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SUMMARY:Life without Limits with Donna Urquhart
DESCRIPTION:Join ultra-marathon runner and pain scientist\, Donna Urquhart\, and author and journalist Charisse Ede\, as they discuss what 1400km on the Antarctic ice taught Donna about overcoming pain and adversity. \nIn January 2024\, Donna set the world record for the longest run in a polar region by completing a 1402-kilometre ultramarathon in Antarctica. She had trained for nine months\, running on a treadmill in a refrigerated shipping container and also in an industrial wind tunnel. \nTo achieve the record\, Donna ran up to 60 kilometres each day across 28 days in the coldest\, windiest and driest desert on earth. Some days\, the temperature plummeted to –20 degrees Celsius and the winds reached a brutal 80 kilometres per hour.  \nDonna is a pain researcher and well-versed in the science of pain and how humans can cope with it. She is drawn to exploring the limits of human performance\, and she pushed herself to the extreme to discover what she was capable of\, gaining insights that now help her navigate everyday challenges. \nDonna and Charisse will discuss their book Life Without Limits: An Antarctic journey through pain and possibility (September 2026)\, where Donna has brought together her comprehensive toolkit for understanding and handling pain and adversity—whether physical\, emotional\, mental or social—showing that all of us can challenge our boundaries and thrive: at home\, work and everywhere in between.
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/life-without-limits-with-donna-urquhart/
LOCATION:Belgrave Community Hub\, 1616/1624 Burwood Highway\, Belgrave\, Victoria\, 3160\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Dirt and Drama: the contrast of place and people in crime fiction
DESCRIPTION:Sit down for an hour with our crime fiction specialists: Chris Hammer\, Vikki Petraitis\, Sarah Bailey and moderator Kirstie Bedford\, as they examine and investigate the nitty-gritty of crime fiction. \nChris Hammer is an Australian journalist and writer of crime fiction. He is known for his best-selling Martin Scarsden series of novels. He has sold more than 1.5 million books around the world and won the prestigious UK Crime Writers Association John Creasy Award for best debut crime novel. \nVikki Petraitis is an Australian true crime author\, podcaster\, and educator known for her investigative works on crime and justice. Her latest book is The Vanishing of Vivienne Cameron: Forty Years Searching for the Phillip Island Murderer (January 2026). \nSarah Bailey’s debut novel\, ​The Dark Lake\, introduced readers to Detective Gemma Woodstock and has been published in over 15\nterritories worldwide. Her latest novel is Click (March 2026)\, “a taut crime thriller about a city on edge”. \nKirstie Bedford is a Melbourne-based editor\, travel writer and podcast host\, having started her career as a hard news journalist reporting live from courtrooms. Her debut psychological suspense\, White Lies\, will be published mid-2027.
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/dirt-and-drama-the-contrast-of-place-and-people-in-crime-fiction/
LOCATION:Belgrave Community Hub\, 1616/1624 Burwood Highway\, Belgrave\, Victoria\, 3160\, Australia
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SUMMARY:From Page to Screen: Art of Storytelling with Kelly Lefever\, Shaun Grant and Tadji Ulrich
DESCRIPTION:Do you want to write for film or TV? Do you want to know how to fund\, create and direct a short film? What do writers need to consider when adapting a book to film? Join Kelly Lefever\, Shaun Grant and moderator Tadji Ulrich as they dive deep into the world of screenwriting at the 2026 Dandenong Ranges Literary Festival. This informative session will give you all the answers\, and a chance to ask an expert panel for advice. \nTadji Ulrich creates and directs short films. He is a multi-award-winning writer and director based in Naarm/Melbourne\, Australia. His 2025 short film\, The Wake\, won the Young Australian Filmmaker of the Year at the 2025 edition of the Byron Bay International Film Festival. His previous projects have won top prize at the youth section of Tropfest and the inaugural Emerging Filmmaker Award from North Bellarine Film Festival. \nKelly Lefever is a long-time writer for TV. She has written\, script produced\, and script edited over 650 hours of television and feature films. A multiple award winner and nominee\, she was awarded the Foxtel Fellowship in Recognition of an Outstanding and Significant Body of Work in 2024. \nShaun Grant has written and directed many films and TV episodes. He is a critically acclaimed\, multi-award-winning screenwriter whose work has premiered at the world’s most prestigious film festivals\, including Cannes\, Berlin\, Toronto and Sundance. In 2025\, he was the co-creator and sole writer of the Amazon Prime limited series\, The Narrow Road to the Deep North. He was also one of the writers on the film Penguin Bloom which starred Naomi Watts (King Kong\, Mulholland Drive)\, Andrew Lincoln (This Life\, The Walking Dead) and Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom\, Stork).  \nAfter the panel\, audiences are invited to stay on for a screen of Penguin Bloom\, the 2020 film based on the book of the same name by Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Greive. The book and film are based on a true story of Sam and Cameron Bloom’s family and their interactions with an Australian magpie named “Penguin”. \n 
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/from-page-to-screen-art-of-storytelling-with-kelly-lefever-shaun-grant-and-tadji-ulrich/
LOCATION:Belgrave Community Hub\, 1616/1624 Burwood Highway\, Belgrave\, Victoria\, 3160\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Garth Nix in conversation with Declan Fry
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by the 2026 Dandenong Ranges Literary Festival\, bestselling author and fantasy fiction legend Garth Nix joins contemporary writer and poet Declan Fry for a conversation you definitely don’t want to miss. \nGarth Nix has had more than seven million copies of his books sold around the world\, which have appeared on multiple international bestseller lists and been translated into 42 languages. His upcoming book Massif is his first foray into adult science fiction with a brilliant and poignant stand-alone story. Massif releases in September 2026. \nDeclan Fry is a writer\, essayist\, and poet. He has won the Peter Blazey Fellowship and been shortlisted for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and the Pascall Prize in criticism. His latest work appears in Another Australia (Affirm) and in The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel. \n 
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/garth-nix-in-conversation-with-declan-fry/
LOCATION:Belgrave Community Hub\, 1616/1624 Burwood Highway\, Belgrave\, Victoria\, 3160\, Australia
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