Brunswick Bound Books

Nick Gadd is a novelist and essayist.  His first novel Ghostlines won a Victoria Premier's Literary Award and a Ned Kelly Award.  Nick's essays and articles have apeared in Meanjin , Griffith Review , Kill Your Darlings , Elsewhere: A Journal of Place , The Guardian and in several anthologies. Nick will be reading at First Chapters on Friday 6 March from his new novel Death of a Typographer . 1. Brunswick Bound has asked you  to read a piece from your published work.  Tell us what we can expect from the piece you have chosen? I’m reading part of the opening chapter of Death of a Typographer , in which the reader first encounters my co-investigators when they meet each other at a murder scene. Martin Kern has a special sensitivity to fonts, a skill that he uses to solve typographical crimes. Lucy Tan is a hard-working journalist with a punctuation fetish and eyebrows like swung dashes. In this chapter you will hear the first of many references to ...

Alex Landragin is a French-Armenian-Australian writer.  Now a freelance author, he is a former writer of Lonely Planet travel guides in Australia, Europe and Africa, and his writing has appeared in The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald and the Los Angeles Review of Books.  He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne and is a past recipient of an Australia Council Emerging Writers Grant. Alex will be reading at First Chapters on Friday 7 February from his debut novel Crossings . 1. Brunswick Bound has asked you to read a piece from your published work. Tell us what we can expect from the piece you have chosen? Crossings is about two characters who can ‘cross’ from one body into another. Sometimes those crossings are a little, shall we say, underhand. I’ll be reading a description of my favourite of those crossings scenes, where the narrator tricks a morose young man into the undertaking. 2. How would you describe your writing? Labyri...

Ender Baskan is the author of the novel A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man published by Vre Books.  His work revolves around the condition of the contemporary psychosphere.  Poetics, revolution and the Australian Dream are some of his prime obsessions.  He is currently writing postcards.  Ender is the recipient of the 2014/15 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship for Prose.   Ender will be reading from A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man at First Chapters on Friday 7 February.   1. Brunswick Bound has asked you to read a piece from your published work.  Tell us what we can expect from the piece you have chosen? The piece is from my novel A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man . It is fiction but its not a novel in the classic sense. What starts off as a road novel turns into a meditation on the question of how can we be in Australia. The narrative is like a rocket on the space shuttle, I need just enough of it to get through the str...

Wayne Marshall is a writer and musician.  His stories have appeared in Going Down Swinging, Island, Review of Australia Fiction and elsewhere.  He is the co-founder of the Peter Carey Short Story Award. Wayne will be reading from his short story collection Shirl at First Chapters on Friday 7 February. 1. Brunswick Bound has asked you to read a piece from your published work. Tell us what we can ex pect from the piece you have chosen?  I’m still deciding which story from Shirl to read, but most likely it’ll be something comic. So: either an alien invasion that leads to a ban on Australian Rules football; a lonely Yowie that leaves the bush to attend a Desperate and Dateless ball; or the unveiling of a striking new girlfriend by a man named Geoff. That kind of thing? 2. How would you describe your writing? It’s a bit of a dirty word in literary circles, but I see myself first and foremost as an entertainer. Humour, adventure, twists and turns, crazy goin...

J.M. Green is a crime writer based in Melbourne’s western suburbs. Her debut novel,  Good Money , the first hardboiled-crime novel featuring Stella Hardy, was shortlisted for a 2016 Ned Kelly Award, the Sisters in Crime's Davitt Award for best debut, as well as the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. She divides her time between writing in her backyard studio and working as a librarian.  Shoot Through  is the third in the Stella Hardy series, following  Too Easy . J.M. Green will be reading from Shoot Through at First Chapters on Friday 1 November .   1. Brunswick Bound has asked you to read a piece from your published work.  Tell us what we can expect from the piece you have chosen? The piece is a conversation between my accidental detective, social worker Stella Hardy, and her long time frenemy Marcus Pugh, minster for justice. Marcus must ask for Stella’s help, something he is uncomfortable do...

Meg Mundell is a writer and academic.  The Trespassers  (UQP, August 2019) is her second novel.  Black Glass  (2011) is Meg’s critically acclaimed first novel, and  Things I Did for Money  (2013) is her debut short story collection. Past day jobs include freelance journalist, policy analyst, nightclub DJ, ventriloquist’s assistant, and deputy editor of The Big Issue Australia .  Meg holds a PhD in creative writing and a BA in psychology and philosophy, and her academic research focuses on place, spatial justice, and narratives of homelessness. Meg also runs the project WeAre Here , which uses creative writing to explore understandings of place with people who have experienced homelessness (www.homelesswriting.org). Meg will be reading from The Trespasser s at First Chapters on Friday 1 November. 1. Brunswick Bound has asked you to read a piece from your published work.  Tell us what we can expect from the piece you have chos...

Miriam Sved is an editor and the writer of Game Day and A Universe of Sufficient Size .  Her novella All the Things I Should've Given was a winner of Griffith Review's 2018 Novella Project , and her short fiction has been widely published including in Best Australian Stories, Meanjin and Overland .  She has also been a contributing editor on three feminist anthologies, published by Picador/Pan Macmillan: #MeToo: Stories from the Australian movement , Mothers & Others: Australian writers on why not all women are mothers and not all mothers are the same and Just Between Us: Australian writers tell the truth about female friendship. Miriam will be reading rom A Universe of Sufficient Size  at First Chapters on Friday 1 November.   1. Brunswick Bound has asked you to read a piece from your published work.  Tell us what we can expect from the piece you have chosen? The piece I’m reading is from the beginning of my novel A Universe of Suffi...

Gerii Pleitez  is a fearless new literary voice. Her debut book On The Sunday, She Created God   is a transgressive coming of age story that is both brutal and beautiful. A punk, post-feminist, punch in the face. Gerii's visceral poetic imagery strikes at the heart of what it is to be young, to desire and to want purpose in a world which if often without. She is also the founder of Kara Sevda Press , Australia's first publisher dedicated to illuminating the voices of local women of colour. The imprint is the cutting edge of modern literature and publishing; underground, digitally distinct and iconoclastic in it's ethos. On The Sunday, She Created God was the first book released on the imprint and will be followed by a journal publication featuring work from women of colour to be released in 2020. Gerii Pleitez will be reading from On the Sunday, She Created God at First Chapters on Friday 4 October . 1. Brunswick Bound has asked you to read a piece from your p...

Leah Kaminsky is a physician and award-winning writer. Her debut novel The Waiting Room won the prestigious Voss Literary Prize. She conceived and edited Writer MD , a collection of prominent physician-writers, which starred on Booklist and is the co-author of Cracking the Code , with the Damiani family. Leah holds an MFA in fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Leah will be reading from The Hollow Bones at First Chapters on Friday 5 July. 1. Brunswick Bound has asked you to read a piece from your published work. Tell us what we can expect from the piece you have chosen? I'll be reading from the prologue. 2. How would you describe the kind of books that you write? I'm genre fluid! My themes seem to circle around loss, war, injustice...and animals! 3. What was the first book that you read (or had read to you) that left an impression on you? Winnie the Pooh - I loved his whimsy, innocence and wisdom. 4. Do you believe that books should answer l...