Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute

In Conversation with Geoff Parkes and Susi Fox
2026-01-28 18:00 - 19:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | BMI – Humffray Room, 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, 3350, Australia
In Conversation with P. A. Swanborough

September 23

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6:00 pm

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7:30 pm

$11.00

Humffray Room

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Things With Teeth By Moonlight: A Miscellany

P.A. Swanborough

Pam will be in conversation with Rebecca Fletcher

Things With Teeth by Moonlight is an illustrated multi-genre collection of flash, micro-fiction and short stories covering loss, revenge, affection, and spending too much time in cafes.

Human and other creatures in urban, forested, or post-apocalyptic settings address hunger or love, pain or comfort, as best they can while the night is chill. A Jewel in your hand, a pebble in your shoe. A low growl in the dark. Seventy-one tiny, disquieting, tales.

About the author

P.A. Swanborough Pam’s writing influences range from a childhood diet of Kipling and Thurber to 19th and 20th century novelists, Metaphysical and medieval poetry, Y Mabinogion and the northern sagas, assorted authors not writing in English, and gothic/speculative fiction of all eras … magic realism is her happy place. She works in literary/speculative fiction and lyric non-fiction, exploring fragility and imbalance. Her interests include but are not restricted to the environment and issues of extinction and climate chaos, loneliness, memory, things that bite, permaculture, visual arts, costume and textiles, inner and outer space, the economics of the future, things that kiss, rewilding, social history, and indigenous knowledge. Pam lives in rural Victoria and is currently working on her next major writing project while renovating a crumbling ruin with which she feels a natural affinity.

About the host

Rebecca Fletcher Rebecca Fletcher is a writer and editor based in Ballarat who is passionate about supporting regional writing. She was on the Ballarat Writers committee from 2017 to 2022 and was the editor/project manager for the 2024 Ballarat Writers Anthology. Her writing has been published in Farrago, The Victorian Writer and Andromeda Spaceways Magazine. You can follow her antics at saltyturnip.com.

$11 per person plus booking fees, also includes light refreshment. All proceeds go to the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute to support the staging of our author events. Book on-line or contact Rosemary at the Libary via email library@ballaratmi.org.au or phone (03) 5331 3042

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This event takes place on Wadawurrung Country. Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute acknowledges the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin Nation as the first inhabitants and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we work, learn and create. Always Was, Always Will Be, Aboriginal Land.
