Wheeler Centre, Books Writing Ideas
Monday 2 August 6.15
176 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
www.wheelercentre.com
Debut Mondays featuring Kent MacCarter, Jon Bauer, Joel Deane and Jenny Sinclair
Byron Bay Writers Festival
6-8 August 2010
www.byronbaywritersfestival.com.au
Patrick Holland, author of The Long Road of the Junkmailer (UQP) and The Mary Smokes Boys (Transit Lounge release 1 August) is a guest of the Festival.
Avid Reader, Brisbane
Wednesday 11th August 6pm
193 Boundary St, West End
Phone 07 3846 3422
www.avidreader.com.au
Launch of The Mary Smokes Boys by Patrick Holland
Christchurch Writers’ Festival
9-12 September
www.chchwritersfest.co.nz
Ouyang Yu (author of The English Class), Garry Weare (author of A Long Walk in the Himalaya) and Jane Carswell (author of Under the Huang Jiao Tree)are guests of the festival.
For all event enquiries: info@transitlounge.com.au or phone (03) 9332 7847
Ubud Writers and Readers Festival
6-10 October
www.ubudwritersfestival.com
Cate Kennedy, author Sing, and Don’t Cry: A Mexican Journal is a guest of the Festival.
Melbourne Writers’ Festival 27 August to 5 September
www.mwf.com.au
Ouyang Yu and Cate Kennedy are guests of the Festival.
Sunday 29 August 11.30am BMW Edge
Travels in Asia
Ouyang Yu, Simon Winchester and Kim Cheng Boey compare their different experiences of the continent that will dominate this century. They also collectively consider how their writing shapes the rest of the world’s understanding of Asia.
Sunday 29 August 6.30pm Festival Club ACMI
Bittersweet Launch
Bittersweet is a playful intervention into everyday life, bringing poetry and audiences together over a cup of coffee. It presents in the form of a pencil-shaped scroll, served free of charge to audiences when they order coffee or tea from most Fed Square eateries. The unfurled scroll reveals a poem (or an excerpt of a poem) written by one of ten Australian poets. Collect all ten scrolls and enjoy readings by Jessica Raschke, Justin Clemens, Michael Farrell, Jennifer Harrison, Andy Jackson, Pi o, Judith Rodriquez, Hugh Tolhurst and Ouyang Yu.
Readings, Carlton
Thursday 2 September 6pm for 6.30pm.
Launch of Ouyang Yu’s The English Class
Nicholas Jose, editor of the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature, launches Ouyang Yu’s new novel The English Class, the story of Jing, a Chinese truck driver who aspires to learn English and migrate to the West.
Readings, 309 Lygon St, Carlton. Free.
