Ginsights with Michael Mohammed Ahmad
6-8pm Thursday 5 February
$12 per ticket
Join Ginsights in the Lounge with acclaimed author Michael Mohammed Ahmad in conversation about his new release novel Bugger. Mohammed’s work explores the intersections of ethnicity, religion and class, and depicts the personal and political consequences of both marginalisation and solidarity. In Bugger he writes with devastating poignancy and gritty tenderness, revealing an uncompromising representation of abuse and explores the impact one day can have on a lifetime.
Mohammed is the founding director of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and editor of the critically acclaimed anthology After Australia (Affirm Press, 2020). Mohammed's debut novel, The Tribe (Giramondo, 2014), won the 2015 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelists Award. His second novel, The Lebs (Hachette, 2018), won the 2019 NSW Premier's Multicultural Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Award. His third novel, The Other Half of You (Hachette, 2021), won the Queensland Literary Award for Fiction Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Voss Literary Prize.
Ginsights will have a formal Q&A and guests will also be able to share cocktails and informal conversations with Mohammed. Our bookseller event partner Paperchain bookstore will have copies of Mohammed’s books for sale and signing on the night. The Olims Bar will be selling a cocktail of the night featuring Big River spirits, alongside a Big River G&T, in addition to their usual selection of drinks. Olims Bistro will be open to purchase snacks and meals.
This is a ticketed event in the Carlton Lounge located between the Mercure Hotel registration desk and the Olims Bar and Bistro.
All are welcome to come along to join this informal reader/writer conversation co-sponsored by Big River Distilling Co, Canberra Writers Festival and MARION.
You can find the Carlton Lounge via the Mercure Hotel front entrance on the corner of Limestone Ave and Ainslie Ave in Braddon. Street parking is available along both Limestone Avenue and Batman Street.