Welcome! Here’s a loving snapshot of Melbourne’s literary 2016
by the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Office

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the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Office

The Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Office is responsible for celebrating and promoting this designation and everything literary Melbourne has to offer. We work closely with the literary sector to help promote and sustain literary activity in the city and across the state.

The Office role involves supporting the work and networks that exist, nurturing and developing new opportunities and networks, making connections across industry and audiences and championing all things Melbourne as a City of Literature.

The Office has three broad areas of action that address the aims of the Creative City Network as well as the needs for Melbourne as a City of Literature:

1. Connecting the City of Literature
2. Reflecting the City of Literature
3. Supporting the City of Literature

The Office works in three ways:

1. Strategic initiatives – one off programs that can cause a meaningful change in the City of Literature
2. Partnership programs – working with partners to deliver programs that have impact
3. International exchanges – initiatives that begin here in partnership with another Creative City then travel around the network.

The Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Office is a joint initiative of Creative Victoria and City of Melbourne and is hosted by The Wheeler Centre.

 

 

In 2008, Melbourne joined the UNESCO Creative Cities Network when it was designated the first and only City of Literature in Australia, and the second in the world.

Melbourne’s designation as a UNESCO City of Literature is acknowledgment of the breadth, depth and vibrancy of the city’s literary culture. Melbourne supports a diverse range of writers, a prosperous publishing industry, a successful culture of independent bookselling, a wide variety of literary organisations and a healthy culture of reading and engagement in events and festivals.​

Please scroll through, please click, please read, and see what kind of publishing/writing/literary activities happened in Melbourne in 2016!