The live stream of this event will be available on this page from 6.30pm AEST, Thursday 14 August. Poetry: love it or loathe it, six daring voices debate its worth in a fierce, funny and unmissable ...

Artist Ita Mehrotra and illustrator Sofia Sabbagh sit down to discuss graphic storytelling as a powerful tool of resistance and political engagement in our current moment. Incorporating elements of ...

Come together for a night of great Australian books matched with great Australian beers, in a special event presented in partnership with Tough Guy Book Club. Craft beer meets the art of storytelling ...

At this exclusive Melbourne event, best-selling novelist Bonnie Garmus discusses her captivating debut, Lessons in Chemistry. A runaway favourite of book clubs the world over, Bonnie Garmus’s debut ...

Evelyn Araluen, Hasib Hourani and Mykaela Saunders discuss the careful craft of shaping a language unsettled. Trace the contours of language, seek out its limits and push. Histories are cut up, struck ...

How do we hold structures of power accountable? And what happens when justice fails the very people it’s supposed to help? Three significant voices come together to discuss the social, political and ...

The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs) were inaugurated by the Victorian Government in 1985 to honour literary achievement by Australian writers. Administered by The Wheeler Centre on behalf ...

Watch theoretical astrophysicist Dr Katie Mack explore the mysteries of the universe, in conversation with poet and broadcaster Alicia Sometimes. Can we ever truly understand what happened at the ...

Watch journalist and legal reporter Lucia Osborne-Crowley share a rare insight into the blockbuster trial of Ghislaine Maxwell with host Louise Milligan. Lucia Osborne-Crowley was one of only four ...

The Wheeler Centre acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which the Centre stands. We acknowledge and pay our respects to all ...

Judith Ryan AM is Senior Curator of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Judith received a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Fine Arts and English Literature at The University of ...

The Next Chapter program elevates Australian stories that aren’t being told and nurtures a new wave of writers to tell them.