Victoria’s LGBTQIA+ Festival of Words, Q-Lit, is launching its first metro festival from 20-28 June 2025 with 15 events, over 60 LGBTQIA+ writers and artists, and eight days of panels, performances and workshops as well as a book fair and parties across the city.
Following three years of statewide touring that brought queer literary events to 16 towns across Victoria, Q-Lit 2025 marks a new chapter for the organisation.
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.
She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025).
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