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Date: Wednesday 14 January

Time: 10:30am to 11:30am

Cost: Free

Location: Victor Harbour Library

Two Stories – One Author: Olivia De Zilva at Victor Harbour Library

Join us as we host South Australian author Olivia De Zilva as she talks about her 2025 books Plastic Budgie and a YA novella Eggshell.

Olivia De Zilva had two books out last year including a genre-defying memoir and a Young Adult (YA) novella.

Published in July by Pink Shorts Press, Plastic Budgie deconstructs the concept of identity and memories while growing up in Adelaide.

Then her second book released in November with publisher Spineless Wonders, Olivia’s YA novella Eggshell follows the coming-of-age journey of a Hong-Kong Australian girl Kira. This funny and moving novella reflects on the complexity of self-discovery and family while navigating grief, identity, the Asian diaspora, and adolescence.

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Date: Tuesday 17 Februrary

Time: 10:30 to 11:30am

Cost: Free

Location: Ngutungka West Lakes, 9 Charles Street, West Lakes

A young-adult novella dealing with themes of identity, racism, romance, sexuality and adolescence.

Olivia’s YA novella Eggshell, focuses on Hong-Kong Australian girl Kira and her coming-of-age journey as she navigates grief, the Asian diaspora, identity, and adolescence.

Set in 2000s Adelaide, Eggshell tells the story of Kira, a sarcastic, cynical teenager living in a council flat with her Cantonese grandmother (Apoh) and her rebellious older cousin, Jake.

This novella starts and ends with Kira’s experience of Year 12 where she is caught between two worlds: being a subservient Cantonese granddaughter and a Big Brother?watching, boy-crazy Australian schoolgirl.

Eggshell is a young-adult novella dealing with themes of identity, racism, romance, sexuality and adolescence.

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Past events:

Pink Shorts Press Winter Book Party

At Our Mother’s Table: Readings (Pink Shorts Press + Brand SA)

In Conversation – Belle Ling and Olivia De Zilva

Opinionated book club launch

NO WAVE Book Launch – Plastic Budgie (Introduced by Matthew Hooton)

Pink Shorts Press x VAN BRUSSEL Book Salon

Writers Assemble! By Flinders University

Unpacking the Suitcase: Memory, Migration, and Identity with Olivia De Zilva (international)

The Dog-Eared Readings

Spineless Wonders Writers on Writers Festival

Eggshell Book Launch with Adam Cece

OzAsia Weekend of Words + book club event

Slow Lane Poetry Readings

A Conversation Between Olivia De Zilva and Nick Jose at the State Library of South Australia