Bloodlines Edition
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Monday, 23 Jul 2018, 06:15pm - 07:15pm
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Past event
What they don’t tell you in birth class is that families are the perfect container for ghosts. Intergenerational secrets? Check. Seething tensions? You bet. Profound attachment, sentimentality and love? Right here, buddy.
Three new Australian novels due out this year examine bloodlines, stubborn histories and family lore in distorted and dream-like ways. In a surreal reimagining of Tasmania, the interlocking riddles of Robbie Arnott’s Flames brim with love and grief, joy and pain. Moreno Giovannoni’s The Fireflies of Autumn threads whispers of migration, war and love – and good and bad fortune – through a series of fable-like tales centred around San Ginese, Tuscany. And in Julia Prendergast’s The Earth Does Not Get Fat, a family grapples with suffering, intimacy and the return of the past.
For this edition of The Next Big Thing, Arnott, Giovannoni, Prendergast and Voiceworks contributor Amie Green will join us at The Moat to share a taste of these exciting new works of fiction.
Readings will be our bookseller at this event.
Featuring
Julia Prendergast’s short stories have been longlisted, shortlisted and published with the Lightship Anthology International Short Story Competition, Ink Tears International Short Story Competition, Glimmer Train International Short Story Competition, Séan Ó Faoláin International Short Sto... Read more
Moreno Giovannoni was born in San Ginese but grew up in a house on a hill, on a tobacco farm at Buffalo River in north-east Victoria. He is a freelance translator of long standing. The Fireflies of Autumn: And Other Tales of San Ginese is his first book.
Robbie Arnott was a 2019 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist and won the Margaret Scott Prize in the 2019 Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes. His widely acclaimed debut, Flames (2018), was shortlisted for a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, a New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award, ... Read more
Amie Green writes and draws queer, witchy and wormy things. She’s been published in Voiceworks, Concrete Queers, Farrago, Judy’s Punch and Wasteland Online. She currently edits poetry for Voiceworks and is the designer of Antithesis journal. Find her rollerblading around the Western suburbs of... Read more
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