The Melbourne Athenaeum Library will be closed on Saturday April 25 for the ANZAC Day public holiday.
The library will be open regular hours on Friday April 24 and Monday April 27.
Join author Maxine Beneba Clarke as she reflects on a career that has spanned spoken word, poetry, memoir, non-fiction, journalism, fiction and writing for theatre.
Maxine is the author of many books for adults and children, including the ABIA and Indie Award-winning short fiction collection Foreign Soil, critically-acclaimed memoir The Hate Race, the Kate Greenaway Medal longlisted When We Say Black Lives Matter, and The Patchwork Bike, which won the Boston Globe/Horn Prize for Best Picture Book.
Her poetry collections include the Victorian Premier’s Award-winning collection Carrying the World, How Decent Folk Behave, It’s the Sound of the Thing: 100 new poems for young people (which won an ABIA for Book of the Year for younger readers), Stuff I'm (Not) Sorry For: 99 more poems for young people and the recently-released Beautiful Changelings.
Thursday 20 August 2026
Doors open at 6:40pm for a 7:00pm start.
This event is free for members and for non-members.
Bookings can be made through Trybooking using this link
