In Your Suburb: A.S Patric

Sat 7 Sep 2019

A.S. Patric

Mount Ommaney Library

In Your Suburb

7154

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

A.S. Patric is best known for his debut novel Black Rock White City, which won the Miles Franklin in 2016. This year he has a new book of short stories out: The Butcherbird Stories.

#Artist

A.S. Patric

A.S. Patric is a bookseller and teacher of creative writing. His debut novel Black Rock White City won the Miles Franklin Award in 2016. Atlantic Black, his follow-up novel, was published to great acclaim in 2017. The Butcherbird Stories, his third story collection, was published in late 2018. He lives in bayside Melbourne with his wife and two daughters.

#Moderator

Veny Armanno

Venero Armanno (known as “Veny”) was born in Brisbane and is now the author of ten critically acclaimed novels, including his recent book Burning Down (2017). His other well-known books include Black Mountain (2012), The Dirty Beat (2007) and Candle Life (2006).

Further back, Veny’s novel Firehead was shortlisted in the 1999 Queensland Premier’s Literary Award; in 2002 The Volcano won the award with Best Fiction Book of the Year. His work has gone on to be published in the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Holland, Israel and South Korea.

Veny is a trained screenwriter (AFTRS diploma) and currently teaches creative writing at the University of Queensland. His other books include The Lonely Hunter (1993), Romeo of the Underworld (1994), My Beautiful Friend (1995), and Strange Rain (1997), as well as two short story collections: Jumping at the Moon (1992) and Travel Under Any Star (2016).