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What better way to while away a winter Saturday than in the cosy surrounds of Aireys Inlet pub, with a special literary guest for erudition and entertainment?
Last Sunday, we held our annual Children’s Book Festival (in partnership with the State Library of Victoria). From 10am until 4pm, the State Library Lawns, our Performance Space, Little Lonsdale…
Celebrated children’s book illustrator Freya Blackwood has a diverse creative background – extending from working on special effects for the Lord of the Rings films to her many collaborative books…
Bronwyn Bancroft is a Bundjalung woman, fashion designer and artist, whose credits include being one of the first Australian designers to be invited to show their work in Paris. Her career in…
Calling all kids!Have you ever been to a party where everybody there loves stories as much as you do? And all your favourite authors are there, talking about all your favourite characters? And you…
Lisa Dempster is the director of the Emerging Writers Festival – and the new director of the Melbourne Writers Festival. She’s currently in Bali, working on the Ubud Readers and Writers Festival, as…
Lisa Dempster, outgoing director of the Emerging Writers Festival, has been appointed director of the Melbourne Writers Festival.Michael Webster, chairman of the Melbourne Writers Festival, told…
Over the past week or so, we’ve been celebrating Melbourne’s arts festivals at the Wheeler Centre Dailies.Today, we interview Brett Sheehy, artistic director of the Melbourne International Arts…
Stephanie Honor Convery is one of the Melbourne Writers Festival’s official bloggers. In a special guest post for us in the lead-up to MWF 2012, she reflects on the relationship between readers and…
This week, we’ll be celebrating Melbourne’s arts festivals at the Wheeler Centre Dailies.Today, we interview Michelle Carey, artistic director of the Melbourne International Film Festival, finding…
Kabita Dhara, of Melbourne-based, Indian-focussed publisher Brass Monkey Books, reflects on her love affair with the Jaipur Literature Festival. Publisher Kabita Dhara Afte…
We are delighted to be partnering with a sweep of wonderful festivals in Victoria’s regionsthis winter. What better excuse to get out into the countryside, than when you’re alsopromised fine…
We are delighted to be partnering with a sweep of wonderful festivals in Victoria’s regionsthis winter. What better excuse to get out into the countryside, than when you’re alsopromised fine…
We are delighted to be partnering with a sweep of wonderful festivals in Victoria’s regionsthis winter. What better excuse to get out into the countryside, than when you’re alsopromised fine…
Source: Abu Dhabi International Book Fair Emerging Writers' Festival director Lisa Dempster has, in recent years, become a regular at Arab book fairs…
The big event on the calendar of all lovers of children’s literature is back! On Sunday 25 March, your favourite authors and illustrators will be taking over the lawns of the State Library for a day …
The big event on the calendar of all lovers of children’s literature is back! On Sunday 25 March, your favourite authors and illustrators will be taking over the lawns of the State Library for a day …
The big event on the calendar of all lovers of children’s literature is back! On Sunday 25 March, your favourite authors and illustrators will be taking over the lawns of the State Library for a day …
Emerging Writers' Festival director and avid traveller Lisa Dempster reports on the growth of contemporary literary culture within and around the Sharjah International Book Fair, which in 2011…
As 2011 ends and 2012 begins, we’ve invited our resident organisations to consider the year gone by and to share their plans for the year to come.In 2011 the Emerging Writers' Festival enjoyed our…
As 2011 ends and 2012 begins, we’ve invited our resident organisations to consider the year gone by and to share their plans for the year to come.At the start of a new year it’s customary to reflect …
“This Halloween, give someone a scary book to read.” That’s the message Neil Gaiman is spreading this Halloween in a clip promoting All Hallow’s Read, an attempt to inaugurate a tradition in the UK o…
In July, the Wheeler Centre ran a promotion inviting you to subscribe to our enewsletter. As a sweetener, we offered one randomly-selected new subscriber a trip to the Ubud Writers and Readers…
Next year’s National Poetry Festival is to be held in Darwin from 10 to 13 May. The festival will be held in conjunction with Wordstorm, the Festival of Australasian Writing, which will kick off on 1…
The Sydney Opera House is hosting the third annual Festival of Dangerous Ideas next weekend, featuring a slew of some of the world’s most controversial figures. Several among them – Jonathan Safran F…
By Lisa DempsterWith over 4000 artists and 350 different shows, you could be excused for feeling daunted about the Melbourne Fringe program. For navigational purposes, I’ve compiled my picks for a…
Today we’re cross-posting a blog post written by Stephanie Honor Convery and published on the Melbourne Writers Festival blog. Stephanie takes a look at two Festival events looking at gender and…
Congratulations to Fiona McGregor, whose third novel Indelible Ink was announced winner of The Age Book of the Year Award last night at the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival. Indelible Ink
A two-day conference being held tomorrow and Saturday as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival is taking a look at the impact of digital technologies and culture on the business and practice of…
Melbourne’s annual writers festival begins tonight and tomorrow with the festival’s two keynote events. Tonight, US writer Jonathan Franzen will speak on autobiographical fiction while tomorrow…
The Melbourne Writers Festival begins this week and the Wheeler Centre is pleased to be presenting an adaptation of Shaun Tan’s award-winning ‘The Arrival’ in partnership with the Festival. On…
The meteorologists are forecasting some glorious weather over the next few days and no doubt this weekend many Melburnians will be heading seaward for the first glimpse of spring for the year. If…
The Brisbane Writers Festival has just announced its program, and it features names including Jonathan Franzen (on the back of his appearance in Melbourne), Ann Patchett, Philip Pullman (via Skype…
Imagine you are a publisher of serious literature and you receive a submission for a novel that goes something like this:“Cesar is a translator who’s fallen on very hard times due to the global…
The Sydney Opera House’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas released its program today, and for many Melbournians, the festival’s most dangerous idea is that we would have to skip the AFL Grand Final to…
Wheeler Centre resident organisation the Melbourne Writers' Festival released its program for the next festival today.Program highlights include Jonathan Franzen speaking on autobiographical fiction …
Advertising agency George Patterson/Y&R are claiming to be the first to create a poem in the form of a website URL. The poem was devised to promote the Byron Bay Writers' Festival, which begins…
Artwork by Jason Cavanagh, courtesy Bloomsday in Melbourne Today is Bloomsday. Bloomsday in Melbourne’s Frances Devlin-Glass writes on the novel’s fascinations, and the…
Artwork by Jason Cavanagh, courtesy Bloomsday in Melbourne It’s Bloomsday this Thursday, when lovers of James Joyce’s Ulysses commemorate the novel, which is set over a…
The Emerging Writers Festival concludes on Sunday, so if you haven’t already immersed yourself in the ‘festival for writers’ check out the events programme. Here are some highlights.The Writer’s…
The Bayside Literary Festival begins tomorrow. Clustered around Brighton and Sandringham, festival events will explore the many different ways a text can tell a story. They’ll feature story-telling m…
(Click to watch video.) “They were the best of times, they were the worst of times.” So begins Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, but judging from the launch…
The Williamstown Literary Festival is on this weekend in Melbourne’s favourite historic seaside village. Now in its eighth year, the festival runs from Friday April 29 to Sunday May 1, although…
If you pass the State Library lawns today and they seem to have a slightly crumpled look, you’re not hallucinating. It’s estimated that about 9,000 kids, parents and grandparents attended the…
All week we’ve run a series of articles on kids' and young adult books to coincide with the inaugural Children’s Book Festival this Sunday from 10am to 4pm.Today we finish the series by following up …
We add our congratulations to the long list of accolades for Shaun Tan, who’s backed up his Oscar win with the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Worth 5 million krona ($765,000), it’s the world’s…
The conventional wisdom is that it’s usually wise to read the book before you see the film. But as filmmakers cast their sights further and further afield for inspiration, sometimes the film is…
In the lead-up to the Children’s Book Festival on Sunday, Chris Morphew is blogging this week on the website of ABC Radio National’s Book Show.Chris is a young adult author who’ll be appearing at…
Winners of the Book Trust’s Best New Illustrators Award have been announced in the UK. According to the Trust’s website, the winners – Joe Berger, Claudia Boldt, Katie Cleminson, Chris Haughton…
Melbourne is playing host to two literary festivals with a difference over the next few days. The Sticky Institute’s I am Typewriter festival will be “investigating the love affair between zine and m…
