Come along to this literary speed-friending session for an opportunity to meet other emerging writers who identify as queer or gender diverse. Writers Sam Elkin, Jasper Peach and Liz Sutherland will facilitate this interactive friend-making space. Focused on literature, writing, queer identities, activism, accessibility, progressive politics, and more. Move past shame and awkwardness and leave feeling a little bolder and a few friends the richer.
Saturday 14 September, 11AM
St Kilda Library (Community Room)
150 Carlisle St, St Kilda VIC 3182
Sam Elkin
Sam Elkin is a writer, community lawyer and author of Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga. He co-hosts the Triple R radio show Queer View Mirror and is the 2024 City of Melbourne Boyd Garret writer in residence.
Photo credit: Marlo W
Jasper Peach
Jasper Peach (they/them) is a trans, non-binary and disabled writer, speaker and parent. They are passionate about equitable access and inclusion, focused on the dismantling of misplaced shame via storytelling.
Liz Sutherland
Liz Sutherland (they/them) lives on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. They are the COO of a nonprofit organisation, the Treasurer of the Board of Overland, and is studying a Master of Arts (Writing and Literature) at Deakin University. Liz was a finalist in the Pearl Prize 2024, Frontier Poetry’s 2023 Ekphrastic Poetry Prize, and the 2023 OutStanding LGBTQIA+ Short Story Awards. Their writing has appeared in Mascara Review, StylusLit, Swamp Magazine, Left Brain Media, ScratchThat Magazine, Say It Out Loud, at Q-Lit festivals, and more.
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