DOORS 6:30PM // $15 ENTRY // SHOW STARTS 6:45PM

Thin Red Lines is a quarterly poetry night, and this is our last event for 2024! Featuring:

ELLENA SAVAGE

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Ellena Savage's essay collection Blueberries was shortlisted for the 2021 Victorian Premier's Literary Award and longlisted for the Stella Prize. Her 2019 chapbook Yellow City was excerpted in The Paris Review Daily. Ellena has published hundreds of articles and stories since 2009, in periodicals including in Heat, The Monthly, Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin, Griffith Review, Literary Hub, and Guardian Weekend. Her work has been supported by MacDowell, Siena Art Institute, and the Marten Bequest. She's currently interested in waste in postmodern fiction, and is writing a novel along those lines.

WEN-JUENN LEE

Wen-Juenn writes poetry on unceded Wurundjeri land. In her writing, she is interested in gaps, leaks and spillage. Her work has been published in HEAT, Meanjin, Cordite, and Going Down Swinging, among others. She was awarded the Tina Kane Emergent Writer Award in 2023.

CHER TAN

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Cher Tan is an essayist and critic. Her essays, criticism and other written work have been published widely. She is an editor at Liminal and the reviews editor at Meanjin. Her debut essay collection, Peripathetic: Notes on (Un)belonging, is now out with NewSouth Publishing. She lives and works on unceded Wurundjeri land.

MAYA HODGE

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Maya Hodge is a Lardil curator and writer passionate about centring First Peoples storytelling through arts and editorial projects rooted in community values and care for artists. She is MARION's Inaugural 2023-24 Fellow and this year edited the Groundswell issue for Runway Journal.