Wednesday 17 September, 6:30PM-7:30PM
Partnered Event
Speculate Prize Anthology Launch
Celebrate the launch of the inaugural Speculate Prize Anthology; a vibrant, collection of bold, boundary-pushing new writing from emerging Australian voices. Published by Bowen Street Press, this anthology showcases speculative fiction that reimagines the world as we know it—stories that question, dream, and disrupt. Clink the champagne glasses, grab a copy of the anthology, and enjoy readings and a panel with some of the shortlisted writers.
The Speculate Prize for Emerging Writers is presented by EWF & RMIT University.
Pay-What-You-Wish
The Wheeler Centre, Performance Space (Level 2, ground level)
176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000
Featuring...
Sophie He
Sophie He writes and learns on unceded Wurundjeri land. She co-edits Farrago, the University of Melbourne’s student magazine. Sophie enjoys listing, enumerating and writing about herself in the third person.
Melissa King
Mel King is a Geelong Based writer who writes science fiction and horror. She won the 2025 Speculate Prize for Emerging Writers.
Will Moss
Will Moss is a young transgender male writer, aspiring in screenwriting and short fiction in particular.
Tim Loveday
Tim Loveday is a poet, writer and baby academic. His work explores class, masculinity, online radicalisation and climate collapse. He won the 2022 & 2024 Dorothy Porter Poetry Awards, the 2025 Calanthe Prize and the 2023 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Award, came runner-up in the 2024 Cloncurry Poetry Prize and was a finalist in the […]
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