I have a reading coming up. There’ll be mulled wine. Sounds good, eh?
Asialink Winter Writing Series presents
Winter Stories
Thursday 15 July, 6:00pm-7:30pm
Sidney Myer Asia Centre
Cnr Swanston Street and Monash Road
University of MelbourneOn a cold winter’s night, gather close for some good old-fashioned story-telling with all the right ingredients: mulled wine, spiced chai and a range of great tales from the region. Winter Stories places five of Australia’s punchiest fiction writers in a comfy armchair, hands them a microphone, and lets them take you away.
Follow an all-women landmine clearing team through the fields of northern Cambodia, fish up the past with a Japanese abalone diver and a Buddhist monk, and walk the French-inflected streets of colonial Hanoi.
Featuring: Laura Jean McKay, Catherine Cole, Xenia Hanusiak, Kalinda Ashton, Pip Newling and Tom Cho.
Winter Stories includes the launch of The Perfumed River, a new anthology that offers diverse perspectives on Vietnam. Work from the anthology presents a portrait of a unique nation’s cultural strength, built from struggles through colonization by the French, occupation by the Japanese, the American War, and the transition to a modern tourist economy.
