Haiku inspires award-winning art

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…

Listen to Little Fictions on Air

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…

Coming soon: Australian Poetry Anthology vol 7

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…

Short reads on Tablo

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…

Mascara Avant-garde Award 2018 shortlisted book

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…

At Wordstorm: NT Writers Festival in Darwin, 24-27 May 2018

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…

My Life & Other Fictions – Giacometti’s debut collection resonates with depth and originality

‘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…