Ari Mills is a proud Kuku Yalanji and Nangu writer and poet. They incorporate their love for community, Queerness and Black liberation in their writing to come to explore Black Queer love stories in truth telling. Ari aims to create love spaces for mob to share and grow with each other in showcasing our mobs’ creativity and innovation. Their work has been published in Nangamay Mana Djurali (Dream Gather Grow), an Indigenous Queer Anthology, and in Australian Poetry’s Best of Australian Poems 2023.
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Thursday 5 September – Sunday 15 September
Fanfiction: Beyond the Canon
Combining case studies of fanfiction writers turned best-selling authors, publishing ecosystems across the world, and what fanfiction means to fans, these writers discuss how these thriving communities of writers and readers provide a space for emerging writers to practice and gain feedback.

Sunday 8 September, 3:15PM
Between Chapters
Hear from these celebrated writers, about the precarity, challenges and strengths of the mid-career phase.

Sunday 8 September, 2:15PM
Editing Unveiled
In reality, most writing is really editing – and few can do it alone! Hear from book and journal editors, publishers, and literary industry experts about the editor-writer relationship, the purpose and ethics of editing, and everything that goes into revising your writing with rigour.

Wednesday 11 September
Digital Surrealisms
Is the world becoming unreal, or hyper-real? Sink into this series of audio surrealist works, from artists concerned with the obsolescence of memory, AI, and the relationship between creativity, and being chronically online.
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