A Day in Carlton Festival will occur on 15-16 November. Illustration: Milena Mazurek, Pixabay.
Those who regularly frequent Carlton, the popular Italian-flavoured suburb in Melbourne’s inner north, will be pleased to know there will be a new writers’ festival that will take place in the area.
As first reported in The Age, A Day in Carlton Festival will occur on 15-16 November this year, with events scheduled to occur at Carlton landmarks that include Cinema Nova and Church of All Nations.
Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian.
She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025).
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