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? – by Dani Powell

At the time Michael asked me to read the manuscript for this launch, I was reading The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit. A few stories into Michael’s work, I turned back to the start of Solnit’s book, for there was something I’d read that found resonance in these pages. Keep reading …