Name: Rachel Morton: The Sun Was Electric Light
Start: 2025-04-10
End: 2025-04-10
Location: The Wheeler Centre

Celebrating the winner of 2024’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, Rachel Morton discusses her highly anticipated novel The Sun Was Electric Light.

The Sun Was Electric Light is the debut breakout that ‘rinsed clean’ Helen Garner’s heart and nerves.

Morton’s protagonist, a woman disillusioned with life in the big city, returns to the lake town in Guatemala where she had been happy a decade earlier. There, she strikes up friendships with two very different women – and through them is forced to confront what it means to belong to a place. This is a tale that quietly agitates for connection, belonging and a life well lived, finding power in its simplicity and beauty through interiority.

With host Allee Richards, Morton takes the stage at The Wheeler Centre to discuss her award-winning debut work that has already captured the imagination of some of this country's most beloved writers

Event and Ticketing Details

Dates & Times

Thursday 10 April

6.30 - 7.30pm

Tickets

$19.50

Full

$15.50

Concession

$0.00

Pay What You Wish

Location

The Wheeler Centre

176 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne Victoria 3000

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Accessibility

Accessible toilets available

Assistive Listening

Auslan interpreting available by-request

Companion tickets available

Registered Assistance Animals welcome

Wheelchair accessible

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Additional Notes

Rachel Morton will be signing books after the event.

The bookseller for this event is Hill of Content Bookshop.

Featuring

Rachel Morton

Rachel Morton is a writer living on Eastern Maar Country in south-west Victoria. Her poetry has appeared in Meanjin Quarterly, The Moth Magazine and various other publications. Rachel was shortlisted for the 2019 Australian ...

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Allee Richards

Allee Richards is the author of two novels, A Light in the Dark and Small Joys of Real Life. Her short stories have been published widely in Australia including by Overland, Kill Your Darlings and Australian Book Review. She ...