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Melanie Cheng + A.S. Patric + Jessica White

Cinema B, GoMA

Panel

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#Artists

Melanie Cheng

Melanie Cheng

Melanie Cheng is a writer and general practitioner. Of Chinese-Australian heritage, she was born in Adelaide, grew up in Hong Kong and now lives in Melbourne. Her short story collection Australia Day won the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Indie Book Award for debut fiction and the 2017 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Room for a Stranger is her second book.

A.S. Patric

A.S. Patric

A.S. Patric is a bookseller and teacher of creative writing. His debut novel Black Rock White City won the Miles Franklin Award in 2016. Atlantic Black, his follow-up novel, was published to great acclaim in 2017. The Butcherbird Stories, his third story collection, was published in late 2018. He lives in bayside Melbourne with his wife and two daughters.
Jessica White

Jessica White

Jessica White is the author of A Curious Intimacy (Viking, 2007), for which she was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist. The novel was shortlisted for the Dobbie prize and the Western Australia Premier’s awards, and longlisted for the international IMPAC award. Her second novel Entitlement was published in 2012 (Viking). Jessica’s short stories, essays and poems have appeared widely in Australian and international literary journals and have been shortlisted or longlisted for major prizes. Jessica is also the recipient of funding from Arts Queensland and the Australia Council for the Arts and has undertaken residencies in Hobart and Rome. She currently researches and lectures at The University of Queensland, where she is writing an eco biography of Western Australia’s first female scientist, 19th century botanist Georgiana Molloy. Hearing Maud, her hybrid memoir about deafness, is her third book.

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Bec Mac

Bec Mac

Bec Mac is an artist, creative entrepreneur and Queen of Arts Communication who has founded innovative game-changing work LOVE TV, POPSART Artsmedia and more recently Chrysalis Projects creative placemaker.


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