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The Wheeler Centre’s Hot Desk Fellowships are wrapping up for 2024, and in this instalment of our ever-popular Next Big Thing series, we’re showcasing writers from the third intake of fellows.
Our popular Next Big Thing series is back again this November, and writers awarded a 2024 Hot Desk Fellowship will share excerpts from their works-in-progress.
Be inspired as host Diem Nguyen joins Megan Cheong, Ronia Imbrahim, Suri Matondkar, Lia Dewey Morgan, Belinda Rule, Frankie van Kan, Hannah Wu and Cat Yen for an evening of creativity, craft and candour.
Whether you’re into poetry, creative non-fiction or memoir there’s something for every budding writer and critic at this edition of The Next Big Thing.
The Hot Desk Fellowships are supported by the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, the Readings Foundation and the Just Pretending theatre group.
The Next Big Thing
Want to meet tomorrow’s literary stars today? Let us introduce you. 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. Enjoy a delicious drink while sampling writing from tomorrow’s best and brightest literary stars.
Next Big Thing is generously supported by George and Rosa Morstyn.
Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 18 November
6.30pm - 7.30PM
Tickets
$19.00
Full
$15.00
Concession
$15.00
Under 30
$0.00
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Featuring
Megan Cheong
Megan Cheong is a teacher, writer and critic living on Wurrundjeri Woi Wurrung land. She was a 2022 CA-SRB Emerging Critic, and her criticism has been published in Sydney Review of Books and Meanjin among other ...
Ronia Ibrahim
Ronia Ibrahim is a writer, designer and artist based in Naarm, originally from Aotearoa. Her poetry and nonfiction has been published across New Zealand and Australia, including Cordite, Overland, SAARI Collective ...
Suri Matondkar
Suri Matondkar is an Indian writer and doctoral student. She was a 2024 Hot Desk Fellow at the Wheeler Centre and was also awarded the 2025 Eric Dark Flagship fellowship by Varuna, The National Writers' House.
Lia Dewey Morgan
Lia Dewey Morgan is a poet, writer and library worker living in Naarm. With a background in spoken word, choral music and rap, her writing masterfully explores connections between music and poetry, through playful use ...
Belinda Rule
Belinda Rule is a Melbourne poet. Her first poetry collection is Hyperbole, Recent Work Press, 2021. Her chapbook, The Things the Mind Sees Happen, Puncher & Wattmann, was commended in the Anne Elder Award ...
Frankie van Kan
Frankie van Kan is an interdisciplinary queer artist, writer and sex worker living, loving and learning on unceded Wurundjeri land. Her practise includes live performance, costume, the written word and dance. Her debut ...
Hannah Wu
Hannah Wu is a writer and musician from Aotearoa, studying on unceded Wurundjeri land. Her writing has been published with or is forthcoming with Yale Art History Journal, At The Above Gallery, Liminal Magazine, Pantera ...
Cat Yen
Cat Yen was the winner of the SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition in 2021. Of Chinese descent, she is based in Naarm and currently working on her debut memoir. Proudly the daughter of factory and retail workers with no ...
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) ...