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 ...

Deborah Robertson is a writer whose first book, Proudflesh, won the Steele Rudd Award for the best Australian short story collection in its year of publication. Her debut novel, Careless, won the 2006 ...

Damian Griffis is a descendant of the Worimi people of the Manning Valley in NSW. He is a leading advocate for the human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability. Damian ...

Roderick Waller was born in Yorkshire in 1948 to a working-class family of ship builders. In 1971 he immigrated to Australia. He has worked as a jackaroo, a UN economist and a consultant in developing ...

The Wheeler Centre exists to support writers, readers and thinkers. Through live and digital conversations, debates, readings, performances and discussions, it deepens public engagement with the most ...

Composer and sound designer J. David Franzke lives and works in Melbourne. His work spans film, theatre and visual art installations as well as the production of numerous albums, both as solo works ...

This event is currently sold out. If you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email ticketing@wheelercentre.com. Share a meal with Virginia Trioli and hear about her lifelong love of good ...

Hasib Hourani's debut poetry collection, rock flight, is a powerful allegory of occupation and subjugation that refuses to lose hope. It highlights the disruptive effects of displacement, ...

Three First Nations performers reflect on connection, Country and resistance in a night of poetry, music and storytelling. For this special Spring Fling event, writer and performer Laniyuk, ...

Mark Day is a veteran journalist and commentator on media matters for The Australia.

Ellen Koshland is a Founding Donor of the Stella Prize and has been an active supporter of literature and education in Australia since her arrival from the USA in 1973. She established the Education ...