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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/2026-10-14/
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:Auslan Storytime
DESCRIPTION:If you love a story\, you’ve come to the right place! \nAuslan Storytime brings stories to life through visual language\, expression and movement – delivered entirely in Australian Sign Language (Auslan). Come along every 1st and 3rd Monday of each month at State Library Victoria as we welcome Deaf storytellers from Expression Australia for Auslan Storytime. \nThis is an inclusive early years program designed to be engaging and accessible for Deaf\, hard-of-hearing and hearing children alike. Sessions are delivered directly in Auslan (not interpreted from spoken English)\, providing authentic language modelling and a rich introduction to Deaf culture. \nA qualified Auslan interpreter supports each session so hearing participants can follow along\, creating a shared and inclusive experience for all families. These interactive sessions may include signed storytelling\, movement\, repetition and informal interaction after the session. \nPerfect for kids aged 3-5 and their families. \nNo bookings required. Sessions run on the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month\, excluding public holidays and Victorian school holidays. \n  \nPresented by State Library Victoria with Expression Australia\, as part of the Victorian Government’s Multicultural Storytime Program. This program is funded by the Victorian Department of Health under the Multicultural Storytime Grant Program (2023–2027). 
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/auslan-storytime/2026-10-14/
LOCATION:State Library Victoria
CATEGORIES:Children's Literature,Libraries
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SUMMARY:No One’s Looking by Brooke Davis
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to host the launch of Brooke Davis’s new novel\, No One’s Looking.\n\nWhen Susan first meets her sister\, Vicki\, she puts a hand on the new baby’s tiny forearm\, and Vicki stops screaming. Just like that. If only it were so easy forty-five years later. Susan has always been the quiet\, nice sister\, but her husband’s sudden demand for an open marriage – and a rather large purple object she’d forgotten about – provokes a slow-dawning epiphany: being the ‘good’ girl doesn’t always mean it’s good for you.\n\nJust down the road\, Vicki listens at the door of her seventeen-year-old daughter’s room – her only child – and is shocked at what she hears. Her old urge to scream builds. As she listens to a true crime podcast and doom scrolls the news headlines\, she can feel a terror building in her bones. She can’t help believing something very bad is going to happen. It’s January in suburban Australia – stinking hot\, the sound of tennis and cricket on telly\, the threat of bushfires in the air. Vicki is right\, something is unravelling. Rage\, desire\, fear\, wonder (and the occasional nipple) are unleashed. In the aftermath\, will Susan and Vicki ever find out what’s possible when no one’s looking?\n\nNo One’s Looking is an original\, wise and life-affirming novel that shows it is never too late to change who people expect you to be.\n\nFree\, but bookings are essential.
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/no-ones-looking-by-brooke-davis/
LOCATION:Readings Carlton
CATEGORIES:Bookshops,Writers
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DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261014T193000
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SUMMARY:Stephen Fishbach: Escape!
DESCRIPTION:What happens when the promise of reinvention collides with the ruthless machinery of reality television? \nDrawing on his own experience as a two-time Survivor contestant\, Stephen Fishbach’s sharply observed novel Escape! follows a washed-up reality television star and a disgraced producer\, each chasing a second chance on a new survival show where every contestant has been cast as a type\, every storyline has been carefully engineered and the stakes soon become far greater than anyone imagined. \nJoin Fishbach with host Veronica Sullivan for a conversation about the blurred boundaries between performance and authenticity and what our appetite for spectacle reveals about contemporary culture. 
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/stephen-fishbach-escape/
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: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/2026-10-14/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Children's Literature,Education,Young Adult
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SUMMARY:For Future Reference: Jennifer Robinson on Courage
DESCRIPTION:What does courage mean in an increasingly complex and uncertain world?   \nAt State Library Victoria’s 2026 For Future Reference lecture\, Jennifer Robinson\, one of the most respected human rights lawyers and advocates of our time\, will consider this question through the lens of her extraordinary career.  \nAs the recipient of the 2026 Sydney Peace Prize\, Jennifer’s landmark work includes securing the release of Julian Assange\, achieving political asylum for West Papuan leader Benny Wenda\, representing Amber Heard in Johnny Depp’s unsuccessful defamation claim\, and taking climate change to the International Court of Justice.  \nIn this special lecture\, Jennifer will reflect on the nature of courage – what it looks and feels like for herself and the clients she represents\, as well as what courage means for cultural institutions that care for and preserve collections for future generations.   \nThe barrister\, author and keynote speaker will also explore whether the notion of courage has taken on new meaning in an era increasingly beset by conflict and crisis.  \nEndowed by the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust\, this lecture follows the 2026 Sundance Film Festival premiere and subsequent Melbourne International Film Festival screenings of Silenced\, a new documentary featuring Jennifer that exposes gender-based violence and the ways defamation laws have been weaponised to silence survivors.   \nThere will be an opportunity to view rare books acquired through the Library’s Women Writers Fund initiative prior to the event.  \nThis event will be livestreamed. Auslan interpretation is available upon request.   \nDoors will open from 6.30pm. Drinks will be available to purchase on the night.  \nCopies of Jennifer’s book\, How Many More Women?\, will be available to purchase from Readings booksellers at the event.  \nBook your tickets now.  \n  \nAbout Jennifer Robinson \nJennifer Robinson is one of the world’s leading human rights lawyers and advocates. A barrister at Doughty Street Chambers in London\, she has acted in key international law\, human rights and media freedom cases in domestic and international courts. Her diverse and groundbreaking work includes: defending WikiLeaks and Julian Assange and securing his release; acting for Amber Heard in relation to Johnny Depp’s unsuccessful defamation claim in the UK; achieving political asylum for West Papuan leader Benny Wenda; and taking climate change to the world’s highest court\, the International Court of Justice. Beyond the courts\, Jennifer is an author (How Many More Women with Dr Keio Yoshida)\, a sought-after keynote speaker\, and executive producer and consultant for television and film.   \n  \nAbout the For Future Reference lecture series \nEndowed by the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust\, For Future Reference is an annual lecture series that shines a light on women’s influence on society via the mediums of literature\, storytelling and authorship\, both historically and into the future\, with a focus on the future archives to be held in the State Collection.  \nThis series is supported by the Library’s Women Writers Fund\, which seeks to redress the historical gender imbalance in the State Collection by acquiring works by under-represented women writers\, artists and thinkers. 
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/for-future-reference-jennifer-robinson-on-courage/
LOCATION:Conversation Quarter\, State Library Victoria\, 328 Swanston St\, Melbourne
CATEGORIES:Libraries,Writers
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261014T193000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261014T220000
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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/2026-10-14/
LOCATION:The Motley Bauhaus\, 118 Elgin Street\, Carlton\, VIC\, 3053\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Spoken Word
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