Exploring short story collections and small press publishing

About Exploring short story collections and small press publishing

BOOK TALK

Intan Paramaditha and Michael Giacometti.

Mainstream publishers have long steered away from publishing short stories, but with the rise of the small publishing companies, more collections are being published in Australia.

Intan Paramaditha is an Indonesian writer currently based in Sydney. She is the author of the two short story collections, Sihir Perempuan (2005) and Kumpulan Budak Setan (2010, with Eka Kurniawan and Ugoran Prasad). Her new collection Apple and Knife has been translated into English, and published in Australia by Brow Books.

Michael Giacometti wrote his short story collection My Life and other Fictions during his years in Alice Springs, and it has been published by Spineless Wonders. The stories investigate the frontiers of dream and reality, identity and history, and traverse karmic centuries of desire and fate, suffering and transcendence.

Food is available for purchase at the venue from 12 noon.

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