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Journal Crawl

You’ve heard of, and likely have ventured on a pub crawl, but how about a lit mag crawl?

EWF presents our first ever journal crawl. An afternoon of hopping between different Australian journal launches. Enjoy intimate readings and pick up copies of Australia’s finest journals and anthologies, filled with fresh, daring new poetry, fiction, non-fiction and more.

Meet us at BLINDSIDE Gallery on Level 7 of the Nicholas Building at 4PM for a Journal Crawl featuring: Voiceworks, no more poetry, and Industrial Estate



Accessibility

Wheelchair, service animal, accessible toilets

Saturday 14 September, 4PM

NICHOLAS BUILDING ACCESSBILITY INFO

There are two automatic-door entrances to the Nicholas building, which give direct access to the building’s elevators in Cathedral Arcade. Building Entrance 1 is on Swanston Street and is wheelchair accessible, and Building Entrance 2 is on Flinders Lane via some steps. There is an elevator on the ground floor that services all levels. After hours, EWF staff will be there to allow swipe access to elevators.

For wheelchair users: Elevator doorway is 76.5 cm wide. The glass doorway on level 7 is 108 cm wide. The doorways into the Blindside gallery are 78.5 cm wide. All venues within the Nicholas Building will have doorways that are 78.5 cm wide.

There is an accessible toilet on Level 2 of the Nicholson Building. It is accessed using a key that staff will provide guests when needed.

BLINDSIDE Gallery is on the seventh floor in Rooms 13 and 14. When exiting the elevator at Level 7, turn right and go through the glass door furthest from the elevators.


Nicholas Building
37 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Featuring...

J. Taylor Bell

j. taylor bell is from Texas and is currently a PhD candidate at Monash University. His first poetry collection is titled HELLO CRUEL WORLD (Wendy’s Subway, 2022). Drop in anytime and wave hello @disco_steww.

Joshua Edward

Joshua Edward is the Co-Founder and Editor of Fine Art at independent publisher no more poetry, Vice-Chair of Blindside Gallery, Director of Design at ModaMorphosis, and Head of Graphic Design & Publishing at Fashion’s Alchemists. A sculptor with formal studies at the Victorian College of the Arts, Joshua graduated in 2018 and has exhibited broadly within Australia and internationally.

Dan Hogan

Dan Hogan (they/them) is the author of Secret Third Thing, which won the Mary Gilmore Award, the Five Islands Prize and was named one of the ‘best 25 Australian books of 2023’ by The Guardian. Dan’s poetry has been recognised by the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and Val Vallis Award, among others. Dan runs DIY publisher Subbed In and edits the working-class literary journal Industrial Estate.

Kiara Lindsay

kiara lindsay is a poet living and working on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people. her debut collection ‘a portrait of me running as fast as the plant is growing’ is out now through no more poetry.

Victoria Manifold

Victoria Manifold is a writer and trade union worker from County Durham, now living on Gadigal land.
She has been shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize twice, was a runner up in the 2019 Berlin Writing Prize, shortlisted for the 2021 Desperate Literature Prize and a runner-up in the 2022 Mslexia Short Story Prize. Her novel-in-progress, The Election of the Mayor, was shortlisted for the 2023 Richell Prize and longlisted for the 2023 Mslexia Novel Prize. In 2024 Wendy Erskine and Yan Ge selected her as the winner of the Short Fiction International Short Story Prize.

Selina Moir-Wilson

Selina Moir-Wilson is a writer, editor and comics artist. They are the editor of Voiceworks and a co-editor of Layabout. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Voiceworks, The Big Issue, Going Down Swinging and others. They are a 2023 SEVENTH Gallery emerging writer in residence and were a 2022 Toolkits: Graphic Narratives participant.

Hollen Singleton

Hollen Singleton is a writer and editor, and teaches at RMIT and the University of Melbourne. They live in Sunshine, Naarm. You can find the first chapter of their novel manuscript in Meanjin Winter 2024.

daniel ward

daniel ward is a poet and musician. they are the editor of ‘no more poetry’, an independent publisher of poetry books and art magazines. their second and most recent poetry collection is titled ‘eternal delight paralysis’.

MORE TO COME…

More artists are coming to this event soon…