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Free Storytelling Events with Spineless Wonders
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Upcoming Storytelling Event - FREE live and online!
Spineless Wonders has partnered with the City of Sydney to run two Storytelling events, QUEER AS FICTION and MOON ORCHARD with amazingly talented new and established authors! Read below to learn more about these events and how to register.
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Moon Orchard
Hear contemporary Asian Australian voices.
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Spineless Wonders is proud to present ‘Moon Orchard’, celebrating a range of Asian Australian voices based on the audiobook Moon Orchard and hosted by Happy Feraren. Happy is a Fillipino actor and playwriter with over fifteen years experience in improvisational theatre and has performed in cities around the world.
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Join us to celebrate Asian Australian voices performed in varying formats, from prose to poetry to spoken word performance. Meet the authors that explore the challenges and joys of discovering identity through the human experience.
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WHEN: Saturday, 3rd June 2023
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WHERE: Darling Square Library
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Queer As Fiction - (Past Event)
Hear contemporary LGBTQIA+ stories live. Expressing what LGBTQIA+ means today.
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On May 20th, Queer communities and their allies spent a beautiful afternoon celebrating LGBTQIA+ stories at Green Square Library. Hosted by Ce Benedict, known for their podcast NB: My Non-Binary Life and as the quizmaster of Inqueersition at the Bearded Tit Hotel, everyone in attendance laughed and empathised with each others experiences of love, identity and self expression.
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A special thanks to everyone who read their stories from the anthology, Queer as Fiction (Spineless Wonders, 2021), live, to Drag Kings Alli Sebastian Wolf and Ewin Trouble and actor Aisling Delahunt for attending!
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If you missed out and would love to watch the event, check the link below!
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Submit to us!
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2024 NWF/ joanne burns Microlit Awards
Send us microfiction or prose, up to 200 words, that reflects the theme of remnant. Challenge our sense of the real. Show us the past’s power. We welcome submissions that will amaze and unsettle.
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The award will be judged by the celebrated and award-winning author, Joanna Burns and the publication will be edited by internationally renowned microlit expert, Professor Cassandra Atherton.
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Check below for more information:
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Slinkies 2023 Call Out
Are you under 30 years old? Do you enjoy writing? Are you ready to get published?
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Look no further, Spineless Wonders is looking for your creative energy to enter our competition and have the chance to be featured in our annual anthology. Check below for further information and guidelines:
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In the News
Excitement for Lake Malibu
A Spineless Wonders collection, Lake Malibu and other stories by Su-May Tan has been selected by Aesop, Malaysia to be part of their Women's Library! The Women's library aims to empower women's literary voices and celebrate their success.
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"Being an Australian brand in Malaysia, it is especially meaningful to me as I have such strong links to both countries," says Su-May. She continues, "You could even view Lake Malibu as a piece of craft that represents my view of the beauty and strength of Malaysian people."
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Lake Malibu was a finalist in the 2021 Carmel Bird Digital Award and shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards 2023.
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Purchase your own copy below!
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Praise for Rashida Murphy
Spineless Wonders is delighted to announce that Rashida Murphy's The Bonesetter's Fee has been shortlisted for the Multicultural Award at the NSW Premier's Award 2023!
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Purchase your own copy below:
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Spineless Wonders New Releases
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Love Letter to Lola by Carmel Bird
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This immersive short story collection comments on the pain of loss and grief with a humorous point of view. Carmel Bird’s voice is unique and allows readers to occupy the minds of threatened species as they come close to extinction.
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All the Unloved by Susan McCreery
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Set on the iconic beachside of Bondi during the 1990’s, Susan McCreery’s All the Unloved takes readers along the entangled journey of apartment complex neighbours as they face the themes of love, longing, isolation, family and unrequited love. Read here:
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