Tara Grace is a writer from Melbourne. Her creative nonfiction piece ‘Perennial Bodies’ was published in issue #128 of Voiceworks in 2022. Her work explores recovery from cancer and living with a non-normative body through the lens of art. She writes essays and poetry on the body, memory, visual culture, nature, and the intersection between them. She is currently studying creative writing and sociology at the University of Melbourne.
Appearing In
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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 17 June, 11am
Researching Fiction
This is a topic that is often left out of discussions on the craft – what do you do before you start writing?
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Friday 16 June, 8pm
what if we held hands in the queer archives
Five writers traverse the Australian Queer Archives (AQuA) and interact with the queer histories collected and preserved there.
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Wednesday 14 June – Saturday 24 June
Floodlight
Take a walk around Melbourne in the company of four storytellers using refrains of infrastructure, history, and memory to guide their routes.
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Saturday 24 June, 11AM
CTRL+F: Assembling and Resembling the Poem
Dive into experimentation with procedure, constraint, chance and technology to generate poems.
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