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Melbourne Writers Festival 2019
The Melbourne Writers Festival is happening in Melbourne, Australia from 30 August till 8 September.
Victoria’s premier annual literary event. The Festival connects writers and stories to celebrate a world of literature, explore universal ideas, and inspire a global community of readers.
This year’s Festival theme is “When We Talk About Love”.
For all sessions and workshops check out their website here:
Love Your Bookshop Day – 10th of August
This year bookshops across Australia are throwing a party and you are invited! Love Your Bookshop Day is a chance to celebrate what makes your local bookshop great. Whether it’s for their amazing staff, their carefully curated range or specialisation or a must-see events program, we encourage you to visit your favourite bookshop on Saturday 11 August and join in with the celebrations.
Don’t forget to tag using #loveyourbookshopday and share why your bookshop is special using the hash tag #whyIlovemybookshop
For more info go here: Love Your Bookshop Day
Melbourne Rare Book Week & Rare Book Fair
Melbourne Rare Book Week commenced in 2012 as a partnership between ANZAAB, the University of Melbourne and eight other literary institutions. In 2015, over 44 free events were held at libraries, literary and historical societies and bookshops throughout Melbourne, attracting local, national and international visitors. Melbourne Rare Book Week is now well established in the City of Melbourne’s event calendar. It is a major attraction for book collectors, librarians and all who have a love of words, print on paper and literary heritage.
The Melbourne Rare Book week in 2019 is from 5th to the 14th of July:
The Melbourne Rare Book Fair in 2019 is from July 12 to the 14th July.
Poem: I See You, I Hear You
Poem: Take My Pain
Poem: You Don’t Own Me
I wrote this after I heard about Courtney Herron who was a woman beaten to death last month. I had that Leslie Gore song “You Dont Own Me” stuck in my head at the time and was influenced by it…
