Openbook Winter

Join us in The Library Bar for a chance to hear from some of the contributors to the Winter issue of Openbook magazine – the Library’s award-winning magazine of new writing, fresh ideas and contemporary photography.

Openbook editor Phillipa McGuinness hosts a lively panel discussion focusing on sport, speaking with broadcaster Kate Evans, novelist and screenwriter Jock Serong and photographer Louise Whelan.

Library Bar open: 5pm
Event commences: 6pm
Please note: this event is 18+
 

Kate Evans is a well-known broadcaster, particularly as co-host of The Bookshelf on ABC Radio National, and an regular interviewer at literary festivals. Photography and cultural history have also been longstanding interests — her PhD focussed on press photography in Australia.

Jock Serong is a novelist and screenwriter, and a director of Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas. His books include Quota, The Rules of Backyard Cricket, On the Java Ridge and the Furneaux Islands trilogy of novels about the colonisation of Bass Strait. He worked on the adaptation of Chris Hammer’s Scrublands for screen. His next novel, Cherrywood, will be published in September.

Louise Whelan is a Sydney-based, prize-winning photographer whose work is held by a number of major institutions, including the State Library of NSW. She is also an oral historian. Her work can be seen in the Library’s current exhibition Shot, and in the winter issue of Openbook.

Phillipa McGuinness is the editor of Openbook. She is a former book publisher, a regular host at literary events and a writer of narrative non-fiction. Her books include The Year Everything Changed — 2001 and Skin Deep: The inside story of our outer selves .

Image credit: Phil Hillyard