The Next Big Thing: Wild Abandon

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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 It received the 2022 VPLA Unpublished Manuscript Award.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 

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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

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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

narrm ngarrgu Library

141 Therry St, Melbourne VIC 3000

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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

Speakers will be signing books after the event.

 

The bookseller for this event is Readings.