Gillian O'Shaughnessy introduces Salt City Runaway
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We’re thrilled to welcome Gillian O'Shaughnessy to The Lane Bookshop to introduce her flash fiction collection, Salt City Runaway. Gillian will be discussing her debut book with Susan Midalia.🗓️ Thursday 4th June
🕒 Doors open 5:30pm for a 6:00pm start
📍 The Lane Bookshop
🎫 Tickets: $15 ticket only, $39.99 ticket with book
ABOUT THE BOOK
"A chorus of tiny stabs whose sly work is done before the wounds even register. The cumulative impact is startling."
Tim Winton
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.
"An exhilarating read. A collection of very short stories that are deep and true, Salt City Runaway has a rhythm that will keep you reading long after you intend to stop and imagery that will take your breath away. This is a collection with breadth and balance. I have felt punched in the gut, lifted aloft and dazzled by the uncanny. While each story stands alone, the voice is consistently strong and there is a sense of time and place that left me in no doubt these stories belong together. In this collection, Gillian O’Shaughnessy beautifully illustrates the adage that less is indeed more."
Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words and The Bookbinder of Jericho
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gillian O’Shaughnessy is Australia’s most celebrated flash fiction writer and a highly respected journalist and broadcaster. Her 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.
Date
Thursday 4 June 2026 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (UTC+08)Location
The Lane Bookshop
52C Old Theatre Lane, CLAREMONT WA 6010
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