The Next Big Thing: Roads Less Travelled
Mon, 30 June
|Melbourne
Tickets here: https://my.wheelercentre.com/10591
Time & Location
30 June 2025, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Melbourne, 176 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
About the event
A darkly comic small-town mystery. An historical epic of women and war. A corporate gothic novel. A satire about the cult of beauty. A gritty queer thriller set in Melbourne’s underbelly. Are you ready for your next great read?
Fresh voices, unique perspectives and underrepresented stories come to the fore in the latest edition of The Next Big Thing.
Samantha Byres’s darkly funny debut Dead Ends sees protagonist Nell Jenkins return to her small hometown for the first time since making her escape as a teen. Meanwhile, Emma Pei Yin’s When Sleeping Women Wake tells the story of three interconnected women and their journeys of sacrifice, resilience and survival, set against the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II.
In Sinéad Stubbins’s Stinkbug, a corporate wellness retreat turns into a manic team-building nightmare for employees at an advertising agency on a brink of restructuring. Chloe Elisabeth Wilson’s…