Walking, reading, writing – the actions we take in public space hold specific resonances for women. At this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival, Sophie Cunningham, Rebecca Harkins-Cross and Emily Witt explore the relationships between geography and gender. This is the fourth outcome of Women Writers in the City, an experiment in mentorship run by non/fictionLab and …
This year, the Urban Writing House has hosted events from the ‘experiment in mentorship’ Women Writers in the City, a project supported by City of Melbourne 2016 Arts Grants. The writers Sophie Cunningham & Rebecca Harkins Cross worked together for a day on fiction and nonfiction projects, then read from works in progress. They were …
RMIT’s non/fictionLab invites you to join us on Tuesday 2 May for a reading of works in progress by celebrated authors Sophie Cunningham and Rebecca Harkins-Cross. This is the first outcome of Women Writers in the City, a project run by non/fictionLab, a world-leading centre for new creative practices, and supported by the City of …
Melbourne-based critic, editor and essayist Rebecca Harkins-Cross was a guest at McCraith House this summer, in the lead-up to her participation in Women Writers in the City, a new project from non/fictionLab supported by the City of Melbourne 2017 Arts Grants. Rebecca says: “During my time at McCraith House I rewrote an extended essay I’d put …