BIO
Lech Blaine is a writer from regional Queensland. He divides his time writing a book in Toowoomba and running a motel in Bundaberg. His stories have been published in Best Australian Essays, Scum, Seizure, The Griffith Review, The Lifted Brow, Tincture and Voiceworks. He was an inaugural recipient of a Griffith Review Queensland Writers Fellowship. In 2017, he was a co-winner of the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award. In 2018, he received a Griffith Review Varuna Fellowship.
Black Inc. will release his first book Car Crash: A Memoir in early 2019. This will be followed by a trilogy of narrative non-fiction works exploring the intersecting fault lines of class, trauma and mental illness within his family and Australia more broadly.
Hi Lech, I just want to say that I really enjoy your writing. I stumbled across your works via twitter (Chris Murphy), so who said social media delivers nothing!
Keep writing, you are bloody good!
Hey Lech,
I just read your story in The Lifted Brow. I enjoyed it a lot. I love your writing style. Look forward to reading more.
Happy new year!
Robyn
Listening to you on conversations! Wow what an interesting life! Read another price online keep up the great writing!!
Just listened to conversations also & wow, what an eventful life so far. I now look forward to reading your publications. Happiness to all.
Lech it was great listening to you on ABC Conversations today. You have a great gift of story telling.
I was enthralled. I look forward to reading your works but would much rather get the audio with you narrating.
Wishing you all the best for your future xx
I just listened to you on Conversations-you are a wonderful storyteller. I so look forward to reading your book! All the best.