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LITERARY LUNCH WITH LECH BLAINE WHEN Thursday 17 March, 12noon arrivals WHERE The Ray Building Dining Room, Somerset College DRESS CODE Smart Casual TICKETS $50.00 per person includes two course gourmet meal, wine and soft drink RSVP Friday 11 March, limited seating available

Lech has published in Best Australian Essays, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, The Griffith Review, The Guardian, The Lifted Brow and the Monthly. An inaugural recipient of a Griffith Review Queensland Writers Fellowship, he also won the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award. In 2019, he was awarded a Brisbane Lord Mayor’s Emerging Artist Fellowship. The singular moment of “a car full of teenagers, a bend in the road, a cleaving between possible futures”, anchors Lech Blaine’s debut novel, Car Crash . Lech will speak about the way this novel delivered him home “after spending most of his life as a man between worlds”. The relevance of this difficult and uplifting story figures prominently in the landscape of our common human condition. This is a lunch that will grab you by the heart and at the end, leave you a wiser, more empathetic and better person.

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