Last week we collaborated with @PENMelbourne on Disarming Disinformation at @RMIT feat. @AliceDrury Yusef Alreemawi (Averrose Centre of Arab Culture), @SushiDas1 & Dr Biao Chen (Independent Chinese PEN Centre). Congrats to organisers @JosieeBanner and @PetaMurray1
Sending @frendles off into a well-deserved #retirement in style, with a #choir, flowers, speeches and a #volunteer stint at her beloved @TheBigUmbella1, preparing rescued food for distribution to people living with food insecurity and #homelessness. A fitting last hurrah!
Landfall 247 is here! ✨
Edited by Lynley Edmeades
Cover art by Kate van den Drift 🍎
Announcing the winner of the 2024 Landfall Young Writers’ Essay Competition
Find in your local bookstore or online at oup.nz/landfall247
We are delighted to announce the next session of Reading Publics with Tony Birch in conversation with Linda Daley 530pm 10 April at the Kaleide Theatre, 360 Swanston Street, Naarm. Bookings: buff.ly/3IJDHKK#MelbourneEvents#writingcommunity
SPOTLIGHT feat. Jack Tan, Pippa Bond & Gerard Starling. Our biannual salon series - have a drink and a snack, listen and discuss creative work. Monday, March 25th, 5:30-7:00pm - Urban Writing House, Stewart St, RMIT Melbourne City Campus #writingcommunity#writingevents
Congratulations to @EmilieCollyer whose poem 'Lateral ambling gait' has been awarded runner-up in the 2024 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, administered by @islandmagtas. The poem, along with all shortlisted and winning poems will be published in Island 170 #poetry#poetryprize
Join Bonny Cassidy to launch her first book of nonfiction, MONUMENT (@giramondopublishing). Thursday, February 22nd, 6.30pm at @readingsbooks, Lygon St. The book will be launched by Joan Fleming (Aotearoa/NZ) and copies will be on sale: buff.ly/3OsJ3xh
Proud to report our PhD candidate @katemildenhall was announced by @asauthors as the runner up of The Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship! Congratulations! #writingcommunity