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’…
Although I am not appearing at SWF17, one of my short stories is. Get down to the Knox Street Bar (21 Shepherd St, Chippendale) on Tuesday 23 May 7pm for Little Fictions: On the Road. Be treated to fabulous contemporary Australian short stories read and performed by excellent Australian actors. A great night of storytelling.
I am excited to be included in this year’s NT Writers Festival in Alice Springs with the theme Iwerre-atherre / Crossings. You can catch me at the Reading Rooms at The Residency on Saturday 20 May 7:30pm, reading a selection of short fictions from my forthcoming collection of short stories. And on Sunday 21 May…
Yuri Herrera, Signs preceding the end of the world (2009/2015) If I could invite just one author, one living author, to this year’s Northern Territory Writers Festival in Alice Springs (18-21 May) it would be Yuri Herrera. His second short novel, Signs preceding the end of the world, is an outstanding multi-layered book whose themes…
Karel Capek, War with the Newts (1936) Looking for something new and different to read, I came across Slawomir Mrozek’s marvellous little collection, The elephant. That book is part of Penguin’s Central European Classics series, and the inside jacket marketing of the other books in the series led me to, among other authors, Capek. Thankfully,…
Stan Grant, Talking to my country (2016) The marketing line on the cover of this book could instead be a bold subtitle: ‘the book that every Australian should read’. Well, is it? I heard Stan Grant speak at this year’s Newcastle Writers Festival, unaware of his article in The Guardian that was inspired by the continued…
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