For the night before Halloween, join us in the basement for an hour of readings that’ll rattle your notions of a comfortable, predictable world. We’re not just talking ghost stories, either – anything that leaves you feeling unsettled and unnerved is fair game.
Be they thrillers, chillers or blood-spillers … the one thing these tales won’t be is vanilla.
Hosted by Louise Swinn.
Featuring

Louise Swinn

Rose Michael
Born in England and based in Melbourne, Rose Michael is a writer, editor and academic who has been published in Griffith REVIEW, Best Australian Stories, Island, Muse and Cultural Studies Review.
Her first novel The Asking Game (Transit Lounge, 2007) was a runner-up for the Allen & Unwin/Vogel's Award and received an Aurealis Award honourable mention.
An early extract of The Art of Navigation was published in Review of Australian Fiction.
Cath Ferla
Cath Ferla is the author of Ghost Girls (Bonnier, 2016). Ghost Girls won the 2017 Davitt award for best debut fiction. Cath is also an experienced commercial television screenwriter, script editor, prose editor and journalist. She is currently working on two novels.

Les Zig
Les Zig is the author of the young adult novel Pride. Just Another Week in Suburbia is his debut work of fiction for adults, launched at Melbourne Writers’ Festival.
Les has been telling stories since he was a kid, lying to get out of trouble. As a teenager, he worked out he could put his imagination to use telling stories, although this took a number of different forms. As he’s grown older, he’s had stories and articles published in various print and digital journals, screenplays optioned, and written one whole poem.
He’s now interested in exploring the human psyche – from the fears, quirks, and neuroses that drive us, to the dynamics of how people interact and react, how the world around them influences and sometimes predetermines their choices, and who they inevitably become.

