Jinghua Qian (ey/eir/em) works across verse, prose, audio and television, often returning to the same concerns: art, queerness, history, China, diaspora and desire. Eir work appears in The Monthly, The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Overland, Meanjin, and on ABC TV’s China Tonight. Born in Shanghai, ey now lives in Melbourne’s west, on the land of the Kulin nations.
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Thursday 22 June, 11AM
Beyond Solitude
In this panel, RMIT students and staff exchange ideas, skills, and viewpoints on stimulating creativity, and fostering connections.
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Thursday 15 June, 11am
Digital Ecologies
Join these writers for an invigorating discussion about their visions for a world where the technological and the natural are simultaneously embraced.
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Tuesday 20 June, 9pm
How to Make an Enemy
Join poet Harry Reid for an oral history on literary bastardry, and an education in charming your poetry enemies.
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Wednesday 21 June, 9pm
Distraction & it’s (Dis)contents
In an attention economy where textual engagement is constantly subject to the news cycle, the fragment, virality and the scroll, what is it to be distracted, and what makes it compelling?
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