New Edition Bookshop is proud to host award-winning local writer Gillian O'Shaughnessy in Fremantle, celebrating the release of her debut flash fiction collection, Salt City Runaway.

Gillian will be in conversation with Linda Martin. Book sales and signings available on the night. Nibbles provided and drinks available at the bar. Doors 6:30pm for a 7:00pm start.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Helen Garner moves into a letterbox. Dead bats rain from the sky. A woman offers Lou Reed her last cigarette at a suburban bus stop. In fifty piercing stories, Salt City Runaway introduces a cast of unforgettable characters who disrupt and delight.

From Western Australia’s port city of Fremantle, to its red-dusted Goldfields and wave-washed South West, women and girls fight for recognition and solace. Slippery, complicated, tender and broken, they carry their humanity in vivid, strange worlds. Salt City Runaway is a luminous debut that reveals beauty and wonder in the smallest of stories. It is a masterclass in flash fiction.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Gillian O’Shaughnessy's work has appeared in the Best Small Fictions anthologies (2023–2025) and has won international prizes. A former ABC journalist and broadcaster, she has spent three decades interviewing some of the world’s most prominent authors and thinkers. Gillian is a sub-editor at SmokeLong Quarterly, teaches masterclasses in flash fiction, and is serving as a 2026 Stella Prize judge. Drawing from a lifetime of storytelling—from radio to stage to page—Salt City Runaway is Gillian’s first book.

Contact the host of Author Talk - Gillian O’Shaughnessy on Salt City Runaway