voice\, point of view\, structure\, pace\, language and expression. \nBetween submission rounds\, Elizabeth will recommend picture books and online articles to inform\, interest and inspire you. \nPlease note that this is a feedback-based course. There is no face-to-face component. \nSubmissions due on Tuesdays 29 September\, 13 October\, 27 October and 10 November by 11.59pm \nFeedback due on Fridays 9 October\, 23 October\, 6 November and 20 November by 10am \nOur Online Feedback clinics are asynchronous\, with no face-to-face meetings\, allowing you to engage with the content at the times of day and week that suit your schedule. They are hosted on our private WordPress server. For more information on our online feedback clinics\, please read our FAQs.  \nYou will learn:\n\nHow to test what’s working on the page and what’s not\nHow picture books are structured\nStrategies for getting a first rough draft down ​\nTips for working with literary devices like rhyme and repetition ​\nBasic information about how picture book publishers work with writers and illustrators\n\nAbout the tutor:\nElizabeth Cowell has more than 20 years’ experience working as an editor in the Australian publishing industry. She has also written several children’s picture books\, including the bestselling All About Mermaids\, under the name Izzy Quinn. Her books have been published in Australia\, the US and Canada\, and in translation in France\, Italy and Greece.
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/online-feedback-picture-books/2026-10-06/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Children's Literature,Education,Writers,Young Adult
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SUMMARY:Our words\, our way writers group
DESCRIPTION:Our words\, our way is a fledgling disabled writers group at Kathleen Syme Library. This is a free program guided by values of self-representation\, disability leadership and peer support – creating a space where every voice matters\, including quiet ones. \nIf you are a disabled writer\, identify as a person with a disability\, or experience barriers due to an impairment or condition\, you are warmly invited to explore writing and collaborating with us. \nFor more info and to express interest in joining\, contact facilitator Lyndel Caffrey \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/our-words-our-way-writers-group/2026-10-06/
LOCATION:Kathleen Syme Library\, 251 Faraday Street\, Carlton\, VIC\, 3053\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Libraries,Writers
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SUMMARY:Melbourne Book Club
DESCRIPTION:We love Melbourne. Every month we read and discuss a book about our fabulous city. We read a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction\, chosen by our book club members. \nDate​s and reading list for 2026 \n\nTuesday 3 February: The Burrow by Melanie Cheng\nTuesday 3 March: Leave The Girls Behind by Jaqueline Bublitz\nTuesday 7 April: Rytual by Chloe Elisabeth Wilson\nTuesday 5 May: Molly by Rosalie Ham\nTuesday 2 June: Tenderfoot by Toni Jordan\nTuesday 7 July: I Want Everything by Dominic Amerena\nTuesday 4 August: Theory And Practise by Michelle De Kretser\nTuesday 1 September: The Underworld by Sofia Laguna\nTuesday 6 October: Stinkbug by Sinead Stubbins\nTuesday 10 November*: The Immigrants by Moreno Giovannoni
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/melbourne-book-club-21/2026-10-06/
LOCATION:Melbourne City Library\, 253 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Libraries
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SUMMARY:Andrew O'Hagan: On Friendship
DESCRIPTION:We move through life in the company of others: childhood friends\, kindred spirits and chance encounters that become lasting bonds. Some friendships are forged over decades while others arrive unexpectedly\, changing us in an instant. \nIn Andrew O’Hagan’s celebrated genre-defying style\, his new essay collection On Friendship draws on a lifetime of connections – with friends\, writers\, artists\, strangers and even those on four legs – to explore what friendship can mean\, and why it matters. Described by critics as ‘joyous’ and ‘heartfelt but intelligent’\, O’Hagan employs his characteristic wit to capture an optimistic portrait of all the many ways people find one another. \nBring a friend and join O’Hagan for an intimate conversation about the bonds that shape us and the enduring value of friendship. With host Marieke Hardy. \nPresented in partnership with RMIT University
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/andrew-ohagan-on-friendship/
LOCATION:The Wheeler Centre\, 176 Little Lonsdale Street\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:The Wheeler Centre
ORGANIZER;CN="The Wheeler Centre":MAILTO:ticketing@wheelercentre.com
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SUMMARY:In-Conversation with Monica McInerney
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome one of Australia’s most cherished and widely read authors\, Monica McInerney.  We will chat about her writing life and her new novel\, When Sullivan Met Lola\, a delightful new chapter in the stories surrounding the unforgettable Lola Quinlan.  \nMonica once again brings us her signature blend of warmth\, wit\, and emotional depth\, weaving a story that explores what happens when lives collide\, connections spark\, and the past and present intertwine in unexpected ways. \nCopies of her book are able to be purchased on the night\, and Monica will happily sign them for you.
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/in-conversation-with-monica-mcinerney/
LOCATION:Bunjil Place Library\, Patrick Northeast Drive\, Narre Warren\, Victoria\, 3805\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Libraries
ORGANIZER;CN="Connected Libraries":MAILTO:janine.kimberley@connectedlibraries.org.au
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