Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 19 June
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Discover and celebrate exciting new writers at the annual Emerging Writers' Festival edition of Next Big Thing.
Discover new works and celebrate fresh writing talent in a special Emerging Writers' Festival edition of the Wheeler Centre’s much-loved Next Big Thing readings series. Over a drink at the Moat, hear readings from some of the brightest emerging literary stars including Pip Finkemeyer (Sad Girl Novel), Dan Hogan (Secret Third Thing), Elfy Scott (The One Thing We've Never Spoken About), Aisling Smith (After the Rain), Grace Yee (Chinese Fish) and Voiceworks contributor Tara Grace.
Presented in partnership with Emerging Writers’ Festival The bookseller for this event is Readings.
The Next Big Thing
The Next Big Thing takes place every month at the Moat and is a cherished Melbourne institution. It’s the place to be if you want to hear great emerging writers read from new and adventurous work.
Featuring
Pip Finkemeyer
Pip Finkemeyer’s fiction has been listed for the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers, and the Disquiet Literary Prize, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She completed a Masters in Publishing and Editing at RMIT. She lives in Naarm/Melbourne, and Sad Girl Novel is her first novel.
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Grace Yee
Grace Yee's poetry has been widely published and anthologised across Australia and internationally, and has been awarded the Patricia Hackett Prize, the Peter Steele Poetry Award, a Creative Fellowship at the State Library ...
Dan Hogan
Dan Hogan (they/them) is a writer from San Remo, NSW (Awabakal and Worimi Country). They currently live and work on Dharug and Gadigal Country (Sydney). Dan's debut book of poetry, Secret Third Thing, was released by ...
Aisling Smith
Aisling Smith won the 2020 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. Her debut novel, After the Rain, was published by Hachette Australia in 2023 and was longlisted for this year's Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Her short ...
Elfy Scott
Elfy is an award-winning journalist, podcaster, and presenter working in Sydney. She started out her career at BuzzFeed News Australia as a science reporter and her journalism has featured in publications such as the Guardian ...
Tara Grace
Tara Grace is a writer in Melbourne. Her creative nonfiction piece ‘Perennial Bodies’ was published in issue #128 of Voiceworks in 2022. Her work explores recovery from cancer and living with a non-normative body through the lens ...