Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 22 June
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
Accessibility
Wheelchair accessible
Accessible toilets available
The Wheeler Centre’s Next Chapter writers’ scheme is designed to give underrepresented voices a step-up, providing the time, space and introductions necessary to get a foot in the door and shake up the discourse within Australian publishing from the inside. In this panel discussion, Next Chapter recipients past and present, including Tristen Harwood, Micaela Sahhar, and Anne-Marie Te Whiu, will share their experiences of the scheme and discuss the many ways emerging writers are making the most of opportunities to break through barriers and challenge the assumptions of Australian publishing. Hosted by poet, academic and 2021 Next Chapter judge and mentor Jeanine Leane.
Presented in partnership with Emerging Writers’ Festival.
Featuring
Tristen Harwood
Tristen Harwood is an Indigenous writer, critic, editor and researcher. The eldest of seven children, he was raised in Perth’s outer suburbs by a single mother on welfare. His poetry and short fiction is concerned with ambiguous ...
Micaela Sahhar
Micaela Sahhar is an Australian-Palestinian writer and educator. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Overland, Cordite, the Age, Southerly, and the Conversation, among others, and she was shortlisted for the Blake Poetry Prize in 2014 ...
Anne-Marie Te Whiu
Anne-Marie Te Whiu is an Australian-born Māori whose whakapapa belongs to Te Rarawa in the Hokianga, Aotearoa. She is a poet, weaver, editor and festival director, having co-directed the QLD Poetry Festival from 2017 ...
Jeanine Leane
Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri poet, essayist, and author from the Marrambidya River. Her poetry and literary critique have been widely published in literary journals and magazines such as Overland, Sydney Review of Books ...