Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 28 March
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Grab a drink from the bar and settle into the Moat for another instalment of The Next Big Thing. We’ll be showcasing works-in-progress from our third cohort of 2020 Hot Desk Fellows. You’ll hear excerpts from a range of projects, spanning poetry, graphic novel and fiction, refined over the course of their ten-week fellowships at the Wheeler Centre. The featured fellows are Rashmi Patel, Ariel Ries, Danny Silva Soberano and Panda Wong.
The Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowships are supported by the Readings Foundation and Just Pretending theatre group.
Featuring
Rashmi Patel
Rashmi Patel is a writer and business analyst currently based in Melbourne. She is passionate about gender issues, diversity in the arts, and immigrant stories. Her articles and stories have appeared in online and print publications ...
Ariel Slamet Ries
Ariel Slamet Ries is an eggplant and/or human residing on unceded Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri lands. After studying animation in Denmark for four years they lost their degree in the post and unceremoniously bumbled into ...
Panda Wong
Panda Wong is a poet living on unceded Wurundjeri land. Working across sound, performance and the digital, her practice circles around the void. In 2022, her first chapbook angel wings dumpster fire (2022) was published by ...
Diem Nguyen
Diem is the Wheeler Centre’s Program Coordinator. She has worked at the Emerging Writers’ Festival, Writers Victoria, and the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) ...