Jamie Marina Lau is a novelist and the author of ‘Pink Mountain on Locust Island’ and ‘Gunk Baby’. She was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Readings Residency Award and Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelist. In 2022 Lau was selected to be a Fall resident and the Australian representative at the Iowa International Writers Program.
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Building Worlds
From real places to fantasy lands, these writers have mastered the art of immersing their readers in a time and place.
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Across four sessions, unblock your creative energy, scope out new writerly connections, establish a pleasurable reliable routine, and have the chance to perform new work.
Writing Short Stories
The first in our Writers’ Toolbox series. Learn what makes a great short story by analysing your own favourites.
Coming of Age in the Wild West
What does it mean to write the place you have lived? How do you harness the streets you have walked, and reflect back the people around you with care and consideration? In this special discussion event, these western suburbs writers come together to talk about the place, and the responsibility of writing it.
PEN Letter Writing Session
PEN Melbourne brings writers together to share experiences, explore ideas and conduct public conversations about how literature transforms, influences and fosters cross-cultural exchange. In this lunch time drop-in session, attendees can get involved with PEN’s letter writing program, designed to increase international pressure and attention on the persecution of writers exercising their rights to freedom […]
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