Launch of dSCRIBE: Issue 17 & Darebin Mayor’s Writing Awards

Darebin Mayor's Writing Awards + D'Scribe Launch

Join us at High Note for the launch of dSCRIBE: Issue 17 - Desire Lines.

dSCRIBE is Darebin's annual literary magazine, publishing all forms of creative writing from writers living, working or studying within the City of Darebin.

This year we’re launching issue 17, edited by local Madison Pawle with a fresh look and theme, ‘Desire Lines'.

"Desire lines are those unofficial paths softened, formed and eventually inscribed by the collective and ongoing tread of foot and paw: the quicker route across the park to the toilet block, the dirt trails snaking along the Merri. More conceptually, a desire line might be a way to think about our own associative patterns of thought and feeling.

“Though it is not subversive by virtue of its existence, a desire line reveals tensions between the native and the built environment; between structure and collective will — alternative mappings of motion, place, and public life. We must also pause to consider the colonial implications here: the deep time desire lines that exist beneath – and are erased by – the city."


- Madison Pawle, Editor of dSCRIBE: Issue 17

At this special launch event we’ll be announcing the winners of the 2024 Darebin Mayor’s Writing Awards, with readings from the publication by the winner and highly commended writers.

Refreshments will be provided with catering by mynamechef.

dSCRIBE is part of inSITU – Darebin’s new creative writing program, full of exciting offerings for writers in Darebin to connect, build community and grow their literary practice.

This event will be Auslan interpreted.

For more information or access enquires email writingprojects@darebin.vic.gov.au.

Image: ‘Flower, Gold’ by Declan Kavanagh-Bugel (2024)

Access notes: 

Wheelchair accessible