Upcoming events
Getting Words on the Page with Elise Esther Hearst
Jewish Museum of Australia
Do you want to write but feel that you don’t know how, are stuck or out of practice?
Join award-winning playwright, author and performer Elise Esther Hearst for a fun and practical writing workshop.
Observing objects can be a great way to make discoveries, develop ideas and collect details that will enrich your writing enormously. Objects carry stories, histories. They have particular uses and misuses. They make us feel things and tell us a lot about ourselves and each other.
Using objects on display throughout the JMA’s galleries as prompts, you will write in short bursts without judgement or critique. You will get words on the page and have fresh material to work with for new or existing projects.
Whether you just want some writing company, some inspiration or even a chance to try something new, this workshop is for you.
Open to all genres at all levels. Beginners welcome.
Author Talk: Elise Esther Hearst with Claire Halliday - Mornington Library
Elise Esther Hearst's unflinchingly honest - and heartbreakingly funny - debut novel has been shortlisted for The Age 2024 Book of the Year awards.
One Day We're All Going to Die is a tender story about intergenerational grief, family, and making your own way in the world - and one that the author tells with dark wit and poetic simplicity.
Elise is an exciting new voice in fiction that captures readers with its relatable - and sometimes uncomfortable - exploration of love, identity and the quest for personal fulfilment.
Elise is in conversation with writer and interviewer Claire Halliday.
Free, bookings essential https://ourlibrary.mornpen.vic.gov.au/Whats-On/Events/Author-Talk-Elise-Esther-Hearst-with-Claire-Halliday-Mornington-Library
Willy Lit Fest — From Page to Screen
Storytelling can take many shapes, and writers Maxine Beneba Clarke (The Hate Race), Elise Esther Hearst (One Day We’re All Going to Die) and Elizabeth Coleman (A Dance with Murder) have worked across an abundance of forms. Learn from multi-hyphenate talents: novelists, short story writers, screenwriters and playwrights as they talk about the nuance of each craft.
Moderated by theatre critic Tim Byrne.
Shavuot dairy dinner and learn
Come to St Kilda Shule for a lovely dairy Shavuot dinner followed by some inspiring speakers discussing stories of Tragedy and Triumph - the power of family, community and being Jewish. With authors Rachelle Unreich, Ryan Abramowitz and Elise Esther Hearst