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SUMMARY:Writing Momentum writing workshops
DESCRIPTION:Join creativity coach and writer Meg Dunley for a weekly online writing session designed to help you build and keep a consistent writing practice. It’s a little like a guided shut-up and write with accountability. \nEach Wednesday morning session runs for one hour and includes a poetry-based prompt to spark your thinking\, 40 minutes of silent focused writing time\, and a brief accountability check-in to start and close the session. Whether you’re working on a novel\, memoir\, poetry or any other form of writing\, you’re welcome here. \nWriting Momentum runs throughout the year. The session is recorded and sent to all members on Friday afternoon\, along with the prompt\, poem and questions. \nSessions are open to Momentum\, Focus\, Elevate and Creative Empowerment Coaching Program members. New members can join with a 7-day free trial. \nWhen: Every Wednesday\, 7:00–8:00am Melbourne time \nWhere: Online via Zoom \nMore information and to join
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/writing-momentum-wednesdays/2026-10-07/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom\, Melbourne\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Education,Writers
ORGANIZER;CN="Meg Dunley%2C Creativity Coach":MAILTO:meg@megdunley.com
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Hometown by Shaun Tan
DESCRIPTION:Join The Little Bookroom and Yarra Libraries in the celebration of Shaun Tan’s new book\, Hometown. \n  \nShaun will be joined in conversation with Michael Earp discussing behind the scenes of this incredible new work. \n  \nThere will be lucky door prizes for those attending\, and the opportunity to get your books signed. \n  \n6pm for a 6:30 start\, hosted at Bargoonga Nganjin\, North Fitzroy Library. RSVPs are essential. \n  \nWith the generous support of Allen & Unwin\, we’re thrilled to be able to offer an EXCLUSIVE ART PRINT to the first 50 pre-orders! \n  \nPRE-ORDER HERE \n(This is not the same as RSVPing to the Launch – which needs to be done via Humanitix) \n \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK \nFrom the internationally acclaimed and award-winning creator of The Arrival and Tales from Outer Suburbia comes a glorious graphic novel about belonging and identity\, family and the power of ‘home’. \nYou need to know who I am.\nWhat I think and how I feel.\nThen you’ll know why I did what I did. \nImagine living in a perfect world. \nYou have a loving family\, a beautiful home and awesome friends. Everything is just as it should be. Until one day\, when a stranger arrives. A stranger who looks just like you. A stranger with a troubling message… \nFrom the creator of The Arrival and Tales from Outer Suburbia comes a visually stunning\, moving and humorous meditation on all the things that make us who we are and how we choose to live. \nPRAISE FOR HOMETOWN \n‘Loved it!! Chockfull of magic!!’ – Guillermo Del Toro \n‘I can’t overstate how much Shaun’s work has meant for me and my family over the years. And now\, his latest is a passionate\, clever and inspiring tale about how we choose which family to love. I am so excited to share this one with mine.’ – Darren Aronofsky \n‘Where The Arrival was about leaving home for the strange but hopefully welcoming new world\, Hometown is about what makes us what we are—family\, friends\, environment. A joyful\, surprising\, marvellous book.’ – Kelly Link \n‘Here is a cornucopia of a world to set beside the densely realised imaginings of Topor or Miyazaki – a many-splendored thing.’ – Dave McKean \n‘A spectacularly surreal coming-of-age story about choice\, family\, and the gravitational pull of belonging.’ – Kirkus\, Starred Review \n  \nABOUT THE ARTIST: \nShaun Tan is an artist\, writer\, and filmmaker from Perth\, Western Australia\, the recipient of an Academy Award\, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal. He lives in Melbourne with his wife\, two children and various plants\, animals and machines.
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/book-launch-hometown-by-shaun-tan/
LOCATION:Bargoonga Nganjin North Fitzroy Library\, 182-186 St Georges Rd\, Fitzroy North\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Children's Literature,Writers
ORGANIZER;CN="The Little Bookroom":MAILTO:orders@littlebookroom.com.au
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SUMMARY:Writing Essentials: Crafting Stories for Young Adults
DESCRIPTION:Want to write young adult fiction? Maybe you have an idea or some writing you’d like to develop further in a safe\, creative and supportive space. If so\, this online course is for you.\n\n\n\nOver five weekly\, two-hour sessions\, participants will read\, analyse\, write and discuss how to apply the fundamentals of storytelling (character\, plot\, setting\, point of view\, voice and style) to stories for young adults\, whether they’re set in a local school or a fantastical world. By the end of this course\, participants will have a toolbox of readings\, writing and ideas to set them on their way to developing a young adult story. \nAfter the completion of the course\, participants will also have the opportunity to share up to 3\,000 words of their work-in-progress as an optional extra with one of the course tutors for developmental feedback. \nSessions will run on Wednesday 30 September\, Wednesday 7 October\, Wednesday 14 October\, Wednesday 21 October and Wednesday 28 October. \nCourse requirements: Pen and paper or a fully-charged device to participate in the writing exercises. \nYou Will Learn:\n\nMethods for developing realistic characters\nApproaches to creating an immersive\, atmospheric setting\nCommon approaches to structure on the levels of plot and scene\nStrategies for working with point-of-view\, voice and sentence-level edits\nThe relationship between character\, theme and plot\n\nAbout the Tutors:\nDemet Divaroren was born in Adana\, Turkey\, and migrated to Australia with her family when she was six months old. She is the award-winning author of Living on Hope Street and the co-editor of CBCA shortlisted anthology Growing up Muslim in Australia. Her second young adult novel Blood Moon Bride was shortlisted for a 2025 Aurealis award. Demet’s stories explore multiculturalism\, cross cultural relationships\, racism\, injustice\, gender-based oppression and what it means to be human. \nAnge Crawford is a queer and neurodivergent writer\, editor and PhD candidate in creative writing at RMIT. Her debut YA novel\, How to Be Normal\, won the inaugural Walker Books Manuscript Prize and was shortlisted for five further literary awards; her experimental spatial essays have also appeared in several anthologies.
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/writing-essentials-crafting-stories-for-young-adults/2026-10-07/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Children's Literature,Education,Young Adult
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SUMMARY:Motley Openhaus
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the Motley Openhaus!  \nA space to let your heart bleed and words run. An inclusive\, encouraging space for writers of all experiences to come up and read whatever they’ve been working on. Long form\, short stories\, haikus\, spoken word\, if you wanna say it\, we wanna hear it! Every Wednesday evening\, 7:30 start. Free entry
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/motley-openhaus/2026-10-07/
LOCATION:The Motley Bauhaus\, 118 Elgin Street\, Carlton\, VIC\, 3053\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Spoken Word
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SUMMARY:Chaotic Musings: Poetry Social Club
DESCRIPTION:A welcoming and community-driven poetry open mic for everyone. \n\n\n\n\n\nVibe Union is an inclusive\, artistic collective welcoming diverse people of all experiences and backgrounds. We aim\, at every one of our events and in our online presence\, to create a safe space for all.  \nWe welcome all who attend our events to provide feedback and direction on how we present these spaces in the name of making all feel welcome and heard. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the few short years that Vibe Union has existed\, we’ve explored many diverse ideas and been many things. But the one constant has been our focus on providing a platform for local Melbourne artists. \nFrom poetry nights to open mic live streams\, video series\, and a podcast\, we can’t exactly sit still. It doesn’t matter what we’re doing\, just that we’re creating and helping others create. \nThese days\, Vibe Union is hosting events for incredible\, like minded artists around Melbourne. \nOpen mic stages are the birthplace of many a collective or group. Unknowingly at the time\, the seeds of our humble community started in Brunswick at Bar Oussou. Over the course of a few months\, friendships formed and plans were made for collaboration. \nOver one weekend\, producers\, vocalists\, and rappers united to create whatever came organically. And quickly we had multiple songs complete and the starts of many others. \nEverything was looking poised for take off\, before lockdowns hit. \nFunnily enough\, this is what really kicked us into gear. We now had a lot of time on our hands\, and some savvy tech heads to lead the way through digital collaboration. \nLive events when we could\, live streams when we couldn’t. A podcast was recorded over Discord and new songs were created remotely. \nWe threw ourselves into whatever we could and welcomed anyone who wanted to contribute. \nAbove all else\, we had a sense of community we all desperately needed during a scary and lonely time to be living. \nAnd since then\, our group has shifted in size\, projects have come and gone\, but we keep putting on events for Melbourne. \nHigher production value projects; new exciting venues; but always locally focused. We’ve known after a few years of Vibe Union that helping artists find their feet is our passion. And above all else\, this is a welcoming\, supportive\, and inclusive space for everyone.
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/chaotic-musings-poetry-social-club/2026-10-07/
LOCATION:Creatures of Habit\, 319 Brunswick Street\, Fitzroy\, 3065\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Spoken Word
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