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Join us for the highly anticipated launch of Greater City Shadows by Laurie Steed, published by UWA Publishing .

This collection of short stories won the 2021 Henry Handel Richardson Flagship Fellowship for Short Story Writing and was shortlisted for the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award. Described by the judges of the award as a beautiful collection of stories showcasing the small but magnificent ways people can find connections, set amongst one of the most isolated cities in the world.

Laurie will be in conversation with Writing WA’s CEO, Will Yeoman and copies of Greater City Shadows will be available to be purchased and signed on the night.

Laurie Steed is a writer living and working in the Whadjuk region on the traditional lands of the Noongar people. His fiction has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in anthologies including Best Australian Stories and Award-Winning Australian Writing. His debut novel was You Belong Here (2018) and his memoir Love, Dad: Confessions of an Anxious Father (2023) was published by Fremantle Press.

Date: Wednesday, 7 February 2024
Time: 6.30pm to 7.30pm
Venue: City of Perth Library 573 Hay Street, Perth
Cost: Free, book now as places are limited.

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