Book Launch – My Life & Other Fictions

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…

In the soft light of dawn

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’…

Rebirth of a migrant

Welcome. These pages and blog will feature new (and archived) writing by Michael Giacometti, an emerging writer based in Alice Springs, Australia. The pages will be fully active by the end of this month. He previously blogged poetry on WordPress at michaelgiceometticafepoet.