Time & Date
Thursday 5 September - 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Tickets
Location
The Literature Centre, corner of Knutsford Street and Hampton Road, Fremantle. The Literature Centre is in the Old Prison Hospital located inside the Old Prison Walls. There is gate access on the corner of Knutsford Street and Hampton Road, Fremantle.
Parking
If arriving by car, proceed to the gravel car park at the top of Knutsford Street. Drive through the parking gate and park freely on the lawn. Please note that the parking gate is locked when events conclude.
Karleah Olson
Karleah Olson is a Perth-based writer and an avid reader. She has spent the last few years as a PhD candidate at Edith Cowan University studying Australian Coastal Gothic Literature. Her debut novel A Wreck of Seabirds was shortlisted for the 2023 Fogarty Literary Award.
About A Wreak of Seabirds
This confronting and compelling read delves into themes of loss, isolation and entrapment, and is set against the brooding backdrop of the Australian coast. The narrative moves back and forth in time, following the interwoven storylines of three protagonists – Briony, Ren and Sarah. Grappling with grief and loss, Briony and Ren are brought together in their hometown, where Ren has returned to care for his dying father and Briony remains hopeful of finding her missing sister, Sarah. Meanwhile, Sarah and her best friend Aria are trapped on a remote island off the coast, and nobody has a clue where they have gone.
Josh Kemp
Josh Kemp is an author of Australian gothic and crime fiction. He lives in the south-west of Western Australia but finds himself drawn, over and over again, to the red dirt of the state’s north. His debut novel, Banjawarn, won the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award, the 2022 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction and the Western Australian Premier’s Prize for Best Emerging Writer.
About Jasper Cliff
This gothic thriller is set in the tiny outpost of Jasper Cliff in the remote heart of north-west Australia, a place where people have a habit of vanishing. As Lachlan drives north to look for his missing brother Toby, he too is drawn into the foreboding, timeless landscape of the East Pilbara – to a place called The Rift, where the truth of Toby’s disappearance may be revealed. This gothic thriller reveals the scars of a colonial legacy in a landscape where survival is a formidable challenge, and the line between life and death becomes desperately thin.