Join Jay Carmichael at Small Town Stories for a lively reading by three fresh new voices.
Rural Australia – indeed, rural anywhere – is a storytelling fixture. But in many ways, it’s specifically small towns that make a perfect setting for fiction, and a potent backdrop to coming of age.
A writer might draw on the intense social relations (or seething suspicions) of people living in each other’s pockets; the pleasures and pressures of being too near or too far from your roots. Small towns can represent a known quantity or an unknown quality. And, in terms of scale, some would be perfectly cast as a set for stage or screen.
Jay will be jouned at The Moat with writers Kate O’Donnell and Mira Robertson.
About the Author
Jay Carmichael is a writer and editor. His first novel, Ironbark, was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2016. His writing has been published by beyondblue and appeared widely in print and online, including in Overland, The Guardian, SBS, and The Telling Treeproject. Jay lives and works in Melbourne.
