April 2: At Muse Canberra, join a Canberra literary couple - novelist Marion Halligan and poet John Stokes - as they reveal how work, creative output, family, politics and friendship coexist for them, with author/ editor Irma Gold. Tickets $10 includes a drink.Bookings: musecanberra.com.au/events/.
April 5: The Canberra launch of Flying Through Clouds, a new historical novel for young adults by Michelle Morgan will be held at Paperchain Manuka at 5.45 for 6pm. RSVP phone 6295 6723.
April 6: At Muse Canberra at 5.30 pm, Professor Tom Griffiths of the ANU launches The Honest History Book, collective Australian history by 19 authors. Free event. Register: musecanberra.com.au/events.
April 8: Writer and Canberra Times book reviewer Ian McFarlane's new collection of essays, stories and poems, Murunna Point Revisited, will be launched by Dr Tim Metcalf in the Bermagui Library at 10am.
April 12: The next Poetry at the House reading is at the Fellows' Bar, University House, ANU, at 7.30pm. It will feature Jan Owen (from Aldinga, South Australia), Subhash Jaireth (Canberra) and Peter Lach-Newinsky (Southern Highlands, NSW). Meals available from the bistro from 6pm. Admission $10 waged, $5 unwaged, Bookings: gpage40@bigpond.net.au.
April 23: In Writing While Female at Muse Canberra at 3.30pm.some Canberra writers of life explore what it means to write as a woman. Featuring Jessica Friedmann, Lisa Fuller, Zoya Patel and Melinda Smith. Tickets $10 includes a drink.Bookings: musecanberra.com.au/events/.
April 30: At Muse Canberra at 3pm in Question Time: Katy Gallagher find out if and how Katy Gallagher, the person is different from Senator Katy Gallagher, federal politician. Tickets $10 includes a drink.Bookings: musecanberra.com.au/events/.
April 26: Dympha by Judith Armstrong tells the story of the wife of historian Manning Clark. Armstrong will discuss her book in the National Library Conference Room at 6pm. Admission free. nla.gov.au.
April 27: 6.15pm for 7pm, University House Common Room. Meet the Chef dinner with Valli Little. Enjoy dinner with Valli Little, who will be in conversation with Alex Sloan on Little's new book My Kind of Food. $85 per person for pre-dinner canapes, three course dinner with wines from Mount Majura Vineyard. Bookings: http://unihouse.anu.edu.au/events/meet-the-chef-dinner-with-valli-little/.
May 8: At 6.30pm in Manning Clark Lecture Theatre 2 at ANU in a free ANU/ Canberra Times meet the author event, co-founder and creative director of the Mama Mia Women's Network, Mia Freedman, will be in conversation with Genevieve Jacobs on Freedman's new book Work, Strife, Balance. Bookings at anu.edu.au/events or 6125 4144. Pre-book signings at 6pm.
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