Name: Meet Cute
Start: 2022-11-04
End: 2022-11-04
Location: The Wheeler Centre

Event and Ticketing Details

Dates & Times

Friday 04 November

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Location

The Wheeler Centre

176 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne Victoria 3000

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Accessibility

Wheelchair accessible

Accessible toilets available

You can learn more about the Wheeler Centre’s accessibility policies here. Please notify us of all access requirements when booking online so we can assist you with your visit. If you require further information, please contact reception on 03 9094 7800 or ticketing@wheelercentre.com.

About

Prepare to swoon at the Meet Cute, a literary love-fest featuring a line-up of beloved YA authors and emerging teen writers. Put your feet up and let us woo you with a selection of short and very sweet stories from award-winning YA authors Sarah Ayoub, Alison Evans and Melissa Keil. They’re joined by three emerging teenage writers who capture the magic of the meet cute in stories crafted with the support of our special YA mentors. Enjoy a cute night out with your rom-com-loving bestie, your special someone, your secret crush or take yourself on a date at this evening of stories that will take your breath away. If you’re attending Meet Cute, stick around for a spooky storytelling session at Spring Fling’s Fright Night. This event will be photographed and recorded for use by the Wheeler Centre. The bookseller for this event is Readings.

About Spring Fling

Celebrating our return to the stage and the rejuvenation of the arts and culture communities, Spring Fling is a short series of big ideas offering a delectable picnic spread of events with leading thinkers, writers and creators from Australia and abroad. Spring Fling is supported by the Melbourne City Revitalisation Fund, a Victorian Government and City of Melbourne partnership.

Featuring

Sarah Ayoub

Sarah Ayoub is a freelance journalist, academic and bestselling author of books for teens and children. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Marie-Claire, ELLE, Sydney Review of Books and more. Sarah is a regular fixture at schools and writers festivals and lectures in journalism and writing at the University of Sydney and the University of Notre Dame. She obtained her PhD with a thesis examining the narratives of migrant girls in Australian teen lit and has judged numerous awards, most recently the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Sarah was elected to the board of the Australian Society of Authors in 2021 and is currently writing her first novel for adults as the writer-in-residence of Sweatshop.

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Alison Evans

Alison Evans is the award-winning author of three young adult (YA) novels: Euphoria Kids (2020), Highway Bodies (2019) and Ida (2017). They are a contributor in the YA anthologies Kindred: 12 Queer #loveozya Stories (2019) and Hometown Haunts: A Horror #loveozya Anthology (2021). They run a fortnightly writing group for trans youth with Nevo Zisin, and they co-edit the zine Concrete Queers with Katherine Back, which has published over sixty queer and/or questioning artists. They are a passionate advocate for the #loveozya community and work as a children's specialist bookseller.

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echo

echo is a non-binary teen writer living in Naarm on Wurundjeri Country with their family and cat. They love writing poetry, wearing bright colours, and experimenting with art in all its forms. They presented at National Young Writers Festival 2022 and won the Monash Council Wordfest Short Story competition for their age group in 2019.

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Melissa Keil

Melissa Keil is a writer and children's book editor. She is the author of three YA novels: Life in Outer Space, The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl and The Secret Science of Magic. Her short story, Sundays, is featured in Begin, End, Begin, the #LoveOzYA anthology. She is also the author of the Barkly Mansion junior fiction series with illustrator Adele K. Thomas. Melissa's books have been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Prime Ministers Literary Award, The CBCA Book of the Year (Older Readers) award, and have been translated into many languages around the world.

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Jes Layton

Jes Layton invented writing, the airplane, and the internet. He was also the first person to reach the North Pole. Jes is an author and illustrator currently living and working on Wurundjeri Land. He is the current co-CEO/Executive Director of the Emerging Writers' Festival and ...

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Jodi McAlister

Jodi McAlister is an author and academic. In her author life, she writes romance. In 2022, she has published Here For The Right Reasons (for adults) and Libby Lawrence is Good at Pretending (for young adults). She is also the author of the Valentine trilogy (2017-19), and her new romance Can I Steal You For A Second? will be published in April 2023. In her academic life, she studies romance. She is the author of two academic books focusing on romance - The Consummate Virgin (2020) and New Adult Fiction (2021) - as well as numerous academic articles and book chapters. She is endlessly fascinated by the stories we tell about love, and how they shape the ways we think.

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