The Wheeler Centre

Now entering its second decade, the Wheeler Centre exists to support writers, readers and thinkers and deepen public conversation through creative collaboration and community engagement.

The Wheeler Centre is nationally and internationally renowned as a leading institution for the art of conversation, and demonstrates this through programming (both live and digital events), podcasts, fellowships, professional development and mentorship programmes for writers and other creative practitioners, partnerships, collaborations, and advocacy work. It exists to nurture the development and celebration of literature in Melbourne and beyond, and to foster broad public engagement in books, writing and ideas.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.