Visual art has inspired a number of my written works, such as the extended poetic suite ‘In the soft light of dawn’, which was inspired by a human landscape painted by Rod Moss, ‘Anthropology: being themselves’. The poem sequence won the Northern Territory Literary Award for Poetry in 2017. [Read the poem here.] So I…
My story ‘The uncoupling of Eduardo Martinez’ is featured as Episode 58 of Little Fictions on Air. Little Fictions is a half-hour storytelling program presented by Kate Liston-Mills on radio station 2RPH.The show is broadcast on Monday fortnights at 3pm and features audio readings of contemporary short stories by Australian authors. Listen to the story…
Volume 7 of Australian Poetry‘s annual anthology will be launched by co-guest-editor Yvette Holt on Sunday 19 May as part of the Northern Territory Writers’ Festival in Alice Springs. This edition of the anthology is edited by Yvette Holt and Magan Magan, and marks the first time the Anthology has been produced with a Northern…
For those of you who missed out on buying a limited edition print book of Portraits of Country, the exquisite collection of haiku is now available for Kindle ebook. Get yours at Amazon now.
Who’s new on Tablo? Read ‘my abbr.d life’ on Tablo. This is the opening story to my collection of short stories My Life & Other Fictions Read ‘The madness or the method’ on Tablo. This is ‘the story of the story’, the essay that tires to explain the short story ‘my abbr.d life’. It was…
No, we haven’t been kidnapped by aliens and been shot back in time, but sometimes I wonder what advice I would have for a younger me, a younger me that was still many years away from having a first book published. And I also wonder now what kept me going after the many stumbles and…
I was very pleased to learn that My Life & Other Fictions (published by Spineless Wonders) was shortlisted in the Mascara Avant-garde Award 2018 for fiction. The award was won by Brian Castro for his verse novel Blindness and Rage: a phantasmagoria (Giramondo). Also shortlisted for fiction were The Last Days of Jeanne D’Arc (Giramondo) by Ali…
I am excited to be featured in this year’s NT Writers Festival in Darwin – a unique and relaxed literary festival that profiles Indigenous Australian, South-East Asian, and Northern Territory voices. On Saturday 26 May 5:30pm, my debut collection of short stories My Life & Other Fictions will be given its Darwin launch by the lovely…
Dani Powell (writer, performance-maker, and director of the 2015 and 2017 Alice Springs Writers Festival) launched my short story collection My Life & Other Fictions on December 4 at the Art Shed in Alice Springs. An extract of her launch address has been published in the online Alice Springs News. What kind of world is this?…
‘Australian author Michael Giacometti’s debut short story collection My Life & Other Fictions is a penetrating and original book. Awash with intricate and beautiful sentences, bold and alluring voices, and a range of intriguing characters and settings, it’s a collection to savour. Its 20 stories sound the depths of human experience—and yield more treasure with each reading. Themes of…
When: Monday December 4, 6pm Where: CAAS Art Shed, 10 Crispe Street, Alice Springs The debut collection of short fiction from Michael Giacometti, My Life & Other Fictions is unique. It is bold, diverse and richly lyrical. It blurs the lines between fiction and non-fiction, fate and desire, identity and history. These are stories…
My collection of short stories, My Life & Other Fictions was reviewed recently by Elizabeth Flux for Books+Publishing. The collection of 20 stories and an essay about the fictions will be released by indie publisher Spineless Wonders in November. Bringing together 20 very different stories, My Life & Other Fictions is a bold debut from Michael Giacometti and…
When: Tuesday October 3, 5:30pm Where: Gosse St Park amphitheatre (below Spencer Hill), corner Gosse St and Lindsay Ave, Eastside
My suite of haiku, ‘Some portraits of country’ is included in the latest issue of the prestigious online poetry journal Cordite – 82 LAND. Read it here.
Last night at a ceremony in Darwin, my poem suite, ‘In the soft light of dawn’, was awarded the NT Writers Centre Poetry Award in the NT Literary Awards. This is second time I have won this award, having won in 2012 with a sonnet ‘kwatye scours the sand’. ‘In the soft light of dawn’…
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