Book Launch: Common Places
Description
Join us in-store at Imprints for the launch of short story collection, Common Places by Gillian Hagneus
What to expect:
A literary evening of conversation between two great writers, with a focus on Gillian's book.
About Common Places:
"An award-winning collection of fourteen unnerving stories of the Australian suburbs The Australian suburbs are stranger than they seem - sun-bleached streets haunted by memory, cul‑de‑sacs edged with bushland that watches back, and homes where dangers lurk behind familiar fences. Between neighbours who know too much, houses that hum with memories best forgotten, and bushfire smoke seeping into backyards this collection of short fiction reveals the quite anxieties that shape our domestic lives. Subversive, intimate and darkly imaginative, Common Places drags these quiet streets into the light, revealing a gothic noir landscape where the familiar turns unsettling - reminding us that the most terrifying things are often the ones that feel closest to home."
Lineup
Gillian Hagenus
Gillian Hagenus is one of the organisers of the Australian Short Story Festival and worked for three years as an editor at MidnightSun Publishing in Adelaide. She holds a Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing, and her work has been shortlisted and longlisted for a number of awards, including the Boroondara, Djillong, Nielma Sidney and Peter Carey short story awards. She is the editor of the short story anthology, Strangely Enough (2023). Common Places won the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer at the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards; it is her first collection of short fiction.
Matthew Hooton
Matthew Hooton is the author of three novels, most recently, Everything Lost, Everything Found (4th Estate), and has written short stories and essays for journals, magazines, and newspapers around the world, including the Saturday Paper, Westerly, and Southerly here in Australia. He has taught creative writing at the University of Victoria, in Canada, and at the University of Adelaide, in Australia, where he was a senior lecturer from 2018-2026.
FAQs
- What time should I get there?
Doors will open at 6pm, with the event to begin around 6:15pm.
- What time will the event finish?
The event will wrap by 7:30pm
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