Central Coast is launching a new community-wide reading program. Photo: Syl Marie.
In conjunction with NSW’s Words on the Waves Writers Festival, which has a new festival precinct in 2024, a free Central Coast-wide book club and reading project, and a new grant aimed at connecting seniors, have just been announced.
Central Coast Reads will be launched in March as a community-wide reading program, incorporating book clubs and author talks into the existing festival program. Its objective is to not only promote reading and facilitate social and human connections through a shared love of books, but also to position the Central Coast region as a hub of “readers” on the cultural map of Australia.
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.
Her debut, a collection of poetry called Turbulence, came out in 2020 and was released by University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP). Her second collection, Decadence, was published in July 2022, also by UWAP. Her third book, Essence, will be published in 2025.
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