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The Next Big Thing series continues in 2025 with a rich selection of emerging voices ready to be heard.
Imii Lang’s KYD School Writing Prize-winning short story ‘Melting’ explores questions of partnership, connection and permanence. Nadia Mahjouri’s Half Truth is a hopeful tale of identity, motherhood and belonging. Laura McCluskey’s thrilling debut crime novel The Wolf Tree will make you want to lock your doors. Eleanor Nguyen’s Voiceworks piece ‘Carbon Snow’ is inspired by the abyss of the deep sea and the life it hides. Lisa Tirreno’s Prince of Fortune is a dreamy YA fantasy that shows the power of love through war. Jane Yang’s historical fiction The Lotus Shoes grips the soul with its powerful story of sisterhood and betrayal.
Join us at The Moat for an evening of twists and turns.
The Next Big Thing series is generously supported by George and Rosa Morstyn.
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Imii Lang is a recent graduate of Princes Hill secondary college and is continuing on to study fine arts this year. Creative writing has always been her primary passion, not only as a tool of expression but also as a medium ...
Nadia Mahjouri is a Moroccan Australian writer, counsellor, and group facilitator specialising in maternal mental health. Her professional background is in health policy, governance and academia, where her research focused ...
Laura McCluskey is a writer, editor and actor. As well as writing novels, she has penned several film and television projects for her production company, Sibylline Films. Laura is also a co-founder of Three Fates Theatre ...
Eleanor Nguyen (21) hails from Tasmania and has recently completed her creative writing bachelors. As indicated by that, she aspires to a career as a writer.
Lisa Tirreno lives in Melbourne, Australia with her family and a soap opera of chickens. A recovering journalist, she likes museums, old Hammer Horror movies and Pre-Raphaelite art. She has an honours ...
Jane Yang was born in the Chinese enclave of Saigon and raised in Australia where she grew up on a diet of superstition and family stories from Old China. Despite establishing a scientific career, she is still sometimes torn ...
Diem is the Wheeler Centre’s Program Producer. 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) ...
