Grades 7 - 12
Welcome to Dystopia
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Multiple Venues
Word Play: Selling Fast
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#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
SELLING FAST
Gather your courage and enter the world of a YA dystopian thriller, as Mark Smith exposes the writing process that lies behind The Road to Winter (Text Publishing) and its upcoming sequel.
In a world where a deadly virus, and the ensuing violence, wipes out the population of a small coastal community, Finn is forced to survive on his own. His isolation is shattered with the arrival of an unexpected guest, and Finn must face these new challenges to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.
#Artists
Mark Smith
Mark Smith lives on Victoria’s Surf Coast, where he runs an outdoor education campus for a large Melbourne boys’ school. His debut novel The Road To Winter was shortlisted for the Australian Indie Book Awards, the Aurealis Awards and the WA Young Readers’ Book Awards. It was been published in both the UK and US this year. The sequel, will be released in August, 2017, and the third of the Winter trilogy, in late 2018. Mark is also an award winning writer of short fiction, with credits including the 2015 Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize and the 2013 Alan Marshall Short Story Prize, and his work has appeared in Best Australian Stories 2014 & 2015, Review of Australian Fiction, The Big Issue and The Australian.
Mark Smith
Mark Smith lives on Victoria’s Surf Coast, where he runs an outdoor education campus for a large Melbourne boys’ school. His debut novel The Road To Winter was shortlisted for the Australian Indie Book Awards, the Aurealis Awards and the WA Young Readers’ Book Awards. It was been published in both the UK and US this year. The sequel, will be released in August, 2017, and the third of the Winter trilogy, in late 2018. Mark is also an award winning writer of short fiction, with credits including the 2015 Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize and the 2013 Alan Marshall Short Story Prize, and his work has appeared in Best Australian Stories 2014 & 2015, Review of Australian Fiction, The Big Issue and The Australian.
