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Kylie Mirmohamadi
Kylie Mirmohamadi is a writer and academic whose work and research…
DiscoverKylie Mirmohamadi: The Next Big Thing | The Wheeler Centre
Emerging writers run wild at this Spring Fling edition of our popular Next Big Thing series.
Join us on the rooftop garden terrace of narrm ngarrgu Library and hear from some of Australia’s brightest new writers.
Kylie Mirmohamadi’s debut novel Diving, Falling is a seductive and darkly funny tale of one woman’s reclamation of her life following the death of her famous, philandering husband.
Keshe Chow’s young adult novel, A Girl with No Reflection, is a lush fantasy story that blends romance, palace intrigue and Chinese mythology. It received the 2022 VPLA Unpublished Manuscript Award.
In Sophie Matthiesson’s Together We Fall Apart, a woman is torn between her young family and the past she can’t escape.
All I Ever Wanted Was To Be Hot is Lucinda Price aka Froomes’s debut collection of essays exploring obsession, self-image, beauty ideals and the pursuit of being ‘hot’.
Lucy O’Shea Carré’s Voiceworks piece ‘Summer Breathing’ is about one sweltering hot day and evokes the sweetness and ominousness of childhood summers.
Hear these talented emerging writers read from their work, which renders the complicated intersection of identity and longing with heartfelt clarity.
Diving, Falling
It’s never too late to rewrite your own story.
For years, Leila Whittaker has been the mediator in her family. She smoothes ruffled feathers between her sons; endures the volatile moods of their father, the acclaimed Australian artist Ken Black; and even swallows the bitter pill of Ken’s endless affairs. All this, for the quiet hum of creative freedom her marriage provides. Or so she tells herself.
When Ken dies, leaving his artist’s estate to their two sons, and the pointed amount of sixty-nine thousand dollars to his muse, Anita, Leila decides she’s had enough. It’s time to seek some peace (and…
