News
Drawing by Sonya Hartnett
News
Drawing by Sonya Hartnett
I will give a talk called ‘Gothic Architectures of the Mind’ for the science-fiction readers’ group Nova Mob.
First floor Conference Room
Kensington Town Hall
30-34 Bellair Street, Kensington Victoria
The talk will be simultaneously broadcast via Zoom.
Please join me and the remarkable Lucy Sussex in conversation about my new book The Door and Other Uncanny Tales, and the tradition of gothic writing.
This is a free online Zoom event through Readings bookstore.
Please book here.
Join us for the launch of The Door and Other Uncanny Tales.
Thur 15 October 6.30 PM-7.30 PM.
This is an online Zoom event officiated by Hares and Hyenas and you can book here.
This event commences online at 6.30 p.m. using the video conferencing platform Zoom. To book for this event, you must provide your email address by sending your RSVP to the link above.
To ensure the Zoom event stays private, participants will be emailed a unique Zoom link and password 30 minutes prior to the start of the event. Please check your email, as well as your junk folder. All bookings for online events will close one hour before the event begins.
You do not need a Zoom account to join the meeting, but mobile users will need to download the device-applicable Zoom app. Desktop and laptop users can either download the Zoom app or access the event via their web browser.
My new book The Door and Other Uncanny Tales will be released 28 September 2020, through NineStar Press. More info coming soon.
I’ve new work in three new publications. The first is my first ever science fiction short story ‘Doctor Were’s Son’ in War of the Worlds Battleground Australia. Followed by the personal essay ‘Divorce, Turkish Style’ in Split, edited by Lee Kofman. And the third is my essay ’Confessions of a Greek Androgyne’ in Archer magazine issue #12.
I’m part of Melbourne Writers’ Festival’s Gothic Horror soiree, 25 August 2018, 5.00 PM at the swanky Mayfair bar in Collins Street.
I will talk about Halloween and how the pagan festivity entered the collective cultural darkness via the horror film.
I’m giving a two-hour workshop called The Architecture of Horror about gothic writing, as part of Melbourne University Bailieu Library’s amazing Dark Imaginings exhibition.
The workshop is on 19 April 2018. It’s free and open to the public. But you have to book. Details here:
In other news I have been invited to contribute a short story to a forthcoming sci-fi horror anthology called War of the World: Battleground Australia. Riffing on H G Wells’ famous novel, my story is called ‘Doctor Were’s Disease’. Can’t wait to get started.
In other news, from March 2018 I will continue to facilitate three writers’ groups a month at City Library in Flinders Street, Melbourne.
Check the library’s website for details.
They are for beginners writers and advanced writers, respectively.
They are free at the City Library.
You can register interest here.