Michael Sala
Michael Sala is married to the Shadow of the Loom (Text), the first gigantic book in an epic fantasy series due for release in 2027.
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Michael Sala
Michael Sala began his career reading fantasy and writing stories and poetry about dragons in the tiny bedrooms he shared with his indifferent older brother while they moved between Australia and Holland. His first published works were in short fiction. He went on to write a work of autobiographical fiction, The Last Thread, which was the regional winner of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize in 2013, and also won the prize for new writing in the NSW Premiers Literary Awards (2013).
His second novel, The Restorer, was published by Text in 2017, and went on to be short-listed for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, as well as being long-listed for the Miles Franklin Literary Award.
He then decided to come clean about his real passion and transformed himself into that most elusive and magnificent of writing animals: the epic fantasy writer. This was much more labour intensive than he’d anticipated, but here we are: The Shadow of the Loom (Text), the first gigantic book in an epic fantasy series he has been working on since 2019, is due for release in 2027. Sadly it will feature no dragons. Fantasy isn’t all about dragons, you know.
Festival Events
Breaking Out: Student Readings
DATE March 29 TIME 4:00 pm WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X207 Book nowBY THE ARTIST
