Madeleine Rebbechi is a writer based in Naarm/Melbourne. She has written music and arts reviews, radio scripts and media kits, but her true love is fiction. In 2022 she was highly commended in the Moth Short Story Prize, and in 2023 her story ‘Dip’ was published in the Kill Your Darlings anthology New Australian Fiction. She was awarded runner up in the 2023 Overland Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize, and is the 2024 recipient of the ASA/Varuna Ray Koppe Fellowship for Young Writers. She is currently working on a short story collection.
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Morning Pages: Sweaty Palms, Fear in Fiction
What does it feel like to face fear on the page? From embodying emotion, to revisiting the stuff of nightmares, these writers discuss what fear is, and how it can propel one’s writing.
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Melbourne’s A Plus has gathered a posse of brilliant writers to reflect on their favourite writing about plus size bodies, and shine a light on the power – and sometimes, difficulty – in being visible, taking up space, and writing against shame.
Nocturnal: Earthshattering
Words and sounds are the mediums we turn to, to channel these transformative events. Join us Melbourne Museum to hear stories and tributes to experiences that rooted these artists to the earth or led them to transcend it.
20 Minute Cities
Take a literary tour around the world, with the help of the UNESCO Cities of Literature network! Join emerging writers from Heidelberg, Jakarta, Kozhikode, Krakow, Ljubljana, Nottingham, Quebec City, Reykjavik, Tukums, Vilnius and Wroclaw as they walk you through their city, introducing you to local writers and pointing out what makes their City of Literature great.
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What does it mean to write in honour of the dead? Who is elegy for, and what are the ethical considerations and implications of such writing?
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