PANELS & WORKSHOPS
I have extensive expertise appearing in and moderating panels, running workshops (bolstered by a postgraduate teaching qualification!), and hosting events and Q&As. I take particular pride in my ability to hold the audience’s attention by blending authority and humour, alongside careful contextualisation and responsiveness. I’m just as comfortable with small-room one-on-ones as with speaking in front of a hundred-seat hall.

Organisations I’ve worked with in this capacity include the Melbourne Writers Festival, the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, The Wheeler Centre, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Multicultural Arts Victoria, Writers SA, and various libraries and councils.

Image: Queer Archives, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2024 (photo by Muhammad Ishaq)
Panel discussions, in-conversations & event hosting
2024
  • The Importance of Community Building for Authors, Australian Society of Authors (online, November)
  • Queer Archives, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (Ubud, Indonesia, October)
  • Living Between Worlds: Exploring Identities in Literature and Life, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (Ubud, Indonesia, October)
  • Norman Erikson Pasaribu: My Dream Job, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (Ubud, Indonesia, October)
  • Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship 2024 panel and announcement (Melbourne, March)
  • Thicker than Water: Cultural Connections pre-film Q&A, Bunjil Place & Melbourne International Film Festival (Narre Warren, February)

2023
  • Telling Queer Asian Stories, OzAsia Festival (Adelaide, November)
  • Body Language of Dance, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (Ubud, Indonesia, October)
  • Exploring Queerness in Poetry ▶︎, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (Ubud, Indonesia, October)
  • Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell post-film Q&A, Melbourne International Film Festival (Melbourne, August)
  • The Body Country book launch – host and Q&A, Hachette & Readings (Carlton, August)
  • The Relationship Is the Project: Working with Communities Conversation Series #1 ▶︎, City of Yarra (Abbotsford, July 2023
  • ​Establishing a Sustainable Practice, Emerging Writers’ Festival (online, June)​​​​​​
2022
  • Beyond the Book, The Wheeler Centre (Melbourne, December)
  • Ask About… Anthologies, Writers Victoria (online, October)
  • ‘Against Disappearance (with Leah Jing McIntosh & Adolfo Aranjuez)’ ▶︎, Race Matters, FBi Radio (podcast, September)
  • Losing Their Religion, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, September)
  • Academia and Criticism, Melbourne International Film Festival (Melbourne, August)
  • Liminal Spaces, Emerging Writers’ Festival (Springvale, June)
  • Growing Up Queer, Midsumma & Hobsons Bay Libraries (online, February)
  • What We Become ▶︎, Melbourne Writers Festival (podcast, January)
2021
2020
2019
  • Digital Futures ▶︎, The Other Film Festival & The Wheeler Centre (Melbourne, October)
  • Dating in the Digital Age, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, September)​​
  • Growing Up Queer in Australia, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, September)
  • Queer Fear, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, September)​​​
  • ​Love Letters to ‘New Phone, Who Dis?’, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, September)​
  • ​Queering Language, Bus Projects (Collingwood, August)​
  • Film Criticism: Spaces to Write, Melbourne International Film Festival (Melbourne, August)
  • On the Crew: Art, Australian Film Television & Radio School (Melbourne, July)​​
  • The Writer’s Hustle, City of Adelaide & Writers SA (Adelaide, July)
  • Open and Shut: Constructive Feedback, Emerging Writers’ Festival (Melbourne, June)
  • Industry Insights, ATOM Youth Media Festival (Melbourne, June)​
  • The Library Is Open: Queer Literary Perspectives, Victorian Public Sector Pride Network (Melbourne, May)​​
  • Private Parts: More than Queer ▶︎, The Wheeler Centre & Archer (Melbourne, April)
  • Can Love (and Sex) Change the World?, Melbourne Queer Film Festival (Melbourne, March)​
  • Adolfo Aranjuez in Conversation with Tony Birch, Readings & Meanjin (St Kilda, March)
  • Writers in Conversation, Hobsons Bay Libraries & Midsumma (Newport, January)
  • Consent 101, Consent Festival, Midsumma (Collingwood, January)
2018
  • ​Future Melbourne ▶︎ & Melbourne, 2030, The Wheeler Centre & UNESCO Melbourne City of Literature (Melbourne, November)
  • Gender and the Fluidity of Being, Jaipur Literature Festival & OzAsia Festival (Adelaide, November)
  • Dystopias and Dyschronias, Jaipur Literature Festival & OzAsia Festival (Adelaide, November)
  • In Bloom, VICE & Minus18 (Collingwood, October)
  • The Next Creative Revolution: QTPOC and Indigenous Cultural Spaces, AGMC & Midsumma (St Kilda, September)
  • Dystopia on Screen ▶︎, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Melbourne, September)
  • ​​The Responsibility of the Critic, Melbourne International Film Festival (Melbourne, August)
  • Q&A with jiaqing wilson-yang, Brow Books (Melbourne, August)
  • Diverse Perspectives on Philanthropy, The Channel (Melbourne, March)
  • Queer Some Space: Art and Literature, The Lifted Brow & MPavilion (Melbourne, January)
  • Everyone Has a Story, Hobsons Bay Libraries & Midsumma (Newport, January)​​
2017
  • Balimbing: Filipino Queerness artist talk, Multicultural Arts Victoria (South Melbourne, December)
  • Classic Dystopias, Yarra Libraries (Fitzroy, November)
  • Straight White Men’s News, Centre for Advancing Journalism & The Wheeler Centre (Melbourne, November)
  • Identities, Politics and Intersectionality, Melbourne Free University (Melbourne, October)
  • How I Got My Start in the Arts, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, October)
  • Changing Languages, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, October)
  • Word Nerd Grammar Gabbers, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, September)
  • Intergenerational Warfare, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, September)
  • Protest & Persist: Identity Politics, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, August)
  • Protest & Persist: Changing Minds, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, August)
  • How I Came to Australia, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, August)
  • Dystopia on Film ▶︎, Melbourne International Film Festival (Melbourne, August)
  • OtherLife post-film Q&A, Melbourne International Film Festival (Melbourne, August)
  • Diversity in Criticism, Melbourne International Film Festival (Melbourne, August)
  • ‘Ronny Chieng: International Student, Briohny Doyle’s Adult Fantasy and the Seasons’ ▶︎, The Rereaders (podcast, July)
  • LGBTQIA+ in Australia, The Channel & The Wheeler Centre (Melbourne, February)
2016
  • ​Censorship and Political Correctness, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, October)
  • Future of … Education, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, September)
  • Media Justice, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, September)​​
2015
  • ​​Modern Cultural Identity, National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters’ Council (Melbourne, November)
  • Hero Babes, Girls On Film Festival (Melbourne, October)
  • Other Englishes, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, October)
  • The Masses and the Media: Ensuring Equal Representation, RMIT (Melbourne, October)
  • Voicing Race, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, August)
  • Winning Writing: Literary Awards, Melbourne Writers Festival (Eltham, August)
  • Emerging Writers, Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, August)
  • Caravan Conversations, Melbourne Writers Festival & Dumbo Feather (Melbourne, August)
2014 & earlier
  • ​Invisible Illness, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, October 2014)
  • Speaking in Tongues, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, October 2014)
  • $$$$$, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, October 2013)
  • Writing Awards and Grants, Emerging Writers’ Festival (Melbourne, May 2013)
  • A Writer’s Life, City of Stonnington, [untitled] Festival & Melbourne High School (South Yarra, November, 2012)
  • ‘Kill Your Darlings?: Editors Talk’, Kill Your Darlings (podcast, August 2012)
  • Ask the Publisher: Short Fiction, Writers Victoria (Melbourne, July 2012)
  • Under-18 Readers’ Group, Express Media (Melbourne, May 2009)
  • Getting Published, Swinburne University (Hawthorn, April & October 2009, April 2010)
  • Welcome to University, Swinburne University (Hawthorn, February 2008)
Image: Private Parts: More than Queer, The Wheeler Centre, 2019 
Workshops & seminars
  • Creative Non-Fiction Bootcamp, Writers Victoria (online, February–March 2026)
  • Polish Your Manuscript: Self-Editing Essentials, Writers Victoria (online, July–August 2025)
  • Live Editing Workshop, Melbourne International Film Festival (Melbourne, August 2024; Melbourne, August 2023; online, August 2021; Melbourne, August 2019)
  • ‘Bums on Seats’: Film Festival Marketing, RMIT (Melbourne, March 2023)
  • Movement Workshop: My Body Is Ready, RMIT x IDAHOBIT (Melbourne, May 2022)
  • (The) Nuts and Bolts (of) Editing, Editing Micro-Festival (online, November 2021)​
  • Being a Freelance Writer, ATOM Youth Media Festival (online, July 2021)
  • Story in Motion, Midsumma & Immigration Museum (online, April 2021)
  • Editing Intensive: Language Foundations, Djed Press Editorial Mentorship Program (online, April 2021)​​
  • Culture Makers Lab, Immigration Museum (online, March 2021)​​​
  • ​​‘How to Review a Film’ ▶︎, Tell Me Something I Don’t Know, Melbourne Fringe Festival (online, November 2020)
  • ​​Future of Literature: Roundtable, Footscray Community Arts Centre (online, May 2020)
  • Managing a Publication, NEWS Conference & Express Media (Melbourne, January 2020, January 2019, January 2018)​​​​​
  • ​​Asian Art Futures, Multicultural Arts Victoria (Melbourne, November 2019)
  • Poetry Workshop, Iridescent QPOC Festival (Fitzroy, November 2019)​​​​​​​
  • Making It, La Trobe University (Melbourne, August 2019)​
  • Scene It: Hands-on Film Criticism, Emerging Writers’ Festival (Melbourne, June 2019)​​
  • ​​Making Mentorships Work, Midsumma (Melbourne, April 2019)
  • Mental Health in the Arts Industries, Arts Access Victoria (South Melbourne, October 2018)​​
see older Workshops & Seminars
  • Participant – Midsumma Futures development program, Midsumma (Melbourne, June 2017 – June 2018)
  • Signal x Liminal: Visual Storytelling, Emerging Writers’ Festival (Melbourne, June 2018)
  • ​Artist Training: Speaking to an Audience, Emerging Writers’ Festival (Melbourne, June 2018)
  • Tall Buildings: Their Problems and Some Ideas, Melbourne Design Week (Melbourne, March 2018)​
  • ​The Nuts and Bolts of Editing, NEWS Conference & Express Media, (Melbourne, January 2018)​
  • How to Write a Story, Study Melbourne & Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne, September 2017)
  • Creating Your Own Context, Next Wave (Melbourne, April 2016)
  • ‘Editing and Proofreading’, The Signal Express (Melbourne, November 2015)
  • Getting into the Editing Profession, Express Media (Melbourne, June 2014)
  • ‘Being an Editor’, The Under Age (Melbourne, September 2013)
  • Write for Life, St Michael’s Grammar School (St Kilda, June 2013)
  • Writing Nonfiction, Express Media & St Michael’s Grammar School (Melbourne, June 2013)
  • Paper Fire, 100 Story Building, Express Media & SYN Radio (Footscray & Melbourne, April–June 2013)
  • The 12-Week Production Cycle, Express Media & Australian University Student Media Conference (Canberra, April 2013)
  • Younger Young Writers’ Program, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, September 2012)
  • Hate Yourself: The Art of Self-Editing, National Young Writers’ Festival (Newcastle, September 2012)
  • Getting Published, Wyndham City Council (Werribee, August 2012)
  • Feed Forward, Express Media & Signal (Melbourne, May 2010)
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