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Emerging writers run wild at this Spring Fling edition of our popular Next Big Thing series.
Join us on the rooftop garden terrace of narrm ngarrgu Library and hear from some of Australia’s brightest new writers.
Keshe Chow’s young adult novel, A Girl with No Reflection, is a lush fantasy story that blends romance, palace intrigue and Chinese mythology. It received the 2022 VPLA Unpublished Manuscript Award.
Kylie Mirmohamadi’s debut novel Diving, Falling is a seductive and darkly funny tale of one woman’s reclamation of her life following the death of her famous, philandering husband.
In Sophie Matthiesson’s Together We Fall Apart, a woman is torn between her young family and the past she can’t escape.
Lucy O’Shea Carré’s Voiceworks piece ‘Summer Breathing’ is about one sweltering hot day and evokes the sweetness and ominousness of childhood summers.
Hear these talented emerging writers read from their work, which renders the complicated intersection of identity and longing with heartfelt clarity.
Unfortunately, Lucinda Price is no longer able to appear at this event.
Supported by City of Melbourne Libraries
Spring Fling: Wild Abandon
A season of curiosity unleashed.
Spring Fling returns for 2024 with wild abandon. This year, we’ve curated a lineup of change-makers, rule-breakers and singular storytellers to challenge your preconceptions and foster new ways of thinking.
Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 14 October
7.00pm-8.00pm
Tickets
$0.00
Ticket
Please note: this event will take place at narrm ngarrgu Library: Level 1 - Event Space.
Doors will open at 6.30pm, and the event will commence at 7.00pm.
Location
Accessibility
Accessible toilets available
Assistive Listening
Auslan interpreting available by-request
Registered Assistance Animals welcome
Wheelchair accessible
For information regarding accessibility at narrm ngarrgu Library, click 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 ticketing@wheelercentre.com.
Additional Notes
Featuring
Keshe Chow
Keshe Chow (she/her) is a Malaysian-born Chinese-Australian author of fantasy, romance, and speculative fiction. She won the 2020 Perito Prize, the 2021 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction, the 2021 Yarra Literature Prize ...
Sophie Matthiesson
Sophie Matthiesson is a lawyer and holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne, a Bachelor of Laws from Monash University, and a Masters of Law from Cambridge University. She grew up in Melbourne, spent ...
Kylie Mirmohamadi
Kylie Mirmohamadi is an academic and author from Melbourne/ Naarm. She was the recipient of a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship in 2022 and her unpublished manuscripts have been highly commended in the Victorian ...
Lucy O’Shea Carré
Lucy is a fledgling writer living in Naarm/Melbourne. She has a Bachelor of Arts in gender studies, and is now a student of creative writing, publishing and editing at the University of Melbourne. Whether in fiction or creative ...
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) ...