The Butcherbird Stories

Sat 7 Sep 2019

A.S. Patric

Auditorium 2, State Library of Queensland

Conversation

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#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Explore eleven unexpected landscapes of people’s lives as A.S. Patric discusses his new novel, The Butcherbird Stories, delivered with sensitivity, grace, and a fearless truth.

#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

Ann Weisgarber

Ann Weisgarber is the author of three novels: THE GLOVEMAKER, THE PROMISE, and THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF RACHEL DUPREE. She won the Stephen Turner Award for First Fiction and the Langum Prize for American Historical Fiction. She was a finalist for Scotland’s Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the Orange Award for New Writers in the United Kingdom. The film rights for THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF RACHEL DUPREE are optioned by actress Viola Davis.

Ann earned a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work from Wright State University in Ohio, and a Master of Arts in Sociology from the University of Houston in Texas. Ann was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2014 and lives in Galveston, Texas.