My first mission is to spread knowledge about writing and illustrating picture books on Saturday. If there’s anything you want to know about how to get into the game or well, anything really, you can borrow me. It’s called the Living Library and I’ll be a very helpful book.

The Living Library – I’m a Book. Yes, an actual book. Only the idea is to ask questions and the book will answer helpfully. Please be gentle posting me through the return chute.
Saturday 23rd May in the Experimedia room of the State Library of Victoria. Each ‘borrowing’ of a Book will last for approximately fifteen minutes in which time the writer has the opportunity to ask up to three questions related to concerns they have in their writing practice.

Art vs Craft?
Sunday 31st May 12.30 to 1.30pm in the Melbourne Town Hall. One of our special Two Sides of the Coin debates where writers debate with themselves. Is it all about lyrical musings regardless of plot and structure, or can you put any old a pap down if the plot rocks? Obviously you need both…obviously. Obviously?
With Nathan Curnow, Elise Hurst, Kathryn Heyman and Krissy Kneen. Hosted by Susan Hayes

The Page Parlour gathers the undiscovered, the underground and the independent, the obscure and the strange, and sets them in the front row. Get your posters, poetry, (maga)zines, books and journals here.
Sunday 31th May at The Atrium, Federation Square, 12 noon-5pm. I’ll be running across straight after my talk at the Town Hall. Prints, books and perhaps something new…