Grace Yee’s poetry has been widely published and anthologised across Australia and internationally, and has been awarded the Patricia Hackett Prize, the Peter Steele Poetry Award, a Creative Fellowship at the State Library Victoria, and grants from Creative Victoria and the Australia Council for the Arts. Grace has taught in the Writing and Literature Program at Deakin University, and in the Creative Writing Program at The University of Melbourne, where she completed a PhD on settler Chinese women’s storytelling in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Appearing In

Monday 19 June, 6:30pm
Next Big Thing
Discover new works and celebrate fresh writing talent in a special Emerging Writers’ Festival edition of the Wheeler Centre’s much-loved Next Big Thing readings series.
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Saturday 24 June, 11am
Radical Memoir Writing
Take a closer look at writers who have used their personal stories as carriers for a wider message of change and social, political critique.

Saturday 17 June, 4:15pm
On the Cutting Room Floor
Hear from authors on how they go about whittling down their words to the ones that matter the most, and what they do with the ones they cut.

Saturday 24 June, 8pm
Closing Night: Celestial Bodies
See the festival off with us in true extravagance, gala-style, and witness a dreamy line-up of well-loved writers, artists and inter-galactic DJS.

Thursday 22 June, 7:30pm
HIBERNAL: under the moon
What better way to celebrate the winter solstice than listening to powerful tales around a fire? Rug up to commune beneath the moon on the longest night of the year for a night of aural storytelling.
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