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…
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,…
Michael Giacometti 