Tuesday 16 September, 6:30PM-7:30PM
Partnered Event
Faber Writing Academy Anthology Launch
Join us at The Wheeler Centre for the launch of the Faber Writing Academy Anthology, featuring Melbourne’s Writing a Novel students alongside students from Writing True Stories and Writing Creative Nonfiction courses.
Hosted by author, tutor and Faber Writing Academy Manager, Pip Smith, this is your chance to meet tutors Emily Bitto, Miles Allinson and Luke Horton and glimpse a range of excerpts from books-in-progress, each of which creates an intriguing and often magical world for readers to explore.
This event is presented by Faber Writing Academy at Allen & Unwin.
Pay-What-You-Wish
The Wheeler Centre, Performance Space (Level 2, ground level)
176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000
Featuring...
Miles Allinson
Miles Allinson is the author of the novels Fever of Animals and In Moonland, as well as numerous emails.
Emily Bitto
Emily Bitto is a Melbourne-based writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Her debut novel, The Strays, won the 2015 Stella prize. Her second novel, Wild Abandon, won the Margaret and Colin Roderick Award and was shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal. Emily has been teaching for over a decade and is currently a tutor at […]
Luke Horton
Luke Horton is a writer, critic and creative writing lecturer from Naarm. His debut novel, The Fogging, was highly commended for the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and published by Scribe in 2020. His latest novel, Time Together, was published by Scribe in March 2025.
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