Paperback End of Year Salon!

Join us on Thursday 4th December for our final salon of the year!

The salon will feature readings from six local authors: Eartha Davis, Pip Finkemeyer, Jennifer Mackenzie, Sinéad Stubbins, Lili Ward and Miriam Webster.

This salon will be held at Coates Community Arts space on Collins St. We will be letting people in at the downstairs entrance (there are lifts or stairs available to the space) so please arrive close to the starting time, or even a little early. There will be a bar available on the night serving drinks. And, seating and standing room.

Eartha Davis is a woman of Ngāpuhi and Celtic heritage living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land. She is the winner of the 2024 AAWP/Express Media Sudden Writing Prize and the recipient of a Varuna Residential Fellowship. màthair beinn, her debut poetry collection of poetry, is out now with Vagabond Press.

Pip Finkemeyer is a novelist living in Naarm/Melbourne. Her debut, Sad Girl Novel, was published in 2023. You can find her writing in The Guardian, Harper’s Bazaar, K*ll Your Darlings, Big Issue, Eleven Stories: The Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize and more.

Pip has worked for tech companies in Australia and internationally, including on a language learning app and in the not-for-profit space. She has a special interest in inclusive and accessible design. In this work as a UX writer, designer and researcher, she spent her days learning about the thoughts and feelings of people using the internet, and has tried to capture some of those thoughts and feelings in One Story.

Jennifer Mackenzie is a poet and reviewer, focusing on writing from and about the Asian region. She has presented her work at a number of conferences and festivals, most recently at the Mathrubhumi Festival of Literary Arts in Trivandrum, and at the Ubud Writers’ Festival (UWRF) . Since the publication of Borobudur (Transit Lounge 2009), which was also republished by The Lontar Foundation in Jakarta in 2012, she has published two further volumes with an Indonesian focus, Navigable Ink (2020) a homage to the Indonesian writer, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and a new collection just released, The Wallace Line: A Poem, both with Transit Lounge.

Sinéad Stubbins is a Melbourne/Naarm-based writer, editor and cultural critic, and the author of In My Defence, I Have No Defence. Her first novel Stinkbug is was released in 2025. Her work appears in print, online and on TV.

Lili Ward is a writer from Naarm in so called Australia. Her work has been published in various publications, she has participated in readings as a part of the emerging writers festival and her first collection of poems was published earlier this year by local publication No More Poetry. Lili runs poetry events by the name of Roundtable Readings across venues in Naarm that showcase emerging writers and publish collections of poetry.

Miriam Webster writes fiction, essays and poetry in and around Naarm/Melbourne. Her work has appeared in publications like Aniko Magazine, HEAT, Island, Overland, The Suburban Review, swim meet lit mag and certain zines. She has received various awards and prizes including, most recently, the Griffith Review Emerging Voices Competition (2025) and is currently working on a novel as part of a PhD in Creative Writing. The Slip, out with Aniko Press, is her first book.

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