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The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction 2019 Shortlist FREE SEPTEMBER 2019 The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction 2019 shortlist page 6 Our annual Father’s Day gift guide page 11 BOOKS MUSIC FILM EVENTS MARTIN SIMPSON page 23 THE FINAL JOEY BUI MARGARET TYSON FIONA HARDY QUARTER page 7 ATWOOD YUNKAPORTA page 21 page 22 page 9 page 16 CARLTON 309 LYGON ST 9347 6633 KIDS 315 LYGON ST 9341 7730 DONCASTER WESTFIELD DONCASTER, 619 DONCASTER RD 9810 0891 HAWTHORN 701 GLENFERRIE RD 9819 1917 MALVERN 185 GLENFERRIE RD 9509 1952 ST KILDA 112 ACLAND ST 9525 3852 STATE LIBRARY VICTORIA 285-321 RUSSELL ST 8664 7540 | SEE SHOP OPENING HOURS, BROWSE AND BUY ONLINE AT READINGS.COM.AU The Wheeler Centre presents MIND. FULL. Season Two 2019 SUBSCRIBE NOW to our podcasts and e-news at wheelercentre.com TOXIC FEMININITY KRACK!N THE INDUSTRY White Tears/Brown Scars Inclusion on Screen In 2018, Sydney journalist Ruby Hamad wrote an article for the Finally, Australian comedy is seeing a broader range of Guardian that touched a nerve with readers around the world. voices represented in writers’ rooms, on screen and behind The article, ‘How white women use strategic tears to silence the scenes. For season two of Get Krack!n co-creators women of colour,’ was about the special and dangerous claims Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney made inclusion and white women make to victimhood and how these adversely accessibility a production and creative focus. affect and are wielded against women of colour. In this discussion, hosted by Alistair Baldwin we’ll feature She has since adapted the article into a new book, White artists who worked on that hilarious and game-changing Tears/Brown Scars. Hosted by Hella Ibrahim, Hamad will be series. They’ll address how the screen sector can, more broadly, MON 30 SEPT joined by Arrernte activist and social commentator Celeste go about making space for people who have not traditionally at the Wheeler Centre Liddle for a discussion about what happens when racism and WED 25 SEPT been represented across, and behind, our screens. Time: 6.15pm – 7.15pm, FREE sexism collide. at the Wheeler Centre 3 This event will be Auslan Time: 6.15pm – 7.15pm, FREE Presented in partnership with The Other Film Festival. interpreted. DOUBLE BOOKED CLUB WRITING IN EXILE BLAK & BRIGHT Sarah Bailey and Mark Brandi Hawzhin Azeez Read a Blak Book Lately? Meet two talented Australian crime writers for a fascinating When there is no home to return to/no safety known/and not We open this year’s Blak & Bright festival with a Welcome to hour-long conversation, hosted by crime-fiction buff Christian an inch of this world/that you can call your own Country, ceremonial song and speeches. Then, hosts Daniel White. Then flee the scene. Browning and Evelyn Araluen discuss and review some of the The haunting refrain from Hawzhin Azeez’s poem, No Home latest – and some of the greatest – Blak books. Hear excerpts Sarah Bailey is the author of three riveting crime novels, all To Return To, encapsulates the sense of absence and loss and, if you’re lucky, glimpse an author or two. starring the young detective sergeant Gemma Woodstock. that drives much of the poet’s writing, research and activism. The third novel in the series, Where the Dead Go, sees Gemma Born in South Kurdistan (north Iraq) during the first Gulf War, Visit blakandbright.com.au for the full festival programme. investigating a murder in a small coastal town. Azeez’s family fled Saddam Hussein’s regime and lived for This event is presented in partnership with Blak & Bright First Nations eight years in Iran. Mark Brandi’s new novel, The Rip, is about a young Literary Festival and Melbourne Writers Festival. woman sleeping rough, it’s set in inner-Melbourne and With Sami Shah, this exceptional young writer, poet and it draws on Brandi’s own experience from working in the creative powerhouse will discuss what it takes to reconstruct criminal justice system. cities – and stories. FRI 13 SEPT at the Wheeler Centre THUR 12 SEPT Time: 12.30pm – 1.30pm, FREE at the Wheeler Centre FRI 6 SEPT Lunch available for purchase from the Moat when booking. Time: 6.15pm – 7.15pm, FREE at the Wheeler Centre This event will be live-streamed. 3 This event will be Auslan interpreted. Time: 6.00pm – 7.30pm, FREE BOOK NOW at wheelercentre.com NEWS September 2019 READINGS MONTHLY 3 by Alice Robinson. This year’s guest judge sale includes recordings from Australia’s of four recipients for the Booksellers in is author (and 2018 Readings Prize winner) own ABC Classics label as well as DG, Residence program, an initiative run by September Jennifer Down. She will join our staff judging Decca, Signum Classics, Sony Classical, the Melbourne City of Literature. Ellen will panel to select a winner from the shortlist. Brilliant Classics and DVDs from Australian spend a week, early next year, at Third The winning book will be featured in the Opera. The sale is available in all Readings Place Books in Seattle sharing ideas, News November edition of Readings Monthly and shops (except Readings Kids and Readings observing and learning how things are done the author will receive a $3000 prize. Read State Library Victoria) and online from now on the other side of the world. more about the shortlisted titles on page 6, until 30 September, while stocks last. and at readings.com.au/the-readings-prize- Indigenous Literacy Day for-new-australian-fiction Booker Prize shortlist dinner This year Indigenous Literacy Day is on Australian Reading Hour Join us on Monday 14 October for our Wednesday 4 September. The Indigenous The Australian Reading Hour is an initiative sit-down Booker Prize shortlist dinner at Literacy Foundation (ILF) aims to raise 2020 Readings Diary that encourages all Australians to take Tolarno’s, St Kilda. Discuss which Booker literacy levels and improve the opportunities We have created a limited edition diary an hour out of their day on Thursday 19 Prize-shortlisted book you think should win; of Indigenous Australians living in remote for 2020 that is ideal for booklovers. The September to pick up a book. Reading is which book you think probably will win; and and isolated regions. Ten per cent of funds Readings Diary has a week-to-a-view proven to reduce stress levels even more which book will win over your dead body from books sold in our shops on Wednesday layout, a monthly literary trivia question, than activities like going for a walk or (chances are, that’s the one that will get the 4 September will be donated to the ILF. For and is full of first lines from some of our listening to music, and it increases empathy. gong!). Mark Rubbo, Readings’ managing more information about the ILF, please visit favourite Australian books, photographs See our events pages for information about director, will be your host du jour and Jane indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au. from our seven shops, and even sections to what we’re doing for Reading Hour. Sullivan, literary journalist from The Age, keep track of your reading (and who you’ve will give you her insider knowledge on how lent books out to). The Readings Diary awards work and what judges look out for. Readings Kids’ Book Subscription is available from all Readings shops, and Booksellers in Residence Tickets are $125 per head and include wine, Our Kids’ Book Subscription is the perfect online from 29 August. We are delighted to announce that Ellen food and a $50 donation to The Readings gift for the little people in your life – a book Cregan, our talented marketing and events Foundation. For more information see in the post every month to share. 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This year, MWF will be held in readings.com.au/the-kids-book-subscription multiple venues within walking distance of Melbourne’s iconic State Library Victoria, and you can find books from the artists The Readings Prize for New Australian featured at the festival at the Readings Fiction 2019 Shortlist State Library Victoria shop (open daily). This year’s shortlist for the Readings Readings is proud to be the official Prize for New Australian Fiction has bookseller of Melbourne Writers Festival. been announced. The shortlisted books are A Constant Hum by Alice Bishop, Inappropriation by Lexi Freiman, The Flight Classical Music Sale of Birds by Joshua Lobb, A Superior Spectre The Readings classical music sale is on by Angela Meyer, This Taste for Silence by again, with discounts of up to 60% on CDs, Amanda O’Callaghan, and The Glad Shout classical box-sets and DVDs. This year’s READINGS MONTHLY EDITOR EVENTS & PROGRAMMING PRICES AND AVAILABILITY Free, independent monthly newspaper Elke Power Chris Gordon Please note that all prices and release published by Readings Books, Music & Film [email protected] dates in Readings Monthly are correct at ADVERTISING time of publication, however prices and SUBSCRIBE EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Ellen Cregan release dates may change without notice.
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