Author Event – Avid Reader
MONDAY 19 MAY 2025 | INSTORE EVENT
6pm for a 6.30pm start | 60 mins
Join us for a Salon event with Dominic Amerena. This event will introduce three emerging writers before a conversation with Dominic about his debut novel.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The legendary career of reclusive cult author Brenda Shales remains one of Australia’s last unsolved literary mysteries. Her books took the world by storm before she disappeared from the public eye, after a mysterious plagiarism case. But when an ambitious young writer stumbles across Brenda at a Melbourne pool, he realises the scoop of a lifetime is floating in front of him: the truth behind why she vanished without a trace. The only problem? He must pretend to be someone he’s not to trick the story out of her.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dominic Amerena is an Australian writer whose work has been widely published and anthologised in The Sydney Review of Books, The Saturday Paper, Best Australian Stories, Overland, ABR, The Age, The Australian, The Guardian and The Lifted Brow. Dom has won numerous prizes, scholarships, fellowships, and grants, including the Hawthornden Fellowship, the inaugural Speculate Prize, an Australia Council New Work Grant and the Alan Marshall Short Story Award. In 2023, Dom completed a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of RMIT. He lives between Melbourne and Athens, Greece.
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Dominic’s book – I Want Everything – will be reviewed by QRC. Watch for it on our website on 29 April 2025.