** March 1st update: we are sorry to announce that, due to an injury, Dylin is unable to travel to attend this event. We are postponing to a later date (yet to be arranged). Refunds available. Please address any questions to Simon at info@pearcescreekhall.com.au) Many thanks **

Dylin Hardcastle in Conversation

Friday March 14th

6pm Doors

6.30pm Start

8pm Finish

Dylin will be interviewed by Ivan Crozier of ACON Salon

We will allow plenty of time for questions and discussion, audience participation is encouraged

The Bookroom Collective will have Dylin's books for sale, which can be signed on the night. Please indicate your interest on the ticketing page so we can ensure there are enough books available

Pearces Creek Hall will supply a supper plate for purchase on the night. We are still to finalise the supplier, but you can expect a wholesome vegan curry with rice. Cost $17. We will have non alcoholic drinks for sale. Alcoholic drinks BYO.

This event is a collaboration between Pearces Creek Hall and ACON Northern Rivers.

We look forward to welcoming you to Pearces Creek Hall.

Dylin Hardcastle

Dylin Hardcastle (they/them) is an award-winning author, artist, screenwriter and scholar based on Gadigal Land.

Dylin's novel, A Language of Limbs won the 2023 Kathleen Mitchell Literary Award, presented by the Australia Council for the Arts. The novel was released in July 2024 in Australia and New Zealand by Picador, and is slated for publication in 2025 with Dutton (Penguin Random House) in North America, Verve Books in the United Kingdom and Amorf Kitap in Türkiye.

Dylin's 2020 novel, Below Deck was published in ten territories and translated into eight languages. It was reviewed to critical acclaim in publications such as Le Monde (France), Zeit (Germany), and The Guardian and the Australian Book Review.

Dylin is also the co-creator, co-writer and co-director of Cloudy River, which was made with completion funding from Queer Screen, and principal funding from Screen Australia. The show was produced by Confidante Pictures, and distributed by Escapade Media. It premiered at Mardi Gras Film Festival in 2020 and was later acquired by SBS On Demand.

In 2018, Dylin was a Provost's Scholar at Worcester College, at the University of Oxford. They were one of the first two Australians to receive this scholarship.

Previously in Australia, Dylin completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), majoring in painting, in 2016. They completed Honours in Visual Arts at SCA on an academic scholarship from the University of Sydney in 2017, graduating with First Class Honours and an Academic Merit Award.

Dylin's memoir, Running like China is published by Hachette and was released in September 2015. Dylin's debut novel for young adults, Breathing Under Water is also published by Hachette and was released in July 2016. Bolinda Audio published both books as audio books.

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Ivan Crozier

Ivan Crozier (he/him) is a Community Health Promotion Officer working at ACON Northern Rivers in Lismore/ Widjabal Wiabal Land, where he conducts outreach aimed at ending HIV transmission and works to support the LBGTQ community.

"If you're looking for me, try the front left corner at Berghain, the club which is to the 21st century what Wagner's Bayreuth was to the nineteenth, or somewhere in the big scrub of the northern rivers".

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https://www.acon.org.au/

- A LANGUAGE OF LIMBS -

The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire is her best friend, also a girl. It's the kind of power that could implode a family, a friendship, a life. On a quiet summer night in Newcastle, 1972, a choice must be made: to act upon these desires, or suppress them? To live an openly queer life, or to try desperately not to?

Over the following three decades, these two lives almost intersect in pivotal moments, the distance between them at times drawing so thin they nearly collide. Against the backdrop of an era including Australia's first Mardi Gras and the AIDS pandemic, we see these two lives ebb and flow, with joy and grief and loss and desire, until at last they come together in the most beautiful and surprising of fashions.

A Language of Limbs is about love and how it's policed, friendship and how it transcends, and hilarity in the face of heartbreak - the jokes you tell as you're dying and the ways laughing at a funeral softens the edges of our grief. An unashamed celebration of queer life in all its vibrancy and colour, this story finds the humanity in all of us, and demands we claim our futures for ourselves.

Please reach out to Simon Winfield at Pearces Creek Hall if you have any questions about the event.

If you prefer to pay on the door and not divulge all your information to Humanitix please text or email us.

info@pearcescreekhall.com.au 0458 801 941